- Chanukah is coming! Well, it's Kislev anyway. In my family we have a tradition that as soon as Kislev starts, we play this CD. Like all the time. It's the Miami Boys Choir Chanukah CD, and it is guaranteed to make you smile and think to yourself, "Chanukah is coming! Yay!!!!" Or at least that's what it does for me. Of course now, since I don't live at home, I have the songs on my iPod, and I was just sitting on the bus on my way home today and suddenly Maoz Tzur made me realize that I would actually be singing that soon! So now we're all happy.
- Speaking of music, the other reason I'm in a good mood is because I just got 3 CD's I ordered online. Each one of them is an awesome CD for a different reason, and seeing the 3 of them together automatically put me in a good mood. So... the first one is the Cars soundtrack. I love that movie to pieces, and the songs on it are just really good. And fun.
- The next is a Gilmore Girls soundtrack. I bought it for 3 reasons: 1. It has the version of "Where You Lead" that Carole King did especially for the show, which I personally like a lot better than her original one. 2. I love the background music on that show, and it's all on the soundtrack. 3. There's a song called "My Little Corner of the World" which is played during one of my very favorite scenes ever on Gilmore Girls, the last scene of the first season, and is a really adorable song, not to mention is very big on the "Stars Hollow vibe". I love Stars Hollow with all of my heart and soul. And when you open the CD, just on the liner, the Stars Hollow vibe is there, just screaming out at you. The pictures are little details of Stars-Hollowness, and there are two essays from the wonderful creators of GG, Amy and Dan Palladino, about music. As if we didn't know they could write.
- The other CD I bought is Renee Olstead's self-titled CD. I heard of her only because she has a song on the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack, but she's actually really good. Most of her music is her twist on classics, but what's cool about her is that this CD- her first- was released when she was fifteen. The other thing I liked was that at the end of the acknowlegements on the CD she wrote "BTW: Thnx for being one of the few people who reads liner notes." I thought that was cute, but I really had no idea nobody does that... I always do.
Everything else I wanted to blog about seems way too mundane after this long music talk. But wow, that was fun. I haven't blogged like this in awhile. Blogging about randomness is the best way to blog, I must say.
So the other things were: Hopefully my ingrown toenail has been fixed for real, and I'm so happy I'm out of the school system before all these problems. My sisters are barely ever in school, a lot of the kids are worried about there Bagruyot, and now all the education positions in Sherut Leumi are frozen as well. One of the girls with me in Ariel left a couple of weeks ago, and now she's stuck and can't get a job in education. The position she left open can't be filled either. Wow. We need a new education minister.
Anyway, I'm home on Shabbat, and we have a lot of people- my cousins, my grandmother, and my friend. That's about it...
Shabbat Shalom! Have a good week!
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