cthulhia | The final month of simple obligations

(november's list)

Get crazy with the holiday decor. This requires silver polish. But, if I go ahead and have a craft party on the 15th, I might as well decorate for it.
Enjoy holiday stories. I have a CD of Patrick Stewart's A Christmas Carol... (checks) at my moms' place, sigh.
Learn savvy shopping, even this month. (Apparently we are at the point of crowd-fearing cycles that shops are least crowded on christmas eve and [buy nothing day]. So many of us wait for after-holiday sales that they get moved up to before the final week.)
Enjoy holiday food. I had eggnog last night, latkes possibly tonight, and next saturday. Spicy Creole shrimp? (Kwanzaa?) I'm not even sure what Christmas pudding and sugarplums really are. (I'd never had berries with just cream and sugar until this year either. Didn't sound appealing. Then I went berry picking on an empty stomach and had 3 bowls in one sitting, and wasn't ill for the next day like I should've been.) Wassail... I'm not sure this has to be more than mulled wine or cider, which I had last night as well.
Hold a christmas film festival. Better off dead is at the brattle on tuesday. And, I can probably recite A Christmas Story entirely from memory. If I have to watch It's a Wonderful Life again, I will be forced to mutilate puppies. I'm such a Grinch!
Something about keeping your (presumably Xian) soul alive.
Fulfil the holiday dreams of a kid that isn't yours.
share your blessings with a shelter.
Prepare a nativity tray. Ok. If I were to have a nativity scene in my house, it would either be ornaments on a tree (and I forgot to grab my giant fake evergreen from mom's in august), or it would be a better made version of the one I nearly bought for mom, where the figures were clearly kids acting out a nativity scene, wearing sneakers, jeans and baseball caps under their robes and fake halos, or both.
Find your star. Google to find that company that names them after you.
Michael Podesta's inspirational calligraphy? Why not Pier Gustafson's? He's in my town and all.
(she gives info about getting the woodcutty tree illustration on the book cover)
Look back on January's aspirations, and make a new list.
Do a ceremony of cleansing, write down what you'd like to forget, wrap it up, and burn it. hello, fireplace people, I smell party theme, myself.
Toast the new year. Catastrophe obliged me to miss the last new year's toast. Hopefully, I'll be able to ring in next year with cheer, not fear.