Xy and I didn’t really exchange gifts this year. That is, I got her a gift but she didn’t get me anything. She’s a Scrooge, but I’m a sentimental old fool.
I stopped into an upscale used clothes shop on Christmas Eve and saw a cool scarf. I knew she’d like it. But I was taken aback by the price: $20 for a used scarf? I left the place empty-handed, but only got half a block before I decided: “What the hell — she’s worth it!” I went back, bought the scarf, and discovered it was actually only $6.
I considered that the equivalent of a $14 discount for true love.
Xy loved the scarf. Here she is looking fabulous with it:
I heard recently that “pitch-in dinner” is a Hoosier regionalism. In the rest of the country people say “pot luck dinner.” I don’t know if that’s true, but Xy made potatoes au gratin and we went to George and Pam’s for a Christmas pitch-in yesterday.
George had a remote-controlled Fart Machine which provided plenty of cheap laughs. But the food was good.
Afterward Xy & I took an exploratory drive to a part of New Orleans we’d never visited before: English Turn.
We saw a barge beached on the levee by Katrina’s surge. I’d heard about this, but had no idea where it was. So I took a picture:
I’ve never heard the term “pitch-in dinner”, and I’m from northern Indiana (Elkhart) originally. It’s possible, however, that all of my elder relatives were just really OCD about cooking a lot of food.
It is funny though that when googling on “pitch-in dinner”, 7 of the first 10 results are from Indiana. (A few are from PA, though.) Adding “Elkhart” to the search brings up a whole armful of results, so I guess I just led a sheltered life.
Thanks for coming! The potatoes were incredibly yummy. Mmmm….
sorry about the farts.
I was having an interesting conversation with George’s dad, and that damn machine kept farting in the background. Eventually I tracked it down and turned it off. The last laugh!
I always thought that “Xy” was the wrong abbreviation for ‚ÄúChristy‚Äù. It seems to me that if “X-mas” is pronounced ‚ÄúChris-mas‚Äù, then “Xy” should be pronounced ‚ÄúChrissy‚Äù, and “Christy” should be abbreviated as “XT”, for “Chris-Tee”.
I just had to get that off of my chest.
You don’t pronounce the “t” in Christmas?
Uh-uh.
(See.)
But, besides that, your show is flawless.
(Actually it’s on right before my show these days on CATS.)