So people,

I hope you like the holidays, because we here in Fooled By April certainly do. Yesterday we spent the entire day trimming the tree, brewing homemade apple cider and working out four part harmonies on our favorite carols. Ok, maybe some of that isn't true. We did however, start planning out our holiday concerts by dusting off some old XMas tunes, some kooky covers and our usual repertoire of pop gems.

In other news, I was thinking about these protests that took place when I was kid. Some church crazies were very upset that stores were advertising X-mas sales, instead of Christmas sales. They carried around signs like "don't take the Christ out of Christmas" and "Jesus is the reason for the season!" Anyway, the reason I was thinking about this was that I was watching the making of Christina Aguilera's new album "Stripped" on MTV. My favorite part was when they showed an exterior shot of her dressing room, which had a gold star on the door and the name "X-ina." Somehow I think there won't be much of a protest about that. In fact, I think maybe Jesus himself asked her to take him out of her name. Dirrrty is right. Yikes.

I'm a genie in a bottle....