Helllo! It's been a long time since I've done a "Have You Heard". This has not been my blogging year. That's ok, I'll just keep moving forward.
When Pentatonix covers an N'sync Xmas song... you've gotta share it. :)
Anyone else still listen to 90s and aughtie xmas albums?! What are you guys up to this weekend?! We are watching DUMPLIN' on Netflix tonight! HOORAY! I am so so so excited! Tomorrow we have a Hanukkah party this afternoon and early evening, and then a Christmas party with some of KC's former coworkers after that. Sunday is a dinner with my girlfriends. We're giving belated gifts to Jessica who's bday was last week! I hope that you have a great weekend! XO, Alexandra
Happy Friday Friends! Things are in full swing here! We're still working on some big things, and in the meantime doing a lot of reading, spring cleaning, and purging of junk! :) I hope to have more time for blogging soon, but either way next week I've got the next post for the Swinging, Groovy, Fabulous, Groovy Blog Collaboration with Audrey! Woohoo! We're talking about the 1940's and it should be super fun! :)
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Today I had to share "It's Gonna Be Me" because... we'll it's almost May. That never gets old. Just like *NSYNC will never get old. :)
What are you all up to this weekend?! We are headed to see Vance Joy in KC tonight! :) So excited, I'm pretty sure this is our 5th time seeing him...? :) The rest of the weekend I hope is spent doing more spring cleaning, purging junk, and lots and lots of reading! I'm not sure how much time I'll have for documenting lately, but we'll see! :) I'm excited for a quiet and productive weekend. Other Posts This Week: NONE :( On YouTube This Week: January 2017 Project Life Pages. On Year of Gratitude This Week: The Low Tech Long Weekend: Adventures in Unplugging. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! XO, Alexandra
OOoh yeah! To be real, I *wanted* to share Garth Brook's Christmas music, because KC and I both hilariously* grew up on listening to one of the albums. But you can't find it anywhere on YouTube OR Spotify. This is a travesty. (*hilarious because neither of us likes country music)
So instead, I found this absolutely throwback video that *Nsync posted that goes with their song, "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays". Dear lord this is the most '90's thing I've seen in a while. So much ramen-haired JT, so much orange, so many goggles, so much green screen. :P
Do yourselves a favor and watch this one.
What are you guys up to?! For us we actually don't have anything until actual Christmas. So we are super excited to hang out together and do fun things, and relax a little! We've been swamped! I might get to finish a book, make progress on my album, etc. :) :) If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas! If you don't, Happy Holidays! If you don't do any of that, I hope that you have a great weekend! I'll be blogging a little, but no promises. I can't forget too many days in a row.... because New Year's Goals, y'all! P.S. - if you are hoping to focus more on gratitude next year, please stop by my new blog project with my friend Rachel! It's called The Year of Gratitude, and we are super excited abou tit! How it works: Each week there will be a new prompt to either journal or reflect on. We'll write our responses throughout the week and then share a reader/guest writer response at the end of the week. We'll also be doing tiny moments of gratitude, etc. on Facebook on Instagram. The hope is to cultivate a little community for people who are trying to be more grateful. A place where we can share successes and failures, and do our best to focus on gratitude. If this sounds saccharine, or naive, please know that Rachel is the snark snark snarkiest. (said with so much love, and understanding. LOL) And has already written in an intro post that she "hates the word 'journey'". We've both had horrible times of 2017, and are living proof that trying to focus on gratitude helps. It's going to be quite the variety, and really awesome! :) *eating humble pie now... * XO, Alexandra
A few years ago, I shared my favorite Christmas albums here on the blog. I'm starting to think about listening to Christmas music around the house since it's December now... so I thought I would share a few of my favorites throughout the next few weeks. See last week's post: Celtic Woman Christmas Albums. :)
If you've been reading this blog for a while you'll know that I post a lot of alternative music on here... but that doesn't mean that it's all I listen to! I LOVE so many genres. This week I wanted to do a throwback Christmas music post! These are some of my favorites from my childhood! :) N'Sync. Oh, N'Sync. We miss you. Full of classics and original tunes to groove to. Actually, this album gets boring for me.... but some of the songs are great! In the sense of cheesy 90's music! :) Under my tree is sneakily so dirty... guessing none of us caught that back in the '90's. Well, no one my age during the '90's. :P Xtina. Oh boy, I don't know about you guys...but I always kind of liked Xtina better. Of course when I was 14 and she was wearing assless chaps... that wasn't my idea of the classiest.. but she makes her own choices, and she can seriously sing. :) So you know, still team Xtina. This album has so many vocal fourishes... but it's still great.
Hilary Duff's Santa Claus Lane - this album is SO cheesy, but it's the ONLY Christmas album that I actually owned as a kid. I didn't get allowance, etc. and who wants to ask for a Christmas album FOR Christmas? (not this kid) Anyhow, I still rock out to this H-duff album from time to time. And you really can't beat the Lil' Romeo collab. I mean... "thanks for the video games and the bling bling"?! A '00's classic. LOL Ah, Aly and AJ. Another '00's classic (for me). Aly was super cute as Keely on Phil of the Future, and so of course, she and her sister became Disney darlings... and luckily we got a Christmas album out of that! Most of this is pretty calm and relatively acoustic performances of these classic songs. You'll also get two original (more rock-like) songs, and an amped up performance of Little Drummer Boy. < that cannot be missed. Also, they just look like angels on this cover. So there you have a few of my favorite Christmas songs, I'll share more in the next few weeks.
Are you listening to Christmas music yet? What are some of your favorites?
Are you doing anything fun this weekend? We are going to an Xmas PJ party. :)
