I hope all of you had a fine holiday. It was a good Christmas in the home of ye olde blogger. From the wife, I received a sweater and zip sweatshirt from J Crew, an iTunes gift card (sadly the only thing I got from the Apple Store), and book six of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. From my secret Santa, which this year was my brother-in-law who’s in school in Boston, I got book seven of the Dark Tower and a Red Sox World Series hat that he personally purchased at Fenway Park. A wise man once told me that shirts, hats, etc. that are bought at a sports stadium are somehow better than those you pick up at the mall. For the wife, I purchased a Nike watch, some new running shoes (shockingly not Nike, but she picked them out), a couple CDs, and a diamond and silver bracelet. Santa visited M. a few weeks back, but she did get some new binkies from us then some new clothes and toys from the family. I was getting quite worried, as Mr. Hankey had not visited as of 9:00 last night. Fortunately, he arrived with a vengeance that seemed to please M. greatly. How could she believe in him if he didn’t show up for her first Christmas?<\/p>\n
I did kind of suck on the Christmas movies this year. We watched Elf the night after Thanksgiving, then I didn’t get around to watching any others until early last week. I knocked off Christmas Vacation, but with split attentions since our speakers were acting funky that night. We watched It’s A Wonderful Life Thursday night, then I snuck in A Christmas Story Friday morning. A Christmas Carol and Miracle on 34th Street sit unwatched on our DVR.<\/p>\n
As for music this season, my elaborate playlists produced these songs most often on the Mac and iPod:<\/p>\n
Do They Know It’s Christmas Band Aid 9 Times
\nI’ll Be Home For Christmas Frank Sinatra 9
\nMerry Fucking Christmas Mr. Garrison 9
\nMy Little Drum Vince Guaraldi 9
\nChristmas is Coming Vince Guaraldi 9
\nSilver Bells Dean Martin 8
\nWinter Wonderland Dean Martin 8
\nJimmy Fallon’s Christmas Parodies 8
\nI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus John Cougar Mellencamp 8
\nHallelujah Chorus The Mormon Tabernacle Choir 8
\nHave A Merry Little Christmas Mr. Hankey 8
\nMaybe This Christmas Ron Sexsmith 8
\nChristmas Time Is Here Vince Guaraldi 8
\nTheme From Christmas Vacation 8
\nLet It Snow! Dean Martin 7
\nChristmas (Baby Please Come Home) Death Cab for Cutie 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hope all of you had a fine holiday. It was a good Christmas in the home of ye olde blogger. From the wife, I received a sweater and zip sweatshirt from J Crew, an iTunes gift card (sadly the only thing I got from the Apple Store), and book six of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. From my secret Santa, which this year was my brother-in-law who’s in school in Boston, I got book seven of the Dark Tower and a Red Sox World Series hat that he personally purchased at Fenway Park. A wise man once told me that shirts, hats, etc. that are bought at a sports stadium are somehow better than those you pick up at the mall. For the wife, I purchased a Nike watch, some new running shoes (shockingly not Nike, but she picked them out), a couple CDs, and a diamond and silver bracelet. Santa visited M. a few weeks back, but she did get some new binkies from us then some new clothes and toys from the family. I was getting quite worried, as Mr. Hankey had not visited as of 9:00 last night. Fortunately, he arrived with a vengeance that seemed to please M. greatly. How could she believe in him if he didn’t show up for her first Christmas? I did kind of suck on the Christmas movies this year. We watched Elf the night after Thanksgiving, then I didn’t get around to watching any others until early last week. I knocked off Christmas Vacation, but with split attentions since our speakers were acting funky that night. We watched It’s A Wonderful Life Thursday night, then I snuck in A Christmas Story Friday morning. A Christmas Carol and Miracle on 34th Street sit unwatched on our DVR. As for music this season, my elaborate playlists produced these songs most often on the Mac and iPod: Do They Know It’s Christmas Band Aid 9 Times I’ll Be Home For Christmas Frank Sinatra 9 Merry Fucking Christmas Mr. Garrison 9 My Little Drum Vince Guaraldi 9 Christmas is Coming Vince Guaraldi 9 Silver Bells Dean Martin 8 Winter Wonderland Dean Martin 8 Jimmy Fallon’s Christmas Parodies 8 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus John Cougar Mellencamp 8 Hallelujah Chorus The Mormon Tabernacle Choir 8 Have A Merry Little Christmas Mr. Hankey 8 Maybe This Christmas Ron Sexsmith 8 Christmas Time Is Here Vince Guaraldi 8 Theme From Christmas Vacation 8 Let It Snow! Dean Martin 7 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Death Cab for Cutie 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,56,14],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15555,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/15555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}