I like both of these:
What Christmas object in your home has the most sentimental value?
AND, a counterpoint —
What Christmas song drives you NUTS?
I like both of these:
What Christmas object in your home has the most sentimental value?
AND, a counterpoint —
What Christmas song drives you NUTS?
Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer tie for most annoying with me. Blech.
Most sentimental christmas thing…hmmmm…I guess the ornaments my kids made in Sunday School…I don’t have one favorite, they’d kill me 🙂
sorry, i am not too sentimental and quite honestly can’t think of an object.
but the song is easy.
I dislike a lot of Beach Boys’ music because the lyricial content contains little enough intelligent thought so that a being with the brain the size of a gnat could comprehend what is being said. If you have the brain the size of a pea though, you would be able to on the spot, without a moment’s hesitation, think up better lyrics to any of their melodies. (in spite of this I still find myself singing along with their songs – they are just so aggravatingly catchy)
But their one song that makes me crazy has this line in it:
Christmas comes this time each year
oh. my. gosh.
lay off the pot already!!
JM — Hahahahaha! 😉
Tracey, these are addictive and so much fun!
My sentimental favorite is our creche, which has a story behind it. When I’d been married for a few years, my grandmother gave me a miniature Tyrolean nativity scene that I had always loved. I used it as a pattern, measuring the stable and the figures and re-created it in double the size for our family creche. I actually went into the workshop at my dh’s and fil’s business and built the thing from scratch, using the scary band saw and everything.
I was immensely impressed with myself, let me tell you. Well, I got it sanded and painted and all set up in the living room. My husband and I stepped back to look at it and there was a moment of shocked silence.
Then he asked, “Does that look like what I think it looks like?”
“Yes, it does.”
But visitors to our home have always been polite enough not to ask why the Holy Family are staying in the Alamo.
Oh, the song is hard.
Actually, my d. and I were polling her friends. Most annoying, and I concur: that whiny-@$$*& song of John Lennon (R.I.P.) about “And so this is Christmas”.
Other contenders: whatever boy band sings “Last Christmas I gave you my heart…”
The Beach Boys, as noted by jaymarie
Feliz Navidad by Trini Lopez
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Sal — I love that you made that. I wish I could see it. “Polite enough not to ask why the Holy Family are staying in the Alamo.”
hehehehe
I hate that barking dog “Jingle Bells.” I mean, whaaaaa?
Sal…”Last Christmas…” that’s George Michael, my dh’s most annoying song! blech! Tracey…oh, how could I forget the barking dog “Jingle Bells” song?
Lyn, I SOUND like barking dog Jingle Bells these days what with all the coughing.
I think I’ll record my own version called:
Pneumonia Bells
Any takers?
Pneumonia bells…LOLOL…I bet the lyrics could rival Brian Wilson’s…if you take your Nyquil first 🙂
Oh Tracey! I’m sorry…I hope you do feel better soon!
Lyn, you’ll like this:
When my eldest d. was in high school and we were decorating the tree one year, our own little Martha Stewart was asking why we put up the, according to her, awful ornaments they’d all made over the years. “Because I love them,” I said.
“Well,” she said “when I have kids, I’m just going to tell them that we’re having a theme tree this year and the theme of the tree is not ‘c*%p’.”
Which is one of those things you write down on an index card and save to taunt them with later.
Because of course every fun foam, popsicle stick and construction paper creation her little girl brings home goes on her own beautiful tree, front and center.
Sal…that sounds like our tree.
I have a highschool girl now, and she keeps moving all of hers to the back, begging me to leave them in the box this year…I tell her those are my MOSTEST precious ones and will be heirlooms for HER tree one day 🙂
See…in the back of my very dimented mind, I know that one day my children will all be in their own homes, at which time I can send all their BEAUTIFUL mementos with them, and they can every Christmas reminisce about how old they were when they made them, relive the memories of hanging colored toilet paper rolls on the Christmas tree and Mom with no shame insisting year after year that they be placed on the tree…then when they are finished at their house, (hanging their childrens’ toilet paper rolls) they can bring all their kids to Gramma’s house and see her beautiful THEMED tree!
Of course, when I’m a Gramma I plan to have Christmas craft night each year so the grandkids can make some really CLASSY decorations to give to their mom and dad (no toilet paper rolls or foam art allowed!)
Sal and Lyn — Great comments. I think a Christmas craft night when you’re finally “Gramma” is a lovely idea. Can I come?
Of course, Tracey…Bring Piper’s kids!
Hey, I thought of a more annoying song that Rudolph and Frosty combined…that one, Santa Baby one…ech…I heard it today while in the $ store, can there be anything worse at Christmas time?
I’ve hit on my ABSOLUTE LEAST FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG. Even more than barking dogs Jingle Bells:
Manheim Steamroller’s Deck the Halls! There is a WEIRD, WRONG note in that songs on the second to the last “LA” and it DRIVES. ME. CRAZY!
Now it’s an instrumental, of course — as you know if you’re familiar with MS’s, ah, “work” — but the wrong note is right here:
Deck the halls
With boughs of holly
Fa la la la la
la la LA la
That second-to-last LA is a half step lower than in the original and it takes away all the joy of singing along with the Fa-la-las — which I confess I really like.
But this little … change they did to make it a minor interval right there, well, it just cannot be tolerated! The song was playing in a store I was in the other day and I had to walk out, such is my violent distaste for it!