Aims, that is fabulous!

askye, I'm sorry your new meds are so revolting - I hope that fades as you take them more.

I am lighting a menorah.

Well, the light of the Torah still shines brightly through the ages. Take that, Christianity!

Aims - Slings & Arrows!! Your tagline just made me smile.

Thanks! It's been my tagline for long, I almost forgot what it was!!

meara - I didn't do so well with the not swallowing, as soon as it started dissolving my mouth started watering so I was trying not to swallow but needing to.

Also it made me drowsy quickly so I'm going to be more prepared tonight take it first then all my other medications and see how I do.

As it dissolved it had a weird tingly sensation. But in the scope of things really not the worse medicine taking experience of my life. When I was a little kid I fought my parents so hard on more than one occasion they were forced to treat me like they were medicating a cat.

OMG Awesomecakes, Aims.

Sorry for the med uckiness, askye. Hope it is effective.

I made vegan latkes as a surprise for my friend when she came over for my Christmas Boat Parade viewing party Sunday night. I didn't like them, but the crowd ate them all up quick so I guess they were good.

all of that is still Stuff That's Not Ours.

And that's what makes you uncomfortable? I guess I just don't get it. My neighbors wear headscarves and celebrate Ramadan. Doesn't make me uncomfortable.

Aims, you rock! Which of course is nothing new.

Askye, that medicine sounds awful. I hope it is worth the ickiness and really helps you.

I over did it the last couple of days, and I paid for it last night with pain and anxiety attacks last night. I have to go out again tonight to do errands with TCG. So, any productivity for me this morning has to be done sitting. Time to shred old paperwork and maybe start wrapping gifts.

ChiKat, I'm not Hil, but it's on the house she lives in. Also, Islam is not the dominant culture here. Christmas is EVERYWHERE. Even as conscious as I am, I found myself asking my boyfriend (again, the ex-Hasidic atheist) what he was doing for Christmas. ::face palm::

And now I need to vent.

I forgot to check my alarms (yes, plural) and woke up 15 minutes before I was to be at work. Was a half hour late. The rest is tl;dr but GODDAMN why must my every attempt at efficiency be thwarted? It's like they don't want to make a profit. ISTG.

Also, Islam is not the dominant culture here.

So because Christianity is dominant, it's okay to be uncomfortable by it?

So because Christianity is dominant, it's okay to be uncomfortable by it?

I think, to a large extent, yes. Replace "Christian/Christmas" with some other privileged group and something that is "theirs", and then assume by default that everyone--even people not in that group--would be into it. For people outside that group, there is not a non-problematic way they can respond. If you're not into macho/sports culture, you can go along to the Superbowl party, you can choose a different way to celebrate it (e.g. Puppy bowl), you can quietly opt out, you can explain why you don't like it, etc, etc. And the superbowl is not half as fraught or nearly as all-consuming within the culture as Christmas is. For a month (or more).

I don't begrudge people of color whatever relationship they find workable with Anglo-dominated media. I try not to begrudge feminist-leaning parents whatever relationship they end up with with princess culture. I may find some of them a little inexplicable or eye-rolly, but people do the best they can when something is unavoidable and not theirs.