My Favorite Christmas TV Ad!!!

Hey guys!!! How was your Thanksgiving? Mine when well. A very normal day with family and family friends. Oh, and I LOVE normal.

Even got to watch my church service online. Planned the Christmas meal. We will be doing Mexican again like last year. I'll do the rice. Might also try out a small pot of the Ginger Rice that I love a Blue Mesa Grill on the family. Then it was me, "Piece of April" and foot tub with hot water Epsom salt, Isopropyl alcohol, mouthwash & vinegar in it. If you want your feet to fall in love with you put that in your foot bath. Oh, I did feel sad at one point. But I sat with it and made it through.

Prayerfully, I will get through the Bayou Classic (Grambling & Southern) without hard grief. Football Nerd played for Grambling and always reminded me to watch the game. ☺♥☺

Well, I mentioned in the Are We Skipping Thanksgiving post, my favorite Christmas commercial is the Hershey Kisses Handbell Choir. That commercial gives me fond memories of elementary school. Every year in the 5th & 6th grades we got to pick three choices for Fine Art classes. Then we were assigned to a class out of those choices. Every year, I would put down

1. Piano

2. Orchestra

3. General Music

Every year I was placed in General Music, As a preteen, I would feel slighted. Now, as an adult, I feel blessed to have been assigned to that class. In that class, I learned true music appreciation. I learn the history of music. We studied a few operas like Madame Butterfly. I learned to sing many songs. I also know how to read music and play the following instruments

Tambourine

Glockenspiel

Xylophone

Handbells

Recorder

I still have my recorder. It's in my mom's (my former) bottom dresser drawer. Who knows "Twinkle Twinkle"? Let's meet up!!! We can have a jam session. LoL

The Hershey Kisses Christmas commercials also remind me of a time & a place where a heavy, big busted, awkward & clumsy preteen could find a tad bit of refuge. For some odd reason in that class, I was never teased.  Our teacher was the best. She was firm but caring. I sometimes ask one of my cousins who was once a music colleague of hers at their church how is she doing and he fills me in. I just had a great time in a class I didn't realize at the time would help shape me culturally. I remember taking Music Appreciation at UT-Arlington and knowing a lot of what my professor would present. I made an A in that class. I have to say Elementary General Music may have been a part of getting that A.

I love to see handbell choirs. One of the best parts about catching a Christmas Eve service on TV. If the church doesn't have a Christmas handbell choir, why are you on my TV?  The gloves and rhythmic ringing put a childlike grin on my face. If you ever see me when that commercial comes one you would get a kick out of me. I am the silver kiss directing the other bells. I learned that tune as a kid too. Give me some sheet music. I have some gloves.

Yes, be on the lookout for posts about my favorite Christmas Song & Movie. The Song may not shock you but the Movie might stump you. Let's just say it is an 80s reboot. Well off that watch some TV. Maybe the Hershey Kisses Christmas ad might come on and I will get to direct.

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As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms