18 days till Christmas

18 days till Christmas
December 7th
Movie of the day: Opus N' Bill in a Wish for Wings That Work
My best friend in High School introduced me to this family movie tradition.
Opus is a penguin that desperately wants to fly so he asks Santa for a pair of working wings.
It is kind of ridiculous but fun nonetheless.

Christmas Carol of the day:
Have your self a merry little Christmas
I keep saying "this is one of my favorites" to my carols of the day. They are all my favorites. Each one holds a Christmas memory and you can't help but sing along when you hear it.
The sheet music couldn't be found but Wikipedia has a ton of great info along with the lyrics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Yourself_a_Merry_Little_Christmas



Christmas Trivia
(brought to you by howstuffworks.com)
How do you say "Merry Christmas" around the World?
Glædelig Jul -- Danish
Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan -- Chinese, Mandarin
Joyeux Noel -- French
Nadolig Llawen -- Welsh
Mitho Makosi Kesikansi -- Cree
Buon Natale -- Italian
Kala Christouyenna! -- Greek
Nollaig Shona Dhuit -- Gaelic (Irish)
Shub Naya Baras -- Hindi
God Jul -- Swedish
Boldog Karacsonyt -- Hungarian
Feliz Navidad -- Spanish
Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva i s Novim Godom -- Russian
Sung Tan Chuk Ha -- Korean
Frohliche Weihnachten -- German
Gesëende Kersfees -- Afrikaans
Hyvaa Joulua -- Finnish
Kurisumasu omedeto -- Japanese
Mele Kalikimaka -- Hawaiian
Suksun Wan Christmas -- Thai
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia -- Polish
http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/games/christmas-trivia3.htm

It snowed up a storm yesterday and I didn't even have my paper snowflakes up.
When I was younger, I began to be superstitious about putting up paper snowflakes in my windows. I would spend hours cutting intricate 6 sided snowflakes out of printer paper and hanging them in my room or in every window of the house. Right after they would go up, a great snowstorm would blanket every surface in white. The heavy snowstorms would come and go and once the snowflakes in the house were taken down, the storms would cease (not to the minute, but within a few days). This year when I had an urge to put up the snowflakes, I resisted. It didn't stop the snow. I think I will stop resisting it and get them up. :D