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[shadowkat]

Have a hair appointment at 11 am, and have to take off sometime around 10:15 am. It takes about twenty minutes to get there with walk. Maybe less. But alas there are train delays due to signal issues because NYCT decided to fix other things prior to fixing its centuries old signal system.


24. Have you read Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” or seen any of the films (do you have a favourite ‘Scrooge’ from the films)?

Both read and seen the films. Do I have a favorite? Not really. They kind of blur together, honestly. I can't watch or read it any longer. It's memorized.

25. It’s Christmas Day – what’s for lunch?
Um, that would have been two days ago (I'm behind)... I had breakfast (eggs and greens) skipped lunch (unless you count sampling cheese lunch), and ended up with an early dinner of home-made Lasagna that I made with Cesar Salad and Pumpkin Pie.

26. In the UK it’s Boxing Day – does anything special happen where you live today?

No. I did absolutely nothing. I do need to take the recycling down today, which is the day after Boxing Day. I've never really understood the holiday - is it about picking up boxes? Or going to boxing matches? Or boxing yourself?

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[jazzfish]

Opening boxes, I think. The idea being that Xmas Day was for religious ceremonies and Boxing Day was for presents etc. Definitely a Commonwealth Countries holiday, though.

[shadowkat]

From below it sounds like an employer to employee thing? Or royalty giving to their servants?

[conuly]

I believe it's the day in which employers give gifts, presumably in boxes, to their employees.

[shadowkat]

That seems to be the consensus. Although more home owners giving to their servants, or Titled giving to Servants. Which is definitely a British thing, not a US thing.

[iddewes]

It was the day servants used to receive boxes of gifts from their employers.

[shadowkat]

Ah. Makes sense that it is British, and not American - because the US doesn't have the class system the Brits do. The US doesn't have the servant class exactly. Working class, middle class - yes, but servant class no - not enough of them.

[iddewes]

Oh yes definitely British and a public holiday in the U.K. and Canada. Also in Germany but here it’s called Second Christmas Day.

[cactuswatcher]

24. Me, too. I've read and seen enough. My favorite is probably the Albert Finney musical, Scrooge but mostly because I saw it in its first showing on TV in the States with my then young nieces. Much of the music is best forgotten, but "Thank you, very much!" sung in gratitude for Scrooge having dropped dead is pretty catchy.

25. I had a light lunch. The niece I was visiting and her husband are dieting. It was a nice quiet visit, low stress for them. I had a good dinner back home in the evening.

[shadowkat]

I liked the Albert Finney one. I think I remember it and the Bill Murray one the best. I skipped the latest - which is Will Ferrell (who I can't stand) and Ryan Renoylds version.