Every year since 2010 I’ve done a series of December diaries focusing on a variety of seasonal topics ranging from music to food to ugly sweaters. (Full disclosure: I did ONE Seasonal diary in 2008, and 2009 (holy crap, how did TEN YEARS go by so fast!) was the first December K2 was with us so I was a little distracted :-)). It’s time to do it again! Don’t worry if Christmas isn’t your thing- while my personal December perspective is primarily secular but culturally Christian-based with a vibrant dose of earth-centered Winter Solstice mixed in because Unitarian Universalism, these diaries are NOT meant to be siege locations in the War On Christmas. In other words, if there’s a holiday in December that makes you happy, that you mark differently than all the other days, or that involves negotiating about who brings what food… or even if there isn’t... this is a place for you!
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I’m sure most of you have experienced some variant of the icebreaker/game/thought exercise “Would You Rather…?” Basically, you’re given two (usually extreme and possibly unpleasant) choices and are told to choose which one you’d ‘rather’ do. For example (#23 at this list of WYR questions):
Would you rather be forced to dance every time you heard music or be forced to sing along to any song you heard?
I thought it would be fun to hear what we all would rather given two choices, and I invite you to answer any or all of the ones I pose here and/or ask your own questions in the comments for us to consider. There are many, many holiday-themed Would You Rather lists available on the interwebs, but I thought I’d take a stab at crafting a few. So, during the month of December would you rather...
- Listen every hour to The Little Drummer Boy or to Baby It’s Cold Outside?
- Be able to drink eggnog or peppermint hot cocoa as your (non-alcoholic) holiday beverage?
- Always have a real tree or an artificial tree?
- Be able to eat only Russian Tea Cakes (aka Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Snowball Cookies) or Christmas Crack for cookies?
- Watch Miracle on 34th Street or It’s A Wonderful Life?
- Have Turkey or Roast Beef at your holiday meal?
- Have no decorations visible outside your house or look like the first house in this link (which happens to be two miles from my house meaning we never go on that road after dark from Thanksgiving to New Years if we’re in a hurry because traffic).
- Always be at home for the holidays or never be at home for the holidays?
- Eat latkes always with sour cream or always with applesauce?
- Always get the perfect gift for someone else or from someone else?
For the record: LDB (I like percussion!); Peppermint Hot Cocoa; Real; Russian Tea Cakes; IAWL; Turkey; No Visible Decorations; Always Be Home; Applesauce, and FOR someone else.
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From impossiblewords:
Nominating this comment by Us on a bus, from wesmorgan1’s Harris suspends campaign, drops out of Presidential race.
From eeff:
Great comment by Bob Guyer, from G2geek’s Open letter to Page & Strzok: we stand with you!
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Top Mojo for yesterday, December 2nd 2019, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on FAQing Top Mojo.
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