Holiday Ramblings
Reading: Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolkien
Listening: A Winter’s Solstice, 1985; Holiday Songs and Lullabies, Shawn Colvin
This is the first Christmas that I have stayed home in two years. The last Christmas I stayed home, home was Arizona, and I married Steve. Christmas in Louisiana is rather generic. No neat stores, like last year in Woodstock, where I could buy all sorts of artsy items. But I’m having fun! First of all, I am cooking; I haven’t cooked in a while and I am looking forward to it. I am even making for my vegetarian sister a dish with bulgher, apricots and mint. Yum. And then all the usual Christmas day fare. I also plan to make Christmas cookies and decorate them with my niece, Willow. I want to pack them up in this nice little decorative box I got and bring them to my dad in Houston. Also, I got some white glitter and I have been repairing my broken bird-christmas lights. The little white birds have lost most of their sparkle because they are ten years old. So I am dusting them with glitter. The glitter does not hid the discoloration, unfortunately, but it makes the birds sparkle and the discoloration looks ..well ..intentional. Or, maybe not. I have the house decorated for the holiday, the fridge stocked with food, I even have a Christmas card or two. I decorated stockings, making holiday designs with glitter glue and hung then I them over the chimney with care :) I put a snowflake on Willow’s, a candy cane on my sister’s, some holly on the cat’s, a tree on Steve’s and a snowman on mine. Steve stuffed them. He put tea in my sister’s and a can of tuna fish in the cat’s! I bought some Christmas ornament crafts–the kind that you stick beads and sequins on with straight pins. I hope that will keep Willow and my sister entertained while I cook. I also bought fuzzy reindeer antlers that I have been wearing around the house. I’m such a Christmas dork. I’m so domesticated. Gah.
VanGogh’s Sunflowers by Laura (MSPaint; November 2001)
