Tayari's Blog: Blog Holiday Customs

Posted by TayariJones on December 19, 2007 03:20 PM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

As this blog is only a couple years old, and I have serious holiday anxiety, we just haven't established too many holiday traditions here. But there are a few. Three to be exact. And here they are.

  • My Holiday Story, "Have You Known Me Lately". What happens when a 14 year old girl comes home from secretly meeting her boyfriend, only to find her older sister making out with her soror? And happens when all this happens on Christmas Eve? (I told you I have holiday anxiety. I set out to write a happy story. I promise!)
  • Red Velvet Cake recipe. This is an authentic southern recipe. They have RVCs here in the New York area, but they tend to be rather lame. The reason is, I think, that the Northern RVCs tend to be bought in bakeries and a true, genuine, southern red velvet cake is extra-rich and doesn't have the stiff texture that lets a cake stand in a bakery window for a day, get shoved into a cardboard box, endure a subway ride, be lugged up to a 5th floor walk-up, and still look good.
  • Elf Yourself. Or someone you love. Or someone you don't. The techonology has come a long way since last year. The voice you hear .. that's me. Yes. You heard me. Forget the elf thing. I made the elf, recorded a cheerful greeting, but the website keeps erasing it! What a lump of cyber coal! This is not helping my holidays blues!

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    Comment #1, by poetdd [TypeKey Profile Page]

    oh goodness. so i read your christmas story. and annett (without the e) is too much like me with my relationship with my sister (we're 5 years apart)...even to catching my sister kissing a boy in our laundry room. i enjoyed the read. thanks for sharing!

    December 19, 2007 09:19 PM

    Comment #2, by carleen [TypeKey Profile Page]

    Sorry you have the holiday blues!

    Maybe this link will help: http://pajamagardener.blogspot.com/2007/12/dance-dance-revolution.html

    Seriously, you can't feel too bad after listening to Mary J, right?

    I also have something else that might cheer you up: homemade orange mint bath salts. If you email me a mailing address, I'll send you some! Feel better!

    December 20, 2007 10:43 AM

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