Ravenna's Yule Log

(heehee)

[ Back ] [ Home ]

• November 23, 2002
      Picked up Dorothy Morrison's Yule today.  I'm not really fond of how it's written, but it is highly informative.  I don't know, I guess there's just too much information on Christmas, and even though I know it was originally a pagan holiday, I'm looking for more information on the lore.  Less Santa and Baby Jesus and more of whatever I guess.  Oh well.
  
• December 19, 2002
      Today was the last day of Fall Quarter.  I organized our class potluck.  I must say, a smashing success.  We had to call it our "Winter Banquet" so as not to offend those in my class of Jewish, Christian, Pagan, Muslim or whatever faiths everyone believes in.  I had to smack a couple of guys' hands though.  They wouldn't leave the deviled eggs alone.  The funniest thing was one of my classmates brought in a loaf of "Stollen" bread (it's Scandinavian) and after asking him what he brought, he told me he wasn't sure.  So I checked and happily announced "It's Stollen!!"  He responded without missing a beat "No, I'm pretty sure my wife paid for it before leaving the store!"  Ha!  It was great.  We all had a good time.  Yea no school until January 6!
• December 21, 2002
      I'm having a private ritual to honor the Winter Solstice tonight.
• December 24, 2002
      We went to I guess I can call her my Aunt-in-Law's house this evening.  It's a new tradition in my life now.  We've gone their every year for Christmas Eve dinner since 1998.  I love her husband's ham.  Delicious!  They have this huge blue mastiff dog, and my son has never seen a dog that big before.  His eyes got as big as saucers and he announced to the family "hosey-dog!"  Lol.  It was funny.
• December 25, 2002
      This is the most bizarre Christmas I've ever had.  My Grandmother took off to well, we'll just keep that one out of this, but anyway, she left me in charge of the ham.  I have never done the ham before.  Heck, I've never even prepared ham before.  Anyway, flash-forward about 4 hours, the hams almost done, and the rest of dinner still hasn't even been tackled.  My Grams hasn't made it back yet either.  No one knew what to do, and just as we started to fear the concept of ham sandwiches for Christmas dinner, my Grams came home and managed to whip up Christmas dinner in a half hour.  Yea!  Christmas is saved!!