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Over the decades, popular music singers have a tradition of recording Christmas songs. Some have been better than others. Some have been terrible. A few have made it into regular rotation every holiday season. For Mariah Carey, a hokey Christmas song has probably been her biggest hit, and biggest money maker. She recorded the song in 1994. That was almost 30 years ago. And every December, it climbs to #1 on the charts.
What is Christmas music? I don't really know. I only know the songs from pop stars. What did people sing 100 years ago? I haven't a clue. Whatever it is that we do today, surely has nothing to do with anything that happened 2,000 years ago. I doubt if 2,000 years ago, Santa had a Coke.
2000 years ago Santa didn't exist. It is interesting to hear all the Christmas songs made popular celebrities who don't believe in Jesus. Most of the people in the US celebrate Christmas, but for the wrong reason. I have never heard of Buddamas, or Allahmas. Only Christmas.
Once again, I was reminded, that Americans take for granted that we live in a land of wealth and privilege. Not the land of milk and honey. The land of fresh produce during winter months. According to That Girl, where she is from, winter is literally winter. Frozen over. Whatever vegetables that they eat, are usually preserved or canned, or something like a root vegetable which they try to keep refrigerated. What about imported produce from the Southern hemisphere? Very poor people, in very poor countries, cannot afford to import produce from Central and South America. Only people in wealthy nations, like Japan, can afford to import an avocado or mango, and pay $20 for a piece of fruit. Here in California, we don't even realize how good we have it, that our grocery stores are stocked with fresh vegetables, at affordable prices. The simple salad I had for dinner, along with the tri tip, is a meal which is out of reach for at least half of the world's population. Here I am, dissatisfied that on my salary, I can't afford Wagyu ribeyes. I can only afford to buy what's on sale, if the store has a coupon. Most of the time it is bottom round, chuck, and $0.99 chicken. While in another part of the world, even if you kill someone, there's just no fresh lettuce, tomato, and avocado.
And I had tri tip with rice and green beans for my lunch at the Christmas party yesterday. Even had seconds, and brought some home for leftovers, which I had for a 9pm late dinner. There was a leafy salad too, but I only ate the little dinky tomatoes. One of the games we played at church was to identify the name on the sticker that was put on our backs. We could only ask yes or no questions to find out if we were a person, place, or thing. I found out my sticker said Scrooge. Since everything had a Christmas theme to it, once I found out mine was a person, I just said Scrooge, and got it right. Could have been worse, there was also Grinch. LOL
Stopped by the repair shop on the way and found out they did not switch hoods. They did get the bumper and wheels off the donor, but the hood is the same. Donor truck is long gone so there is no getting the hood now. It also looks like the intake manifold is missing from my engine. There was no reason for them to take that off. I will have to stop by on Monday or Tuesday to find out what is going on. I think they are closed Sundays and Mondays, so it will probably be Tuesday. I am so tired of dealing with this truck.
Happy Monday. Got my Christmas shopping done already. Toys for the boys are on the way and should be here sometime tomorrow, and I am going to pick up two Visa gift cards because the teen granddaughters want to buy stuff online. Makes it easier for me to do that and let them get what they want instead of me trying to guess. Of course, they could have given me aa list, but hey, they wanted gift cards, so gift cards it is.
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