Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

- Graycie Harmon

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Happily Resting

This week and last week were hectic at best. Now with everything more or less settled, I can relax a bit. I'm doing this to day by listening obsessively to The Piano Guys. If you've never heard of them (their vidoe Cello Wars went viral a fortnight ago), here are two of my favourite songs they've released:


And my favourite-est ever (sigh):


Ahhhh..... I heart them so much. Honestly, it's an addiction. I can't stop listening to them. Luckily, I don't have to.

On that note (pun only marginally intended), I'm going to sit back and listen to beautiful music, and probably do some Beta Reading.

Have a great Thursday all!

Kissing-Bunch

A bush of evergreens sometimes substituted for mistletoe at Christmas.
- Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, 1857

The old "kissing bunch" is still hung in some of the old-fashioned cottage houses of Derbyshire and Cornwall - two wooden hoops, one passing through the other, decked with evergreen, in the centre of which is hung a "crown" of rosy apples and a sprig of mistletoe. This is hung from the central beam of the living-room, and underneath it is much kissing an romping. Later on, the carol singers stand beneath it and sing God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen.
- Peter Ditchfield's Old English Customs, 1901

2 comments:

Pam Asberry said...

Love the videos, S.M. Those guys are amazing! Enjoy this time of respite from the daily chaos. Things will be crazy again before you know it!

S.M. Carrière said...

Aren't they, just? I simply adore them!

I hope you're enjoying your break too!