So apparently I am a big cheese ball. Thanks to jonny I can no longer survive a Christmas season without watching “It’s a wonderful life” at least three times, along with many other Christmas classics including “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” (the original of course, that new crap is just that) “A Christmas Carol”, the original and the Muppets version, and also “Scroodged” (which should fall into the travesty column with the new Grinch movie, but Bill Murray just never ceased to amuse me for some odd reason) .
So A couple nights ago we popped it in (It’s a Wonderful Life) and it was everything I knew it would be! Unfortunately those old classics also strip me of every semblance of self-control, and personal pride, so I wear my emotional rollercoaster on my face like some teenage girl watching the latest super lame chick-flick. This of course made Erika very amused and me very embarrassed but what can I do? I am who I am. This also makes me supper excited for my other favorite cheese-ball Christmas delights, Christmas lights, Christmas trees, especially the going and getting it part I have a weird addiction to the smell of a fresh cut pine tree, in the wild it is best but when they lop off the trunk in some parking lot it is almost as good, Christmas carols everywhere you go even the super cheesy retail store versions, though nothing beats good ol’ Louis Armstrong. But My favorite part is the Dolsky Christmas, cards, laughing (not just laughing but becoming giddy with laughter with Sarah and Dave while our parents and in-laws look at us like we are retarded and wonder what they got themselves into) Cards, food, more laughing more food more cards some more food, reading, Christmas stockings that are stuffed beyond any sort of recognizable stocking shape, more food, more cards, and more laughing. The Crappy part is the Erika will be away in Mexico so we will not be able to share it with her, but next year she is in for a definite treat. I’m also pretty stoked about hanging with her family for Christmas. It’s a nightmare trying to juggle both families so that we get quality time with both but I think we will manage and will just double up on all the fun.
The weird part this year is that since we have such a small church just about everyone is going to be away. So not only do we not have a church to decorate and have a candle-light service in, but no parishioners to do it with. The few of us who are left will probably join with the Lutheran church in Sexsmith, so here is to new traditions as well. Its going to be just as great I’m sure, even if its in a different way.
Anyway kids love ya lots.
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Curiosity killed the cat. As for the movie your girlish sigh, and childlike laughs made the movie very enjoyable.
Hey Tim,
Nah...all the cheese is what makes Christmas...well...Christmas. And you can never have too much cheese...so all I can say is..pass me a cracker!
Take care--
Ange & Rebecca
Oh cards- we might be morphing more and more into board game christmas as the years go on, but there is always that room for a good game of up and down the river! I still dont understand how you dont like smoked cheese though, it goes so well with pickled herring!
ah yes, welcome to the world of juggling the two-family holiday. loads of fun. no really, it is. two christmases and thanksgivings are better than one ~ birthdays too! i've already gotten three birthday parties, and my birthday isn't even until tomorrow!
p.s. i like the new layout.
Hey "just tim" (do you watch Will and Grace too?) Alrighty, I found your blog and am enjoying your stories. I have to say that Avey found out I havn't seen It's a Beautiful Life and she gave me trouble. I still havn't watched it. Those darn Aickens. Gotta love em
Is that the movie where Billy shots out his eye with a bb gun?? Definitely a good movie. What about the gross amount of tinsel the Dolsky's like to use? And then joking about, 'the time fatwrapper at the tinsel and it hung out her butt for the rest of Christmas . . . or the time Dad told us he put up a manchurian ash in his front yard . . . or . . . ' Good times!
Ahh!! Manchurian ash!! that never gets old! but no dave it is not the one where billy shoots his eyeball out. Come On!!!
Dave, a Christmas Story is the one you are thinking of... I was actually going to ask Tim is he's seen that one, because dude it is a holiday classic that is so easy to get hooked on... and I too love it's a Wonderful Life. Jimmy Stewart is amazing in that movie.
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