Balls and Walnuts
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Christmas Eve
Things are always so slow this time of year, comment-wise. You would think people were doing stuff with their families or something. (But I thought most of my readers were agnostics or atheists. What gives?)
Truly, though, the hit counter is as lively as ever. And what are most people searching for on Christmas Eve? What inspires them to Christ-like feats of love for their fellow man? A busty, luscious Rachel Weisz (Kosher for Christmas!) Clinical proof that Jennifer Lopez got back. The ever popular Real or Fake? boobs contest. Sex, in other words.
Well, Jew or not, far be it from me to show callous disregard for the giving spirit of Christmas. Here’s Salma Hayek’s reaction to me coming out of the shower:
Thanks, Salma. Couldn’t have done it without ya, babe.
What was I doing a year ago? Not posting, apparently. On Dec. 23, 2006, I posted a recipe for involtini. Year before that, I posted a question on ending the first book of my trilogy with a cliffhanger. I’d say Salma is an improvement.
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What are we watching on Christmas Eve? A Christmas Story, naturally. It never gets old. We saw it when it first came out and we must have seen it a dozen or more times since. My favorite part? Ralphie feeling up the leg-lamp. Or maybe Ralphie’s little brother singing, “Meatloaf, meatloaf, double beet-loaf. I HATE meatloaf.” I used to use that wav file for error messages on my old 486.
My reading material for Christmas Eve: Christopher Moore’s Lamb. Loving it. I’m amazed how Moore makes it funny and loving and reverential, all in one. I can tell he’s building toward a tragic ending. Do believing Christians see their Messiah as a tragic figure? I suspect not. Christ’s death, if I remember correctly, is supposed to be a good thing.
But I’m still too much a Jew, or a doctor, or I don’t know what, but to me, death is never a good thing*.
And that’s all he wrote, Christmas Eve, 2007. Merry Christmas to all my goyim, tribe, and heathen friends! Time for me to light a fire in the fireplace; Santa’s toes are bound to be cold.
D.
*Except as an end to suffering — I’ll grant that. It’s a bitch, though, don’t you think? Saying death is “good” for that reason, it’s like the old joke: Why are you banging your head against the wall? Because it feels so good when I stop.
Agnostics can still believe in Santa, ya know.
My family’s as irreligious as they come, so Christmas = family.
And presents.
And chocolate.
Best of the season to you and yours!
Yeah, it’s the family thing. We’re not church goers but we still have those family obligations. We went to my mom’s last night, which is the holiday event I dread. It’s all down hill now.
We already got our big Christmas Present, though. Laura received her college acceptance letter yesterday. Cornell was her #1 choice and they only accept about 400 Freshmen. She made the cut!! Woohooooo!!
Of course I didn’t remember to get the mail until late last night, so we just found out this morning, but still… 😉
Happy holidays to you and yours, Doug, even if it’s no more than a couple of days to stay home and nap.
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Happy holidays!
i’m as atheist as they come, but i welcome any opportunity to collect and give swag.
plus, the vittles tend to kick much ass. i believe i mentioned a certain ham from dartagnan.com? also, my husband’s birthday is tomorrow, so the good eats don’t stop today. i’m making him short ribs in barolo for dinner, and *ganached guinness goodness* (recipe available on smiitenkitchen.com) for his birthday cake.
AND, my best friend had her first baby yesterday. so xmases from now on are going to be totally hardcore.
i’m with tambo D… even if it’s just a couple days to lounge around in your pj’s, may you and yours have a lovely xmas!
Yup, we agnostics are all about the presenting and family socializing too 🙂 Even if I have to work every single holiday this year 🙁 Happy Holidays to you and yours, dear Doug!
Ah! I do have readers after all. Thanks, folks, and happy holidays to y’all.
Have I mentioned yet that we’re going to Vegas for my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary? It will surely be, um, blogworthy. Yeah. That’s a good word for it.
Gotta get back to work on my
TangentThe Fix assignment. After that, it’s back to my trilogy . . . at least until Jake kicks me off the computer so he can play Dungeon Keeper II.Speaking of Selma and xmas, she looks like the woaa-man in the Lexass car commercial that’s pissed when the guy calls and says he can’t get the kid from practice, the whole time he’s outside with the bow-wrapped car… he looks at the kid and mentions “…she hung up on me…”
Even my wife said she’d be seeing the tailights as it went back to the dealer…
Well, her hubs was breaking a promise . . .
I’ll have to take a closer look at the gal in that commercial.
Yes, it’s all about family and friends. Had a rather low-key Christmas since first I, then my husband, came down with the dread 24-hour stomach bug. I was over it but he wasn’t, on Christmas day, so I went to our friends’ for dinner and he stayed home. But he enjoyed watching the “Christmas Story” marathon they had on TBS – he watched it twice! I love that movie. Then last night we watched “A Christmas Carol,” which is the closest thing to a religious experience I have on Christmas. It always leaves me with a feeling of good will toward men that lasts about a day afterward!