well, it’s about that time. finishing up the last few little tasks at work this week so i can hop on a plane tomorrow morning for a nice long relaxing visit to the homeland. really looking forward to seeing all the friends and family i only get to see a couple times a year, and giving and receiving some sweet presents. oh, and lots of beer drinking. and homemade cookies. and and and… yeah, it’s just gonna be great.

meanwhile i’m liking the rush of holiday covers that always pops up around this time of year. as someone who graciously suffers through ‘a very country christmas’ and other such fare around the holidays, i brighten up whenever i hear jimmy eat world or rilo kiley or whoever doing their much more hipster-friendly versions of holiday tunes. i even, i’ll admit it, enjoyed hearing this dusty old blink 182 track on kroq the other day. i almost fear to go on record as saying this, but as a person who went through high school right during their heyday, a lot of their tracks have aged pretty well. i mean, this one’s cheesy and juvenile, but hey, so is christmas, and i love that too.

anyway, thought it would make a fun pay day song since i couldn’t find it anywhere else on the net and had to pull out an old, old mix cd just to hear it. enjoy and happy holidays if i don’t make it back to a computer through my sugar-and-alcohol-fueled haze before the big day.