here’s an XCELLENT xmas website where you can create your own carols. check out joy to the world in the ‘most popular’ list.
tonite, only 7 days before xmas, on tv was the grinch movie, some movie called ‘snow day’ and now ‘carols at the domain’ which is an outdoor (how cool that we can do that!) carols thing. this one is in sydney but on xmas eve there is one here too. it’s all (bad) australian singers doing carols. but yes, i’m watching it. 
i did a search of the tv guide site & it is a SAD SAD state of affairs. one channel is running xmas stuff from 4-6pm for kids but i don’t know the name of any of the shows they list. no charlie brown, no grinch, no heat miser!!! there’s a couple things like oprah’s xmas special, xmas raymond, etc. one channel is doing a 6 episode marathon of simpson’s xmas specials (on xmas day). i’ll have to try to download some things. if anyone has something on dvd & feels like ripping it for me i have a server where u could put it.
poor aussie kids. they have no clue what they’re missing. no wonder no one has xmas spirit here.
last nite i went to one of these carols things in person. it’s local & in a pretty rich part of town so not only a choir & a band & cheesy host but fireworks too!!
it was god awful.
you would think it would be fun (i did at least). everyone is sitting around on a blanket on the ground with candles. it was nice & warm – about 10pm when i finally put a sweater on over my tshirt (yes, that is for u cold climate folks). i had poured a bunch of scotch into my raspberry slushie.
but no one told me there would be SOOOOO many kids. they’re so annoying. this one kid kept kicking me. even smacked his hand into my butt once (and no, he wasnt trying to grab it) and not once did he say he was sorry (kid about 10 or so and i elbowed him later). the kids were ‘sledding’ down this hill with cardboard. gee, i sort of felt sorry for the losers. it was v funny. i took pix. but i got hit w cardboard as the little fuckers walked around trailing boxes behind them.
but that wasn’t the worst thing. the host of the evening was VERY cheesy. but that wasn’t the worst thing. the 4 singers were also cheesy but had ok voices. still, not the worst thing. that prize goes to a kids group called ‘zoom’ (but being ‘launched in 2005 as rock-it’ said the program). think the wiggles but younger & more annoying. like a boy band.
there were kids crowding the stage so i couldnt see that much (damn) but i could see 2 girls in not a hell of a lot of clothes & a guy & they were doing some aliens from outerspace xmas thing. the one girl was wearing red PVC like you’d wear to a club or more likely, a bondage club. i didn’t quite get how 2 stick figure 20 yr olds in PVC were role models for that 5-10 age group even if they were singing songs like ‘when i grow up i wanna be a chef… when i grow up i wanna be a nurse…. when i grow up i wanna be… blah blah’. oh, and that was the most educational or inspirational or intelligent song i heard them sing.
last saturday we did some xmas lawn bowls. this was my 2nd time lawn bowling and i’m really shit. but like normal bowling you drink the entire time. pix are here.