When I was younger writing my Christmas list was such a big deal for me. I would carefully plan the wording so as to present myself as a modest wee girl who was not going to ask for alot. I thanked the bearded one for all the previous year’s gifts and ensured to include a please and thank you. I only ever asked for one or two things, and they were always accompanied by a request for a surprise. I asked my mum for help to make sure the wording was not cheeky. My mum! Then, Santa stopped visiting me, and you know what, I think I have became greedier for it. Christmas is just not the same. The excitement and tension I used to feel in case he would not come is no longer there. I used to spend Christmas Eve shaking with nerves, in case Santa decided not to give me anything, and I would be overjoyed when I did get a gift. Now, I know I will get things from my folks and it’s just not as good any more. Santa not visiting is a big downer. My wishlist has been compiled though, and it is long. Not that I am a greedy person, but when I began thinking about the amount of things I want I found that I couldn’t stop writing. CDs seems to be the over-ruling factor.
I am discovering new artisits on a regular basis, the internet feature of this laptop means that I spend time originally allocated to homework on youtube, (there is a pile of coursework waiting for me as I write) and I always end up looking up songs, and then the links on the side of the page show me more songs by new artists and before I know it I want the entire album for Christmas. Anyone (by the way, does anyone actually read this, is it, you know, ‘out there’ at all?) who has read previous posts on this blog will know that I like Country Music, so the newly-discovered-by-me artisits that I have been listening to in recent times include people like Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton. In fact, I think I first heard both of those artists on CMT. Ah well, I have heard more of their music through Youtube anyway! The new Blake Shelton cd, Startin’ Fires, sounds brilliant, especially the title (sort of) track, Good at Starting Fires!
On a completely different note, and this really is unrelated to the rest of this post, I was thinking about a type of sweet today that I would LOVE to see back on the market. When ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ was released, the Johnny Depp one that came out a few years ago, a range of chocolate bars and sweets came out along with it. Maybe they were only released in Ireland, I don’t know, but I was addicted to them for a while. There was one particular bag of sweets in it that I ate alot of, they were jelly tots covered in chocolate, and they were so chewy and delicious. If anyone who is reading this knows where these sweets can be god please, please, please leave me a comment with details, I have such a craving for those sweets.
