christmas music

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Come midnight tonight, for the second year in a row, I will have made it through the entire holiday season without once hearing Mariah Carey singing “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.

See?  It is possible after all!

It wasn’t easy sometimes.  Like whenever I went inside a grocery store and had to brace myself for hearing that song over the supermarket’s music system.  I made very sure that I ducked in and quickly got my stuff and then ran out

Allow me the opportunity to once again state that Christmas music does not belong anywhere before Thanksgiving.  As always around here, there were radio stations that began playing holiday songs on the morning after Halloween.  That is damn too early!!  Just as Christmas decor doesn’t belong in stores even before Labor Day.  When the radio stations and retailers do things like that, all it does is make the ...

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Yes, at  12:01 this morning a lot of radio stations began their playing two entire months of Christmas music.  Something which I have never liked.

Good friend of this blog Lee Shelton made this graphic several years ago.  He said that it’s time to bring it back out and I agree wholeheartedly…

Wow.  The original pic is from 2004.  A few months before I began this blog.  I weigh about 30 pounds more now.  A lot of that I gained in a very short period of time beginning in late 2008, after going on some medication for treatment mostly of depression.  I lost most of that but some of it still lingers.  I think that twenty years later I’m looking pretty healthy.

That’s my father you see behind me.  I remember exactly which cap it is that he’s wearing.

Okay well anyhoo, you have all been duly notified.  Look, ...

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