twenty-something

Once upon a time, and for a long time, Sarah McLachlan's version of "Song for a Winter's Night" was my favorite non-Christmas Christmas song.

This year I've been listening to the decidedly Christmas Christmas song "River" ad nasuem. Whether it's sung by Sarah, or Aimee Mann, or the Indigo Girls, or Rachel Yamagata, or Robert Downey Jr., or Joni... it's my holiday jam, yo.

But my new non-Christmas Christmas song award goes to John Mayer and "St. Patrick's Day," a tune from his first album, Room for Squares. I'd been listening to it quite a bit lately, but without acknowledging it's holiday elements. It wasn't until Yelli and I were driving around on Sunday, looking at Christmas lights, that she pointed out just how festive it is.

Who knows what will be
But I'll make you this guarantee...

No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
And come January we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?

And we'll both be safe 'til St. Patrick's Day

We should take a ride tonight around the town
and look around at all the beautiful houses
something in the way that blue lights on a black night
can make you feel more
everybody, it seems to me, just wants to be
just like you and me...

And if our always is all that we gave
And we someday take that away
I'll be alright if it was just 'til St. Patrick's Day

It's a balmy 45 degrees here in Boston today. Much of December has been in the 50's. Quite a change from the chilly holidays of Vermont. But regardless of the weather, and despite a few hiccups, this has been the warmest December I've had in years...

Here's hoping it lasts for a little while longer.