I have an extremely annoying

I have an extremely annoying montage of holiday commercial jingles running through my head, the most prominent of which is “Fa la la la la Happy Honda Days” leading directly into “Baaarney! My Pebbles!” Although, to put things in perspective, anything is better than “Simply…having…a wonderful Christmas time,” of working-in-retail-holiday-cd-on-continuous-loop-even-though-album-is-only-90-minutes-long fame. That will kill ya right there.

Unrelated to the holidays, my brain has been obsessing lately over a very weird short film I caught on TV probably 15 years ago. It was claymation and featured an old couple who kept to themselves and somehow managed to unwittingly survive a nuclear bomb that killed off everyone else. As far as I remember, the whole thing consisted of them toddling around being confused abut where everyone was and why there was no electricity or gas, all the while slowly dying of radiation poisoning. So far google has yielded no results, although I did have to do some quick explaining to my co-worker awhile back when she saw “old couple, nuclear bomb, claymation” in my search box.

I’ve also had the random urge to watch the Ewok Adventure again. J has told me that it was a made-for-TV movie, which surprised me. I imagined it as a wide release that EVERYONE has seen. When we were little, my parents made a whole collection of movies for us by taping them off the television, and I’ve realized my understanding of the significance of certain movies is a bit skewed. Not only that, but because the made-for-TV versions were often edited, there was the traumatizing experience of eventually catching an un-edited version later in life and realizing I had missed WHOLE SCENES. I grew up not knowing that the girl and boy in Ol’ Yeller had a long, boring talk at some point in the movie. I know, cry for me now.

My urge to watch the Ewok Adventure definitely outweighs any actual memories of the film, which pretty much consist of Wicket going “Stah cruisah! Crish crish!” and of the brother getting trapped under a magic pond and rescued by a magic stick.

Don't know if I'll get a chance to post before I take off for Denver, so start getting excited now for the stunning conclusion of Glam or Sham and updates on which wedding dresses I got to try on. Snazzy.

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