Oooh! The Y may open at noon tomorrow! Yay swim!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Dec 19, 2009 3:47:18 pm PST #26320 of 30001
javachik - Dec 19, 2009 3:56:18 pm PST #26321 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
From wayyy back:
Where's javachik? She's the cable company magic bill reducer, right?
Yep, Sparky! I shall write to him and brag.
JenP - Dec 19, 2009 4:10:29 pm PST #26322 of 30001
Jesse, I meant to say yesterday that I love the moving nativity. That is awesome.
Tonight's dinner: ahi tuna w/ shredded carrots in a ginger/garlic/teryaki sauce w/ soba noodles over fresh spinach leaves. Oh, I'm going to love living here. Once all the freaking snow melts. Pretty, but PITA.
Hil R. - Dec 19, 2009 4:10:54 pm PST #26323 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Continuing my string on ridiculous holiday specials, I am watching the Thomas Kinkade movie. Snowy days seem to require stuff like this.
Jesse - Dec 19, 2009 4:25:13 pm PST #26324 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I totally copied my mother and put the nativity folks on my bookshelves, too. It's cute!
I just wrapped some presents, so I can bring them over tomorrow, but then I remembered both that I had a concept to bring a big suitcase for Christmas, so I can put everything else in there.
sarameg - Dec 19, 2009 4:34:50 pm PST #26325 of 30001
It's totally a lovely tradition!
We used to always read the Jesus story (wtf, I have no idea what else to call it- it was a fairly traditional kid's book, I can even remember the pictures) every Xmas Eve. I think my mom still misses it now that she's the lone christian in a family of the faithless. It was wonderfully written. I should tell her to bring it to read with the boys. It's a nice tradition, regardless of belief.
Jen, after the holidays, I need to have you over. So happy to have you here!
Snow has let up and is vertical for the first time. eta: oops, I lied. That was 10 minutes ago. Is lighter, though.
Jesse - Dec 19, 2009 4:45:52 pm PST #26326 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Apparently people in Boston buy eggs instead of toilet paper, along with their milk and bread -- half of the snowpocalypse jokes on LJ are about french toast. Funny!
Connie Neil - Dec 19, 2009 4:46:33 pm PST #26327 of 30001
brillig
I wonder what happened to our old nativity scene. It wasn't anything remarkable, paper mache and plaster from a 5 and Dime back in the '50s, and most of the farm animals has lost at least one leg. But I loved arranging and rearranging and admiring the robes on the Kings. I hope my sister with the grandkids has it.
Liese S. - Dec 19, 2009 4:50:16 pm PST #26328 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I love the movable nativity, that rocks. I have a nativity from when I was a kid that I made of, um, literal rocks. But I didn`t set it up this year. I am feeling like the only unfestive one. My neighbor decorated this year, because he got married. Heh.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 19, 2009 4:53:03 pm PST #26329 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
French Toast Warning: ORANGE.