happy holidays

happy christmas!
happy hannukah!

enjoy the solstice!

however you are celebrating during the month of december, me and scully want to wish you all the peace and love you deserve in your lives. thank you for bringing it all to us!
this morning i dream of the warmth of my sister's house...

the yule log just isn't the same!

i miss the sounds of b j and l opening presents - the laughing, the ripping and grandma trying to corral all the paper ("look at this mess!")

i miss the million cups of coffee and the anticipation of (usually) tim's famous christmas fritata...

all the chocolate from this donut melted off under the lights of my under the cabinet light. brilliant. uh, can you send me some of that fritata please?

999,999...

i missed christmas eve's tradition of me and dad reciting "a christmas story" and making mom nuts. "why do you need to watch it when you know the dialogue?" uh, why not is the question. some of me and dad's favorite quotes:

"time me!"

"it's a major award!"

"fra-gee-lay. must be italian."

"electric sex"

"deck the harrs wif boughs of harrry , fa ra ra ra ra - no, no, no. it's deck the halls with boughs of holly fa la la la la. try it like that. one, two, three..."

"i triple dog dare you! schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!"

"only i didn't say "fudge." i said the word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "f-dash-dash-dash" word!"

"sons of bitches! bumpuses!"

"scut farkus! what a rotten name! there he stood, between us and the alley. scut farkus staring out at us with his yellow eyes. he had yellow eyes! so, help me, god! yellow eyes!"

"my mother was about to make another brilliant maneuver in the legendary battle of the lamp. the epic struggle which follows lives in the folklore of cleveland street to this very day."

and the classic...

"you'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

how come we only talk about peace on earth during december? for 2009 let's try peace on earth every day. just to see what happens...

26 days and counting...

january 20, 2009