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addison road
September 2009 
Christmas Card?
Posted on Dec 20th, 2008
by 
DudeRun
DudeRun
I went shopping the other day to finish the Christmas list. I got my friend's step-dad a 12 pack of Diet Coke, got my friend two bags of sour gummy worms, got another friend the new Fall Out Boy CD, and then picked up Christmas cards for my cousin and my aunt.
So I got home and I was filling out the Christmas cards and I was going to mention something to my cousin Sam about my cousin's wife Benita and that's when it hit me--I forgot to get Jason and Benita a Christmas card. I only talk to Benita about three times a year so I couldn't believe I'd forgotten the card.
The next day I was in town for class and had to run to the post office to drop off a package to send to my friend in Tennessee. I was trying to get a hold of my brother to tell him to pick up a religious type Christmas card for Benita and Jason, but he wouldn't pick up for the world. So I walked into the post office and gave the lady the money to send the package and she tilts her head to the side and smiles. "Would you like a Christmas card? I'm giving them away."
My shoulders fell down and I smiled, thoroughly awed and exasperated at the same time. "Yes, actually, thank you."
I picked out a simple one with three polar bears on it and decided it was better than nothing. I called my dad on my home and asked him if he knew the post office was giving away Christmas cards and he said he'd never heard of them doing that before. So when I hung up the phone I turned the radio on (KLOV 91.9 FM) and Hope Now by Addison Road came on. The song had been on that morning when I thought I was going to be late for school and as soon as I heard the song I knew I was going to be on time (I was five minutes early). When I heard the song on my way home I knew that everything was all right. I had my Christmas card, Kristin's gift would get to her before it expired (silly me gave her a pie haha), and everything would just work.
That night my brother told me he was buying me a new bass for Christmas and it would be here on the 29th. He ordered me a metallic red Dean Active Edge and it's incredibly beautiful. Don't get me wrong, I love the guitar I have now, but it twangs like a country singer (and it really shouldn't).
It's really silly to relate the Addison Road song to getting to school on time, acquiring the Christmas card, having JUST ENOUGH change to pay for my package for Kristin, and my brother buying me a guitar but I do. Every day I turn on KLOV and hope and hope for Addison Road or Sanctus Real and they never come on and if they do it's never twice in one day. Maybe it's not the song, but it makes me feel a little better and lets me rest assured. It makes me a little more positive, which is what I'm always going for.
So I got home and I was filling out the Christmas cards and I was going to mention something to my cousin Sam about my cousin's wife Benita and that's when it hit me--I forgot to get Jason and Benita a Christmas card. I only talk to Benita about three times a year so I couldn't believe I'd forgotten the card.
The next day I was in town for class and had to run to the post office to drop off a package to send to my friend in Tennessee. I was trying to get a hold of my brother to tell him to pick up a religious type Christmas card for Benita and Jason, but he wouldn't pick up for the world. So I walked into the post office and gave the lady the money to send the package and she tilts her head to the side and smiles. "Would you like a Christmas card? I'm giving them away."
My shoulders fell down and I smiled, thoroughly awed and exasperated at the same time. "Yes, actually, thank you."
I picked out a simple one with three polar bears on it and decided it was better than nothing. I called my dad on my home and asked him if he knew the post office was giving away Christmas cards and he said he'd never heard of them doing that before. So when I hung up the phone I turned the radio on (KLOV 91.9 FM) and Hope Now by Addison Road came on. The song had been on that morning when I thought I was going to be late for school and as soon as I heard the song I knew I was going to be on time (I was five minutes early). When I heard the song on my way home I knew that everything was all right. I had my Christmas card, Kristin's gift would get to her before it expired (silly me gave her a pie haha), and everything would just work.
That night my brother told me he was buying me a new bass for Christmas and it would be here on the 29th. He ordered me a metallic red Dean Active Edge and it's incredibly beautiful. Don't get me wrong, I love the guitar I have now, but it twangs like a country singer (and it really shouldn't).
It's really silly to relate the Addison Road song to getting to school on time, acquiring the Christmas card, having JUST ENOUGH change to pay for my package for Kristin, and my brother buying me a guitar but I do. Every day I turn on KLOV and hope and hope for Addison Road or Sanctus Real and they never come on and if they do it's never twice in one day. Maybe it's not the song, but it makes me feel a little better and lets me rest assured. It makes me a little more positive, which is what I'm always going for.
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