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| Saturday, December 20, 2003 |
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Only 4 more procrastinating days till Christmas! 
| | I still haven't done any serious shopping, not that it matters (not yet, anyway). The friends and relatives are converging and things are getting all convivial and fun. |
| | I grew up in the New states: Jersey and York. So naturally I associate cold with Christmas. Even though we didn't have more than one or two white Christmases in all those years (your typical December New York forecast was "snow mixed with, then changing, to rain"), I loved sledding so much as a kid that I subscribed fully to the cozy & white Currier & Ives model of the Holiday season. |
| | But now, after fifteen years in North Carolina and eighteen in California (now completing our third year here on the South Coast) I'm finally getting to like a Christmas that isn't cold — a Holiday Season in a place where you can drive to the cold and the snow if you feel like it. But where there will still be evenings when you can dine outdoors at a restaurant on the town's main drag. |
| | The lights on the houses and trees finally seem congruous. Warm fuzzies without the cold frosties. Not bad. |
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