Pause for breath

[mrissa]

Despite the fog, markgritter and I arrived home safely last night and had dinner with timprov and unpacked and repacked. In some ways all this is much, much easier than when we had to pack for a week in Omaha and a week in Milwaukee and fit everything on the plane. It does mean another drive this morning, however. We will cope.

Those of you who are wishing people belated merry Christmasses and happy Hanukkahs: don't! It's not belated! It's only the third day of Christmas and the third day of Hanukkah, and Hanukkah has eight days total and Christmas twelve. Did you think the song about the twelve days of Christmas was randomly selected? It's still Christmas until Twelfth Night. So you're not late on cards or presents or anything yet.

I got a robot vacuum! Because it's the Christmas of the fuuuuuuture! Also I got a stick blender and a pair of Docs (there will be pictures) and a fountain pen and books and books and books. Also it is a Very Amy Ray Christmas, as my Indigo Girls collection is substantially larger and my Amy Ray solo album collection is now complete.

I miss the bop, but letting my folks have time with her was the right thing all around. Still, she hasn't been away from all her housemonkeys at once since we got her in July, and I think it's a great deal harder on me than it is on her. (She adores her Mormor and Morfar, and they adore her right back, and as for my old folks, ohhhhhhh, they were in love the minute they saw her picture.)

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[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've been meaning to buy myself a Roomba since last year :P Talk about a cat scaring machine :)

[rosefox]

It's still Christmas until Twelfth Night. So you're not late on cards or presents or anything yet.

I hope my super knows this and isn't annoyed that we keep forgetting to slip his "handshake" under his door.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the last time I saw someone else use "Mormor"! One grandmother (okay, my stepmom's mother) goes by that title because she's got a lot of Swedish in her, but I keep forgetting that it's not just our family. Oh, that made me happy. Thanks.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the future! Our Roomba has been idle lately because the house is so cluttered with paper and presents that she can't navigate. Should put her to work today, though.

Twelve Days

[mackatlaw.livejournal.com]

My church is having a Christmas party this Wednesday. It still seems a little strange to me that Episcopalians keep celebrating Christmas as only having just begun after December 25, when the secular world is packing up the ornaments and trees, but I could get used to it.

I do need to pick up some food for the covered dish party, though... We're at someone's house, and cooking something at the moment (when I haven't made anything in a long long time) is probably too much to ask of myself!

But Merry Continuing Christmas!

Mack

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

OOOoooooo. A Roomba and a stick blender? I am envious.

It's only the third day of Christmas and the third day of Hanukkah,

It's the second day of Chanukah, actually. Jewish calendar dates (and therefore holidays) start at sundown, so Chanukah didn't actually start until sundown on Sunday.

Anyway, it sounds like you are having a lovely Christmas. Happy Happy!

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, sorry.

Did I ever tell you how I got Christmas sorted out as a kid? It was very confusing because we went to church on Christmas Eve and sang "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night" and night night night night, this is the night of Jesus' birth, etc. But Christmas, we were told, was Jesus' birthday. Finally when I was five or so, I figured it out: Jesus was Jewish! And Jewish days started at sundown! So Jesus must have been born between sundown and midnight on what we would call Dec. 24, but the day part that went with it would be Dec. 25!

A few years after that, my dad explained to me about the birth of Mithras and how lambing season in that part of the world was nowhere near December. But for awhile, I really thought I had things cleared up.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oops. That was me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My folks decided to be Mormor and Morfar, partly for ethnic affinity but partly because whatever honorary and extra and great- and whatever other flavor of grandparents our future spawn get, I am unlikely to get the kids another Mor, and therefore Mormor and Morfar are unique.