Hurrah!! 😀 Congrats on that, Ela.
Well, I've got a week off work, so that's nice. Hope to meet up with a friend or two (or three, now that I think of it). Gonna go out with my mom for a day. Dad's side of the family's already got together, so now it's Mom's side's turn. Yeah. Oh, I guess I should probably try to do some work on the second job too.... And oh, goodness, I better hurry up with this fic!
I somehow seem to get less and less holiday and less and less peace for writing fan fic of my homeless situation.
But I do not seem to have been getting out of it by my writing, some seem to have stopped that.
Wow. What happened to "Chat thread"? What is the best thing that happened to you most recently?
@Pev: haha, yeah, about that.... 😛 Part of the problem is that a couple of the game threads have become chat threads, more or less. Let's try revive this one, shall we?
Best thing? Remembering that I have a lot to be thankful for and joyful about. 🙂
Recently? Making a friend and getting As in my (two) courses.
And then there was that game of "how many links are there between a given actor to Narnia" that Ela and I played last night. 😀
Ah, yes, that was so much fun!
*Edit*
Since Christmas is coming up shortly, I started wondering which day, the 24th or 25th, was the day each person here celebrates. My family has always celebrated (a service, visiting family, having a big meal, opening gifts, etc.) on the 24th, not Christmas day (though, we do do a bit of visiting). How about you?
Christmas service is always on Christmas Eve for me. Family dinner depends on availability. Usually either Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, though we've occasionally had to move it to another day.
Christmas Eve, we go to my mom's aunt's house for supper. Christmas Day, we open our presents and then go to my dad's parents for lunch.
When I was a child and teen : most Christmasses, me and ma with grandma, both days.
One present opened Christmas Eve morning, rest waiting for Christmas EVE(NING) properly speaking, including both soft and hard ones (clothing and books).
Since I converted, Christmas Eve dinner was Lutefisk and Ham and Meatballs with cabbage were saved to later in evening or to Christmas Day, when however a Turkey was served. Praying before manger came in too. But I had had the nativity scene since childhood.
I wish I could give a recipe for the Ginger Bread house, but usually the Ginger Bread dough (ginger bread being a very Classic Christmas dish) was bought in shop, and when Grandma once made it herself, I have no longer any memory of exact recipy.
On Christmas Eve, we have the Christmas Eve service, go home and open a present or two, then go back over for the midnight carols-and-candles service. Then on Christmas Day we have another service and afterwards open the rest of the presents. So Christmas is technically two days in our family. Maybe that's because Dad's a pastor, though.
eleventy-one pages. I am catching on to more, Nan. 😆
If your daddy had been an orthodox, an uniate or a convert-from-anglican-clergy priest (dito perhaps for some converted Lutherans - either case ordained after conversion), Christmas would have been twelve days. OK, thirteen with Eve, 14 with Epiphany. In my family we tended to at least as far as food and decorations are concerned, keep Christmas till Octave of Epiphany (Jan 13).
Wow, Hans. That must be fun.
A link about it:
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