Listening to Pentatonix and trying to get into some Yuletide cheer...

Well, the tree is up and the lights are on, and after a short break, so are the ornaments. I have given my yearly accidental blood offering--it never fails, I pinch my hand putting on the branches at some point. I suspect it's because I'm a pagan celebrating Yule with an artificial tree. I prefer a live one, but this was given to me, works nicely, and I can't afford a live tree that will just die quickly, and seems a shame to cut a live tree. :) Happy Yuletide, or Solstice, or Christmas, or Hanukkah, or whatever holiday you may celebrate, if any. May the light shine in you, and in your life, as the long darkness gives way to the slow return of the sun.

Three iterations of the same song (and yes, I love each one)

Original:



Pentatonix (a caoella):



Star Wars [in celebration of The Force Awakens:

See what I mean?

I spent the the last hour

With all the holiday lights on, listening to the two Christmas albums Pentatonix has put out.  I love their harmonies, and their rendition of 'Mary Did You Know?' is hauntingly sublime. Now I'm all relaxed and sleepy. I still have things to do,  but they may wait till tomorrow,  when I'll take a friend to an appointment in the evening,  and I can take the laptop and work on game notes, for example. The plan is to get up early tomorrow and do the dishes and straighten up a bit,  take out the trash and recyclables, and maybe work out at the complex gym. Good night!

This gives me goosebumps (and I'm not even Christian)

although I do love Christmas music, and a cappella music. Pentatonix does an excellent job.



This might even be better than their rendition of 'The Little Drummer Boy', which is wonderful. Check them out.

A lovely a cappella cover

and the original...