Happy Christmas

❄️Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻⛄️I hope yours is a splendid one 😘

Note: this one is a bit sloppy as someone (not Someone) had a bit too much Christmas spirit in his breakfast Bloody Mary this morning.

Ho ho ho I hope everyone is having a happy Christmas. Last night Urs Truly overdosed on cookies while arguing via text with his various relations over the various versions of ‘A Christmas carol’ as to which one was best. Some were in the Alister Sims camp while others were George C. Scott devotees. Brother #4 thinks the Patrick Stewart version rules as he was the meanest. There is nothing like a good family row at Christmas over nothing important. I ended the night watching the end of “It’s a wonderful life” which got me blubbering. Oh the embarrassment.

This morning I made a very good breakfast casserole thank you very much which we ate with relish along with a couple of kringles Someone ordered from his home town in Wisconsin. Tonight we have a honey baked ham, Kung Pao Brussel Sprouts, and cheesy potatoes left over from last night’s meal. There is too much food for two. We are going to eat off of leftovers for a fortnight.

As for prizes exchanged under the tree, we mostly gave each other things we wanted for the house, like new bed sheets (flannels) and much needed/wanted kitchen gadgets. Someone gave me a box of FRANGO mints, which I haven’t had since I lived in Chicago. He is a dear, and not just for that. I gave him socks and he gave me two dress shirts, thus thwarting The Yule Cat for another year.

After we have a post-prandial go-back-to-bed midmorning nap, we may go see ‘Wicked 2’. Then perhaps we may not. Someone has worked nonstop since Thanksgiving and he could sleep the day away which is fine. I might indulge in FRANGOs and watch another version of A Christmas Carol and fire back at the relations. After all that is what the day is all about: sugar and booze and family fights.