Holiday, Political, and Religious Musings:

I've had a fairly ordinary couple of days. My holiday shopping is done, I even have a Christmas dinner planned since H will be here for once. I forgot that he takes the actual day Christmas more seriously than I; so I'm going to make sure to recognize his day. We're having chicken parmesan.

I didn't do anything special for the Longest Night of the Year. I wrote, went online, talked to some people, had dinner, and watched TV. No big whoop.

It makes me angry whenever I pay attention to the news, so I don't. I haven't noticed that the Patriot Act has been extended for no good reason. I'm trying to let go of my disgust for Bush's absurd and blatantly self-serving pandering. He makes me physically sick to watch anymore. I weep for the country I love. Although, I admit, I have to laugh (again) at the utter ridiculousness of Rick Santorum. Everyone involved in this particular bit of news is so ridiculous, I don't even know where to begin the pointing and laughing.

( And now...a few words on so-called intelligent design )

I've also been reading a lot of posts from people who "hate Christmas". To them I say, if you hate it so much, why are you paying so much attention to it? Seriously, stores are only slightly more garish and crowded. People are arguing about petty crap and stressing out only a tad more than they usually do. Yeah, that music they play sucks, but (ipods are plentiful and) you don't really have to listen to it.

( In all seriousness, here is a list of solutions to common holiday problems )

What are you getting for christmas? LiveJournal Username Sex? MaleFemaleYes PleaseIm Not SureIm Too YoungWhy Do You Want To Know? Age? Do You Celebrate Christmas? Yes, In A Christian WayYes, CommerciallyYes... Just Yes....No, I Celebrate Winter Solstice (that was yesterday, happy hoilday!!)No, I Celebrate Some Other Religious FestivalNo, Its Too CommercialisedNo, I Just Dont.... What Would You Really Like? Will Buy You The Best Prezzies! man_bites_dog Number of Presents You Get 106 Best Present MP3 Player Worst Present Apple People Who Like You Enough To Get You Prezzies 85% Fun Quizzes by Sarah at BlogQuiz.Net

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Holiday Baking nears an end...

I fully intended not to post any more pictures of the stuff I was baking. Because who really wants to look at pictures of food? I did a large batch of peanut butter fudge tonight, which isn't very appealing visually anyway. But when I pulled these flaky, sweet almond pastries out of the oven, I had to share thier lovliness with the all of you's.

As Duffman would say: OH Yeah!!!

Sorry to sudrin as I meant to get these done before sending out the packages. Yours in already on it's way to you. That said, I'll be quite surprised if it doesn't contain a thing or two that you'll like. Don't fret though, H's family didn't get any pastries either. I wasn't sure if they'd freeze okay and I froze all the stuff before sending it out.