{"id":897,"date":"2007-12-18T01:58:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=897"},"modified":"2007-12-18T01:58:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T06:58:22","slug":"shopping-knitting-mailing-baking-meme-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"shopping, knitting, mailing, baking &#8230; meme writing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are a little stressful right now chez nous as I am behind on most everything, although perhaps less so than I was earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>So, to distract you from the shoulder-tensing anxiety here, I&#8217;m offering you a meme started by <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetpeasgarden.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/16\/holiday-favorites\/\">Sweetpea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Favorite Christmas cartoon:<\/strong> Hmmm&#8230; This is hard. &#8220;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8221; would definitely be up there. But if you really mean &#8220;favorite kids&#8217; Christmas show,&#8221; then I&#8217;d probably go with &#8220;Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.&#8221; I still watch it every year on Christmas Eve. I still wonder: are those Santa&#8217;s bells that awaken Big Bird? The lesson? Your friends are going to come through for you, even if you don&#8217;t realize that you need them to.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Favorite Christmas movie:<\/strong> <em><del datetime=\"2007-12-18T06:39:29+00:00\">Miracle on 34th Street.<\/del> <del datetime=\"2007-12-18T06:39:29+00:00\">It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life.<\/del><\/em> <em>Miracle on 34th Street<\/em> and <em>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/em>. Really it&#8217;s all about believing that one person (be he Santa or the little guy toiling away underappreciated day after day) really can make a big difference.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Favorite Christmas song (traditional):<\/strong> &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; has to win out. Particularly when it closes out the Christmas Eve service lit only by the parishioners&#8217; candles. Makes me shivery just thinking about it.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Favorite Christmas song (pop\/modern):<\/strong> Dar Williams&#8217; &#8220;The Christians and the Pagans&#8221; is my favorite of the last fifteen years. It&#8217;s all about how you can cross the boundaries between traditions to find the commonalities if you want to enough.<\/li>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to give an honorable mention to Hugh Blumenfeld for &#8220;Kosher for Christmas.&#8221; It&#8217;s references are too dated to win outright, but who can&#8217;t help feeling a little kinship for lyrics that include &#8220;Let&#8217;s all sing out praises to\/A long-haired, radical, socialist Jew.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li><strong>Favorite Christmas cookie:<\/strong> Eskimo cookies. They&#8217;re uncooked cookies &#8212; oatmeal, butter, and sugar rolled into balls and dunked in powdered sugar. Yum! You really can&#8217;t eat just one.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Favorite family tradition:<\/strong> Until I was ten, Josh and I shared a bedroom, the door of which opened right onto the Christmas tree. When we were quite little, we&#8217;d be allowed to let Mum and Dad know we were awake and they would go and fetch the stockings Santa had left for us to open in our bedroom alone. I think this was so we&#8217;d let Mum and Dad sleep in until 7 &#8212; an excruciatingly early hour for them, particularly since they&#8217;d had to stay up so late to keep an insomniac sprite from interrupting Santa&#8217;s arrival. 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