Writer's Block: Songs of the season

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Ooh... Would have to be "Winter Knight" by Nox Arcana. Gothic reworkings of classic Christmas carols, as well as a few original pieces. Their version of "Carol of the Bells" is hair-raisingly beautiful, and "Veni, Veni, Emmanuel" sounds exactly like it was performed by a choir of monks in a Gothic cathedral, even though it was recorded in a home studio by two guys!

Merry Second Day of Christmas!

Which is the greeting one gives when you've barely had a minute all week to put a few words together in your personal LJ. This past week at work was insanely busy: the day before Christmas Eve was as busy as most Christmas Eves, plus I've been doing extra housework. No wonder that I work up Christmas morning with an earache (thankfully the kind that can be treated with a hot water bottle).

But I had a lovely day: shared "A Nightmare Before Christmas" with my folks, got a lovely little book about the Holy Grail legends, and from my dad, a lovely little electric stove that looks like a little log burner. It's even got these simulated logs that flicker like real glowing logs, and simulated flames on a glass screen in the back. My room is going to be nice and cozy this winter! I can even turn it on in the summer to look at the flickering flames, since it has a switch on it that turns off the heating unit.

And now we're getting a blizzard, so I was out earlier, shoveling snow and getting some much welcome exercise.