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Preparing for Christmas in Portland, first year away from home. Making a list of all things that I think they will do wrong, so that I can make sure that I see myself as being as ridiculous as I really am.

1. they will not have a truly disgusting amount of food
2. there will be no Jewish culture in my christmas, because there will be nobody of Jewish descent
3. nobody will know that "shlag" is German for whipped cream
4. nobody will know any German
5. there will be no small children/forces of anarchy being loud and making festiveness
6. there will not be enough angst and strife about cleaning
7. there will be no fruit-nut bread that my mom makes
8. I will not be forced to make coffee for my parents before they will get up to open stockings
9. There will be no Christmas eve service at the UU church with all the people I have known forever
10. The food will be... different. Which will be wrong.
11. We will listen to NPR christmas music rather than college-radio christmas music
12. People will be nice to each other
13. High school friends will be hanging out without me and I will feel silly and left-out

That's all I can think of. Bah.

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I find that making some of my family's traditional food helps me when I'm at my inlaws for Christmas. And I bet you could still add some Jewish culture back in. And teach them what shlag means.

so, doug and I won't be leaving till 6ish on the 23rd. I will be up and facing the world at about 3.
doug knows german. the cat is anarchy embodied in feline form. I will create angst and strife til you make me coffee. and I will be really mean to you, if you want, freak.

love
me!

Our rendering of schlag is a little carton of heavy cream whipped with a tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of whatever suitable alcohol happens to be around (the suitability continuum appears to ascend from gin at zero to apple brandy at very high, for what that's worth). It is usually enjoyed on pie, although I think it was introduced to us when my aunt's first ex-husband introduced it as something to put on top of hot rum.

mjw

You won't miss hanging out with me... I think I'm going down Thursday and back up Sunday. Sigh.

And

boojum is coming to visit Boston, and dsb will be around... so maybe we can get together up here. =)