Christmas in Connecticut
I'm sitting here watching a Richard Pryor concert movie and waiting for Rosemary to wake up from her nap so we can have Christmas Eve champagne.
The tree is lit, the presents underneath, the lights blazing in the windows, tinsel all over the place, and Coffy's lazily chewing in her cage. The food for tomorrow's dinner is in the fridge for the meatloaf and ham I plan to make, with possibly mashed sweet potatoes with baby bella mushrooms mixed in.
Today we saw "A Christmas Carol" at the Hartford Stage, which was funny, a little scary and really cool. Flying ghosts, Scrooge pantomiming a lightsaber, Marley crawling up from a smoky hell that split the stage floor, a steampunk Ghost of Christmas Future, a dude playing Scrooge's nephew's bachelor friend with a large dose of Bill Hader, and the tiniest, cutest Tiny Tim ever.
We then topped the day off filling ourselves to the brim with jaw-drop-good Italian food at Cava in Southington. We'd gotten really good pizza there, but this was our first time dining in. Wow, it's really nice in there - very lush and Italian inside,and everything was strung with evergreen fronds and lights for Christmas.
This is about the most Christmas fun we've had so far. Last weekend's snow kept us away from a solstice party in East Stroudsburg, PA being held by one of Danielle's bridesmaids. I was really unhappy to miss it, but instead Rosemary and I did some browsing in stores as people rushed around ahead of the impending snow, saw "The Princess and the Frog" (pretty darn good, though not a classic) in West Hartford Center and walked home through the snow afterward. Otherwise, on Friday we went to Daswani Clothiers (where I'd gotten that awesome plastic Tie Ups belt a few months back) so we could spend up a gift certificate they sent me.
OK, she's up. Time to pop the cork! Merry Christmas to all, and see ya later!