3.) I am feeling a bit like Obadiah Stane in regards to my car: "I'm deeply enjoying the suit," except, in my case, it is the CAR I'm deeply enjoying. :)
4.) My sisters and I have come to the conclusion that Imagine Dragons (a band) does nothing but watch Supernatural and compose music based on Sam and Dean Winchester. (This song reminds me so much of Sam. Sammy!!! :)
5.) Supernatural is one of those shows I don't recommend, because of the horrifically flawed portrayal of God and the angels. I watch it for the brothers. :)
The title of this post is the final line of a poem one of my younger sisters recited at a memorable Thanksgiving years ago. She was dressed as a pilgrim, with a pinecone as a pretend turkey, and she recited THIS poem as she balanced the "turkey" in her hands:
This year we had all the usual yummies - Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, sweet rolls, salad and vegetables, champagne and wine, and for dessert we had apple pie, ice cream, and...
I have to say, that was a delicious dessert. We ate, we drank, we made our ancestors proud. Then we watched Holiday Inn, a wonderful old movie that we always watch on Thanksgiving. It's the movie that preludes the Advent season.
Bing Crosby and Marjorie Dale sing the only acceptable version of White Christmas in this movie. :)
We have a couple Thanksgiving traditions in our family. One is the above-mentioned Holiday Inn movie. Another is the listening of THIS song by Nat King Cole: (Visualize a downward-pointing arrow at the youtube video below. Thank you.)
Actually, Nat King Cole has one of the best old traditional Christmas music CD's out there. He sings brilliantly lovely songs, like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Away In A Manger, O Come All Ye Faithful, and Silent Night. It's probably one of my most favourite Christmas CD's to listen to during the Advent and Christmas season.
Another tradition we do is to listen to Josh Groban's O Holy Night as well. The first time I ever heard him sing this song was the year when the world's worst sappy and materialistic Christmas music was being played CONSTANTLY on the radio. It was the kind of music that filled you with snarls and Grinchy glares, so Josh was the sweetest breath of fresh air. This song has remained very special to me ever since, and I know I've shared it a LOT, but it's such a beautiful version I can't help it. And I won't apologize for it, either. You don't HAVE to watch it if you don't want to. I just love it and must post it. Again. And again. And, you know, again.
That's all I've really got for today. As a total aside note, and not at all Thanksgiving related, see this?
I HAZ A CAR! It is a beautiful car. I love my car. I like to pat my car, and tell it how beautiful it is. I like to drive my car. It rides so well. It just sort of cruises over the road. It is my lovely, lovely car.
My family and I are pretty avid Doctor Who fans. Since today is the 50th anniversary, we were of course pretty stoked to watch the 50th Anniversary Episode of Doctor Who online, along with a million other fans. I mean, come on, how cool is that? "A billion billion people" all watching Doctor Who at the same time!
Well, as time approached, we couldn't get the show to play on BBCAmerica. Cue frantic shouting. At this time, we called up one of our friends who lives down the street to see if she could get Doctor Who to play on her cable. After a few minutes she was able to verify, yes, she could get Doctor Who on her telly, so we asked her to pause it while we gathered up the family and raced down there.
I enjoyed it. I would have liked to see a few extra people appear on the screen (i.e., Rory, Amy, and River), aside from the ones we knew were going to appear (Ten, John Hurt, Rose Tyler), but I loved the ending where we got to see all 12 Doctors (Spoiler!! Highlight if you want to be spoiled)working together onscreen to save Gallifrey (End spoiler!!) and I really enjoyed watching Ten and Eleven together. Eleven is my favourite, so I was glad he got a lot of screen time, but he and Ten played really well off each other. Overall, I'd say this was a really tight episode and it was jolly having all the Doctors onscreen.
