"Have a Funky, Funky Christmas!"


I'm currently 28 years old. 20 plus years ago New Kids on the Block were all the rage and I was a fan. Now there are so many other boy bands for young girls to scream over. I'm passed the screaming stage (though ask me about the time I made eye contact with Kid Rock because I was screaming so loud), yet I still LOVE New Kids on the Block. Since it's Christmas, I can't help but rock out to their Christmas album. And since I'm jamming to that album at every chance I get, why not change my ringtone to an appropriate NKOTB holiday greeting? Whenever my phone "rings", I am treated to the New Kids wishing me a "funky, funky Christmas". What could be better? Some may scoff...well, mostly just my fiance, who rolls his eyes, but a true fan like me...marches on.

(See? Christmas, NKOTB, and me, just naturally go together. Circa 1990.)

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A Melancholy Christmas

Would anybody disagree with me if I said that this Christmas season has passed so quickly? This time last year I was writing a similar post about just how fast Christmas seems to come and go now that I'm an adult. This year, I'm still marveling at the speed of the holiday, but I'm also feeling melancholy. I'm at an in-between stage in my life I think. Christmases are so different now than they were when I was a child. I'm an adult now, so I wouldn't expect everything to be the same. However, I don't yet have children to pass on the memories and the traditions that I remember. This could be the reason for the tug at my heart I'm feeling this season. Or is it the fact that I haven't seen my family in a long time? It's been a year since seeing my mom, about 3 years since seeing my sisters and their children, and even longer since I've visited my dad. I can't even remember the last time I spent a Christmas with any of my family. Though I miss them dearly, I wouldn't feel right not spending Christmas with my fiance and his mom. That's my new tradition. That's my life as it is now. I don't have a clever ending for this post...I'm feeling a wave of sleepiness wash over me and I'm desperately wanting to get to bed all of a sudden. The Christmas tree is lit as I prepare to sign off for the night, not entirely decorated yet, but still a bright beacon of Christmas to remind me that life goes on no matter how much things and/or people change.

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