holiday cheer

[vaznetti]

OK. I am going to go out on a limb here, but it seems to me that a meme that has questions like "How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? and "Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?" and lacks questions like "Do you exchange gifts every night of Hanukkah?" or "Do you puree the potatoes for your latkes or just grate them?" might as well just go ahead and have the balls to call itself a Christmas meme rather than a holiday meme.

In other news, I am looking very hot today in a new sweater and new jeans. Note to self: buy more clingy sweaters.

My task for today is to try to be less bitchy. As you can see, it's not going so well.

Comments

[vaznetti]

Oh no -- you didn't invent that meme, did you? I just assumed you'd picked it up from someone else. I didn't mean to be offensive. Well, I kind of did, but I didn't mean to be offensive to you personally.

[rhi]

Nope, I didn't invent it -- Dragon and I got it in email from his stepmom and it'd probably hit LJ well before *then*, since she's always a couple years late with urban myths and such. However, none of it changes the fact that you're right: it's more a Christmas meme than a holiday meme. Sorry about that, dear! I'll go change my header.

[rhi]

And now that I think about it, what's worse is that I'd have enjoyed questions like the ones you listed. ::giggling:: The latkes answer would be, "Let me try one made each way and then you'll know by what recipe I ask for..."

Hmm. Needs your questions, a couple each for Eid, Kwanzaa, and Yule, and then we're good, I think....

[alysswolf.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Eid in October? Not that learning about how people celebrate the feast wouldn't be fascinating, though.

[rhi]

I honestly don't know. I do know the post office has a list of stamps for sale for the holidays starting with generic snowflakes and then running down through Hannukah (which I can never spell), Kwanzaa (same comment), and Eid. Time for me to go Google...

[vaznetti]

The Islamic religious calendar is lunar and unmodified, so holiday dates cycle through the year. People in England end up fasting a lot longer when Ramadan is in June than they do when it's in December!

[rhi]

How cool! So it's just 'every x moons'. Thanks for explaining!