Eloise's Guide to Enjoying Christmas Day
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*snip*
* Pretend it's not even christmas, but just another day except with a sunday timetable for public transport
* Time your travel that day perfectly, so you don't forget it's a sunday timetable and end up waiting around the station for hours. Spend the ticket money you've saved on chocolate (because travel's free that day)
* Find a family member who celebrates christmas (in my case, it was dad's girlfriend's family, but close enough!)
* Go to their place for the day
* Drink all their good wine (i was accused of being an alcoholic, and rightly so- i think it came to about 2 bottles or so)
* Eat all their food (they had tabouli! and salad with olives in it!!)
* Drink some more wine so you have an apetitite again
* Eat all the dessert (someone made rum balls and i am forever grateful)
*Hang out with the children, see a photograph of one of the girls' older brothers (24, hungarian, fucking HOT) and make sure she knows to put in a good word for you
my contribution to the day was 2 plates of homemade latkes -how festive am i?
probably the weirdest bit was my dad saying 'happy hannukah' and passing me a christmas cracker?? hmm. so we were both in it for the wrong reasons, and it paid off.
-the end