hello
A few things:
Firefox 1.5 is out, so go and download it!
I got a nice commission for a painting today. (Hi Linda, if you're reading this!)
I've been xmas shopping a lot. Scott is probably going to be getting too many gifts this year.
Did any of you ever read ElfQuest? I remember reading the heck out of that comic book series when I was around 12, and I'm thinking of getting it for Sylvan for a present. I remember the series as being exciting and addictive. Any thoughts?
Oh, and I've been thinking about holiday traditions a lot lately as well. I want to establish some new ones this year. The one that I have from my family is Christmas Eve fondue, and I still do that every year. In my family growing up, it worked like this...my dad would take us kids to see a movie in the afternoon, giving my mom some last minute time to herseslf, and then we'd come home and eat a fondue feast and then we'd each open one gift.
I do the fondue and the one gift, but not the movie, and I usually have other people over besides the nuclear family, which makes it more fun.
For a while, when I was little I remember my dad would read Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to us for several nights in a row. I want to do something like that I think, but maybe with a different book. Any suggestions?
Firefox 1.5 is out, so go and download it!
I got a nice commission for a painting today. (Hi Linda, if you're reading this!)
I've been xmas shopping a lot. Scott is probably going to be getting too many gifts this year.
Did any of you ever read ElfQuest? I remember reading the heck out of that comic book series when I was around 12, and I'm thinking of getting it for Sylvan for a present. I remember the series as being exciting and addictive. Any thoughts?
Oh, and I've been thinking about holiday traditions a lot lately as well. I want to establish some new ones this year. The one that I have from my family is Christmas Eve fondue, and I still do that every year. In my family growing up, it worked like this...my dad would take us kids to see a movie in the afternoon, giving my mom some last minute time to herseslf, and then we'd come home and eat a fondue feast and then we'd each open one gift.
I do the fondue and the one gift, but not the movie, and I usually have other people over besides the nuclear family, which makes it more fun.
For a while, when I was little I remember my dad would read Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to us for several nights in a row. I want to do something like that I think, but maybe with a different book. Any suggestions?
posted by zelia at 7:06 PM
4 Comments:
Wow, that's so cool that it's your family tradition too! Our gift was usually some sort of board game that we could all play.
Christmas day brunch with mimosas sounds really nice!
I love the idea of a christmas eve fondue! too bad we have a few vegans now : ) (thanks a lot, brian henderson!)
I also love the idea of christmas mimosas.
our tradition was to do a huge christmas eve dinner, open one present, and in the morning eat eggs benedict for breakfast (every single year ever), open stockings, open presents. there was a bunch of "going to church" in there too, but I think I'll replace that with drinking champagne! : )
also, I totally read all the elfquests when I was 12ish and loved them! but, just in case you don't remember, there's kind of a lot of ... elf sex in them.
which is maybe part of why a preteen girl loved them : )
I mean, it was the story, definitely the story.
Yeah, the fondue is definitely not vegan. Probably just the idea of it would make vegans ill, especially the way my family did it!
I do remember vaguely that there was a lot of sex in ElfQuest, hmm...maybe I'll get it for him next year instead.
Do you still do eggs benedict, Jessamyn?
i was a huuuuge Elfquest fan as a kid - i had the full-color compilation books, not the comics, but i'd recommend them to anyone - beautiful art, complex story. i agree on the elf sex bit, tho, and also on that being part of the allure for 12-year-old girls... tee hee!
ok, i'm admitting my geekiness here, but i actually went back on eBay and bought up all the ones i was missing from my childhood collection.
good luck finding them! and you can come to my house for a preview if you want... not all the books have elf orgies in them.
- amy erin (of amy and cliff fame)
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