I have a confession: I love Christmastime. I love candles and hot chocolate, I love cinnamon-scented pinecones and poinsettias, I love music-boxes and nutcrackers, and yes, I love Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. There is just one little problem this year—-no snow. We have had maybe two snowfalls, and each time the flakes melted like sugar in water as soon as they touched the ground. It’s really quite strange. Last year I complained quite a bit of the snow, and this winter I cannot rid myself of the feeling that something is amiss.
Like last winter, I will be spending Christmas this year overseas. I’ve been trying to ignore my snow-related grievances and indulge in as many festive luxuries as possible before our departure on Saturday. My favorite Christmas album I’ve been listening to is Kalafina’s Winter Acoustic: Kalafina with Strings. It features both covers of traditional Christmas songs and some very enchanting original pieces, as well. My favorites from the album are “In Dulci Jublio” and “Fairytale”. I also have a very soft spot for the Sailor Moon Christmas album.
Speaking of Sailor Moon, on Sunday morning I slept in and watched Sailor Moon S: The Movie, which is kind of like the magical-girl version of a Christmas movie. I think I might make a separate post about it. It’s a very strange, very entertaining mixture of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, the traditional Japanese fairytale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and obviously Sailor Moon. After that, I went with my boyfriend downtown to the Christmas market to buy some candles, as the French lavender one we bought at the beginning of the season had long expired. Last night, we also went to my city’s pop-up Christmas bar, which is where this post’s featured image is from. Imagine a cozy (perhaps even slightly claustrophobic) hole-in-the-wall decorated floor-to-ceiling with lights, ornaments, tinsel, angels, and all other manners of Christmas paraphernalia. I tried a mug of alcoholic hot cocoa. I think I actually much prefer the non-alcoholic variety, and in terms of Christmas-y alcoholic beverages my favorite choice would be mulled wine.
~Leave a comment with your favorite Christmas movie/song/beverages/sweets~
