Sorry for the late start, folks. I dozed off writing this last night, woke up to put myself to bed and found the laptop closed and put away, and assumed I’d finished it up.

Anyway, last night my friend Sarah and I took ourselves down to the Kennedy Center to see singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson perform Christmas songs with the National Symphony Orchestra. It was great fun!

The orchestra performed a few songs themselves to start the show and when we came back from intermission. And then the rest were Ingrid performing either holiday tunes or some of her other hits with them.

Apparently, every year, Ingrid puts on a show in New York City that the bartender at my local dive bar assures me is life-changing, so maybe some future Christmas season, I’ll head up for that.

But in the meantime, I thought I’d share some of the songs she performed (and a couple she didn’t, but that I’ve really liked over the years: