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Best Beatles songs

50 Greatest Beatles Songs

I have definite opinions about the Beatles, especially because I was born in 1960 and so by the time I got old enough to have even the vaguest opinions about pop music, that Beatles were always there. I don't know that I even especially liked them, most of the time, when I was in elementary school, etc., but they were inescapable.

I basically derived this list by going down the list linked above and going "no no yes no" (etc.) - like I said, I have definite opinions. So out of the fifty on the list linked above, this is the ones I said yes to:

-- She's Leaving Home
-- A Day in the Life
-- Strawberry Fields Forever
-- Abbey Road Medley (or as I still think of it, "You never give me your money," because that's how it starts!)
-- Ticket to Ride (with the unfashionable caveat that I always thought Karen Carpenter's version was better)
-- Blackbird
-- Norwegian Wood
-- Hey Jude
-- Across the Universe
-- Let It Be
-- Eleanor Rigby
-- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
-- Nowhere Man

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Reading & misc.

I'm reading The Secret Christmas Library. (I'm a sucker for Jenny Colgan, what can I say.) It's a sequel to The Christmas Book Hunt, which came out last year and was a novella, I believe. I'm going to be interested to see where this one goes, because so far I have no idea. Well, I assume they'll find whatever it is they're looking for and there will be a romance involved, or possibly two. Past that, nada.

I just remembered to look to see if Texas got a bowl bid and they did, although not a terribly exciting one (Citrus Bowl, NYE vs. Michigan) - at least we'll be favored, I assume!

Y'all, my hand is finally getting better and now I have a cold, which I definitely got from Rob because his symptoms are a day or so ahead of mine. It's fairly mild, but coughing and sneezing are just not fun. (We were going to go eat fajitas for dinner and I cancelled because I didn't think the other customers would appreciate the hacking cough!)

Oh, the other thing I've been reading was Lord of the Rings. I'm almost done but I abandoned it temporarily for the one above - it's not like I don't know how LotR ends.

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Adventures in aging

I was so busy talking about my car getting stolen, earlier this week*, that I forgot to talk about the other thing that happened to me, and that was that I had a fall at work. I hate admitting to this because it makes me feel like an old person, but then I am an old person, relatively speaking - well, I'm Medicare-eligible as of a few months ago, anyway. I don't really think the fall had anything to do with being old, in particular - I was picking up at closing time - somebody left a pair of shoes, for god's sake, on the gym floor (what, did they leave barefooted?) and so I was holding the shoes and I kicked a basketball out of the way, and then I lost my balance and went down and landed on one wrist. It could've been way worse, nothing was broken, but my left hand is still pretty sore two weeks later. Also, since I was out in the middle of the gym floor and nobody else was there and I couldn't put weight on that hand, of course, I had to wait for somebody to come help me get up, which is extra-embarrassing. (That's the part that really makes me feel old.)

Also, since I'm left-handed, I couldn't even really write for several days, except right-handed, which came out looking eerily like a 7-year-old's handwriting. Typing worked ok, and driving was mostly ok, I think because driving is mostly a right-handed skill anyway. (I'm actually sort of ambidextrous for a lot of things, but writing is not one of them, clearly.)

*The theft was not earlier this month, it was a couple of months ago, now.

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Oh, Canada

I partly am using this icon to remind myself that I need to take the fall leaves decor off our balcony and put out the red-and-silver stuff instead. Our balcony is pretty visible so I feel like I have to keep up. (I don't usually put up lights, though. Too much trouble. I just do garlands on the railing and a wreath on the balcony door.)

Somebody mentioned baseball in their post and that reminds me that I got chided for rooting for the Blue Jays in the World Series - they're not American. I was like, whatever. First of all, since the Astros are in the American League* these days, I tend to be more familiar with AL teams. And also, I habitually root against any team with a ridiculously high payroll - mostly meaning the Dodgers and the Yankees. And also, look at a map - Toronto is barely further north than Milwaukee. I have trouble thinking of them as "foreign" even if they do speak French sometimes.

I started this post when it was still Dec. 1st, and now December 3rd is already over and it's still not posted. This may end up being a lot of really short entries, but that's ok, right?

*There's also the point that the Blue Jays also play in the American League, so I guess MLB agrees with me?

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Holidailies catch-up post

("The earth is doomed" is probably going to be my default icon at least as long as Trump stays president.)

I've had a kind of eventful couple of months - mainly because my car got stolen. Turns out Kia's are easy to steal, who knew. (Well, I actually did know that by the time this happened, but I didn't know it before I bought the car!) So dealing with that was, um, not fun. BUT the police found the car - all the thief had done to it was rip out the ignition, along with a bit of body damage. It's all fixed now, and we just had to pay the deductible, of course. And I got a call a week or so ago saying they even caught the guy who stole it. Hope he's enjoying the county jail.

We went over to my sister's for Thanksgiving and watched movies - a couple of movies Rob had seen earlier this year, "Companion" and "Drop" - his tastes and mine don't always line up, but I liked both of those, and so did everybody else, fortunately.

P. (my sister) wanted me to come back over Friday so we could watch the UT-A&M game, but I had to work. (She went to A&M & I went to UT, so rivalry week is always interesting.) A&M was ranked #3 and we were like, 15, so I said if I was a person who bet on sports I'd've been betting on A&M - which I guess is why I don't bet, because UT won, go figure. P. was trying hard to be a good sport about it, and I was trying hard not to rub it in too much, so we got through it without any major sisterly drama.