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[muji]

What's your favorite little thing about the holiday season (if you have one)?

Right now, it's Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark chocolates. OMG so tasty. Basically any combination of peppermint and chocolate.

Tell me yours! Also have meeting this morning, so will not be terribly active until the afternoon.

Also, mods? Would it be possible to get a 'daily entertainment' tag inna backroom? :D?

ETA: Kate! How dare you? :D!!!!

ETA again: Go stalk Kate in hers below as well - apparently people get bored in the UK too. *shock*

Comments

[moonlup.livejournal.com]

My favourite little thing? Probably not having any homework and being able to completely laze the day away and not feel guilty about it.

. . . I'm not sure how that's different from having homework and lazing the day away anyway without feeling guilty.

[muji]

Sorry, I got distracted by MOAR PUPPIES.

[calluna]

THE FOOOOOOOOOOD.

Also I am very much looking foward to my one month break from school because sjkdhfsjkhd I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. *flail*

[muji]

I have like, no vacation whatsoever for the interminable future. *weeps* I hate adulthood. I'm moving to France.

[moonlup.livejournal.com]

I just stopped caring. This is probably Bad.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Latkes. We don't have a "holiday season" where I work. The indutry precludes any slackers with delusions of "taking time off" and "relaxing."

That's odd. I just had a giant poll on my journal pitting Ghiradelli mint chocolates agains stuff from Mars (http://kali921.livejournal.com/177922.html?nc=73) as to which is cooler, and stuff from Mars won out, but Ghiradelli mint chocolate fought very, very bravely and came in a close second.

Also, the Ghiradelli chocolate factory in San Francisco is fun to visit.

[muji]

Mmmmm chocolate factory. Where do you work?

[sdelmonte]

I second that latke thought.

[silveraspen]

Let's see -- favorite thing about the season? Evergreen wreaths, candy canes, music, and holly.

And holiday coffee drinks. :) That'll do for this morning's list of favorite things!

[muji]

So I'm only on page 20 of New Spring.

Where is Moiraine canonwise, in bar?

[dramawench.livejournal.com]

I am obsessed with eggnog lattes. I blame my early high school employment at Caribou for this. They taste delicious and, even better in my book, when you steam eggnog, it literally sounds like a jet engine. There is nothing better then seeing a first-time eggnog latte drinker order then jump 5 feet in the air when you start steaming :D

[muji]

...That's okay dear, I love you anyway.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

even better in my book, when you steam eggnog, it literally sounds like a jet engine

uuugh, I hate steaming stuff that makes LOUD NOISES. Even worse when I'm not steaming it but hear it anyway.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Okay, confession time: the olive bar at Whole Foods sucks me in every time. I walked out last night with a half pint of olives marinated in orange rind, cumin, and garlic.

And the Cerignola olives - I can eat two dozen in one sitting. Cerignolas are often hard to find, so thank GOD I live in a major metropolis.

[muji]

That's...new, for me. *not an olives fan*

OMG PUPPIES.

[jaceekei.livejournal.com]

Those little hot chocolate packs that come with mini-marshmallows and peppermints. They're so amazing.

[muji]

OMG YES PLZ.

ALSO - HAI CYBERMAN.

[agonistes]

*sneezes on you*

[muji]

...Ew.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

THE MOTHERFUCKING MUSIC

EXCEPT FOR "THE CHRISTMAS SONG"

I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THOSE FUCKING CHESTNUTS

[muji]

...You like the music? The Skinner and the MOTHERFUCKING confuses me.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Poinsettas.

It is like having new pets!

*gardener whut?*

[muji]

EEE pretty flowers! That is definitely a bonus.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Cherry Squares (something my family makes from scratch. if you can call anything that requires canned cherries to be from scratch)

LifeSavers Story Book (every year inna stocking. I don't even eat them, I just want to get them)

Au Bon Pain has these great frosted shortbread cookies that I might be willing to kick a child for.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (so pretty...with electric guitars)

Know what I can't stand though? That F'n "Red Shoes" song.

[muji]

I don't even know what the 'red shoes' song is, so I'm right with ya.

[aura-da-gamer.livejournal.com]

Lebkuchens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebkuchen). The ones my family makes don't look nearly as elaborate, but I'd wager an entire batch of them that they can kick any other lebkuchens' crumbs to the curb. And of course they kick the gumdrop buttons off of gingerbread.

This is also that time of the year when I start doing experimental holiday cooking. Last year, it was pina colada truffles. This year, it's key lime pie fudge.

And for this year, Sweeney Todd (http://www.sweeneytoddmovie.com/)! My sister got me into it and we're eager to see how the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp version stands up to it. Not to mention it's pretty much a Harry Potter cast reunion.

*on edge to see Alan Rickman play Judge Turpin*

[swishystjames.livejournal.com]

THE HOT CHOCOLATE.

By the way, DO I SPY A MEADE?

[swishystjames.livejournal.com]

Also, the snow.

[vivien]

My favorite thing is seeing my mom and eating shrimp till I explode. Oh, and presents - both giving and receiving.

[withherhands]

My favourite thing about the whole season--other than the season itself and all the things that come with it--is one simple little moment I take every year.

Every year, I wake up early (the one day I will do so willingly) and creep downstairs to the living room. I turn on the tree lights and no others, and I just sit there in the silence (or with my iPod on), look at the tree and watch the sky get lighter and soak in the moment before everyone else wakes up and Christmas starts marching to its end. It's the one moment of the day when it's Christmas but it doesn't feel like the traditions are almost over for another year.

[withherhands]

Oh, and I totally have to second Midge's comment about the music. The years that have really sucked have been when I've been sick around Christmas and can't sing along to Christmas carols at church or a carol service or just at home when no one's listening.