So sorry to hear that about your mother and your Christmas, sara. I hope she recovers quickly.

Just watched all the TV in the world with bon, and introduced her to Jamaican style (mostly) egg nog, sorrel, and found some Christmas cake, which was delicious. I think it went well.

Now I just have to decide if I nap to kill time before the ER, or keep consuming the internet.

I also had nog tonight! I thought of Buffistas. It was tasty. I have no idea what style of nog it was or if it was good nog, but it tasted delicious.

That Christmas cake is the fucking bomb.

I suspect people who mock fruit cake roundly haven't tasted the same fruit cakes some of us have. Those things are tender of crumb and moist and flavourful.

I suspect people who mock fruit cake roundly haven't tasted the same fruit cakes some of us have. Those things are tender of crumb and moist and flavourful.

There is fruit cake, and then there is fruit cake. Prepackaged bricks or hockey pucks is nasty. Fresh, homemade (or at least made by a skillful person in a commercial setting) fruit cake is, indeed, a delight. It has been more than a decade since I had good fruit cake, and I'm too lazy to make it myself.

I haven't made fruitcake in a couple of years, what with my Novembers/Decembers being stressful this year and last. Next year, maybe.

Hubby prefers fruit cake the way his grandfather made it--in a glass mason jar surrounded by flammable clear liquid.

We are lighting the advent candle in church this morning and mac has already picked one fight with me. Let's pray from a smooth lighting and no tantrums or fire mishaps.

May the lighting go well!

I just watched an old Life After People episode, and they specifically mentioned that well-made fruitcake will be good for more than 20 years, even as all other human-made structures crumble around them. That's the kind of Xmas miracle I can get behind.