#dec 25

[heldinhishands]

this christmas, i think, what is meant for me will find me. with a resounding beat, i feel, what's meant for me won't hurt me. with certainty, i believe, what is good for me will not light a fire just to leave me burning. the new year shines on me like a horizon, promising me i will be seen and touched and celebrated by the sun, safely warm. just recently, i was mourning, wishing i had something real in my hands, passionate and palpable, to make me feel alive. but here i am, reminded that as my heart beats, i am alive. it's christmas and i'm eating good food and smelling pine and laughing with my family and sharing stories and holy shit - there it is, something to feel and share and know and touch and breathe and feel alive, so alive.

[warmglowofsurvival]

[fe-smashorpass]

Ken Theme - Street Fighter V

[msbarrows]

I am woefully far behind again on Thing A Day, which I'm blaming mostly on seasonal sadness and partially on addiction to a new game (House Flipper, which has turned out to be a lot more fun than I initially expected, and was an excellent diversion from the seasonal sadness).

Did my weekly usuals of laundry and cleaning the bathroom. I meant to bake cookies but did not. But I did at least do one of my planned activities and baked a tortiere (French Canadian pork pie) for the holidays; I'd originally been thinking of making it for Christmas Eve but then decided I'd rather stick to my usual meal plans of not doing two prep-heavy meals back-to-back and made it on the 23rd instead. I had it all assembled early enough that I had some time to spare before it needed to go into the oven, so I rolled out the pastry scraps, grabbed my little tin of leaf-shaped cookie cutters, made some egg wash, and festively decorated that thing:

I'm very proud of how it turned out. Two thirds of it are now in the freezer for future meals, as is an entire magarine tub of the precooked filling, sufficient to make a second pie.

I have finally cracked the mystery of my dad's proportions; my previous tortieres have been lacking on filling compared to dad's, despite using his preferred recipe. But I had an entire 3lb club pack of pork to use up this year, which is sufficient for a triple batch of the filling by the recipe dad preferred, and half of that is exactly enough to fill a pie as deeply as my dad did. Split between two pies cut in six pieces that works out to 1/4lb of meat per slice, which is a decent sized serving.

And my little 'what have I cooked recently and should avoid cooking again too soon' list:

Dec 17 - I have no memory of this date

Dec 18 - Fish sticks, french fries, and steamed corn & squash (very new world veggies menu, much to my amusement)

Dec 19 - Hamburgers and a big salad

Dec 20 - Beans cooked in broth, with mild Italian sausages and steamed mixed veg

Dec 21 - Steak marinated in beer and topped with garlic butter, with seasoned potato wedges, corn, and a salad

Dec 22 - Chili with rice and a cucumber salad

Dec 23 - Tortiere with boiled potatoes, baked squash, and green peas

Dec 24 - Beef and macaroni stew (yay for having some lactose free cheese on hand, I used to make this frequently before youngest bro developed lactose intolerance)

Dec 25 - I will be baking a ham, roasting half a squash, and probably making a salad and mashing some potatoes

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: If you don't remember what you were given by your true love on the first day of Christmas, don't worry -- you'll get plenty of reminders. This #ANSIart screen was drawn by AdeptApril.

[666h3ll999]

Christmas cookies I made along with two other images of my siblings, and unrelated families cookies, enjoy!🍪🎄

(Original piece made by H3llBl4ckC4t 2023)

(Dividers by “ScarletDestiney” on “Deviantart”)

[amiablesummer]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[jj-lynn21]

Nosferatu: Robert Eggers Teases Unrecognizable Bill Skarsgard | SYFY WIRE

[mineyrella]

Merry Christmas tumblr family! Wishing you all an amazing 25th❤️

[warmglowofsurvival]

“merry christmas from the joseph’s… all 5 of us ;)”

[fe-smashorpass]

Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me - Silent Hill 3

[genekies]

bought breath mints that are dicl shaped, called teenie weenies

legit only got them for christmas to pass out to family

[msbarrows]

Dec 25 - had a good Christmas, nephew made the two of us waffles and sausages for breakfast, then we took it easy for most of the day until brother showed up to drive us out to have Christmas dinner with him & SIL and their family. Stayed late, and took an Uber back to nephew's house. It was nice to see them all again, haven't spent Christmas with them for several years, and it was several more years before that when I was last at their house.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @littlebitspace drew a magnificent and chilling #blockASCII portrait of the late Jolly Old St. Nick, apparently reduced to nowt but bones and beard following his magical night's impossible exertions.

[mithrandirl]

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[cyarsk52-20]

Meg deserves better than what she had to endure in the last two years. I’ll never not be outraged by the fact she was so emotionally and mentally drained because of that pos and his toxic masculinity. That Canadian cuntery deserves worse than two decades of prison and deportation, he deserves to be unalived(in other words murdered) . To bully and dehumanize someone who wanted to protect you from the cops at first considering the fact that same person who wanted to not see you get locked up (or if you’re a black man woman or child become another Rodney king, or a George Floyd or other black life taken away or forever traumatized as they scream out for their mothers) has been through traumatic experiences and other traumatic events is the sign of someone who is described as a sociopath. And a narcissistic sociopath to be exact.

This that type of stuff is why shows like deadly women lasted over ten seasons and snapped going on it’s 30th season(not counting the spinoffs).

all facts. also checkout the thread

Within days of Megan Thee Stallion being shot, bloggers and hip hop podcasts began trafficking in the narrative that she lied. Now, as Tory Lanez is on trial for the shooting, @CiCiAdams_ and I investigated how their misogynoir has influenced the case.