Technically the month leading up to Christmas is advent and only after Christmas has the Christmas season officially begun, so that means – MORE MUSIC! 😀
#1: Merry Chreasmaugh by Tobuscus
#2: Time to Fall in Love by Lindsey Stirling
#3: Stuck in Love by Kim Kyung Hee (from Goblin)
#4: Underneath the Tree by Kelly Clarkson
#5: Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney
As you may have noticed, there’s none of the traditional Christmas Carols on any of these lists – but that’s not because I don’t love those! I just love singing those live at church and with my family. That’s why these lists are full of my favorite secular songs (unless there is a recorded version of a particular church carol that is good!)
Some of my favorite Classic Christmas Carols are:
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Silent Night What Child is This God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Hark the Herald Angels Sing
I hope that your Christmas Day was filled with Jesus, family, love and happiness! ❤
Every year for the last 15 years, during trick or treating on Halloween is when my dad busts out his Christmas playlist.
This year, thought I normally wait until after Thanksgiving to put up my Christmas tree, I simply couldn’t wait! I put it up mere days after Halloween – and I’m so happy I did. For some reason, now that I’m older, the Christmas season just always seems to fly by to fast.
So, anything I can do to make it last just a little bit longer, I’m going to do.
These are my (first) top 5 classic Christmas songs, that I have to hear every year no matter what!
#1: Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms
#2: The Christmas Song by Alvin & The Chipmunks
#3: It’s Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas by Bing Crosby
#4: Please Come Home For Christmas by Southside Johnny Lyon
#5: Santa Baby by Kylie Minogue
Aaaaagh all of these get me in the Christmas shopping, baking, decorating mood! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
This past week, has been a DEEP CLEANING kind of week and, unless you are a full-blown psychopath, you need to have music playing while you clean!
To quote Snow White, “Just Whistle While You Work!”, or Giselle “Our Happy Little Working Song!”, or Mary Poppins, “And Snap! The Job’s a Game!” – those ladies weren’t crazy! They knew wassup.
Here are the top 5 playlists that we played during our work.
#1: Loki & Sylvie inspired music – nothing like some good old angst to get the dusting done!
#2: Gentle Jazz for Cooking – honestly this list is one of my new favorites! ❤
#3: Some Hallmark-y Christmas music (gotta start the season early or it’ll be over before you know it!)
#4: This show is so heartbreaking and chilling 😢 – but this playlist is FIRE!
#5: If you’re not imagining yourself in a battle respite scene while listening to this – then are you even ON an elevator??
Aren’t they great?
This is your wake-up call to go and scrub your ceiling.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer is quite possibly my favorite novel ever!
I really struggle with that question “What’s your favorite book?” But if you forced me to give an answer, then it would be a hard tie between The Host and Jane Eyre (with all of the LOTR books, The Harry Potter series, The Narnia Chronicles, the Twilight Saga, Escape to Witch Mountain and soooooo many others tied right along with them!!!).
I think in the end the only sensible thing to do would be to Fahrenheit 451 the situation and memorize all of my favorite books! Starting with Jane Eyre and The Host.
Originally pitched as ‘An alien story for people who don’t like alien stories’ The Host is Invasion of the Body Snatchers CONTINUED, or, A Day in the Life of Wanda (no not that Wanda!)
Not that one either!
Wanda, or Wanderer, is the body snatching alien that has taken over the body of our main human Melanie. Melanie, or Mel, is one of the last surviving humans, who’d been living rough on the run with her baby brother Jamie and her apocalyptic lover Jared, till they got separated and Mel ended up captured.
After Wanda was implanted Melanie was supposed to go away – but she didn’t.
2 souls, 1 body and a family that they now BOTH love – is a happy ending even possible?
Not to spoil anything but – YES! Yes a happy ending is possible!
Now, I want to share my fancast with you! I know there’s a movie, but the movie really could’ve been better imo (sorry Fickle Fish). This book needs/deserves to be done in show format, anywhere from 6 to 24 hours dedicated to it’s telling. (BTW Fickle Fish if you want/need someone to write the scripts for a show for you I WILL I WILL I WILL!!)
Anyways, my dream cast would include:
Melanie Stryder played by Lindsey Morgan (I mean, wouldn’t Raven by PERFECT!!??)
Or Alycia Debnam Carey (Lexa also has that fierce but soft attitude to play both Mel and Wanda)
Jared Howe played by Jensen Ackles (I know he’s in his 40s now, but this is my dream cast dammit! JENSEN IS PERFECT FOR JARED!!!)
Ian O’Shea played (this is the hardest one to cast for me cause he’s my FAVORITE! So, we’re gonna try to find someone that looks like he could be twins with my Kyle fancast) either John Krasinski
Or (because he’s got those baby blues…) Tom Hiddleston
Kyle O’Shea played by Jeremy Renner (once I had this thought there’s been no going back for me, Jeremy IS Kyle!)
And Finally Wanderer aka Wanda in the body of Pet played by Lucy Hale (with her blonde hair she’s perfect for pet!!!)
So, that’s it! What do you think??
The Host gets all the thumbs that I have in my possession way way up!!
If you haven’t read it yet, please give it a go! And if you don’t like it – well, then maybe you just don’t deserve to get what you want! (IT Crowd reference 😉 )
BTW, here’s the song that sold me on Jeremy Renner as Kyle. I feel like the show would need to have a soundtrack like this!! 100%!!!
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