Ever watch "Coupling"? You should! Hilarious stuff about relationships and sexuality. Perhaps you will now?
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Click here for more info on Mari Wilson – "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps".
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I'm cleaning house… at work, at home, in my head even perhaps maybe could be possibly? The change and freshness feels good even though you give it a couple months and it is all a big mess again! Oh entropy, you are a bitch! For now though, it is good.
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Click here for more info on Dean Martin – "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?".
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If I don't see you in the next couple weeks, I want you to have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
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The MP3 may be purchased here… Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
A week ago I was lamenting that there weren't a lot of good, new, original Christmas-y songs. Covers of previous songs, and carols sure, but so little new material worth beans.
Well between Meaghan Smith and Matthew Ebel (yesterday's pick), I am eating my words! Where Matthew Ebel will appeal to the kid in us, Meaghan's "Wish Upon a Star" EP will please those of you who cling to the Classic Pop Christmas albums of the mid-1900s… the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, etc. Check it out!
PS: I actually first heard Meaghan's cover of "Christmas Time Is Here" from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. She actually made it not depressing, and that really impressed me. Her "Wish Upon a Star" EP has but four songs, but she could, and should do more!
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Click here for more info on Meaghan Smith – Wish Upon A Star – "It Snowed".
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Despite the insane busy-ness that is the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is in many many ways, the most wonderful time of the year, isn't it? Ah… the anticipation of Christmas… family & friends, food & presents, sights & smells, and a new year to boot!
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The MP3 may be purchased here… Andy Williams - The Andy Williams Christmas Album
I was thinking of doing unusual Christmas songs this year, and maybe I will, maybe I won't. Regardless I'm kicking off the list with a classic, one of Nat King Cole's many renditions of The Christmas Song (AKA "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells).
PS: To those who cannot handle some Christmas music, see you in a couple weeks!
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Click here for more info on Nat King Cole – "The Christmas Song".
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"What a Difference a Day Made" was originally written in 1934 in Spanish by "María Grever" and entitled "Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado". The translated Dinah Washington version is the one I know and love though. It is also commonly known as "What a Difference a Day Makes". I've been humming it to myself as I laugh back at my day's work…
I decided today was going to be the day that I finally rented the blow-in-insulation machine, and with the assistance of my nephew, insulate our drafty kitchen. I already had a couple holes in the wall showing no insulation whatsoever. And so it began with cramming the dirty machine and as many bundles as possible into my hatchback, discovering on the way home that this material was pervasive. Despite being encased in plastic it still floated in the air of my black car.
Once arriving home, we emptied the kitchen because I was certain this was to be a messy messy day. I was right.
My nephew and I started drilling holes, and much to my shock and awe, most of the kitchen was already insulated with blown in insulation. How could this be? There was no indication of it! There was no signs. The kitchen is still very drafty! We drilled holes only to find 5 places that appeared without insulation. We quickly learned why this is a job you should hire other people to do.
It is messy. The little bits of insulation get everywhere and it is easy to accidental start coating the entire room and yourself with the stuff. I spent just as much, if not more time cleaning up, compared to drilling the holes and blowing the insulation.
It is annoying. The hoses clog with little effort and I think we spent more time unclogging them than actually blowing in insulation. It is also very loud and despite my yelling for my nephew to stop, he could not hear. We devised a rope I would pull that would tip a bucket over to indicate when I need him to stop. It worked, most of the time.
In the end we used most of one package of insulation to insulate what was not already insulated. I am happy that is the case, and yet if I had known I would never had done it. One of my least favorite parts though was when I returned the machine, it was hot, so I opened the windows on my car. It took a few minutes before I realized some of the excess white insulation left over in the machine had started to blow around my black interior car, like a snow globe. Ahhh!!! Oh the fun I had vacuuming up little pieces of insulation from every surface and crevice!
What a difference a day made. What you think will happen vs what actually does. The wisdom that comes from experience. The joy in knowing I never need to do this again (at least not in this house which is now fully insulated). Ultimately this bring G and I another step closer to a kitchen that doesn't look like a crappy version of a late 1960s kitchen. How romantical!
PS: Anyone crazy enough to try to use blown in insulation and install it yourself (like me), read this. It helped me, and warned me, and yet I did it anyway!
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Click here for more info on Dinah Washington – "What a Difference a Day Made".
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