merry solstice-analog holiday of your choosing

We celebrate a secular "Christmas" - so we do the presents thing and all. Let's see, from my friend CHas - thank you Chas, I'll call you back tomorrow! - I got an action figure the Season 1 Dylan Hunt, before "Andromeda" went to pot, and "The Secret Life of Lobsters" from my wish list!!! My folks sent me a sweater; they're given to practical things like that. Well, since we are moving up north next year, I can use a sweater. Actually, since it's below freezing in Austin tonight, I can use it even here. People are using the hats I've made for them! And I received several ornaments I was hoping for, two for our "marine" tree theme, a crab and a seahorse, and two for our things-with-wings theme, an egret and a puffin. Actually, the puffin will fit into marine, too, won't it! Of course, my best present from spouse is the agreement to move up north, an ongoing gift that SU is really getting into - making lists and all that. That really is the happiest present I could get! We picked out some really good wool at our LYS so I can make SU a really nice hat for next winter. I will wait until I have recovered from the recent bout of hat-making, so that I can get into making a nice hat instead of a manically (manicly? not manaically, that's not what I mean) fast hat.

Hey, angevin2, did you know that the DVD for Monty Python & the Holy Grail has a section where all the dialogue is given subtitles taken from Henry IV Part 2?

Now I can't remember who was asking me about "A Field Guide to Pigs." I tracked my copy down; the author is John Pukite. It's as strange as I remembered.

Off to get some sleep; Gussie GP's family will be coming by xmas AM to pick her up from piggysitting and I've got to clean her cage. Then lunch with Cindy - she wants to cook, OK, we'll let her - and more present-opening, followed by general napping. I have made Cindy a kitty hat, and she will also be getting her annual cat a day calendar, and a bookworm from Giant Microbes. It's safe to say that here; I doubt Cindy will ever get into LJ. She's awfully technophobic for a librarian!

traditional christmas night meal

Chinese restaurant, of course. Any city I've ever lived in, this is where everybody who can't stand to eat one more meal in the family dining room goes. All the Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, Eastern Orthodox, etc. We're all at the Chinese restaurants. There's always IHOP, of course, but that can be sort of depressing.

Cindy roasted a chicken for lunch, and sweet potatoes with ginger, and baked apples with raisins and nuts. We went over to the library to feed Dewey the guinea pig and R2D2 the parakeet, since the library is closed Friday through Sunday. And then we watched about 1.5 more showings of Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story on TBS, took naps, stuff like that. Cindy got me a Get Fuzzy book and some ornaments and edibles. This seems to be an ornament-y year!!

Well, I am almost finished knitting something I've been doing very sporadically for over 6 months, so I think my present to myself will be to sit there and finish it. Three rows to go, I can do that! And one of my New Years resolutions will be never to knit that big a project again.