Round three for this site: holiday memories.

Nov 23, 2006

Memories of the Holidays/Holidaze

It's Thanksgiving in America. This kicks off over a month of parties, shopping, thinking, visiting, trips, travel, days off of work, office parties (gah), eating, drinking, baking, some more eating, and general mayhem. Yet in an odd way, it's fun. Here's some holiday-specific memories from my life:

1. The coolest Christmas gift I ever received was a neon sign.
2. The oddest gift I ever saw was a clock glued to a block of wood...sprinkled with tiny plastic baby dolls which had been covered in glow-in-the-dark paint.
3. A Christmas card turned me on to Dead Can Dance, the Bulgarian State and Radio Choir, and the Roches.
4. When I was very young, I'd frequently fall asleep in front of the lit-up Christmas tree.
5. One evening when I was home from university, I just gave up: I got my pillow, dragged a blanket out to the couch, plugged in my parents' Christmas tree lights...and just slept there that night.
6. I watch Home for the Holidays every year around this time. It's therapy.
7. I eagerly await eggnog season...because I love putting eggnog in my coffee. (That's the only thing I'll add to brewed coffee, by the way. No sugar, no milk, no creamer, nonononono...but I am eggnog's blissful additive-acolyte.)
8. Today as I was at the store getting rolls for tomorrow's Great American Starch Festival, I saw four near-accidents in the space of less than a minute. (Drive safely and carefully, folks; or your loved ones will have a truly sucky holiday season.)
9. I remember being at my grandparents' house for Thanksgiving, and chasing the poor cat around and around trying to pet it.
10. For the past several years there has been both turkey and ham at the great big family Thanksgiving dinners because of a relative's diverticulitis. Turkey doesn't like them any more.
11. My family has a history of heart disease, so ever since my teens we've reduced the cholesterol and fatty foods; but on Thanksgiving and birthday dinners, this rule gets thrown out. If it kills us, we'll go on a full, satisfied stomach. (Because we'd all gotten into the habit of watching portions, though, we don't tend to eat until we burst.)
12. Pace yourself: eat first-lunch, take a walk, come back, clean the kitchen, eat second-lunch, play a game, have dessert, watch a movie, take another walk before the sun sets, nibble the rest of the day (and tomorrow). You don't have the one great big huge meal...but you enjoy what you eat, you have to cook fewer times, and your body is able to digest the smaller "grazing" meals.
13. I'm actually feeling poorly, so I won't be doing the Thanksgiving foodage this year. Bleah. Still, this should go away by tomorrow evening at the latest. (I hope.)

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