It’s still Happy New Year!!!

Finally I have all my calendars up! I don’t know why, but there’s a weird sense of excitement about what goes up on the wall. This year I splurged and bought a Norwegian Elkhound calendar for my hubby for Christmas. Yes, I paid full price and bought it two months before Christmas (because I got free shipping). Norwegian Elkhound calendars are hard to find, so I started looking early. Isn’t the picture adorable, almost as adorable as my own little Star! So that took care of my husband’s office. Now for mine! After Jan 1, armed with my Borders Bucks, I went shopping for the sale items! Who knows what’s going to be left after the Xmas rush! Luckily, there were still tons of James Bond calendars left, with all the different Bonds over the years. Sean Connery and the new Bond, Daniel Craig, are my favorites. But of course, when I got home, you know what happened. My husband confiscated Bond, and I got the Elkhound calendar! I wonder if I actually planned it that way, hee hee.

So what calendar do you use? And do you wait to buy it until after the new year starts? And who’s your favorite Bond?!

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Happy New Year with Glee!

Okay, I heard about Glee when it first came out, and I thought it sounded so...dumb. A glee club? How...high school. But then I started hearing great things about the show. And I was still dubious. But finally, just because I love musicals (I got The Sound of Music on Blu-Ray for Christmas!!!), I thought what the heck, I’ll get the first disk from Netflix. Oh my God! I was hooked from the first episode. Sue, coach of the cheerleaders, is hilarious. But what really had me hooked was the Glee Club’s performance of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” at the end of the first episode. It just made me want to dance along! Don’t tell anyone, but I did! In the morning after my husband left for work so no one would see me! But it was also because I loved all those Journey songs way back when. It just brought back wonderful memories. So I got the whole first season of Glee! And it was so fun. I loved “Bohemian Rhapsody.” And “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Gosh, I’d forgotten that song! There were just so many old songs I love. They did some new stuff, too, including some Rap stuff that’s not really too my taste. But I've got eclectic tastes so I could handle it. There were so many I remember! They even did “Over the Rainbow!” Of course, no one can do it like Judy Garland, but it was still fun. The storylines are high school, but fun because of the added archetypes like Emma, the guidance counselor who has a germ phobia. So I’ve to Season 2 in my Netflix queue. I wonder if this means the comeback of the old musicals.

So what are your favorite old songs? And if you’ve watched Glee, what did you think?

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