Kevin Hey, everyone! It’s been a hot minute since the last post, but in any case, Happy Holidays 2025! The holiday season’s kicked into high gear, and it’s Christmas Eve 2025. Winter Solstice came and went last weekend, which meant Sunday was the shortest day of the year. As I’ve said before, in a previous celebration of the winter solstice, it’s always darkest before daybreak.
Now that the winter solstice has come and gone, the days will get progressively longer. If any of y’all are like me, the holidays haven’t always been so great. Even though I feel a huge sense of peace this year being alone, I know that for many out there, that isn’t the case for them.
If that’s you, I want you to know that I see you, and I give a damn. We’ll get through the holidays together, and this will all be over soon.
In the meantime, I’ve been working on some stuff I’ve been making as a way to use up my mom’s old fabric stash, and the small stash I’ve amassed on top of it. I’ve failed spectacularly at making a pair of mittens out of a sweater I had before I became of schooling age.
It’s not that the mittens are too small, since that sweater was just big enough my hands could fit on it. But the design could be better, and I forgot that non-stretch fabrics behave a bit differently compared to their stretchy counterparts. I may have to revisit the drawing board, and alter the design a bit. If I can find something that’ll retain heat, I should add that in too.
I tested those mittens out on a weekend, and calling them useless in the cold weather is giving them way too much credit.
If nothing else, I can either rework the design on those mittens, or close them up and make them into giant tree decorations.
I’ve also finally gotten around to clearing off my dining room table, which I found on a curb in my neighborhood, and hauled home on top of my wagon. It was long overdue, and I finally put my dark green Aldi tablecloth to good use, along w/ a white lace one my mom’s had since before I was born.
I have no idea how old it actually is, and I never had the chance to ask about it. Either way, it works great peeking out from the dark green.
I plan to keep this on my table all year round. I like green, and I like the winter foliage print on it. It isn’t super obviously holiday themed, and even if it was, I like it enough that I don’t care.
Hey, I’m also the same lady who uses her holiday-themed Sur la Table baking dish all year round, so it works. It’s out of commission for awhile, since I found a little chip in the porcelain on the top. Once I find out how to fix that and have it still be food-safe, it’ll be back in business.
I got bored of the repetitive Jeep commercials on Pluto TV’s Home for the Holidays channel, so I’m listening to that old Little Bear episode, and then switching gears to late 1990s commercial breaks I found on YouTube as I’m playing a game of Township, which yes, I’m still playing after all these years.
I’m gonna meal-prep the turkey breast I got from my other job, first by roasting it in the oven after marinating it w/ spices, and then making soup from it at some point this weekend. I’ve got an old Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker album ready in my stereo, once I get through the last of my Township lives.
That won’t be long, cuz I’m stuck on a level.
This year, it won’t be a white Christmas, but instead a foggy Christmas. It makes the neighborhood look like this post-apocalyptic world, now that it’s a ghost town for the holidays. Better yet, the snow and the refreeze are gone, so it’s safe to bike again.
Even if it’s only for a little while, I can deal. Safety first, after all.
Over to you, readers. How are y’all gonna spend the holidays? Going on trips? Doing nothing? No plans? No worries. Good, bad, both, neither, I’d still love to hear about it. Drop it all like it’s hawt, and let’s talk. For those who celebrate it, happy holidays from the Midwestern U.S!
