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catastrophy) wrote2010-12-04 05:05 pm
catastrophy) wrote2010-12-04 05:05 pm
Christmas traditions
Everybody has them. Some from growing up and some that you start when you're all growed up.
This year I'm melding Kent's traditions and mine. There will be Davis Xmas the weekend before Christmas, with the requisite cookies and exchange. There will be Christmas Eve at his mom's and Christmas Day at his dad's. (His has a big house in the country outside of Kokomo, complete with a trophy room of taxidermied animals---he's a big hunter---which I suddenly have the impulse to dress up in Santa hats and antler headbands.)
I've decorated for Christmas in previous years, with whatever stuff I had. But this year I decided I would deck out the house, since now I have one. So, I have a new tradition I like so much I will have to keep. Watching Die Hard and hanging Christmas lights! (I cannot tell you how happy this made me. <3) Forget the claymation specials and black and whites. Give me Bruce Willis in a grudgy wifebeater and plenty of explosions and that's jolly enough for me.
We also set up Kent's nativity set, which his mom gives him a new piece for every year. It's grown so big that it takes up two folding tables, and thus far, Skyley hasn't knocked anything over.
Oh, and last, and probably my favorite... TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA!!
I haven't exactly been to a rock concert before. (Saw The Pillows play at ACen, but really as close as I got...) But, OMG that show. LASERS. PYROTECHNICS. A catwalk that descends from the ceiling so the musicians can run out over the crowd. SNOW. They made it snow, inside Conseco Fieldhouse, and then turned on lasers and it became SPARKLES. <3
I dare any of the naysayers to listen to TSO rock Pachelbel's Cannon in D and deny that it is awesome.
This year I'm melding Kent's traditions and mine. There will be Davis Xmas the weekend before Christmas, with the requisite cookies and exchange. There will be Christmas Eve at his mom's and Christmas Day at his dad's. (His has a big house in the country outside of Kokomo, complete with a trophy room of taxidermied animals---he's a big hunter---which I suddenly have the impulse to dress up in Santa hats and antler headbands.)
I've decorated for Christmas in previous years, with whatever stuff I had. But this year I decided I would deck out the house, since now I have one. So, I have a new tradition I like so much I will have to keep. Watching Die Hard and hanging Christmas lights! (I cannot tell you how happy this made me. <3) Forget the claymation specials and black and whites. Give me Bruce Willis in a grudgy wifebeater and plenty of explosions and that's jolly enough for me.
We also set up Kent's nativity set, which his mom gives him a new piece for every year. It's grown so big that it takes up two folding tables, and thus far, Skyley hasn't knocked anything over.
Oh, and last, and probably my favorite... TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA!!
I haven't exactly been to a rock concert before. (Saw The Pillows play at ACen, but really as close as I got...) But, OMG that show. LASERS. PYROTECHNICS. A catwalk that descends from the ceiling so the musicians can run out over the crowd. SNOW. They made it snow, inside Conseco Fieldhouse, and then turned on lasers and it became SPARKLES. <3
I dare any of the naysayers to listen to TSO rock Pachelbel's Cannon in D and deny that it is awesome.