Friday, December 29, 2023

Music of 2023

Albums I Listened to the Most in 2023:

  • Anastasia
  • Aurora by Daisy Jones and the Six
  • Barbie
  • The Color Purple
  • Elf: The Musical
  • Footloose
  • Freaky Friday: The Musical
  • Grease
  • Home Alone
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Mamma Mia!
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • A Very She & Him Christmas
  • White Christmas
  • Wonka
Artists I Listened to the most in 2023:

  • Abba
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Bee Gees
  • Britney Spears
  • Donna Summer
  • Earth, Wind, and Fire
  • Elton John
  • Frank Sinatra
  • George Michael
  • John Williams
  • Kelly Clarkson
  • Lionel Richie
  • Michael Buble
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein
  • Stevie Wonder
Songs I listened to most in 2023:

  • After the Love Has Gone
  • All I Want for Christmas is You
  • Dancing Queen
  • Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
  • Flowers
  • Holding Out for A Hero
  • I Will Survive
  • It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year
  • Jingle Bell Rock
  • Let's Stay Together
  • Livin' on a Prayer
  • No Scrubs
  • Over the Rainbow
  • Part of Your World
  • White Christmas

                        Thursday, December 28, 2023

                        AmaWaterways Cruise Playlist

                        Disco Dance Party

                        • Boogie Wonderland
                        • Dancing Queen
                        • Every Breath You Take
                        • Footloose
                        • Sweet Caroline
                        • Take Me Home, Country Road
                        • YMCA

                        Erwin Nyhoff

                        •  All of Me
                        • All Along the Watchtower
                        • Brown Eyed Girl
                        • Have You Ever Seen the Rain
                        • Homeward Bound
                        • Imagine
                        • Johnny B. Goode
                        • Mr. Tambourine Man
                        • Proud Mary
                        • Satisfaction
                        • She's Always a Woman
                        • That's All Right
                        Piano and DJ Man

                        • All My Ex's Live in Texas
                        • Bad Moon Rising
                        • Bikers Shuffle
                        • Blueberry Hill
                        • Can't Help Falling in Love
                        • Chattahoochee
                        • Cotton Eyed Joe
                        • Crazy
                        • Cupid Shuffle
                        • Dancing Queen
                        • Disco Inferno
                        • Everybody Wants to Rule the World
                        • Eye in The Sky
                        • Friends in Low Places
                        • I'm Still Standing
                        • Knockin' on Heaven's Door
                        • La Bamba
                        • Let's Groove
                        • Super Freak
                        • Sweet Caroline
                        • Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
                        String Quartet
                        • The Godfather
                        • Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
                        • The Pink Panther
                        • Sway

                        Tuesday, December 26, 2023

                        Movies of 2023

                        Best Movies I watched in 2023:

                        • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
                        • Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
                        • Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
                        • The Color Purple
                        • Barbie
                        • A Man Called Otto
                        • Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
                        • Wonka
                        • The Flash
                        • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

                        Thursday, December 21, 2023

                        TV of 2023

                        Best TV shows I watched in 2023:
                        • Ahsoka
                        • The Challenge
                        • The Chosen
                        • Daisy Jones & The Six
                        • House of Villains
                        • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
                        • The Terminal List
                        • The Traitors
                        • The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
                        • The Walking Dead: Dead City

                        Monday, December 18, 2023

                        Christmas Orchestra Concert

                         We went to the Orchestra Christmas Concert at Syracuse High.  Here are the songs they performed:

                        • Angels We Have Heard on High
                        • Christmastime is Here
                        • Ding Dong Merrily on High
                        • First Noel
                        • Good King Wenceslas
                        • Happy Holidays/ Holiday Season
                        • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
                        • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
                        • Jingle Bells
                        • Joy to the World
                        • The Nutcracker Suite
                        • Silent Night
                        • Sleigh Ride
                        • Sleighin' It
                        • What Child is This?
                        • We Three Kings

                        Saturday, December 16, 2023

                        Station Park

                         







                        Sunday, December 10, 2023

                        Books of 2023

                         Best Books I Read in 2023:

                        • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
                        • The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
                        • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
                        • Salt to the Sea by Ruth Sepetys
                        • The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
                        • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
                        • It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
                        • The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
                        • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
                        • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry




                        Saturday, December 9, 2023

                        Christmas Playlists

                        Favorite Christmas Songs:

