Hey party people! I hope your day is going well.
Even though I’ve been back in Ocala for a few days now I feel I’ve been MIA since I’ve been playing catch-up on the blog and filling you guys in on my NYC trip. Things have carried on as usual behind the scenes!
Workout
My Wednesday began at the gym with a Best Body Boot Camp workout. (Speaking of BBBC, I’ve only heard from one of the three winners of Sunday’s BBBC giveaway. Please email me if you were one of them!)
Monday kicked off the final week of Best Body Boot Camp and I made sure to give today’s workout my best effort. Gotta go out with a bang!
I began my time at the gym with a 20 minute elliptical hill workout before following the lower body tabata workout on the agenda for the day. As always, the jumping lunges killed me. Yeesh.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning included a bowl of scrambled eggs prepared with a splash of milk and shredded mozzarella cheese.
I also added some apple chicken sausage and sliced avocado which amped up the flavor.
After breakfast, I worked through the morning before heading out to the College of Central Florida for a lunchtime planning meeting for the Taste of Ocala. Though the event doesn’t take place until April, planning is already in progress. Lots to do!
Least Favorite Holiday Song
Everyone has one. A holiday song that makes you cringe.
Even if you are the world’s biggest fan of holiday music, I bet there’s still one holiday song that you simply cannot stand.
For me it’s Christmas Shoes.
The first five notes of that song send my hand flying to the radio dial to change the station as I spiral into a downward spiral of despair.It’s probably the most depressing Christmas song in all the land. I just can’t take it.
Another song that depresses me? “Same Old Lang Syne.” But here’s the kicker with that song… I actually like it. I think it’s such a pretty song, but it makes me so freakin’ sad.
There are a handful of songs that make me cry, but cry emotional tears of happiness, gratitude and faith rather than tears of extreme depression a la Christmas Shoes.
When I lived in Illinois, our church used to conclude Christmas Eve services with “Silent Night” and everyone would cry. That song still makes me cry to this day because I can picture my family standing in a row at church and my dad’s eyes watering as he reached out to squeeze my arm.
O Holy Night also makes me emotional. It’s my all-time favorite Christmas song.
If you don’t feel like harping on depressing and overly emotional music at the moment, you might prefer this slightly more uplifting post: Best Christmas CDs.
Questions of the Afternoon
- What is your least favorite holiday song?
- What is holiday songs make you feel emotional?
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I LOVE Christmas music, but can’t stand the song ‘Santa Baby.’ It’s just kinda creepy! My favorite songs are definitely ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ and ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ .. 🙂
HATE SANTA BABY! There’s just something wrong with a woman who sings about being attracted to a married man, who only comes around once a year, and would put out for stuff.
I love love love Carol of the Bells! Any version! I also can’t get enough of Last Christmas, and never flip through it on my ipod – even if it’s July
I too will flip to ANY other station when I hear the Christmas Shoes song. I also don’t like that Hippopotamus for Christmas song. I think it’s super annoying!
Oh, Christmas Shoes. *shudders* It was pretty and emotional about the first fifty times, but that first year, it got so overplayed that Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams-Paisley made a movie about it…which my mother owns.
I work at Bath & Body Works, and this is my second holiday season with them. The music isn’t as bad this year as it was last year. Last year, the music was a mix of Disney and Glee and not much else. It was too much teeny bopper, including this song, I don’t know who did it, or why, but it was these girls saying all they want for Christmas is a “Brother.” I thought it a bit juvenile at first (like, a little girl wanting a little brother for Christmas), but then I realized they were singing about the JONAS BROS! That, on top of the off-key singing, still makes me cringe. HATE that song!
The music has been decent this year, though. We’ll all actually talk about how much we don’t hate it, though Christmas music does get old when you hear Sleigh Ride ten times in a row, just different artists.
The worse Christmas song for me would be Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer. Bleh!!
That’s so funny. I was just thinking about making my FB status “please stop playing the song ‘Christmas Shoes’ on the radio! Wahhhh!”
My freshman year college roommate played “All I Want for Christmas is You” on repeat for HOURS as we were studying for exams.
Five years later, I shared a (tiny) office with a woman who did the same thing with “Christmas Shoes”!
Seriously?!
