Questions
More questions, to help you whittle away the hours as exam season approaches:
1.) What do you want (ie. present, event, trip, visit, etc.) over the holidays?
2.) Do you believe in New Years resolutions? Why or why not?
3.) Do you have distant relatives that send you really weird presents each year? If so, who are they and what do they send you?
4.) What's your winter holidays-only food?
posted by Ryan @ 3:50 p.m.
6 comments
6 Comments:
1. An iBook -- but my parents seem to think that's pretty funny.
2. No. If you want to affect real change in your life, why wait until an artificially-set date to introduce it? Besides, once upon a time, wasn't April 1 the "start" of the year?
3. No, but I wish I did.
4. I try to limit my cashew intake to the second half of December. Otherwise, I'd weigh about three tons and be flat(ter) broke.
1. I want there to be no tsunami in Thailand this year. I am going there with a girl who still has scars from being there last Christmas.
2. Not really. I happen to have resolved to do something starting from the new year but the timing is coincidental.
3. Not really. I used to get track suits from Eatons from my grandmother that were really ugly but who didn't? My great aunt gave weird presents to my sisters and me when she was going senile but she always liked me best so I still got reasonable stuff when my sisters were getting half used bottles of lotion. I don't know if she's still alive. I think so, but I don't know where she lives.
4. Desserts specific to the season. But in Japan I have to make them all myself. I like to do it so it's not really a chore but I don't have an oven which is very limiting.
Riz: I can definitely sympathize with the desire for a bit of achange. Also, I can sympathize with the desire for white hot chocolate. You'll have to show me how to make these crazy drinks some time.
Susan: I always pick up a bad magazine when I'm on a plane. There's something about it that just soothes the soul. Also, it's one of the few things I can concentrate on over the wail of synchronized screaming infants.
JTL: 1 April as the start of the year? Sounds like a bad practical joke, to me...
Seth: No oven? But... how are you supposed to make delicious apple pie for all of your new Japanese friends?
I hope you saved some of those track suits, so that you can pass them on to your grandchildren one day. It's important to have traditions.
Here's mine:
1.) Spending time with family and friends. My little niece is getting so big, and she's not going to be a baby for long. I should enjoy it while it lasts.
2.) I like the idea of there being one point in a year when people are focussed on rebirth and renewal. Limiting it to one point of a year seems a little silly, though. Also, it makes it so the gyms are really crowded during the first few weeks of January.
3.) I had distant relatives (on the British side) that used to give my sisters really tiny underwear. Lingere would probably be a better description. Anyways, one year they switched up their presents, and my sisters were all thrilled that they weren't getting underwear. As they went to put on the new present (which was shoes, if I recall correctly) they realized that there was something stuck in the toe of each of their shoes. Sure enough, they'd jammed tiny, lacy underwear into the toe of the shoe.
4.) Mom does a peanut-butter marshmellow square that's bloody fantastic. But really, I'm not picky. I love almost all Christmas food.
Oh yeah! I forgot about shortbread cookies. You only seem to be able to get the good ones around this time of year... you know, the ones that are so packed full of butter they completely dissolve within seconds of hitting your tongue.
Yeah, those.
Those rock.
The last two Christmases I've made chocolate truffles that require only a minor source of heat to melt chocolate. This year I'm dating a girl who has an oven and has expressed interest in making some yuletime goodies so I may actually have real gingerbread and shortbread for the first time in a long time.
JTL, I could give you a great shortbread recipe but if you have them at a time other than Christmas they'll lose their mystique.
Seth said:
"I could give you a great shortbread recipe but if you have them at a time other than Christmas they'll lose their mystique."
Kind of the way that Santa lost his mystique when Golden Words a photo of him lying naked on a bearskin rug?
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