It’s my turn to wish you all the very best for Christmas, whether you are of the Christian persuasion or not.
Feliz Natal!
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 14 Comments
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Villago Delenda Est
Seeing as how this particular holiday was basically co-opted by the early church from the various holidays celebrating the solstice, one need not be a “Christian” or even a Christian to celebrate the sun’s change of heart about going south and away from us northern hemisphere dwellers and coming back our way, with the promise of soda, pretzels, beer, and plenty of sunshine even in places like Buffalo in only about five months.
Mnemosyne
Niece and nephew have opened presents and are playing with their Pokemon treehouse. G is outside calling his family in Chicago and finding out why his niece ended up in the ER yesterday (which we found out via frickin’ Facebook). G got me a subtle nag to work on my movie blog for Xmas. So not a bad day so far.
BGinCHI
Hey all you B-J jackals, happy holiday!
I didn’t get a pony again this year, but it’s been a great holiday weekend with good weather and good friends and family.
We’re expecting our baby (our first, gonna be a boy) on Thurs or Fri. Mrs. BG getting induced Wed night, even though I was supposed to go to the Alex Chilton Birthday bash Wed night at the Empty Bottle.
Why do expecting mothers hate American Rock n Roll? So selfish.
CarolDuhart2
@BGinCHI: Congratulations and Good Luck, BG. Try to prepare him for having the bad luck of being born right around Christmas and having two-for one gifts.
gbear
It’s just shy of 40 degrees in Mpls/StP with no snow on the ground so it doesn’t feel very christmasy. I’m not a fan of snow, but the lack of it seems to be a continuation of a bad drought that started last summer. I’m hoping that this isn’t going to be the ‘new normal’ for weather.
dmsilev
@BGinCHI: Congratulations, and best of luck to you, your wife, and your soon-to-be-born son.
We’ll expect pictures, of course.
Miss Kitkas's Comrade Wayne
Muito obrigado, Sarah P & T. E bom ano novo.
ruemara
Merry Chrismawhatever! I woke up to my wow account hacked, my toons broke and mostly stripped, my gm toon and my co-gm toon shipped to various servers. The christmas gift of stress, I suppose. All is fixed but I hope the hackers get their butts kicked.
wrb
My the sun once again regain his fortitude this year.
wimp
Schlemizel
@gbear:
Just remember that it rained here nearly every damn day for the 4 months before the drought. We might still get 4 feet of snow!
Yutsano
For R-Jud and LilBrit.
Yutsano
This would make me violent. And it makes me wonder if Harper is ever going to do a state visit.
(fergot the warning: Hufflepuff link)
4jkb4ia
So I went to see “Hugo”, and it dispelled my “Bah, humbug” mood of earlier. It ties into Anne Laurie’s video because I wouldn’t go to the movies today if that wasn’t what my family always did when we were in town. (The best Christmas I ever had was when we were in New York for a wedding, and I was engaged. I and my not-yet-husband went to the Empire State Building, which is too touristy for my native New Yorker parents, and the Jewish Museum, and La Marais, and Jewsapalooza at the Knitting Factory. It was absolutely awe-inspiring that there were actual things to do. On a different day, we went on the Circle Line, a thing I had never done in almost 30 years of coming to New York.)
If you get a chance, see “Hugo” before it is gone. It is a really good movie and the art direction should get an Oscar nomination if there is any justice.
And Knicks 106, Celtics 104. But Shumpert hurt his knee and is out at least 2 weeks.
4jkb4ia
@BGinCHI:
Thirding the good wishes.