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Open gathering and chat post!
(Consider this journal entry properly bedecked).
This "Christmas season" is hard on everyone -- even those who enjoy & celebrate it can find it exhausting. And for those of us who don't -- or can't -- celebrate it (for whatever reason) it can be especially isolating -- particularly for those of us whose primary social connections happen through these here Interwebs.
So:
I'm posting this entry as an open discussion/chat thread, so that we have a place to chat and commune through the comment threads.
Come sip a warm (or cool, depending on your season) spiced beverage of your choosing, and grab a plate full of virtual goodies.
I'll be checking back in frequently over the next 72 hours or so.
Welcome! Welcome!
Edited to add:
I also can't forget (or, rather, I can, but should not) that today is also the first day of Hanukkah. So have a video that
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ysabetwordsmith posted a couple of years ago:Because I also know many are over saturated with Christmas songs, by now...
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What's yours?
Whatcha drinking?
(IRL, I'm debating whether it's too late in the day [1 pm] for another cocoa with coffee [probably is]
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We have appealing piles of snow, and shortly BB, who's known me since I was 17, will be stopping by for lunch. This is good.
Hidden Figures is opening in my town tomorrow, and I think I'll be able to see t next week.
Urself?
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Audrey will be going out to spend Christmas eve with her mother and what family hasn't moved away since last year. And then, tomorrow, she'll be accepting an invitation to a friend's for dinner.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the Doctor Who Christmas Special being available to watch on Amazon Video tomorrow (The first Doctor Who since last Christmas)...
Yes, coffee-less cocoa is still possible, and I may still indulge...
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Wait, Dr Who is no longer an ongoing series?
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No, it's a still ongoing series, but what with the Summer Olympics, and the Eurovision song contest, and such, the normal schedule would have preempted so much, Stephen Moffat decided to just postpone it for a year, especially since he's stepping down as exec. producer after this season.
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But so far, Modern Who has been in a strict binary between Davies and Moffat. And, in Who at least, I prefer Moffat (I perceived Davies not only betraying Doctor Who canon, but the ethics of the storyteller/audience sacred contract -- especially in the Donna Noble story arc).
So for (nearly) every "reboot" Moffat did from Davies era, I cheered (Except for Clara's storyline).
Um... Do you follow Doctor Who? Or were the paragraphs above a rant in gibberish?
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I was a tight follower of old Who, and I've seen random bits of new Who. The next time I need a new fandom, I keep promising myself I'll trend Tardiswise. and then shiny new things (Orphan Black!) distract me.
Still I always learn something from your perspective. So, what do you see as the terms of this sacred contract? (Feel free to link me to a post you've already made, cause I suspect this is a longstanding philosophical issue with you)
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See -- I have the advantage (?) over you, there, as I don't do cable or Netflix...
I suspect this is a longstanding philosophical issue with you
Boy, howdy -- is it ever!
Here's the most recent post I made where I describe the Storytelling contract using precisely those words:
http://capriuni.dreamwidth.org/761732.html
... I thought I'd gone into greater depth, but apparently not. Though I'd be happy to do so, here
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How do you Who? Actuall DVDs?
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Clearly, all possible combinations of coffee and cocoa and other hot drinks that blend well with those should be tried, separately and in combination, until one arrives at The Ultimate Holiday Beverage.
(This was a hobby of mine at one point, in fact...I may pick it back up again.)
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Off the top of my head, I'd steer away from coffee and apple cider, though... just on a hunch.
Oh! You know what I like? Gingersnaps lightly dusted on the bottom with unsweetened cocoa powder -- it starts out bitter, but then, as you chew, the cocoa blends in with the sugar and spices.
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We had ginger snaps with mango sorbet and it was surprisingly delicious.
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We didn't end up making the eggnog, but we had scrambled eggs instead, and I made mulled cider a couple of times. ... Also ... I put Bailey's in my coffee when we ran out of milk the other day. *grins* That was tasty.
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Have you ever had black cherry juice (unsweetened)? In my opinion, that makes a nice carrier for cocoa powder, if you want a sans milk version, for whatever reason, once you add sugar to taste.
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(Though unlike a lot of people, I can do dairy. I still need to find delicious non-dairy things to have and to share!)
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But sometimes, it can be cloying. And it can also blunt some of the flavor of chocolate/cocoa. So having a non-dairy alternative is also pleasing.
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large coffee and small problems
I need to learn how to host things (as an intovert!) in self-defense.
(dotdotdot for relatives and holiday stress)
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Right now I'm feeling glad and grateful with a side-order of worried, because an old family friend dropped by with her partner and we had a good chat, but with some things unsaid. (I'm at my parent's house for the holidays, along with my sister; we're all pretty okay with each other, no major traumatic history, but there is still occasional friction which has serious layers because it's evolved over our entire lives.)
Earlier, I was feeling frazzled and wrong-footed and panicky, plus guilty and awkward, with an awkward wedge of gratitude in there somewhere. I lit a candle in my room for personal spiritual purposes, but my mother had previously asked me not to, and someone came in and took the candle at some point after I fell asleep, and it weirded me out and now I remember why I lived with a locked door as a teenager even though I like and trust my family, because they don't know how to talk to me instead of just...assuming they know what's what. Then before that, I was feeling so cozy...and before that, oh, I don't even know.
And now we're debating eggnog recipes and what to use up out of the fridge. *facepalm* My mother will never, ever, ever believe that if there is leftover cream, I will drink it in my coffee and this is not a problem. Nor that planning and picking recipes to use things up now mean one shouldn't be trying to save enough eggs to still have some of those on hand to maybe use later.
I just. *flails*
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Leftover cream can go so many places. Mmm real eggnog sounds delicious.
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Lol!!
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I'm never comfortable with candles for me, personally. But I wouldn't ask someone not to light one for themselves...
Yeah... cooking and relatives.
This is where the proverb: "Too many cooks spoil the broth" comes from...
*empathies"
BTW, my aide is an introvert; one thing she says is: People often say that Introverts should 'get out more.'; what about telling the extroverts to Stay Home!!! ;-)