fourteen | year two
two plus feet of snow
back in 2000, my sister and i took advantage of a promotional offer from cdnow.com (a now defunct online music retailer). for the cost of shipping, we were able to create a six-song holiday album, complete with our own title and liner notes. we couldn’t resist.
after searching the available music, and debating on the song order for hours, we finally came up with the following tracklist:
- dance of the sugar plum fairy | 101 strings orchestra
- the christmas song | nat king cole
- sleigh ride | 101 strings orchestra
- i’ll be home for christmas | danny wright
- winter wonderland | bing crosby
- have yourself a merry little christmas | bing crosby
next was the title. we decided on “two plus feet of snow” in homage to the snowfall predictions for the blizzard of 1996 (we didn’t actually get more than two feet of snow in that blizzard, more like 21 inches, but i digress).
finally, the liner notes. this probably took the longest, and we were limited by space restrictions, so we had to be succinct and still manage to thank all of the appropriate parties. after much deliberation, we finally reached a consensus:
12.2000 – thank yous: mom & dad – for endless love; wombat – for endless beeping; poutossin – for endless smiling; looger – for endless pots of stink; big chess boy – for endless flaming fur; poongus – for endless kittenness; bister – for endless insanity. this one’s for you.
don’t ask. i know this dedication likely won’t make sense to anyone outside of my tiny family circle, but to us, it was perfection.
in fact, almost a decade later, it’s still one of my favourite holiday music collections.
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