Monday, December 14, 2020
Noel and I stopped by A Rare Bird this past weekend. Kelly was offering a free mouse with the purchase of a designer pillow. Most of the proceeds from the sale are given to a local women's shelter. According to Kelly, the material of the pillow I picked out is Christian LaCroix.
This is the reverse.
When Noel bought her pillow and free mouse she told Kelly the story of her annual holiday fete (aka The Chrissy the Christmas Mouse party).
Long ago, Noel and I were driving around in the old big brown bomber car that had once been her father's. I think it may have been a Cadillac. Anyway, it was so old the fm radio no longer worked so she could only get am stations. This was back in the 90s and a lot of the old radio personalities from WCCO AM 830 had migrated over to KLBB which featured pre rock era singers and standards. The station featured holiday music during the Christmas season and while out and about one December a song titled Chrissy the Christmas Mouse came on. It featured Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Conner on lead vocals singing about a Christmas Mouse named Chrissy who helps Santa.
Anyway, sometime in the mid-90s Noel started hosting her holiday fete and invited Dale and I along with her friends Caroline and Stephen. Initially she hosted us separately but decided to save time and energy by combining use together. I found a CD of the song and gifted it to Noel one year and during one of the Chrissy parties we played it to horrify Caroline, Stephen and Dale. It continued yearly.
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