Domestic Geek

It's been a Christmas movie marathon at my house today. I started off by watching The Polar Express, followed by A Christmas Story and finished up by Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

A heard something interesting on the radio the other day and as par for me, I don't believe anything I hear unless I research it for myself. I had always heard that denoting Christmas as Xmas was the way secular people tried to take away the religious aspects of the holiday. It turns out that Christmas has been denoted in this fashion for over a thousand years. If you're curious of the origins, read this wikipedia entry on Xmas.

Well, I was offically hired as a graphic designer today. I start on January 2nd. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

More proof that 2006 is going to be my year (since my lucky number is 6).

So, I keep hearing this one song that I really like playing at stores. It has a realy cool horn riff in it. The problem is that with all the other background noise and how fast the singer speaks, I can never hear the specific lyrics so that I can google them. Well, I was standing right under a speaker at King Soopers today and I caught enough words. I googled them as soon as I got home and I find that it is a song by The Waitresses ("I Know What Boys Like", "Square Pegs") called "Christmas Wrapping". I've seen people mock this song on blogs and such and had no idea they were ridiculing a song I really liked. *hmph* Anyway, my $10 iTunes gift certificate came from Blingo a couple of days ago, so I purchased it!

I saw an infomercial last weekend for a CD collection that I wouldn't mind owning from Time Life called 70s Music Explostion. It's too bad the 10 disc collection costs $120! Even if I had money, I'd have a hard time shelling out that much at once for CDs.