Christmas-ness!

 I LOVE CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS!!!!!

*Cough* 

Christmas is coming up so fast. December is just whizzing by, and I feel like I'm missing it. It's like I'm rushing about madly trying to get everything done on time, and the days are just not long enough to:

I have also had another case of blogger's block. Which I hate. 

This means that my poor bloggy has been severely neglected. I mean.... there hasn't been a Picture Saturday in AGES! But I guess maybe that's a good thing? Christmas isn't really a time for spending hours on the computer. Hehehe. But hey ho. I want to post at least once a week, because I really love blogging. =)

FIVE RANDOM FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS:

1.) I believe Christmas trees are like seeing magic. 

2.) Every year at this time, I either get my sister to read aloud The Father Christmas Letters by J. R. R. Tolkien or read it myself. I love Tolkien's portrayal of Father Christmas and Polar Bear. 

3.) Tomorrow I'm planning on going out with Amy and Kat and getting some pine branches - or boughs, if you want to be all old fashioned - and make wreathes with them. Christmas decorations which smell like pine are the best. I may also have a photo shoot. Photo shoots are cool. (said in my Doctor Eleven voice)

4.) My sisters and I will most likely be going caroling when we're all feeling better. (we're currently quite ill with nasty colds, *hack hack*) We all sing, and it's been ages since we went caroling, so I'm quite excited to be doing it again. 

5.) Prolly going to go to The Hobbit tomorrow. I wanted to see it yesterday and the day before, but stuff kept coming up. Sadness! I can't wait to see Martin Freeman as Bilbo, or Richard Armitage as Thorin! Squeeeee!

I will leave you now, with a few Christmas songs. I'm very sorry for the shortness and haphazardness of these past few posts. I promise to do a well thought out one soon. :) 

Best female version of this song... her notes are so pure!

This is not one of the best flash mobs I've seen, but the end is brilliant and makes me cry. =)

And now I leave you all. 

I am going now. 

goodbye. 

St. Nicholas Day and otherness.....

Hippy Happy Saint Nicholas Day!

A couple random things you may not have known about Saint Nicholas: 

1.) He was... real. 

2.) He delivered a blow to the face of the heretic Arius during the First Council of Nicaea. 

3.) He had barely grazed five feet in height. 

4.) He was a Catholic bishop. 

5.) His nose was broken. 

6.) He is also known as Father Christmas.

Be honest.... that makes Santa Claus way cooler now, doesn't it?!! *Smirk*

There is a tradition that we celebrate, in which the dear wee Saint visits good children's homes and leaves surprises in their shoes. (I'm fairly sure this is where the whole presents-in-stockings thing came around during Christmas time.... *nods knowingly*) 

I am now in possession of a mood ring. 

And chocolates. 

Father Christmas is lovely person. :)

Something about this picture is just so lovely, isn't it? 

We decorated the Christmas tree today. It looks flipping fantastical, if I do say so myself. (We did have some epic problems with the lights. Grrrrr. They were blinking.... and we didn't want them to blink. And then half the lights we'd already strung on the tree went out. *facepalm*) But gaaaaaah! I so much love Christmas that it's worth having to fix bad lights!!! SO. MUCH. LOVE. 

I reached the Eleventh Doctor. 

I quite love him, he's brilliant. And, um, he's quickly rising to second favorite. =)

My sister Kat finally started watching Doctor Who as well. 

She likes it. 

I may have addicted her. 

Unfortunately, we already gave the first four seasons back to the people who loaned them to us, so she jumped right in to Eleven. I sang the theme song for her and um... I may have ruined it for her. DoooooWEEEooooooooh! WEEEEoooooWAAAH!

She's making a clay TARDIS. It's so cool!

So, I know I have been absolutely awful when it comes to commenting on everyone's blogs. And I am so very, so very, very, so very, very, very, so very, very, very, very sorry. :) But we have company up visiting, and I always feel a little awkward saying, "Ciao, people! I'm off to spend an hour or so viewing the blogger world... Tralalalally! Fend for yourselves!" Therefore, until they go, my commenting will still be rare. I am reading all the posts though! :)

For your enjoyment........

My absolute favorite version of O Holy Night. None other can compare in my eyes. It's by Josh Groban. 

And the cutest Little Drummer Boy by Tennessee Ernie Ford.... (that last part, 'then he smiled at me'... adorable.)

And now that I have rambled most distressingly I will bid you all a very fond goodnight. x