Blondie's Ultimate Christmas Song

So the lovely Siân tagged me in the Ultimate Christmas Song meme and I don't want to face her wrath by not obliging so here we go (I kid, I kid). I do actually really like holiday music and it has taken me ages to settle on a song I hand't seen anyone pick yet. I loved Grandma Got Runover by Reindeer as a kid and there are some much over looked Chanukah songs but then I heard this on the radio and all other options were out.




In the US we had Christmas albums called "A Very Special Christmas" that came out every season and featured big names singing holiday songs to benefit the Special Olympics. The cover artwork was always by Keith Haring so the combination always sticks out in my mind.


This particular song is just ace. I'm not a big Bon Jovi person but Bon Jovi and Cindy Crawford directed by Herb Ritz makes for a super sexy and somewhat sad Christmas video. 


I'm fairly sure I remember Pop-up-Video telling me that they kept making out after they called cut so that could be what makes this a realistic video.  It is also pretty short so I'm only wasting 2 minutes of your life if you don't like it; sit back and enjoy!


I tag:


Morgan
Lori
Nancy
Jessica
Karen

What I Wore Wednesday

Normally I am the kind of woman who travels in a t-shirt and sweatpants that say Hello Kitty on the ass--classy, I know. I've always put comfort over style on planes but I as we didn't have seats together and I think airline staff tend to be nicer if you look nicer I decided to try and combine comfort and style. Of course this plan was thwarted as I couldn't find my leggings so I threw a bit of a concoction together. I know the pants don't tuck into my boots well but I didn't have any other option.

I hot rolled my hair the night before. We were leaving the house before 6:30am so showering the night before was essential. I took out the rollers and slept on it without picking out the curls. It meant my hair actually had a lot of volume the next day (can't tell from the photo) and when on the plane I twisted it up into a clip which meant when I shook it out  14 hours later my hair still looked surprisingly good.

I'm wearing a maternity top, no I'm not pregnant. I wanted a long, loose t-shirt that was baggy so in a pinch it totally worked. I don't normally wear maternity tops I promise. So here is what I wore!

Apologies for the crap shot in the middle of Frankie and Benny's at Glasgow Airport

Hot Rolled Hair- Spin Daily

Glasses- DKNY

Fearless Tiny Skull Studs- Dogeared

I heart Ohio necklace- Truche

Black T-shirt- Liz Lange

Black Kick Flare Pants- Express

Long Grey Cardigan- The Gap

Black Boots- Sketchers

  

The Memorable Firsts

Sally tagged me ages ago and since I'm holed up in bed with a cold I figured I should actually get around to it!

First Teacher: My kindergarten teacher's name was Miss Dick, I kid you not, but I don't remember much about her if I'm honest.  My 1st grade teacher was Mrs. Baas and from what I remember I liked her (I was only 6 give me a break).  I can remember for show-and-tell I brought in my bike and somehow she knew to choose the boy I had a crush on to help me carry it in. If indulging a 6 year old's crush isn't being a good teacher I don't know what is :)

First snog: Tim, he was 18, gorgeous and played soccer for another high school. He had his own car and drove (I was 15) and I kissed him on my best friend Dana's trampoline in her back yard.

First record: I had a lot of vinyl singles (those little records) from a very young age including Madonna, Neneh Cherry, Tina Marie, Taylor Dane and tons more I can't remember. 

First job: If you don't count baby-sitting (which I did a lot of) it was at the TP Swim Club Snack Bar when I had just turned 15. My friend Stevie and I would experiment with putting pickles, tomatoes and Airheads into the deep fryer. We also used to freeze wet baseball caps to keep cool and basically goofed off way to much. I'm still not sure why we were entrusted to using deep fryers and a grill.

First crush: Michael Jackson. I wanted to marry him and kissed my 3rd birthday cake.  I had a Michael Jackson Barbie doll and posters all over my wall. Please note this was when he was still a black man and before he turned into a scary white woman.

First hangover: I'm guessing it was at my college orientation. I didn't drink in high school (remember that and not this next part Mom) and somehow even though I was 17 I got into clubs and definitely decided it was time to try drinking. I drank strawberry vodka straight because I didn't know it should be mixed. Someone told me I needed a chaser and gave me beer. How i didn't puke I don't know.

First gig: Counting Crows at the Cincinnati Zoo with the fore mentioned best friend Dana when we were 14 or 15 I can't remember! I met Adam Duritz in the audience and got his autograph.

First flat: Not counting dorm rooms it was my apartment at The Majestic on W. McMillian in Clifton. The Majestic was anything but and while I could walk to classes at UC it was super ghetto. My parking space was often filled with sewage, homeless people lived in the laundry room and I once came home and found a man passed out over the stairs. I felt like a horrible, mean Republican as I called the police since it was snowing out but said man didn't move when I said "Excuse me Sir" so I was worried he was dead.  The police knew him and seemed more than happy to shift him for me at least until they discovered he'd soiled himself.  Classy place, right?  They've since totally refurbished and cleaned up the place so if you are a student at UC don't let me experience sway you as it is an amazing location.

First byline: I know I wrote things for my high school newspaper but I couldn't tell you what. I wrote a story for my town newspaper on our Congressman though as well. I can't tell you if it was about interning for him or about a Town Hall meeting he held but it was one or the other.

First blog: My first blog was a Live Journal (I think?) and just me rambling and writing really horrible post-breakup songs that were way too heavily influenced by Dashboard Confessional and alcohol.  I had a blog on MySpace after that which was mostly memes and then another LiveJournal blog after I'd moved over here. Started up with this one and actually stuck with it.

Is your refrigerator running? You better go catch it!

The lovely Pippa tagged me in the Fridge of Bad Parent Meme that Sally created and while I'd like to think neither of us are a bad parent, I'm actually going to follow through! I'm rubbish at responding to tags, but I'm going to make more effort from here on out. I've actually shown y'all my fridge before back when we still lived in our flat believe it or not. At that time I was totally in love with it.

Now, I actually hate my fridge because it has no freezer.  It's large and in charge, which I love, but I have to schelp my lazy ass out to the garage if I want any tasty frozen delights from the freezer. It also means I can't have ice in my drinks and y'all know how us Americans LOVE ice in our drinks! Regardless here in all it's full sized "American" glory is my fridge.

Let's see we've got my gym's class schedule, a not from Blondie Boy's leprechaun, autographed Henry Rollins ticket, US-UK conversion chart, recycling schedule, my sister's Save-the-Date, photos of my Grandparents and lots of fun magnets and other random crap stuck up there for who knows what reason.

(Clockwise from top) Authentic Thai Green Curry, Yeo Valley Organic Yoghurt, Hummus, Dog Food, Sparkling Water, White Whine, Grapes/Melons, Lurpak Light, Plum tomatoes, Reduced-Sugar Ham, half a lemon, Maraschino cherries, Feta cheese, Parmesan Cheese, Chicken breasts, Laughing Cow Cheese, Shredded Monterey Jack Cheese, Pineapple, Coleslaw, Organic Whole Milk, Skimmed Milk, more Yeo Valley Yoghurt, Reduced Fat Whipped Cream, Ketchup.

Leftover Chinese, Leftover Sloppy Joes, Purple Drank, Coke Zero, Mayonnaise, Corona, Mahoosive thing of Soy Sauce, More Whipped Cream (?), Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, Rocket, Izzy's Kosher Pickles

So judging from my fridge alone am I a bad parent? Do y'all have any of the same stuff in your fridge? I'm going to take this meme international and I tag::

Scottish Mummy

Lil Misa

Sunday Baker

JJV

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