Funny thing, Christmas. I'm non-religious but work at a church. That said, one of my favourite parts of Christmas is the Christmas Eve service. They light all the candles and sing carols by candlelight while it's all dark (and usually snowing) outside the windows... It's just really peaceful and beautiful and lets me take a step back from all the commercials and creepy drunk mall Santas and Mariah Carey repeats on the radio, to experience a really simple and lovely take on the season. The only thing I don't like about that service is that it happens right at my family's dinner time, so I haven't actually had Christmas Eve dinner with my family in 17 years. I usually get a few pieces of molten ham on a bun as I run out the door, and then cold leftovers when I get home.
So yesterday I went food shopping and picked up stuff for my weekend. I was instructed to bring chips and salsa. This is what I got: TWO bags of Chips and homemade salsa and guacamole (is there any irony involved in me BUYING homemade stuff?) Shrimp cocktail platter Strawberries and cream cheese platter Vegetables and dip platter We will be there for two days and there are four of us. I may have been a little hungry while shopping. Oh hey! I also got water. I'm going to have to take a cooler. I haven't even factored in the alcohol yet. Edit: I feel like I need to add none of us are fat. HOW'S THAT FOR YOUR SLIGHTLY OLDER THAN YOUNG STEREOTYPES??!!! We didn't invite the fat one. Not because she's fat, but because she's a bitch. Okay, not fat, just slightly large, and a downer. Don't have twins at 41 folks, your body doesn't recover.
I'm also turning into a "Christmas was better back in my day" old man. I've posted before about how my family had a Christmas Eve party/dinner every year for 50 years at the same home, currently owned by my aunt. Consequently, for 47 years I knew exactly where I would be on December 24, and have innumerable happy memories of all those Christmases. But the deaths of my father, grandmother and Uncle put an end to that string, and now Christmas Eve is at our house, with my wife and daughter, my crazy mother, and maybe my sister and her boyfriend, if she has one at the time. Gone is the enormous spread of food, the extended family, kids running around, etc. The cousins and remaining aunts and uncles all hole up with their immediate families and aren't into coming up into the hills to our house. I feel bad for my daughter, who is old enough to remember going to my aunt's house, and how much fun it was. She misses going there, and soon that will fade into a dim memory. So, how is everyone else doing today?
I sneezed on my way out the door the other day and peed my pants. So... there's that. Hey Bewildered - this could have been you! Man Survives Eating at Olive Garden Twice a Day for 6 Weeks
Going SCUBA diving but haven't factored in the oxygen I think this is the saddest thing I have ever read.
Re: Going SCUBA diving but haven't factored in the oxygen Yeah, well, you're the saddest thing I've ever read. I'll wait here while you get ointment for that burn. Somebody get me some water, because I'm on fire today! Or not. Whatevs.
I am not a huge "yeah Christmas" type of person, but I love love love the houses all dressed up in holiday lights. It just makes me happy for some reason. Lo and behold....lookie at what I saw yesterday when I was driving home from a job I was pissed off at to a husband I am not speaking to. I had been having an absolutely horrid week and it gave me a wee bit of a smile.
I'm going to Cincinnati for the Bengals/Browns game tonight. For the first time in a long time the battle of Ohio actually means something this year outside of pride! Just out of curiosity, how old is too old for a bunch of people to sleep in a hotel room together? I didn't have a second thought four thirty year olds sharing a hotel. Some people apparently think this is weird at my age.
FYI, I read yesterday that Stills Daughter is going to attend the game. Be ready for teary eyed women. Oh Frebis, that is otherwise known as a Slumber Party! YAY!
You're never too old!!! I am slightly older than you and I have no issues with it. And no one has thought it was weird. Of course, could be because we're female. Sharing a bed. No big. Wait, are you sharing a bed with a dude? If so, I might need more detail. Lots and lots of detail. I'm free! And is it wrong I'm using Christmas money to fund this trip? Didn't think so!
Yeah, but let's talk quality of life here. Having high blood pressure because of all the salt and being 15lbs underweight because you immediately shit out everything you put in your mouth is no way to live. No, I didn't read the article, but I didn't have to. Fucking Olive Garden. Fuck that place.
How have you missed any of the reports and stories about this Parker? You even watch football. Linkage.
Aw I thought it said "Make Men Dinner" and thought i was gonna get a free dinner Guess we're having wine tonight and pretzels tonight boys