                        • All I Want for Christmas is You by Kelly Clarkson
                        • All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
                        • Angels We Have Heard on High
                        • Away in a Manger
                        • Bakin' Cookies
                        • Because It's Christmas
                        • Believe from The Polar Express
                        • Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)
                        • Carol of the Bells
                        • The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
                        • Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
                        • Christmas in the Islands
                        • Christmas Island
                        • The Christmas Song
                        • Christmas Waltz
                        • Christmastime is Here
                        • Cold December Night
                        • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
                        • Deck the Halls
                        • Ding Dong Merrily on High
                        • Do They Know It's Christmas?
                        • Do You Hear What I Hear?
                        • Extraordinary Merry Christmas
                        • Feliz Navidad
                        • First Noel
                        • Frosty the Snowman
                        • God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
                        • Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer
                        • Happy Days by Backstreet Boys
                        • Happy Holidays/ The Holiday Season
                        • Happy Xmas (War is Over)
                        • Hard Candy Christmas
                        • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
                        • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
                        • A Holly Jolly Christmas
                        • Homeless from the Forgotten Carols
                        • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
                        • I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
                        • I Saw Three Ships
                        • I Wish it Was Christmas Today
                        • I'll Be Home for Christmas
                        • Ice Dance from Edward Scissorhands
                        • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
                        • It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas
                        • It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
                        • Jingle Bell Rock
                        • Jingle Bells
                        • Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
                        • Joy to the World
                        • Kiss Me at Midnight
                        • Last Christmas
                        • Let it Snow!
                        • Like it's Christmas by Jonas Brothers
                        • Little Jack Frost Get Lost
                        • Little Saint Nick
                        • Mary's Boy Child
                        • A Marshmallow World
                        • Mele Kalikimaka
                        • Merry Christmas Darling
                        • Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
                        • Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
                        • Mistletoe and Holly
                        • The Most Wonderful Day of the Year
                        • My Grown Up Christmas List
                        • My Christmas Tree
                        • My Favorite Things
                        • O Christmas Tree
                        • O Come All Ye Faithful
                        • O Holy Night
                        • Once Upon a December from Anastasia
                        • Over the River and Through the Woods
                        • Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
                        • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
                        • Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
                        • Run Rudolph Run
                        • Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
                        • Santa Tell Me
                        • Silent Night
                        • Silver Bells
                        • Silver and Gold
                        • Sleigh Ride
                        • Snow from White Christmas
                        • Someday at Christmas
                        • Somewhere in My Memory
                        • (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
                        • Take Me Home for Christmas
                        • This Christmas
                        • Toyland
                        • Under the Mistletoe
                        • Underneath the Tree
                        • Up on the House Top
                        • We Need a Little Christmas
                        • We Wish You A Merry Christmas
                        • Welcome Christmas
                        • What Christmas Means to Me
                        • White Christmas
                        • Winter Wonderland
                        • Wonderful Christmastime
                        • You Make it Feel it Like Christmas

                        Favorite Christmas Albums

                        • The Andy Williams Christmas Album
                        • Bing Crosby's Christmas Gems
                        • Christmas by Michael Buble
                        • Christmas at Home by Donny Osmond
                        • Christmas Party by She and Him
                        • Christmas Portrait by The Carpenters
                        • Holiday for Swing by Seth MacFarlane
                        • Home for Christmas by N Sync
                        • A Legendary Christmas by John Legend
                        • My Gift by Carrie Underwood
                        • Noel by Josh Groban
                        • Rejoyce by Jessica Simpson
                        • This Christmas by 98 Degrees
                        • A Very Kacey Christmas
                        • Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson
                        • You Make it Feel Like Christmas by Gwen Stefani
                        Favorite Christmas Soundtracks:
                        • Anastasia
                        • Annie
                        • Babes in Toyland
                        • Elf
                        • The Forgotten Carols
                        • Frozen
                        • Glee
                        • Holiday Inn
                        • Home Alone
                        • Meet Me in St. Louis
                        • The Muppet Christmas Carol
                        • Rent
                        • Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
                        • Scrooge
                        • White Christmas

                        Thursday, December 7, 2023

                        Ogden Park Lights

                         




















                        Tuesday, December 5, 2023

                        Seen Live

                        Musicians and Shows I have seen live:

                        1992:
                        • Scrooge
                        1993:
                        • Jennifer Love Hewitt
                        • Kenny Loggins
                        1994:
                        • Beauty and the Beast
                        • Pete's Dragon
                        1996:
                        • Carousel
                        • Pirates of Penzance
                        • Secret Garden
                        1997:
                        • Oklahoma!
                        • Phantom of the Opera
                        2000:
                        • Annie Get Your Gun
                        • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
                        2001:
                        • Damn Yankees
                        • Forever Plaid
                        • Little Shop of Horrors
                        2002:
                        • Annie Get Your Gun
                        • You Can't Take it With You
                        2003:
                        • All in the Timing
                        • Deadwood Dick
                        • Jon Peter Lewis
                        • Oklahoma!
                        2004:
                        • Ashlee Simpson
                        • John Mayer
                        • Maroon 5
                        • Snoop Dogg
                        • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
                        2006:
                        • Yolanda Barber
                        2007:
                        • Finding Nemo
                        • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
                        2012:
                        • Aladdin
                        2013:
                        • Annie
                        • Beauty and the Beast
                        • Dancing with the Stars Live (with Joey Fatone, Tia Carrerre, Carson Kressley, Sabrina Bryan)
                        • Fiddler on the Roof
                        2014:
                        • Les Miserables
                        2015:
                        • Brian Wilson
                        • Damn Yankees
                        • Mary Poppins
                        • Rodriguez
                        2016:
                        • Amber Riley
                        • Jersey Boys
                        • Singin' in the Rain
                        • Three Amigos
                        2017:
                        • Human Nature
                        2018:
                        • Home School Musical
                        • The Little Mermaid
                        • Newsies
                        2019:
                        • Backstreet Boys
                        • Dionne Warwick
                        • Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella
                        • Scrooge
                        2020:
                        • Footloose
                        • Frozen
                        • Tarzan
                        2021:
                        • Anastasia
                        • Big Fish
                        • Bright Star
                        • Matilda
                        • The Sound of Music
                        2022:
                        • Marcus Anthony
                        • Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry
                        • Rose Short
                        • Shrek
                        • Singin' in the Rain
                        • Sophia Bollman
                        • Tarzan
                        • Tuck Everlasting
                        • West Side Story
                        2023:
                        • Camelot
                        • Elf
                        • Freaky Friday
                        • Mamma Mia!
                        • White Christmas
                        2024:
                        • Bye Bye Birdie
                        • Michael Wordly
                        • Newsies
                        • Oklahoma!


                        Monday, December 4, 2023

                        Elf

                         My mom and I went and saw a live production of the musical, Elf, based on the movie.