- Seeing as tomorrow's Remembrance Day, I thought I'd dig up from the vaults last year's post, in which I challenged my readers to come up with inappropriate commemorations of November 11th. Here it is. The comments section is priceless, and makes me fear that McDonald's will pick up on cramsey's idea for the McPoppy Burger. (I must say that I'm glad that this year my Remembrance Day involves a 21-gun salute, and not rest stops in Washington with attendants asking, "Why are you all wearing red flowers?")
- In other news, today is my Grandma's 90th birthday! Wow! She's in St. Louis, MO, to celebrate it with my aunt and uncle.
- I'll toss a question out to the readers: how should we celebrate Christmas on Vancouver Island? I'm all for doing something entirely non-traditional, and entirely representative of our current location. Keep in mind that my family used to stay in a hotel in North Battleford at Christmas, and on Christmas morning we'd go on the waterslides. We named the tradition "Yuletide Watersliding." Out here, it sounds like Butchart Gardens has entrance fees of just $5 at Christmas, but it's going to be all twinkley lights and skating rink and carollers. Maybe for an evening, but that's almost too "we're trying to pretend that it snows here" for me. Maybe should we go to the ocean? I wonder if we could go to Oak Bay Marina and see the seals. (I think we're also going to do a bunch of traditional-Christmas things, like make a gingerbread house. Chris is really excited about that. Like, so excited that he just up and made shortbread cookies last night.)
Friday, November 10, 2006
Lest We Forget Deliciousness
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Traditions are routines you create. Have fun creating your new traditions in much nicer weather than here!
You'll have to take a picture of the gingerbread house. Just make sure you don't have a Beagle and leave the gingerbread house on the kitchen island because when you get home there might just not be a gingerbread house!!
Twirly seems to be speaking from experience. Don't worry, T. I have neither a beagle nor a kitchen island. Nor do I have any other sort of dog, nor do I have room for anything resembling a kitchen island.
Dude, I'd forgotten the hilarity of "lest we forget deliciousness." I laughed aloud.
Hmm, McPoppy. Apparently some of my humour is timeless (or close to it).
Here is a tradition for you:
Chris gets on the roof and rains down on you with tons of those styrofoam packing chips, you could then curse the weather and go in for eggnog.
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