When the rich wage war, it's the poor that die.

Whee!

No older kids for the rest of the week! It's so nice when the mother-in-law offers to take the two oldest boys for a week, especially when it's the first week that school is out.

Holy crap....

Wow, it really has been a damn long time since I've posted anything on this...

I guess I should work on posting again....

Maybe I'll get the urge next week....

So.....

It's three days before Christmas, and I'm just now finishing the annual holiday compilation cd set that I make for my family and friends every year. I've had the songs compiled for a while now, and the tracklist of the vocal cd completed, but I've just finished the tracklist for the instrumental cd.


Here is the tracklist for the vocal cd....

1. Eclipse - The First Noel (4:23)
2. Donny Osmond - Angels We Have Heard On High (5:03)
3. Sting - I Saw Three Ships (1:46)
4. Harry Connick, Jr. - (It Must Have Been Ol') Santa Claus (4:37)
5. Eclipse - Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (2:29)
6. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Joy - Angels We Have Heard on High (3:54)
7. Rockapella - The Hope We Hold (3:14)
8. Brian Setzer Orchestra - White Christmas (5:21)
9. Kelly Willard - What Child Is This? (2:54)
10. Rockapella - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (3:35)
11. Stevie Wonder - Ave Maria (3:56)
12. Take 6 - Hark the Herald Angels Sing (2:42)
13. Alison Krauss - Only You Can Bring Me Cheer (Gentleman's Lady) (3:36)
14. Queen - Thank God It's Christmas (4:20)
15. First Call - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (3:07)
16. The Manhattan Transfer - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (4:34)
17. Take 6 - O Come All Ye Faithful (2:23)
18. Harry Connick Jr. - Silver Bells (3:23)
19. Rockapella - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (3:14)

Here is the tracklist for the instrumental cd...

1. Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells (3:53)
2. Jim Brickman - Angels (3:16)
3. Various - The Holly and the Ivy (2:37)
4. George Winston - Variations on the Kanon (5:24)
5. Mannheim Steamroller - Joy to the World (3:39)
6. Brian Setzer Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard on High (4:19)
7. Mannheim Steamroller - We Three Kings (3:44)
8. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon (4:19)
9. Hosanna! Music - O Little Town Of Bethlehem (3:01)
10. Maranatha! Music - Coventry Carol (3:16)
11. Jim Brickman - Joy To The World (3:04)
12. Sylvia Woods - Carol of the Bells (2:38)
13. Various - I Saw Three Ships (1:47)
14. Mannheim Steamroller - The Holy and The Ivy (3:01)
15. Maranatha! Music - Carol Of The Bells (1:56)
16. Sylvia Woods - O Holy Night (2:51)
17. Jim Brickman - O Little Town Of Bethlehem (2:16)
18. Mannheim Steamroller - Los Peces En El Río (3:52)
19. Liz Story - We Three Kings Of Orient Are (3:58)
20. Paul McCandless - 17th Century Canon (1:44)
21. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (1:16)


You know, it gets harder and harder every year to make these cds without too much duplication of songs that I've used from the previous year. I don't mind putting multiple versions of the same song on the compilation sets, because I've always found it interesting to see how different groups and composers will approach the same song, especially for the instrumental cd that I do. This is the second year that I've decided to do a dual cd set, rather than one cd. There are so many good holiday songs around that it's hard to fit the vocal and instrumental music that I want to use on one cd, and I've found it much easier to do a dual-cd set.

Well, I hope that everyone has a safe and happy Holiday! I'm outta here!

Wow!

Damn, it's been a while since I've updated anything on this blog. Just been too busy with other things to really have the time to catch up on anything.

Let's see what's happened in the past month or so...
Got a new position with the company I work for (Woo for moving up!)
Joey's been on so many different meds that I can't remember them all, but finally the Adderall seems to be helping him more than anything else other than the Ritalin did.

Other than that, just working on getting ready for the holiday season. I'm taking the day off tomorrow to get all of the christmas shopping done that I need to do, along with getting a few bills paid that need to be paid.

I think that's about it for right now. Maybe another update soon. As always, you can check the mobile postings for pictures and quick little posts that I may put up.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Happy Halloween!!!!

To all of you who enjoy the day, I hope that you all have lots of fun.

For me, it's just another day of work. Although this evening, I shall be taking a small Darth Vader and a small lion out for some tricks and treats. Hope to have lots of good and cute photos to show everyone in the coming days. Me, I'm going to be nothing special for Halloween. ;)

Have fun, and enjoy the day!!!

Blarg....

Sorry I haven't been posting as frequently as I used to. I've just had neither the drive, nor the desire, to post all that much here recently.

Things are slowly progressing with Joey, he's making little improvements every day, so that is always a good sign. We're going to be looking into getting him into Head Start here soon. Cindy has to check on a few things before we can do that.

Honestly, there's not been a whole lot exciting going on in my life recently.

If I can think of something more exciting to post about, I'll try to do so later.

Have a good Tuesday, everyone.