25 Days of Christmas: Day 3

Something I really love about this time of year is all of the Christmas specials you can find on TV. It seems like you can pretty much find some kind of Christmas show or movie on at least half the channels...or maybe it just seems that way to me!

One of my favorite things I always make sure to watch is the Christmas Tree Lighting in Rockefeller Center! I LOVE New York! I went twice in high school and I loved everything about it...especially when we got to go to NBC Studios and Rockefeller Center. I just hope that one day I'll actually be able to go around Christmas to see all of the lights, the decorations, and of course this infamous tree!

I really enjoyed several of the performances: Idina Menzel was great, but let's be honest, we ALL wanted her to sing Let it Go rather than Holly Jolly Christmas; Pentatonix was awesome!! I was sent a video on Facebook of them performing Mary, Did You Know? and loved that song, so I was excited to see what they'd perform tonight; and of course I loved The Rockettes!  Then, on the other hand....Cyndi Lauper...I'm sorry, but, what was she wearing?; Lady Gaga should've let Tony Bennett perform by himself; and I have mixed feelings about LeAnn Rimes' version of I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas.

When this hour of festivities ended, we were very excited to see that the SNL Christmas special compilation was coming on!! We've seen it several times, and everything is always just as funny each time you watch it!! Here are a couple of my favorite SNL Christmas clips!

Enjoy the rest of the evening full of Christmas specials!!!

(The Polar Express is on ABC Family if you want something else to watch!)

Good Reads

I've been on a big reading kick lately. And, of all things, reading biographies! It all started one day I was at work with mom--she works in a high school library--and I was just looking on the shelves and saw a biography on Joan of Arc. If you go to/went to Longwood, you'll know that I had to pick it up and least skim through it. Well, I read about twenty pages and I just could not keep going.  No offense, to Longwood's patron saint, but those first twenty pages were so boring and I just could not get through it! I took it back to the shelf and saw a John F. Kennedy biography.  I wrote about that book here, but after finishing it, I went to the county library and picked up five new biographies.  I finished them all in a about a week and a half.  They were so good!  As soon as I finished those (and took pictures for this post...), I went back to the library and picked up five different ones, which I'm currently in the middle of reading. 

 

I have no idea why there's the sudden interest in reading biographies.  I remember in middle school I had to read a biography about Abraham Lincoln for summer reading, and I didn't like it one bit.  It probably mostly had to do with the fact that it was REQUIRED reading and not just something I wanted to do for fun.

 

So, the first five biographies/autobiographies I picked up were:

• Madam C. J. Walker
• Michael J. Fox
• Tina Fey
• Betty White
• Jessica Lynch