Christmas lists

I love this: It's a Christmas Post!

Here's mine.

The best things about Christmas

Christmas music. I have about 350 Christmas songs in iTunes. Around this time of year--sometime in November--I switch my iPod playlists to Christmas ones.

Top five Ten Fifteen Christmas songs:

1. Christmas Must Be Tonight, - The Band
2. Driving Home for Christmas - Chris Rea
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
4. The Christmas Song - The Ravonettes
5. Christmas Bayou - Michael Doucet
6. Christmas Time - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Barenaked Ladies
8. Maybe This Christmas - Ron Sexsmith
9. Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Mannheim Steamroller
10. Suddenly it's Christmas - Loudon Wainwright III
11. The Virgin Mary - Mason Williams
12. Good King Wenceslas - The Roches
13. A Song of Christmas - Lowen & Navarro
14. Feliz Navidad - Los Lonely Boys
15. O Tannenbaum - Vince Guaraldi Trio

Christmas movies. I love Christmas movies. And by that I don't mean movies that are about Christmas, necessarily, but movies set at Christmas. Like Diehard. Did you ever think about that being a Christmas movie? It is. Some other favorites:

• Christmas With the Kranks
• Love Actually
• Home Alone
• Holiday Inn
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Christmas books. Same thing -- I love reading fiction that's set at Christmastime. There are only a few that I can think of. I see a lot of it in displays at the bookstores, but most of it doesn't appeal to me enough to risk buying it. I suppose I should write down the titles and check them out of the library. Here are some that I own:

• Undead and Unreturnable - Mary Janice Davidson (vampire chick lit)
• Crewel Yule - Monica Ferris (a "needlecraft mystery")
• Miracle and Other Christmas Stories - Connie Willis (One of my favorite books of all time -- I love Connie Willis, and she loves Christmas, too.)
• Skipping Christmas - John Grisham (the book that Christmas With the Kranks is based on)
• Christmas Forever - David G. Hartwell, Ed. (science fiction anthology)

Other favorite things about Christmas:

• Christmas print paper towels
• Christmas themed zip-lock bags and storage containers
• Peppermint ice cream
• Cranberry gingerale (do they still make this?)
• Peppermint candles
• Pine candles (Yankee Candles' "Mistletoe" is the best)
• Cheap Christmas print notepads and ballpoint pens
• Christmas cards
• Christmas stamps
• Christmas music in the stores
• Christmas lights
• Pine scented air freshener and candles
• Holiday scented soap and bath products
• Christmas-themed nightshirts from Disney World
• My "'Tis the Season to be Crabby" pajama pants from Joe's Crab Shack
• My Christmas-print Vera Bradley knitting bag

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm getting in the Christmas spirit early this year.

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