Health and Holly

I'm waiting for the doctor to call me back. After weeks of this same virus nonsense, I thought it was time to check-in again and see if I should be concerned that I still feel pretty horrible most of the time. I spoke to a nurse on the phone and she said that lots of times these viruses and vertigo an last "I'm sorry to say, several weeks." But, she said she would talk to the doc and they would give me a call back.

I tells ya, it's very frustrating not being able to do all the gazillion things that I want to get done. Even this, writing this, is a task. I can't look at th escreen for very long or I start to get woozy.

I feel bad for Lesa too, who is totally healthy but stuck with me the invalid, in front of the TV screen non-stop. She has been very kindly cooking wonderful healthy dinners and patiently hanging out with me.

The badness comes in waves, sometimes I feel almost ok. I was able to string some holiday lights up on our back porch. Awesome. We want to put some up in the front and on the side, too, but it seems that whoever built this house didn't think there was any reason to put in any outdoor power outlets. We'll figure something out.

Recently, I was asked, in the comment section, to elaborate on what my favorite holiday-time television and movies might be. I'll jump into that quickly off the top of my head.

I'm pretty much a sucker for anything holiday themed on the screen - although I am about as religious as a rock...a rock in a museum display about evolution. Last night, I actually watched some of the tree-lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center. I didn't even know that such an event occurred but sure enough there were Sting, Enya, Martina McBride, Hall and Oats, and Lionel Richie among others - singing songs of the season. It was treacherous.

Here are three of my favorite Christmas movies: A Christmas Story, Elf, Bad Santa.
And TV specials: Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch.

I gotta say that Charlie Brown has to be the ultimate top of the list, though. And it's almost entirely because of the music. Take all my ancient memories of Christmases and winters past and grind them up, feed them into a super heart-shaped computer, take out the disc and it will play that music. Perfect.