The More the Merrier

Alice is an ER doctor working on Christmas Eve. She meets the new doctor Brian who is also her coworker’s brother. He starting soon as the new hospital cardiologist. His sister goes into labor and so he sticks around just to be snowed in at the hospital. Soon two other moms in labor arrive and four babies are born overnight.

Location: Pine Ridge, Snowystate
Love interest: Brian, the sexy cardiologist
Familiar Face:  Lots of Hallmark regulars
Probably Gay Character: Rich the nurse
Christmas Eve Event: The entire movie takes place on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning
Unlikely plot point: Is he allowed to treat patients since he technically doesn’t work at the hospital yet?
Who is dead: No one
Romantic ending: After the snow is cleared and the day shift shows up, they kiss by the tree in the ER waiting room.
Who moves: She doesn’t move (M:4, F:2, S:6, U:1)
Music: Long Live Christmas – Dan + Shay
I Tried to be Good – Andy Powell
O Christmas Tree – Stuart Roslyn & Matthew Foundling
It’s You – Makayla Lynn

DCA Christmas Tree

The Disneyland tree gets all the attention, but I think the tree at Disney’s California Adventure is just as nice if not better. It’s especially good for close up photos like this.

Leather Santa Hat

I have wanted a nice leather Santa hat for a while. They had some at Doghouse Leather this year. I snatched one right up. It’s a little big on me, but it looks good. I wore it to lunch after buying it and the guy at Pagliacci liked it so much, he gave me a free beverage.

The Snow Must Go On

Isiah is a struggling Broadway performer trying to recapture his past success. When his off-off Broadway show fails spectacularly, he decides to spend Christmas at his sister’s place in upstate New York. When picking his niece up from her fancy private school, he gets volunteered to direct the Christmas musical after the current teacher quits to run off with a lumberjack. He discovers a Broadway bigwig has a daughter at the school, so he decides to make it about himself so he might restart his career.

Location: Upstate NY
Love interest: It’s from the guys POV, but his love interest is the
Familiar Face:  Maria from Roswell, New Mexico
Probably Gay Character: A movie about a Broadway singer and there’s no gay people, WTF
Christmas Eve Event: The High School Christmas Musical
Unlikely plot point: How far of a drive is it to NY?
Who is dead: His sister clearly lives in their childhood home but they never talk about their missing parents.
Romantic ending: After the musical is a success, they snow machine kicks off and they kiss on the empty stage.
Who moves: He gives up on his Broadway dreams to become a high school drama teacher (M:4, F:1, S:6, U:1)
Music: We Three Kings – The Weight & Hurry
Mistletoe Rock – Bob Charles & Carter William
That’s What Christmas is All About

Monsters Inc Holiday

There’s no holiday overlay of course, but they do give Roz a festive hat.

Holiday Touchdown: A Bill’s Love Story

 

Morgan is a pediatrician who recently returned to her hometown of Buffalo, NY. Her mom and uncle live next door to their best friends whose son is now working on the new Bill’s football stadium. Morgan and Gabe never got together because the timing was never right, but now it might be. They go on a quest to find who has been sending her uncle secret Christmas gifts his whole life. When they find it is his lost love from high school, she doesn’t want them to expose here secret. But at the big game before Christmas, all is revealed. And just in time as her sister goes into labor.

Location: Buffalo, NY
Love interest: Gabe, the sexy boy next door
Familiar Face: Santa’s back from last year’s Chief’s movie and the steak guy from The Matrix
Probably Gay Character: Maybe the guy at the post office, but I wish it was the brother-in-law, he is a hot piece of ass. See below.
Christmas Eve Event: The big game is 4-5 days before Christmas
Unlikely plot point: I mean, the whole search for receipts was insane
Who is dead: Her dad.
Romantic ending: After the baby is born, both families are invited to visit the field and take their Christmas photo and play flag football with some players. They kiss in the End Zone.
Who moves: Same city (M:3, F:1, S:6, U:1)
Music: Holiday – Jimmy Fallon & The Jonas Brothers
This is Christmas – The Goo Goo Dolls

 

Post-Christmas Christmas Party

My friend Scott has his Christmas party the weekend after Christmas. His decorations are off the charts amazing. He had a real tree with this snow themed decorations. He used snowmen heads with tons of cotton so it looks like they are melting. Every inch is covered with amazing ornaments. It’s better than any “professional” tree I saw this year.

Haunted Mansion Holiday

As part of the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay, The Haunted Mansion gets a new real Gingerbread House for the ballroom. My photo turned out terribly so I grabbed one from the internet. This year’s house theme is crows. I’m not sure if there are 24 crows which would match the lyric, “Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.”

Cher – Christmas Is Here

Cher has a new Christmas song this year. She didn’t sing in on SNL for some reason.

Scott Shoemaker’s War on Christmas

My favorite local Christmas show is Scott Shoemaker’s War on Christmas. This year Scott is having a bad time at Christmas (like always) so he wants to do an It’s a Wonderful life. But instead he does a Hello Again, the 1987 Shelly Long movie where she magically comes back to life one year later. The Twink on the Brick is back to cause trouble but the big bad was actually an AI Barbie.