thank goodness.
Christmas shopping is done! WOO HOO! I had to wait till pay day to do my shopping. Mom's getting a gift certificate to Williams-Sonoma, some yarn and a new cookbook. Dad's getting some new books, a nice hardback about land warfare and a new sweatshirt (He's been researching information about Vietnam for my Uncle Steve, so I thought he'd find the land warfare book interesting. Steve, though I hate the man, did a tour of duty in Vietnam during the war. His best friend Larry wasn't there for 8 months before he was killed in action.). I got Gabriel a gift card to Target because he's getting a Wii for Christmas and he'll of course want certain games. I just got Aunt Cathy and Uncle David some movie tickets. I was going to get Aunt Cathy that Eat Pray Love book, but then I didn't know what to get Uncle David. Sarah is done (but I'm not saying what I bought you! LOL). I might come by this weekend, Sar, to drop it off. I might go get a gift card to somewhere to eat for my parents and say it is from my sister and myself. Last year I had so much money I got them a HUGE amount to Red Lobster. This year it might just be 40 bucks.
I started Christmas movie watching. Usually it's classics like White Christmas, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Shop Around the Corner, and The Good Ol' Summertime. For those who just said out loud 'Summertime', it's just a bad title for another telling of The Shop Around the Corner, with Judy Garland and Van Johnson doing a lot of singing. There's also A Charlie Brown Christmas, Serendipity, and You've Got Mail. I usually watch an old episode of The Pretender, too, because there's a Christmas episode they did that always puts a smile on my face. And of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Specials!!!! The Doctor finding apples in his robe and then fighting for planet Earth on Christmas Day? So cool. The new Christmas special looks WICKED cool. And David Morissey!! Love him.
I popped in White Christmas a few nights ago. I actually teared up more than I expected at the beginning of the movie. The beginning, for those who've never watched the movie, is set in World War II on the battlefields of Europe. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye are singing and performing for the troops on Christmas Eve. While the bombs and fighting goes on around them, they do their best to put smiles on the troops faces. Then Crosby gets up and he starts his croonful version of "White Christmas" and I find myself with tears in my eyes. All those men, fighting so far from home, not home for Christmas, which is so much about family and friends and being together. Makes me think of all the men and women serving overseas now, fighting far from home, going through that same pain and longing that those soldiers did over 60 years ago.
I started Christmas movie watching. Usually it's classics like White Christmas, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Shop Around the Corner, and The Good Ol' Summertime. For those who just said out loud 'Summertime', it's just a bad title for another telling of The Shop Around the Corner, with Judy Garland and Van Johnson doing a lot of singing. There's also A Charlie Brown Christmas, Serendipity, and You've Got Mail. I usually watch an old episode of The Pretender, too, because there's a Christmas episode they did that always puts a smile on my face. And of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Specials!!!! The Doctor finding apples in his robe and then fighting for planet Earth on Christmas Day? So cool. The new Christmas special looks WICKED cool. And David Morissey!! Love him.
I popped in White Christmas a few nights ago. I actually teared up more than I expected at the beginning of the movie. The beginning, for those who've never watched the movie, is set in World War II on the battlefields of Europe. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye are singing and performing for the troops on Christmas Eve. While the bombs and fighting goes on around them, they do their best to put smiles on the troops faces. Then Crosby gets up and he starts his croonful version of "White Christmas" and I find myself with tears in my eyes. All those men, fighting so far from home, not home for Christmas, which is so much about family and friends and being together. Makes me think of all the men and women serving overseas now, fighting far from home, going through that same pain and longing that those soldiers did over 60 years ago.