Glad tidings!

It’s Christmas Eve, and you know what that means, right?


It’s the night when the Great Christmas Lobster travels around the world to distribute good things to everyone.

Oh, and cheese straws.

38 thoughts on “Glad tidings!”

  1. Oh, I wonder what we leave out for the Great Christmas Lobster? 😀

    It’s Christmas Eve here, so I’ll wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. All the best for 2010.

      1. Ice-cream’s not such a good idea here, although it was cool last night.

        He must’ve liked the nuts and berries, because look at what he left. This and and this. *happy smile*

        (I think my daughter may have nudged him in the right direction.)

    1. Oh, man, I LOVE cheese straws.

      Two packages of room temperature Cracker Barrel sharp cheddar cheese, grated. One stick of room-temperature butter. Two cups all-purpose flour.

      Knead all ingredients together and season with red pepper (start light, add to taste, and remember, they’ll be hotter when baked, so don’t overdo it). Using the star on a cookie press, push out in long rows onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350 for between eight and twelve minutes (ovens vary). Bottoms should be lightly brown, and after cheese straws cool, they should be slightly crispy. Break into three- to four-inch sections, and watch people devour them.

      1. Yes, Becky, there is a Great Christmas Lobster. He exists as certainly as Hump Days and puppies and cheese straws exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Great Christmas Lobsters. It would be as dreary as if there were no Beckys. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance, no Coventrys, no TJBs to make tolerable this existence. Not believe in the Great Christmas Lobster! You might as well not believe in fairies!
        No Great Christmas Lobster! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Becky, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Unfortunately, the funny hat won’t last that long.
        Merry Christmas Lobster to all, and to all a most happy holiday!

  2. Mall Madless

    Maybe it was all this snow, but the mall seemed quite, uh, calm??? this year. It just seemed like an ordinary weekend. The snow in the parking lot and sudden snow-wall-lane-closures and whoops there went my wheel alignment all seemed to make the mall seem very packed. ’twas not!

    1. Re: Mall Madless

      I hope it was a good retail season for the economy, but it does seem like there are fewer horror stories than usual about crowds and such.

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