Moderately merry
Dec. 26th, 2020 09:18 amThe only odd thing this year was that we didn't have a tree. The SO didn't feel like having one, and then finally allowed as how a small one would be okay, but by then we couldn't find one. No great loss to our local tree farms, because there was apparently huge demand for Christmas trees this year.
I cooked a ham for dinner, as usual. The SO had requested pancakes for breakfast this year, so on our most recent shopping trip we stopped by the pancake section to find something suitable. I was amused to discover that pancakes have been declared a manly power food somewhere along the way. There were only a couple "normal" options, alongside a bunch promising tons of protein or a full paleo experience or so forth. We actually got one of those-- Kodiak-- because they were whole wheat and neither of us could remember ever trying whole wheat pancakes before.
This makes it sound like I did all the kitchen work, but the SO, as is traditional here, got to take care of all the cleanup.
Despite the lack of a tree, we still had a small pile of presents where it would usually go. The SO gave me just what I asked for, which was the hard-to-track-down book Fieldwork Fail: The Messy Side of Science. The SO got the new game based on Disney's Haunted Mansion (the SO is a big fan), which had been in the house for months because I'd been worried it would be impossible to find after Halloween.
My musical soundtrack for the day was provided, as ever, by Performance Today.
It's usually just us for Christmas, so it was a pretty normal one. It still felt odd because right now, every day is Christmas, in that we have nowhere to go and the only structure to the days is what we manage to impose on them.
I cooked a ham for dinner, as usual. The SO had requested pancakes for breakfast this year, so on our most recent shopping trip we stopped by the pancake section to find something suitable. I was amused to discover that pancakes have been declared a manly power food somewhere along the way. There were only a couple "normal" options, alongside a bunch promising tons of protein or a full paleo experience or so forth. We actually got one of those-- Kodiak-- because they were whole wheat and neither of us could remember ever trying whole wheat pancakes before.
This makes it sound like I did all the kitchen work, but the SO, as is traditional here, got to take care of all the cleanup.
Despite the lack of a tree, we still had a small pile of presents where it would usually go. The SO gave me just what I asked for, which was the hard-to-track-down book Fieldwork Fail: The Messy Side of Science. The SO got the new game based on Disney's Haunted Mansion (the SO is a big fan), which had been in the house for months because I'd been worried it would be impossible to find after Halloween.
My musical soundtrack for the day was provided, as ever, by Performance Today.
It's usually just us for Christmas, so it was a pretty normal one. It still felt odd because right now, every day is Christmas, in that we have nowhere to go and the only structure to the days is what we manage to impose on them.