A very nice holiday with the family

Although I don’t observe Christmas a a religious holiday, I very much enjoy spending it with family.

I spent a fair amount of the day before heading over to Mom’s keying 2009 entries into the Erie Gay News section for local history. Yeah, I am kind of wild and crazy guy, I guess.

My brother’s friend Karen needed a ride, so since she was en route, I picked her up. My brother Steve had to work until 6 PM, and he had a car rented, so that was okay.

Mom made Rock Cornish game hens for dinner. They were yummy! Mom noted at one point  that they were still rather pale (“blonde” is the word that she used.) Then Karen and I noted that the rest of the food was also light colored, so we joked about a very Merry Aryan Christmas. (My family has kind of a macabre sense of humor.)

We told Karen the Orange Julius story. About 1990, I was over at Mom’s for Christmas. My brother was in the Army at that point, so he wasn’t there. Mom had found a recipe for something like orange Julius and wanted to make it. It ended up burning out the motor on the blender and was not exactly a crowning culinary success. At the time, I didn’t have the heart to tell Mom that I wasn’t particularly a fan of Orange Julius anyway. Years after, we all kind of laugh about it.

I helped Mom and Karen later with how to post photos to Flickr for linking to a sewing site called Ravelry that they are on. Hopefully, I wasn’t too complicated. I think that they got it.

It was a really nice evening, and I very much enjoy that it was low key. I am not very big on the need to have some ornate celebration of the holidays. I tend to think that the urge to buy stuff and plan elaborate stuff tends to get in the way. Fortunately, my family is pretty much all of the same mind.

I went out to the Zone later and talked with a couple that are good friends. The wife mentioned that they had visited her mother, and on the way back, they had stopped at an adult book store that was right on the way because “nothing says Christmas like a shiny new butt plug!” I guffawed.

All in all, I think that I had a great holiday!