I’m fed up to HERE with all these pretenders proclaiming that Jesus is the reason for the season. Then you have the Jews saying “Not yet” with their candles and such. Not to be outdone, pagans dis the Christian usurpers in favor of their solstice celebrations and ritual tree lightings. Now we got the Kwanzaa merchants jumping on the band wagon.
How can everyone be so blind that they cannot see the REAL reason for the season. The individual who is so wonderful, that we celebrate them by name - not once, but TWICE this time of year. On December 24th, as well as a week later December 31st!
Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to properly focus our attentions upon that doyenne of drama,
the femme fatale of fashion,
the grand dame of doperdom,
the chick with the class,
The gal so nice we celebrate her twice
The one
The only EVE!
(How do YOU intend to celebrate your Eves this year?)
Christmas Eve: We used to go to my aunt’s house every Christmas Eve and have a light dinner there. We’d also each open one present. She passed away seven years ago and we now go to my mom and dad’s house to continue the pre-Christmas tradition. We also celebrate my brother-in-law’s birthday, which is actually on the 21st.
New Year’s Eve: I’ll do one of two things, either stay home and watch the ball drop at Times Square on TV, or if I am invited, go to a friend’s house and play card games with him and some female friends (no alcohol drinking, which is good as I am a teetotaler). We might also fix sour cream enchiladas from a recipe his ex-wife left behind.
Christmas Eve has always been the main celebration with my family, and with that of my better half. I’m from a mostly catholic, mostly french-canadian background, he’s danish from a marginal lutheran background. His family ate leftovers on Christmas day, or after they came to Canada, went to other people’s Christmas dinners. The day itself is less important, we’re having a dinner party with friends so we aren’t staying home alone watching TV specials designed to make one retch.
It’s all a just tradition for us, and good food. Axial tilt is the reason for the season!
I celebrate both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve the traditional way, by watching AMC and reading critically acclaimed, bestselling biographies of great actresses of the past.
I, for one, am intending to make one of my New Year’s resolutions be to definitely celebrate, or at least treat with more consideration, my eves in the next year. I didn’t really realize it until you inspired me to do a bit of research, but now I learned from this here internet horticulture guru (?) that my “eves” can be a breeding place for mosquitos. Yikes!
So… yeah, that’s how I intend to celebrate my eves. By making sure there is no mosquito breeding going on in them.
