Because Rudolph Sets Off The Alarms, Y'See

[filkertom]

So they have to have experts keeping tabs on Santa's flight, so he isn't accidentally misidentified as a Russian ICBM and shot down. Fortunately, NORAD has been on the job since 1955.

When I was a kid, we used to huddle around the radio and listen to reports about Santa's progress. Fortunately, now we have the net, and NORADSanta.org.

What are you doing this evening and tomorrow? I'm baking cookies, digging out the van, and getting together with my sister's family.

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[aiela.livejournal.com]

My dad's side does their party tonight, complete with a visit from Santa even though we haven't had any small kids in the family in a couple of years.

Tomorrow we're hanging out at home.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

1. Brining a duck.
   
2. Knitting
   
3. Memorizing lines for a play (possibly simultaneous with No. 2)
   
4. If the liquid slosh of a couple of rectangular packages sitting on my decorated table is anything to go by, possibly drinking some good scotch.

Tomorrow, relaxing, working on more lines, roasting the aforementioned duck and enjoying what promises to be an excellent meal. If the predicted snow falls, I may take my camera out for a walk. Opening a few gifts. Settling in for the evening with two cats and a couple of DVDs.

Not having relatives in the area, and loathing holiday travel, I often spend Christmas by myself - and I quite enjoy it, to the point where each year I turn down a half-dozen "oh, come spend the day with our family" invitations.

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Christmas by one's own

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite Christmas's was when we had horrible snow storms and couldn't get to friends or relatives for celebrations. We had a lovely day reading all the books that we had received and eating lovely leftovers from the Christmas eve feast (husband's birthday is on Christmas eve). Whereas the weather is good tomorrow, we are expected at one house at 8;30 to unwrap presents, 1:00 PM to visit neice in from DC and then finally at 4:00 for Scotch and dinner. Have a wonderful time...

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

But vy a duck?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

we wish you a winter solstice, we wish you a winter solstice and longer days to come...("we sing the sun back into the sky")

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Getting through the big family dinner and gift carnage...and I'm in a bit of a panic because the Postal Service left my mother's gift on my apartment's front step and it was stolen *sigh*...so I have to run around and find some other appropriate replacement...

And I don't have a clue as to what's going on tomorrow. Suppose I should check, eh? :-)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Birthday of Cab Calloway, Annie Lennox, and Jimmy Buffett. Also Karl Rove, but I suspect I won't be blogging about that.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

And Isaac Newton.

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com. A wonderful Isaac Newton carol....

[eoywin.livejournal.com]

Today we are going to the Biltmore House to see the decorations, and then Candlelight Christmas Eve service at 11 tonight

Tomorrow presents and then a big meal.

I'm really excited - it's my 2 month old daughter's first Christmas

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Family. Sister's in town from DC, and the rest of us live here anyway. Probably the traditional Chinese food, but personally I'm really not up for the movie. (The only thing in theaters I'm interested in, even remotely, is The Spirit. Though my mother might push for Milk, and it sounds good...but not now. Maybe after the new year.)

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

o/~ "Human aircraft, hard to port!" o/~

[fmh.livejournal.com]

Cleaning the house up, shopping for the dinner tomorrow, doing our yearly cookies with crwilley, finishing up xmas shopping, wrapping everything at mightyafrodite's house, sneaking it back home, getting the three kids (3 and 3/4...sexyscholar's due in February) calmed down enough to go to sleep, filling the stockings, putting out the presents, and going to bed to await the inevitable 7:00 am dogpile from excited children.
Loves me some christmas. :)

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Going to a Christmas Eve church service tonight around nine. Tomorrow we have family coming over for dinner, at which there will be a lot of good food.

Other than that not much really.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

Baking a pumpkin praline pie, waiting for ifics to get home so we can get on the road for mom's place in Apple Valley. May suck it up and go to midnight mass, if I can stay awake that long.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Diana's baking cookies. Since we're home tonight we'll have our annual dinner at "Big Fish" then come home, slip into jammies, watch "Muppet Family Christmas". Then we'll put out cookies for Santa and at odd times gifts and stockings will appear.

Tomorrow morning, we'll get up and all squeel and have juice and cookies and open gifts. Then before too long we'll pack up the car and head up to Traverse City for Xmas with the in-laws.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

This evening, I will be home "alone" with all my friends on Dementia Radio. I may live alone, but thanks to irc, I never send my time there alone (well, unless I get a power outage :)

Tomorrow, I need to see if a friend is still doing an open house. If he is, then I will be over there. Otherwise, it will be a quiet night for me (being Jewish, tomorrow is just another day of Hannukah for me, but I get it off from work).

[sarahbrand.livejournal.com]

When I was nine, I read in the newspaper about NORAD tracking Santa. I concluded that, since the newspaper would not lie to me, Santa had to be real. ... I would lament my lost innocence here, but there are just some things a person really does need to know about, the media being one of them.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Today: Finishing the Christmas shopping...

Tomorrow: We meet with Rob's extended family.

Friday: Not a DAMNED thing if I can manage it.

There are three more Christmases we have to do before new year's eve.

I need some food before I tackle the shopping, though.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

My sweetie and I have exchanged gifts and are going out for dinner tonight. Tomorrow and Friday, we are doing casual noshing and hanging about--no serious cooking, no major cleanup, we are just enjoying time together and time off work. Sunday we'll see friends.

[hyperhyperhy.livejournal.com]

We might be going to mass, but otherwise, it's two days of hanging out at home. The traditional Christmas gatherings with family got postponed on account of all the snow we've gotten (probably nothing compared to what you're used to, but for here, it's "holy shit that's a lot of snow"). So my Christmas is being spread out over a week or so.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Tonight, not a bloody thing. Kiri and I need to do some basic wrapping on the nieces' gifts, but once that's done, I'm probably watching Top Chef and going to bed.

Tomorrow, gifts and breakfast at my mom's with the whole family, followed by dinner with mom, my brother and his daughter. Younger sister and her family spend Christmas evening with her husband's family.

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

Personally I am really disappointed by the NORAD santa site. Very unimpressed.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

Christmas plans had been to show up in San Antonio on the 23rd, but then sister-in-law who is hosting came down with strep and was running a fever. So we'll be heading down tomorrow, spending Boxing Day with the family, and coming back up on Saturday because the with-friends celebration is that evening.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Just survived TWO Christmas Eve services: Played guitar for the first, and sang in the choir for the second.
Didn't fall down even Once!

Tomorrow we'll be recovering, and then visiting the siblings and their offspring up in Michigan this weekend.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

The santa tracker saved christmas for my 8 year old. She is starting to question Santas existance, and found the same sticky lables I use for santa gifts in my car.

Fortunatly she saw the Norad site, and saw one of the videos, and it convinced her again Santa is real. We had a long talk about how sometimes Moms and dads have to help santa, so he can help people who don't have moms and dads there to give them a good christmas, like the people up on the space station, or kids without parents.