The Adventures of Jim...

My version of a Christmas classic

Several years ago, I received a very special version of a classic Christmas song.  It was, at the very least, "special" and "touching".  I have it in MP3 form, and was going to post it to my website and include a link here, but the thought struck me that someone had most likely posted it to YouTube.  Sure enough, someone has.  In fact, MANY people have.  And what kind of Grinch would I be if chose not to share this Christmas classic? 

Most of the people who posted it have performed their own corny lip-sync to it, and you'll probably see links to several of them when this completes playing.  None of them, however, hold up to the "quality" of the song, itself.  Luckily, I did find one that was simply the audio.

So...here you go.

I've actually had a major and shocking accomplishment (two days ago) that deserve their own lyrics to this tune:

Oh Holy Cow,
My Christmas shopping's finished
I can't believe, I am done in advance.

No more will I fight the crowds at the mall,
I'll just relax and enjoy peaceful bliss.

The thrill of knowing...I don't have to worry,
No shopping hurries, "genius" is my name.

I'll.....watch TV,
Or maybe play with Eddie.
Those shoppers...aren't kind
No bother, I don't mind
I'm done...with mine.
I'm done...I'm done with mine.

I know, not the funniest and not the most original parody of the song.  But this is the first time that I can remember in a very long time when I've completed my Christmas shopping a full week in advance of Christmas day.

Woo-Hoo!!!

Interesting observation...

As Angie has posted, she and I will be going to see Billy Joel in concert when he comes to Dallas in December.  She is absolutely thrilled about it, as her occassional giggle or shriek would attest.  She even had to call her parents, to share the joy.  (They're apparently Joel fans, also.)

Don't get me wrong, I like Billy Joel's music.  Since his career spans such a large number of years, many of his songs were hits when I was in high school.  And since his is of the style of music where you can actually understand the words (how's that for sounding like an old toot?!), and he is an outstanding song-writer, I can recall most of the lyrics to many of his songs.

Which means that the concert has a higher-than-likely probability of being a big ol' kumbaya sing-a-long.  Yeah...

But like I said, I like his music, so it should be cool.  I can't get over, however, how giddy Angie is over the whole thing.  I can't go that over-the-top about Billy Joel.  He's nice and all, but Billy Joel just doesn't flip my switches to that level.

I made the observation , however, that if  it were a Van Halen concert, that'd probably be different.  I'd likely express the same degree of overjoyed-ness that she is, but just in a different way - since we belong to different "gender camps", and all.  (Now if they would only add a Dallas-area date to their current concert tour...sniff, sniff...)

But, at any rate, I'll enjoy the Billy Joel concert.  And I'll enjoy the fact that Angie digs it so much.  Ah, the things we do for love...!