I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!!! Despite the funeral in the beginning of the week, we had a very nice holiday. My mom has been sick and so we didn’t do much. We went to church Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve dinner consisted of peirogis, shrimp, and olly oily (I have no idea how to spell it, but it is an Italian dish of angel hair pasta with olive oil and anchovies). Then on TV, I watched Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, Judy Garland Christmas Special, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby Christmas Special and lastly, the Bing Crosby and Friends Christmas Special (with David Bowie). When I was younger I loved the Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town special; however, watching it last night, I was shocked at the ‘evil’ German stereotype. The grownups from Somberville wore WWII soldier outfits replete with helmet spike and the evil “Bergermeister” who outlawed toys and happiness was not only called, “Bergermeister-Meisterburger” but he also spoke in a heavy German accent!!! I guess that was the overriding sentiment back in 1970.
At any rate, I spent most of Christmas day eating chocolates and drinking eggnog and glühwein and playing with my Barbie Dream House….. oops, sorry that was 20 years ago…. Lisa and I went to Washington Crossing to watch the reenactment of George Washington cross the Delaware with his troops but the weather was so awful that all they did was get in to the boat and get out of the boat. Yeah, that was about it. Didn’t give money to charity, didn’t volunteer… spent most of the day feeling tipsy. Works for me.