December Meme Day 12
(starturtle0977) asked me for your favourite holiday treat (drink, baked good, or book).
I was brought up in a family that followed a mixture of Taoist and Buddhist teachings, so it's all a bit muddled up in my head. I currently identify spiritually as Buddhist, but I'm not so sure about the practicing or religion part. Mostly I agree with a large chunk (but not all) of the fundamental value system, so that's what I identify as. Which is a very long winded way of saying that my family does not do Christmas. As kids we used to get small presents, but these morphed into "you can choose where to have dinner" to "let's just stay at home because the shops will be way too crowded on Christmas".
I have no family Christmas traditions. At all. Unless you count staying at home a tradition. Possibly also because we live near a really busy shopping belt that gets massively crowded (with corresponding heinous traffic jams), I've never really liked December. To me, December is all about too many people (hello worst introvert nightmare EVER), and taking twice as long to get back home from school or work because people don't know how to get on buses properly.
ANYWAY. My first experience with any sort of Christmas tradition as most of the western world knows it was probably my first winter in the UK at uni. I like walking around Christmas markets, but as someone who is more of a savoury person than a sweets person, there usually isn't all that much I like round this time of year.
However, I do love mulled wine. LOVE. Can't find anything here decent since it's in the tropics, and since it's already so hot here anyway hot wine just seems ridiculous. I was just in London a couple of weeks ago and walked through the South Bank Christmas market when it was freezing, and the mulled wine I had was practically heavenly.
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I was brought up in a family that followed a mixture of Taoist and Buddhist teachings, so it's all a bit muddled up in my head. I currently identify spiritually as Buddhist, but I'm not so sure about the practicing or religion part. Mostly I agree with a large chunk (but not all) of the fundamental value system, so that's what I identify as. Which is a very long winded way of saying that my family does not do Christmas. As kids we used to get small presents, but these morphed into "you can choose where to have dinner" to "let's just stay at home because the shops will be way too crowded on Christmas".
I have no family Christmas traditions. At all. Unless you count staying at home a tradition. Possibly also because we live near a really busy shopping belt that gets massively crowded (with corresponding heinous traffic jams), I've never really liked December. To me, December is all about too many people (hello worst introvert nightmare EVER), and taking twice as long to get back home from school or work because people don't know how to get on buses properly.
ANYWAY. My first experience with any sort of Christmas tradition as most of the western world knows it was probably my first winter in the UK at uni. I like walking around Christmas markets, but as someone who is more of a savoury person than a sweets person, there usually isn't all that much I like round this time of year.
However, I do love mulled wine. LOVE. Can't find anything here decent since it's in the tropics, and since it's already so hot here anyway hot wine just seems ridiculous. I was just in London a couple of weeks ago and walked through the South Bank Christmas market when it was freezing, and the mulled wine I had was practically heavenly.
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