Yay Christmas season! Daniel dislikes the Christmas season. For me, it is a bunch of fun work like getting presents, wrapping presents, putting up the Christmas Tree. For him it is a bunch of not fun work like putting up outside Christmas lights, extra driving to go see family and dealing with crazy customers with non-stop Christmas music played in the P-corn. We had a fight because he didn’t want me to put up a Christmas tree however he does love any excuse to spend money, especially at Best Buy.
What I am most looking forward to is watching Home Alone on TV and I haven’t been able to find it yet, for some reason that is my favorite Christmas movie and I can’t really explain why. My mom toke me to see it on Thanksgiving day 20 years ago this past Thanksgiving and although I don’t remember that trip I have still seen the movie every single year since on TV and love it. I think I love it so much probably because I was home alone a lot and I wish I could do as cool of things as Kevin did. The only things I did were call into radio shows requesting songs and watched South Park (we are talking 9 to 13 years old here), definitely not on par to shooting GI Joes with a BB gun and setting booby traps for robbers.
So of course every year for Christmas my family (this year Daniel is coming) drive 16 hours one way to MN. For many nights now Daniel and I have been scanning his HD radio before bed and making fun of most of the crap that is on there. He keeps asking my how I know all these awful continuous repetitive chorus country songs? And after everyone I said because it was the popular song played 20 million times on the way to MN and on the way back from MN, some year that drove me insane. So last year to remedy this situation I got Sherlock Holmes radio show tapings on CD, however my parents didn’t like this either. The characters did not speak well enough English for them because they had British accents- umm ironic. So this year I need a new idea for country free entertainment.
My parents can listen to about 3-5 minutes of Daniel’s and my music and I can tell they want to turn it off- due to the amount of commenting- “How can you tell what he’s saying?” “Why is it so loud?” “It all sounds the same.” “You really like this?” and lastly my mom’s favorite comment “Can we turn this off now?” I might just have to resort to separate ipod plug-ins for me and Daniel and I guess that is fine. Every year when I finally decide to just put on the ipod is always the time my parents decide to continually ask me questions. The whole trip is just annoyingly comical.
The last time Daniel went with us to MN the windchill was 30 below. Gollum and Daniel hated me for that Christmas. I don’t mind it, I guess I am used to MN being really cold, it would be weird if it wasn’t. Now too bad I can’t get used to those insipid country songs.
To end here is Daniel’s Hot Toddy Recipe:
3 tsp Aspen Taste Instant Hot Buttered Rum Mix
6 ounces hot water
1 jigger of Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum
Top with whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Very good and very pretty.
