Christmas movies for me: Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, the Muppets Christmas Carol, and Arsenic & Old Lace.
(A&OL is a holiday movie in my family, because the first Christmas my Mom was in the hospital undergoing chemo, Dad and I stayed up really late decorating the tree. A&OL was the late-night movie that was on.)
Jilli, btw, the pic you posted of your parents at the SeaGoth Rummage sale was absolutely adorable.
So many bits of Christmas in Wales are in my head forever - "dumb, numb thunderstorm of torn white Christmas cards." "Inextinguishable briars."
Aww, thanks! I hadn't expected them to show up, so it was a nice surprise. And every time one of them noticed I was up and doing stuff, they nagged me to sit down and rest.
(A&OL is a holiday movie in my family, because the first Christmas my Mom was in the hospital undergoing chemo, Dad and I stayed up really late decorating the tree. A&OL was the late-night movie that was on.)
Some time in college (or possibly after college), when my brother still lived here, every Christmas Eve the family went to my grandparents' house, and then after dinner and gift-opening mayhem, he and I would drive around looking for all the tackiest-ass Christmas lights we could find (which is not hard), often take pictures of them and try to not get busted by the homeowners because we were laughing so hard, and then we would rent The Blues Brothers. So it always feels like a Christmas movie to me.
We're introducing my mother to People of Walmart. I may regret this.
I love Love Actually. Also, that episode of Bones.
In unrelated news, i finally watched the first four episodes (my first ever) of SPN and i might be in love with Dean.
Stephanie, I'm going to start in on SPN over the holiday if I can scratch out a few days off. Can't wait to join the SPN party now that I done crashed the FNL soiree!