So many Christmas sets I want to look at, so many grandparents around the house 
Its been a good Christmas. Acceptable on all accounts, no complete disasters which is the best you can hope for.
Was only driven slightly mad by Christmas songs and relatives. Even Christmas mass was interesting although still unpleasant. We found a seriously oldskool Catholic church. Latin mass, genuflect when entering and leaving pews. Killing my knees kneeling on a marble slate waiting for the priest to drop the communion wafer in my mouth. He about dropped it when he saw my tongue stud. Not being able to understand Latin the whole thing was like a game of simon says, kneeling, standing, sitting, singing.
By far the best part was the crowd. Clearly these were not your average 'twice a year' christians. These were oldskool catholics in this oldskool house of our Lord. Not a single woman was wearing pants or was without a veil on her head. They even handed out emergency veils for my blasphemous family. There were a lot of guys in formal suits, a few with moustache styles that went of style after the Louisana purchase.
And the most in-your-face reason you knew this was a serious church of serious catholics was the 4-8 children per family count
Awesome. I had no idea these people still existed and thought mass reproduction was limited to merely the white trash but these people were classy...ish.
Anyway Christmas was pretty good. 2 books and a CD to check off the wish list, other things of use or interest. Hot Topic and Best Buy gift certificates which are quite thoughtful and generous by comparison of other years.
Among other things I also got a digital camera and a bottle of citron vodka so I guess you'll all be getting little presents from me in the near future
Its been a good Christmas. Acceptable on all accounts, no complete disasters which is the best you can hope for.
Was only driven slightly mad by Christmas songs and relatives. Even Christmas mass was interesting although still unpleasant. We found a seriously oldskool Catholic church. Latin mass, genuflect when entering and leaving pews. Killing my knees kneeling on a marble slate waiting for the priest to drop the communion wafer in my mouth. He about dropped it when he saw my tongue stud. Not being able to understand Latin the whole thing was like a game of simon says, kneeling, standing, sitting, singing.
By far the best part was the crowd. Clearly these were not your average 'twice a year' christians. These were oldskool catholics in this oldskool house of our Lord. Not a single woman was wearing pants or was without a veil on her head. They even handed out emergency veils for my blasphemous family. There were a lot of guys in formal suits, a few with moustache styles that went of style after the Louisana purchase.
And the most in-your-face reason you knew this was a serious church of serious catholics was the 4-8 children per family count
Awesome. I had no idea these people still existed and thought mass reproduction was limited to merely the white trash but these people were classy...ish.
Anyway Christmas was pretty good. 2 books and a CD to check off the wish list, other things of use or interest. Hot Topic and Best Buy gift certificates which are quite thoughtful and generous by comparison of other years.
Among other things I also got a digital camera and a bottle of citron vodka so I guess you'll all be getting little presents from me in the near future
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And yeesh and condolences for hanging out with grandparents, but boy do I ever love weird old skool Catholic churches so yay on that!