I received a supportive email from a friend last week that read:
...keep your eyes peeled for the gifts: A golden slant of sunlight on the snow; holiday lights twinkling red and green on wet streets; cardinals, chickadees and sparrows on the feeders and in the trees.
Your heartlight is glowing.
It's been awhile since I've had my eyes peeled for gifts. I've been too sad, tired and stressed for peeling my eyes, but when I read Blue Wren's pretty words, it was a reminder that there are gifts everywhere, if I would only look.
Like in my yahoo email inbox the last week or two.
Getting emails from Jeddie Ningo, updating me on the progress of his work on our holiday songs the last three years has been a true gift. Every one of them makes me smile. If he's not calling me a vocal Godzilla, he's writing to say that his computer went tits-up, and another time, it went boobies-up and then finally, one night he was so happy with his mixing that he emailed me to say... it's jugs, knockers, hooties, tomatoes. Yeah, it's melons. (Musician talk. Means "I approve wholeheartedly.")
And he's writing all that when he's not emailing me links to bad Christmas song porn.
I've had a blast doing our last two songs, but this year I had even more fun. There's nothing stressful or sad about working with Jeddie Ningo on this music. Or working with The Skimmer on the artwork. And when I say "working" with them, I really mean thanking them and being grateful for how great they both really are.
They are gifts, making my heartlight glow. As are all of you.
So, I give thanks for them, thanks for all of you and Thanks for Christmas!
Happy Holidays, everyone! And like Jeddie's last email to me said....Its Soup!!!11!!eleven!!
Thanks Glue Birl and Jeddie for this little poppy, can't get it out of my head, Christmas ditty!
And Happy Holidays to all of Blue Girl's friends and fans.
Posted by: Skimmer | December 23, 2008 at 05:21 PM
I'm a big fan of Christmas music in general, and Blue Girl's in particular, and I'm pleased to note that, despite listening to holiday music for a solid month each year, I have never heard this song before. It's delightful, as are you three.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Larry Jones | December 23, 2008 at 06:10 PM
Beautiful vocals as usual, and I love the cover.
Posted by: The Viscount | December 23, 2008 at 06:19 PM
Love it! Merry Christmas my dear!
Posted by: Claire | December 23, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Wonderful!
Have a very Merry Christmas, BG. I hope Santa gives you plenty of peace.
Posted by: Jennifer | December 23, 2008 at 06:33 PM
Aw! Another beautiful duet to add to the collections!
Many hugs and best wishes to the Family Blue.
Posted by: Shayera | December 23, 2008 at 07:03 PM
Oh, Glue Birl! It's just wonderful! You have a lovely voice and it's so good to hear it singing. A gift.
My wish is for you, the Skimmer and BlueKid to have a gentle and peaceful Christmas, full of gifts.
Posted by: Wren | December 23, 2008 at 08:09 PM
Ah!! I knew it would be this one!! NJ is a big XTC fan....
Nice selection.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | December 23, 2008 at 08:47 PM
My Dear Sister - I think this is the most Beautiful yet. This will forever have the most meaning. Thank You for touching my soul. I will never forget this recording. Thanks for Christmas....
Posted by: yaya | December 23, 2008 at 09:53 PM
If not for the infrequent postings of the Viscount LaCarte, I would have missed this, and thus the so-called Christmas song porn.
Thank you, and God bless.
Posted by: Manny Festo | December 24, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to you and yours, BG.
Posted by: Nicho | December 24, 2008 at 09:55 AM
Wonderful! Merry Christmas to you and yours, beautiful Blue Girl! Here's hoping for a better 2009... :)
Posted by: Kevin Baker | December 24, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Merry Christmas, BG to you and your family- what a great video!!!
Posted by: Ruth | December 24, 2008 at 01:53 PM
Nice job! Visiting here from Jeddie's blog, but heard last's years, too! Sounds like real fun! Have a merry!!
Posted by: giggles | December 24, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Thank you, everyone! Merry Christmas to all!
xoxo
Posted by: blue girl | December 24, 2008 at 03:36 PM
It's tits, GlueBirl, 's all I'm sayin'. Just, Plain. Tits. That part where the whole mix goes through a f*ckin' flanger? Honkers. Hooties. Garbanzos.
That flanger is the mammalian protuberance to end all mammalian protuberances. Ergo, the mix is tits.
It explains itself.
Posted by: neddie jingo | December 25, 2008 at 01:40 AM
By which I mean to say, MERRY CHRISTMAS, everybody!
Posted by: neddie jingo | December 25, 2008 at 01:41 AM
Better late than never (story of my life), I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas.
Posted by: Snag | December 29, 2008 at 01:09 AM
I love the new Christmas song! Your vocals sound awesome! I'm honored to be friends with a Rock Star! LOL!
Posted by: Sparkly Butt | December 30, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Hey Snag, hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas, too. And Happy New Year!
Sparkly Butt, How come you're LOL'ing my Rock Stardom?!?! There goes your roadie spot!! :)
Posted by: blue girl | December 30, 2008 at 07:07 PM
Hey BG - hope your '09 is a good one in as many ways as possible. Hills to climb, of course...but that almost goes without saying. Best to the fam.
Posted by: Tom W. | December 31, 2008 at 01:38 PM
Hey Tom, thank you. And same to you. Happy New Year!
Posted by: blue girl | December 31, 2008 at 04:42 PM
Another BG/NJ Christmas Classic.
Happy New Year and I hope you have some well-deserved peace and happiness in 2009.
Posted by: Brando | January 02, 2009 at 02:00 PM