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05 Thursday Jan 2012

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This year Peter and I didn’t “do” gifts, preferring to go out for a couple of nice meals during Christmas week instead, and then go to Málaga earlier this week to celebrate my upcoming 55th birthday.  But I also got some lovely surprise prezzies from friends… a third Binky book to add to my collection, two DVDs from my Amazon wishlist and a box of Christmas goodies and cat toys (the cosmic catnip banana is a hit!) from Sweden.

Tonight is the Cabalgata, a parade featuring the Three Kings and hoards of shrieking children, which I will try to avoid. But I still want to see the “mapping” Christmas light show on in the Plaza San Francisco (last night tonight). If I manage to get there I’ll take a video of it. But first some grocery shopping as it’s a bank holiday tomorrow and have been away all week. Hope I don’t get swept up in the crowds!

What did you get for Christmas?

más música!

16 Friday Dec 2011

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It all started when I bought a bit of Christmas music on iTunes…

I was going to order a couple of Christmas CDs from Amazon but then remembered that my CD player was on the fritz. And then I remembered that I could just download stuff and put it on my iPod! Well, isn’t that just too easy. Like today, when I felt like something other than Christmas music but still wanted something joyous. Like Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations that I still have somewhere on a cassette (remember those?). So I found it on iTunes (the 1955 version, the video shows a later version) and was listening to it within a few minutes. And so then I bought some Keith Jarrett. And a couple of singles by Aretha Franklin and Journey. And then I went… OMG GET ME OUT OF HERE!

Dangerous stuff. But as I no longer buy a book a week maybe it’s time to start plumping up my music collection.