I really like “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”…. as long as it’s not on repeat 🙂
I heard “Christmas Shoes” this morning on the radio and instantly felt sad. My least favorite Christmas songs are “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” and “Run Rudolph Run.” My favorite Christmas songs are “O Holy Night” by Faith Hill or Martina McBride, “Mary Did You Know”, “A Baby Changes Everything”, and “Carol of the Bells.” I also like “Christmas Song” by DMB!
Oh and I can’t forget “All I Want for Christmas is You!” Love it!
our church ends midnight mass with the hallelujah chorus. it gives me goosebumps now thinking of it. Christmas shoes is definately the worst
I despise “In the Bleak Mid Winter” by Sarah Brightman. Normally I like her voice, but she sounds horrid on that song.
I love so many Christmas songs, but this year I am loving “Peppermint Winter” by Owl City. It is a totally bizarre song that makes me laugh & smile every time I hear it no matter what kind of mood I’m in!
OMG Christmas Shoes is literally the worst Xmas song in history. This is a happy time of year – why do they want to focus on something suuuuper depressing? Let’s stick with the Chestnuts Roasting, and the always uplifting Sleigh Ride. Much better 🙂
I thought I was a horrible person for disliking Christmas Shoes since it is about a boy’s desire to buy his dying mother shoes…I’m so glad I’m not alone! It makes me groan out loud!
O Holy Night and Carol of the Bells are two of my favs, and Silent Night makes me cry 92% of the time!
I have 2 least favorite Christmas songs and about 50 “all time favorite” Christmas songs.
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All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey. Or anything by Mariah Carey
And so this is Christmas… (or something like that) by Paul McCartney
Domenic the Donkey is by far my least favorite christmas song! When I worked at a restaurant it would play on the jukebox on repeat..I’ve despised it ever since! It is kinda funny though…haha.
Christmas Shoes has to be one of the worst, along with Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
Just.Not.Fun. Always skip over when they pop up.
Love most of the Michael Buble holiday music (except Santa Buddy or whatever it is…creepy) and also love random weird ones, like Fall Out Boy “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out” ha!
I agree with you on Christmas Shoes; I prefer the more upbeat Christmas songs!
My least favorite is Happy Christmas (War is Over) and All I want for Christmas is You both completely over played. I love just about every other song though. Oh Holy Night is hands down my favorite. I love Ava Maria even though I have no clue what they are saying. My favorite funny song is I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. It makes me giggle.
OMG Julie I HATE the Christmas shoes song too! It is AWFUL! Christmas music is NOT supposed to be depressing. As soon as I hear it I shut it right off.
My favorite song on the other hand is actually a 3-way tie: The Christmas Song (only the original one by Nat King Cole), The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams (from my childhood, my grandpa used to play the record and I loved it), and the newest of them being All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah. Such a great song!
P.S. You should do a post on worst Christmas movies too…because I’ve seen a crapload of them this year. The one with Tori Spelling – The Mistle Tones – let’s just say prepare to gauge your eyes out if you make it through.
I totally agree, Christmas Shoes takes holiday depression to another level. Makes me so sad and feel guilty about all the things I have. I’m much more of a Paul McCartney or Micheal Buble Christmas song lover. One I finally found out the name to The Waittresses “Christmas Wrapping”! It’s so much fun!
I cannot stand Sleigh Ride. I know it’s just from playing the band/orchestra Leroy Andersen arrangement every Christmas for the past 10 years but I still hate it. I have a friend who will randomly text me lyrics from the song every few days between Thanksgiving and Christmas because she thinks it’s funny . . . aaahhhhh!! haha. And I will agree with y’all that “Santa Baby” is creepy and weird!
“Silent Night” and “O Holy Night” are definitely always beautiful =) Also “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a classic!
I do the same thing with “christmas shoes.” I immediately turn my radio station…lol
So, I LOVE Christmas music, but I can’t stand Feliz Navidad… I think it’s all the repetition in that song. I’m not fond of Santa Baby, Baby It’s Cold Outside, and yeah, The Christmas Shoes.
I love Carol of the Bells, O Holy Night, and most other Christmas songs if they aren’t too overplayed (I work at Starbucks and thankfully we play a mix of Christmas and regular music).
Oh my gosh, Silent Night makes me cry too. They closed our Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve with that hymn and I almost died. Luckily, the candle wax from my candle dripped down on my hand and snapped me back to reality. Such a moving song, though!