Each year I am less and less in the Christmas spirit. Like everyone else, I am appalled that the Christmas commercialism begins so early. Even the food doesn't appeal. Red and green don't look nice together. I guess there are also some personal reasons why I no longer feel the magic or enchantment or the warmth of the season. The last time I felt it was when we went to MT to the brothers' houses. But that can't happen every year. A large part of my attitude is a reaction to hearing Christmas music in not even mid-November.
I realize that every year there are fewer Christmas songs that I can even tolerate. Some of them follow, along with their antitheses and some are quite incongruous and I cannot even begin to explain why they've made the cut or haven't.
1. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (but not "Jingle Bell Rock")
2. "Do You See What I See?" (but not "Little Drummer Boy" or -gasp-"Silent Night")
3. "Blue Christmas" (but not "White Christmas")
4. "Good King Wenceslaus" (but maybe not "We Three Kings")
5. "The Office Xmas Party"(but not "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer")
6. "Silver Bells"(but not "Jingle Bells")
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