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Dec. 24th, 2004
xmas past and xmas plans
Dec. 24th, 2004 09:23 pmI have Xmas issues. It's probably enough to know that without getting into specifics.
Our first Xmas in Nashville, we didn't want to participate in the holiday, so we ignored it and all of its attendant schedule changes. Like, say, the fact that the store that was open until midnight on the 23rd closes early on the 24th and isn't open at all on the 25th. As of Xmas morning, we had no food in the house. There was surliness all around. We eventually got in the car and drove around looking for something that was open. We looked unfestive and ugly, wearing mismatched pajamas and dirty hair, and we blamed each other with both word and pointed glares for the sucktasticness of the day. Thanks a lot, Baby Jesus. Finally, we found a place that was open: Krispy Kreme. We drank surprisingly not-horrible coffee and ate cold doughnuts in sick-making quantities. Even though it was food, I wasn't satisfied. KK doughnuts have a weird chemical taste, and that thing they call a cruller is a joke.
I think that was the year we had a tree, though.
The next two years in Nashville, we made sure we had food in the refrigerator. One of those years, we even fought about whether or not I would ever get over the absence of food in the fridge in 1999. I think we saw a movie in 2001, but I don't remember what, and it could just as easily have been in 2000. I want to say it was Royal Tennenbaums but I really don't know.
In 2002, I was living alone in Seattle. I drove north to my parents' house which took about six hours instead of the usual 1-1/2 due to incomprehensibly huge volumes of traffic. I watched part of Ice Age with my nephew and was amazed at all the homosexual innuendo. That is a very gay film, though my sister-in-law rejected my assessment out of hand when it was offered. The nadir of the visit was the universal agreement that I was the heaviest that anyone had seen me. Which was true. I ate pie anyway. I definitely felt sorry for myself.
Last year, I felt sorry for myself and watched both Amelie and Hard Core Logo. The surliness + PJs theme reappeared. Mr. Glove made me food and I was unappreciative and cranky.
I think this year will be different ;) Rhi and Mr. Rhi are going to be in Nashville visiting relatives and then visiting us! I am very excited to be spending what is usually a contrary day, at best, with friends. (Not that Mr. Glove isn't my friend, but in the manner of many ungrateful spouses, I basically decide he doesn't count as one when the truth of the matter gets in the way of me wallowing in self-pity.) We will have pie and chocolate and real food, as well. Also wine. I'm feeling oddly positive. It's quite pleasant.
The refrigerator is full this year. I checked.
Our first Xmas in Nashville, we didn't want to participate in the holiday, so we ignored it and all of its attendant schedule changes. Like, say, the fact that the store that was open until midnight on the 23rd closes early on the 24th and isn't open at all on the 25th. As of Xmas morning, we had no food in the house. There was surliness all around. We eventually got in the car and drove around looking for something that was open. We looked unfestive and ugly, wearing mismatched pajamas and dirty hair, and we blamed each other with both word and pointed glares for the sucktasticness of the day. Thanks a lot, Baby Jesus. Finally, we found a place that was open: Krispy Kreme. We drank surprisingly not-horrible coffee and ate cold doughnuts in sick-making quantities. Even though it was food, I wasn't satisfied. KK doughnuts have a weird chemical taste, and that thing they call a cruller is a joke.
I think that was the year we had a tree, though.
The next two years in Nashville, we made sure we had food in the refrigerator. One of those years, we even fought about whether or not I would ever get over the absence of food in the fridge in 1999. I think we saw a movie in 2001, but I don't remember what, and it could just as easily have been in 2000. I want to say it was Royal Tennenbaums but I really don't know.
In 2002, I was living alone in Seattle. I drove north to my parents' house which took about six hours instead of the usual 1-1/2 due to incomprehensibly huge volumes of traffic. I watched part of Ice Age with my nephew and was amazed at all the homosexual innuendo. That is a very gay film, though my sister-in-law rejected my assessment out of hand when it was offered. The nadir of the visit was the universal agreement that I was the heaviest that anyone had seen me. Which was true. I ate pie anyway. I definitely felt sorry for myself.
Last year, I felt sorry for myself and watched both Amelie and Hard Core Logo. The surliness + PJs theme reappeared. Mr. Glove made me food and I was unappreciative and cranky.
I think this year will be different ;) Rhi and Mr. Rhi are going to be in Nashville visiting relatives and then visiting us! I am very excited to be spending what is usually a contrary day, at best, with friends. (Not that Mr. Glove isn't my friend, but in the manner of many ungrateful spouses, I basically decide he doesn't count as one when the truth of the matter gets in the way of me wallowing in self-pity.) We will have pie and chocolate and real food, as well. Also wine. I'm feeling oddly positive. It's quite pleasant.
The refrigerator is full this year. I checked.