Due to assorted reasons, we had a sort of piecemeal Christmas this year that we celebrated on the Eve, with Zena being sick and thus unable to travel, and Tara still recovering from surgery and with a child who is walking now, things were a bit less organized than we are traditionally used to, I managed to cook though so that was nice, made cioppino, which is a seafood stew, the recipe for which I shall share with you later, also I made two kinds of cookies and experimented with salt and pepper shrimp, which turned out quite nice.
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I feel I should make it clear that the shrimp had nothing to do with the cookies.
Today was not without sad news though, as I discovered a poll that shows the majority of Americans don't think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, the majority of Americans are terribly wrong and should be ashamed, Die Hard is the best Christmas movie save for, maybe, The Muppet Christmas Carol, which to me sets the standard for how that story should be told.
I assume most respondents to the survey had forgotten the original Die Hard and were instead thinking of one of the more modern entries into the series, and in the spirit of the season I forgive them for their ignorance, though I do not forgive the film makers for the modern entries into the series, only coal for them, I am sure Santa will back me up on this.
On the whole I don't care for most Christmas movies, but I make exceptions for those ones, I guess I can appreciate the sentiment in most of them, but I never picked up a major association between movies and enjoying Christmas, so the connection just isn't really there for me.
But enough about what I don't like, time for bed and to hope for a freak snowstorm, Merry Christmas everyone, even if you don't celebrate it, it is now the date of the holiday so I hope it goes well for you anyway.
Be good to each other, Merry Christmas.
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