It’s December and for me that means it is “blog every day month” an effort for which I have long since concocted a list of blog-able reflective topics called my December-ish posts each of which should do little more than offer a leaping off point for some rambling writing to fill up my daily blogging quota.

Today that topic is…

What did you want this year
… and get?

Drew.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. Santa was pretty generous this year as usual, and even before Christmas morning I had tallied a long list of random things I’ve picked up along the way this past year, new toys, new tools, and travel souvenirs.

But when I saw that after two decades missing-in-action the Drew Carey Show box set was not only finally available on iTunes but briefly on sale for boxing day… well, my nineties nostalgia nerve got pinged something fierce and now it seems like I have two-hundred and some episodes of one of my go-to shows from my twenties to blur into the new year.

Apparently (my own memory on this is pretty fuzzy, but) the show was pretty famous for its generous use of great music. The licensing tangle that must have created, obviously preventing its release on DVD or streaming over the last few years meant that unlike all the classic sitcoms that have materialized on Netflix and other platforms lately, Drew’s television existence over the last 20 years has been largely relegated to The Price is Right… or bootlegged copies of the show which I haven’t bothered hunting down.

The Drew Carey Show existed for me on this short list of shows we watched with dedication during our early adulthoods, like after class in University or living away from home for my first job in Vancouver. It was on constant syndication rotation on our tvs back which means (a) we watched a lot of it and (b) I don’t think I ever saw it in any rational order… what was on, was on.

I only just processed today that there are nine seasons and 229 episodes.

And now I’ve got them in my library. Finally.

Silly dreams sometimes do come true.