My Christmas Mix

December 11, 2007 at 12:32 pm | In Lists, holidays | Leave a Comment
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In December 2005, I spend some time on iTunes, gathering up all of my favorite Christmas songs. They have been on my iPod since then, sometimes messing up shuffle mode, because who really wants to listen to songs about snow and reindeer in May? But it is finally the time of year when I want to hear Christmas music (most likely because I don’t work in retail like I did in college, where the continuous loop of four holiday songs by Nat King Cole songs made me want to choke on a candy cane), and I am excited to share my Christmas Mix. It is not the coolest playlist in the world (you may see some effect of my 80s childhood and my parents’ affinity for adult contemporary artists in there), but these are the songs that say “Christmas” to me:

I haven’t listened to the new batch of Christmas albums for 2007, but I may have to add Josh Groban or Barry Manilow sometime in the Christmas future. 

What’s your favorite holiday song?

12 Days of Christmas Television

December 2, 2007 at 10:42 pm | In Lists, holidays | 1 Comment
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Inspired by a Yahoo! Holiday Favorites Slideshow, I spent a few hours tonight researching this years’ primetime holiday television schedule. I think I was inclined to do this partly because I love Christmas, partly because I used to work at a television station, and mostly because I really really enjoy putting events on my Google calender. Since I felt like sort of a loser after wasting so much time on this purely for my own entertainment, I decided to share my findings here (including everything on the channels we have on our hotel cable). Enjoy!

Monday, December 3

Tuesday, December 4

Wednesday, December 5

Thursday, December 6

Friday, December 7

Saturday, December 8

Monday, December 10

Tuesday, December 11

Wednesday, December 12

Thursday, December 13

Friday, December 14

Saturday, December 15

There is also a daily assortment of Holiday and Classic movies on ABC Family Channel, a bunch of original Lifetime movies, and, of course, A Christmas Story all Christmas Day on TBS. Movies that I am missing so far this year are A Chipmunk Christmas, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, One Magic Christmas (which is actually showing on The Hallmark Channel at 1AM tomorrow morning , but I don’t get The Hallmark Channel, and I’m not awake at 1AM), and any version of Miracle on 34th Street. I will keep looking, though!

Tonight, since the only Christmas programming I could find was Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas (which was lame), we’re watching Christmas-themed episodes of sitcoms we have on DVD. This includes:

I’m happy fall is finally winding down, so I can enjoy all the festive cartoonery, and have something to watch as the writer’s strike goes on and on. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

DVD Deals!

November 23, 2007 at 10:04 pm | In Lists | Leave a Comment
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Today, Mr. Andrews and I went to the mall around noon, just to be part of things on Black Friday, mostly to be spectators. Instead, we ended up getting sucked into it all when we found super bargains on long coveted DVD sets. We basically spent hundreds of dollars on ourselves when everyone else was being generous to others. I’d be kind of disappointed with myself if I wasn’t so excited about all the new stuff we get to watch. And it wasn’t even that crowded (I guess everyone else went at 4 am this year)!

At Best Buy, we found:

At FYE, we found:

At Circuit City, we found:

Plus, I just found out that Veronica Mars – The Complete Second Season is $14.99 at Target through tomorrow, although that my just be a rumor. My wallet hopes it is!

I will get around to chronicling day three of our honeymoon and our wild and crazy Medieval Thanksgiving whenever I can tear myself away from the TV…

What I Am Thankful For (2007 Edition)

November 22, 2007 at 4:21 pm | In Lists, holidays | Leave a Comment
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Avoiding The Christmas Rush

November 20, 2007 at 10:58 pm | In Lists, holidays | Leave a Comment
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Now that it is almost Thanksgiving, I feel okay about Christmas gift shopping. Problem is I hate shopping. I like looking a lot, I just really dislike buying things. Especially crowded shopping. I don’t do crowds. And sales. I am so bad at bargain hunting. Thank God, once again, for the internet. They have cooler stuff there anyway.

Here is some stuff I am thinking of buying:

Clinique Happy Custom Bottle ($52) - You can put a picture of your choice on a bottle of perfume.  Way better than your picture on a mouse pad or a mug, right?

Virgil’s Root Beer Keg ($15 + $10 s&h) – My stepfather loves root beer, he’ll really love 5 liters of it. And he doesn’t drink, so this is really his only opportunity to have fun with a keg. They have cream soda, too.

Felix Doolittle Personalized Book Plates (25 for $40) – Saw these both in O Magazine and on the Martha Stewart Show. There are a lot of readers in my family, and I think these are so pretty and cute. I’ll buy a few hard cover books and put a book plate in each one. Then I’ll give the rest of them so they can put them in the books of their choice.

Robeez Holiday Baby Shoes ($27.95) – Super cute for the baby girls in the family. Christmas is actually a little late for these, but maybe I’ll give them early.

A Year of Cookie Cutters from Crate & Barrel ($24.95) - A nice gift for bakers, at a good price – and it keeps on giving with each seasonal batch of cookies!

Star Wars X-Wing Fighter Vehicle ($44.95) – Comes with Luke Skywalker figure and a DragonSnake, it’s coveted by the little boys and the big ones who still love Star Wars (there are so many!)

Julie Doll from American Girl ($87) – The older girls love American Girl, and I love that this one is from 1970’s San Francisco. Way cooler than Victorian times.

HBO Holiday Ornaments ($12.99)- Tree trimmings for lovers of Sex And The City, The Sopranos, and Entourage – which pretty much includes everyone

James Bond Ultimate Collector’s Set ($216.99) – 42 Discs for men who like movies

Family Guy – Freakin’ Party Pack ($104.99) – Now that everyone under the age of fifty loves this show, I could totally buy this for all remaining family and friends.

Wedding Photos from Pictage ($30 for 8×10) – It’s not often that our whole family is photographed together in non-embarrasing clothes/poses/situation. Enter my wedding. Our photographer has all our pictures on Pictage.com until December 7. Fine photos for everyone!

Hey, that was easy!

Helpful and Informative Meme

October 24, 2007 at 2:00 am | In Lists | Leave a Comment
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The Pink Shoe Diaries created “an informative and helpful meme” today, so since I am just starting out here, I thought I would get in on that.

Directions: List five things you are good at and five things you are not so good at. And as a bonus – list a random how-to relevant to something you are good at.

Five Things I Am Good At

1) Travel planning: budget, itinerary, transport, dinner reservations, packing checklist – I will plan it all down to the last detail and I would have fun doing it! 
2) Candlepin bowling. I was in the Massachusetts Junior State Championships in the early 90’s. Try it if you’re ever in New England.
3) Logic. I rock those puzzles where Stacey, Tracey, Lacey, and Casey drive black, white, red, and blue cars and you have to figure out which one goes with which. I got a perfect 800 on the analytical section of the GRE. One of my college professors said I was “the Michael Jordan of Logic.” True story.
4) Free cell. I am an addict.
5) Naming. I got my first baby names book when I was nine. One of the “Name Advisors” at Baby Names World called my taste “exquisite.” You can’t tell yet, but just you wait until I get some babies to name!

Five Things I am Bad At

1) Soccer. It’s a stupid, stupid game.
2) Tye Dyeing. I tried it last week and all my shirts came out mostly white.
3) Directions. I can’t read maps. I have no sense for North or South. I can barely remember which is left and which is right. This is why I don’t travel alone. I plan, someone else navigates.
4) Getting up early. I am at great risk of killing someone when I lack sleep.
5) Speaking foreign languages. People in other countries think I am dumb and always end up speaking English to me.

Tip Time
When naming your baby, stay away from having a “junior”. It’s confusing on the phone, the Post Office gets really confused when trying to forward mail for only the junior or senior, and certain circles in psychology, it’s a sign of narcissism. Seriously! Also, it is best to go with common spellings of a common name. Creative spellings only lead to a lifetime of confusion and mispellings for your baby, and they can never get any of those personalized license plates! For more naming tips, read How Not To Name Your Baby at Baby Names World.

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