Ironically, now that there's really nothing Christmas-y in China to see (and few people to talk to it about other than the few foreigners I teach with and the crew at the high school), I feel like I'm already starting to get into the spirit. We only get one day off for Christmas, mind you, but I'm okay with that. I have good luck with the way the days are falling this year (long weekend!), so all will work out just splendidly.
I was trying to figure out what Christmas albums were imperative to my childhood, and I had a hard time remembering them all. I also couldn't get it out of my head that there was a Christmas song about a dragon that I remember listening to as a kid. A friend from here (she's at the high school) accused me of being on drugs when I queried her knowledge of a Christmas dragon. After having little luck on google, I started to think that maybe the dehydrated mushrooms I bought from a local grocer might have some hallucinogenic properties. But in one last, desperate attempt to find this song, I had a stroke of good luck tonight. Not only am I not accidentally eating magic mushrooms, I actually FOUND THE SONG.
The albums on my list as a kid (that my parents played every year a gazillion times), you ask? They are as follows:
1) Alabama's Christmas
2) Neil Diamond's, The Christmas Album (Vol. II)
3) Boney M's Christmas Album
Other notables that I remember songs from include Burl Ives', Have a Jolly Christmas and Roger Whittaker's, Roger Whittaker's Christmas Album. I'm sure there was a Garth Brooks Christmas Album, and if Deep Purple made a Christmas album my dad would've bought it. We also had The Chipmunks Christmas album too, if I'm not mistaken. There'll be more Christmas nostalgia to come. For now, I'm gonna go watch Mr. Whittaker once more before watching Garfield's Christmas and going to bed. G'night.
T
Christmas dragon??? That is weird.
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