sweet/sexy

.....a really gorgeous song by Neil Young

~harvest moon~
Come a little bit closer,
Hear what I have to say.
Just like children sleepin',
We could dream this night away.

But there's a full moon risin',
Let's go dancin' in the light.
We know where the music's playin',
Let's go out and feel the night.

Because I'm still in love with you,
I want to see you dance again.
Because I'm still in love with you,
On this harvest moon.

When we were strangers,
I watched you from afar.
When we were lovers,
I loved you with all my heart.

But now it's gettin' late,
And the moon is climbin' high.
I want to celebrate,
See it shinin' in your eye.

Because I'm still in love with you,
I want to see you dance again.
Because I'm still in love with you,
On this harvest moon.

-neil young-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00J3SK4Afog

drunk on christmas

It that time of the year, streets are bustling with frantic shoppers all bundled up against the wintry wind. Carols singers busking on Buchanan Street, the German market is up and running, christmas trees everywhere and the scent of pine wafting through the air. Its that time of the year where I turn into complete mush! I love Christmas...... absolutely adore everything about it. I think this love is mostly attributable to the fact that I had the best Christmasses growing up. Every year, we'd get that coveted 6 foot tree, spend ages decorating it and in the morning the you're greeted with that effervescent smell of pine.... and our little rabbit would be huddled up under the tree.Priceless! I remember nights helping mum chop up dried fruit for the xmas cake, cleaning up this and that, great great family shopping trips to get clothes and christmas decorations .... and the dreaded quest for that elusively perfect material to stitch the curtains...(not fun at 10.... not fun at 16....but now I see the light)

Every Christmas eve, the was the much anticipated Midnight Mass, complete with the choir and the Nativity play. When I was a child I was absolutely taken with the whole tradition of the mass, and then in high school I had the opportunity to get involved with putting the play together and accompanying the choir on the piano..... awww that was absolutely grand!! Moe..... remember the door and all those lights hahah ?!!;)
There was carolling aroun the neighbourhood, going to the annual kids' christmas party held at the hospital. I remember Bruce Springsteen singing Merry Christmas Baby, Elvis Presley belting Blue Christmas, Celine Dion, Kenny G, the Gregorian Chant, Whitney Houston's magical version of Do You Hear What I Hear...... I have a particular Christmas memory for all these songs and so many more.

At the risk of sounding like a christmas commercial....
its just a warm and fuzzy feeling all round.

Wishing you a special Christmas and special times all the days of your life.