Everyone sounds so cozy, I love it. We had a tasty tomato basil soup for dinner and are going for a short walk after cleanup. Then it'll be more Christmas books in front of the fire and tree.
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.
smonster - Dec 24, 2009 4:39:21 pm PST #27267 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Kathy A - Dec 24, 2009 4:44:21 pm PST #27268 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yay for soup, fire, family, and trees!!
I still have to do my dishes, but at least I've finally got all my Xmas music on my computer and playing with the shuffle option turned on. Just listened to Empire Brass, and now I've got the Beach Boys singing "I wanna meet Santa Claus / the real real Santa..."
msbelle - Dec 24, 2009 4:51:23 pm PST #27269 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The people upstairs from me are having a party.
I tried going to sleep, but no luck. It's not that they are really loud at all, just loud enough to combine with my not really sleepy.
Kat - Dec 24, 2009 4:59:04 pm PST #27270 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think we missed the Magical Christmas Caroling Truck this year which makes me sad.
Beverly - Dec 24, 2009 5:43:30 pm PST #27271 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh! We had one of those go through the neighborhood last weekend. H and I turned to each other, "Ice cream?"
Turns out one of the neighbors does it every year.
Sue - Dec 24, 2009 5:52:12 pm PST #27272 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I've been behind in Natter for days. So much going on.
I'm so sorry about your cousin, ita.
Congrats to Glam and her DW and Nora and Kira on their new babies! And congrats to 'Ouise and Helena on their aunthood. (Special thanks to 'Ousie and Megan for looking after my cats while I'm away.)
So I am in day 6 of Xmas with the family. I think my tolerance is going to bust just in time for Xmas. Not that anything's going horribly wrong, but it's just too much family. Three days until I go home.
The other thing is that my mother's memory is going. She lost my nephew's iPod Touch twice in two days. It probably doesn't help that she's has no idea what the hell it is. She keeps asking if it's his phone. It's troubling, but she refuses to acknowledge that it's an issue. Nor will she admit that she's hard of hearing, but she's gotten deafer than my dad, who is completely deaf in one ear and and had a hearing aid for the other. Her stubbornness is not weakening at all.
She's also insisting on cooking Xmas dinner, even though she's 80 and cooking big meals exhausts her.
sarameg - Dec 24, 2009 5:53:00 pm PST #27273 of 30001
As it has most birthdays of D's, including his actual birth day*, storming here in Alabama. No tornado watches this time, and it isn't snow. This time. I think there was a whimper of snow last year. It was cold, I remember that.
* night he was born, there was thunder and lightening, hail, sleet and tornado watches and actual tornadoes in that part of Texas.
sarameg - Dec 24, 2009 6:02:33 pm PST #27274 of 30001
Santa's cookies and the reindeer food have been disposed of. Thankfully not in my brother's beer this year.
Sue - Dec 24, 2009 6:07:33 pm PST #27275 of 30001
hip deep in pie
It's December 25th here. Happy Christmas!!!!
smonster - Dec 24, 2009 6:44:37 pm PST #27276 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
The other thing is that my mother's memory is going.
Oh, Sue. My heart goes out to you and your family. That is so hard.
We have read more of Best Christmas Pageant, plus the Huron Carol, Cajun Night Before Christmas , and Polar Express. Lots more to read tomorrow. It's getting late here. I've had a headache all day that refuses to abate, but that's a small thing.
To all a good night.