I’d Like to Punch Murphy in the Nose…And Other Christmas Favorites

So there I was, digging through my storage room for empty boxes to box up my Christmas presents, when out of nowhere a box falls open at my feet. What do you think is inside this box? My missing Christmas cards! I knew they were around here somewhere. Normally, this would be a good thing to have found something that I had misplaced. However, I finally broke down YESTERDAY and bought new Christmas cards. So this wonderful discovery suddenly took on more of a mocking nature in a Murphy’s Law kind of way. I had clearly lost that round of hide-and-seek, and you all know how much I hate losing.

Speaking of hide-and-seek, I seem to also be missing my Christmas spirit. Maybe it’s just natural at this point in the month to be completely irritated at the Human race since we are all racing around doing our shopping and being incredibly rude to each other. I am having a difficult time also because it was 67 degrees here yesterday. I finally forced myself to load up my CD player in my car with my Christmas CD’s. Do you know how weird it is to be singing Let it Snow when I have the air conditioning on? This is still one change that I have not become used to yet since the move. Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas. I am looking forward to flying back east in a couple of weeks.

I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of Christmas CD’s. Some of them I purchased (hello entire Time Life series) and some were gifts from ThreeL and her hubby. (Lori- for the love of GOD, will you PLEASE make another 2001 CD for me? I want Kenny Rogers singing Carol of the Bells!!!!!) I have Dick Clark Christmas collections and then individuals like Harry Connick Jr., Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole, and even the Trans Siberian Orchestra. I do enjoy Christmas music, but I think my favorites still have to be the old, traditional songs. Do you feel another Top 5 coming? I feel it coming. Let’s Do this.

Top 5 Traditional Christmas Songs

1. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas- Gayla Peavy
2. Rockin Around the Christmas Tree- Brenda Lee
3. Jingle Bells- Bing Crosby (I LOVE the back up singers)
4. Jingle Bell Rock- Bobby Helms
5. O Little Town of Bethlehem
   

These are fun and Christmas wouldn’t feel the same if you weren’t forced to listen to them at least once. It also seems that a lot of artists like to record their own versions of these traditional songs. So here’s another list.

1. Winter Wonderland- Eurythmics
2. Do You Hear What I Hear? - Whitney Houston
3. Santa Baby- Madonna
4. Good King Wenceslas- Loreena McKennitt
5. Oiche Chiun (Silent Night)- Enya
   
   

But I think the songs I like the best were the one from all the cartoons and Christmas specials I grew up watching. I have my DVD collection of the Christmas cartoons. I was so excited for the years that ThreeL would end up putting some of these songs on the annual Christmas CD. Here is my top 5:

1. Heat Miser/Snow Miser (from The Year Without a Santa Claus. Here is a link to listen to it.)
2. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (from The Grinch who Stole Christmas)
3. We Wish You a Merry Christmas- The Muppets (Miss Piggy and the bacon comments are really funny)
4. Chanukah Song- Adam Sandler
5. Dominick the Donkey- Lou Monte (C’mon, a song about a donkey that includes braying? Fantastic!)

Ok, so maybe my Christmas spirit isn’t gone. I just needed to remind myself of things other than battling crowds and traffic. The ornament picture for today covers a couple of different things. First, is the weird cut out of Ribbon Girl. I found these in Nashville, Indiana at a little shop called Grandma’s. I love that store and that town. That’s also where I picked up my Carmen Miranda cut outs. The other ornament at the top is of the Liberace Museum. The building that houses his outfits (and the gift shop) is shaped just like this. I picked up this ornament the same day I was interviewed about his shoe collection.

One last plea here: Lori- PLEASE make me another copy of 2001. I have put this request out there for all to see. Now that you are a lady of leisure, there is nothing stopping you.