And
our Christmas decorations just stayed cool and our Santa looked on at the
stress in the kitchen.
I believe
it is called “living for the moment”. At least that was my doing and thinking
at noon today. It seems, however, that the Daily Prompt gurus do not realise
that the countries of the world operate at different times. I receive notice of
a Daily Prompt at 14.00 hours, two o’clock in the afternoon to write about my
condition at midday, meaning that the time in operation on this WordPress
system is two hours later than mine.
Today
is Christmas Day, the day when many families, and mostly women, are busy with
the final preparations of the turkey, or whatever you eat on this special day.
Living in Switzerland I have all this behind me, as our main meal is Christmas
Eve in the evening. I had my stress yesterday evening, cooking meat, frying
potatoes, preparing and cooking brussel sprouts and vichy carrots. Why? Because
it is something called Christmas.
This whole thing is getting out of hand. In the olden days people were just statisfied with less. Now it is one big competition to see who serves the best meal, organises the most presents and of course the right wine has to be served. The gourmet feeding seesions continue over Christmas and I have the complete family at home, my external son will be leaving us this afternoon after lunch.
This whole thing is getting out of hand. In the olden days people were just statisfied with less. Now it is one big competition to see who serves the best meal, organises the most presents and of course the right wine has to be served. The gourmet feeding seesions continue over Christmas and I have the complete family at home, my external son will be leaving us this afternoon after lunch.
At
midday today, I was cooking my Christmas Day lunch. I had just one single
thought, the meat will be ready in thirty minutes, the water is heating in the
saucepan to cook the noodles. I just did not have the time to make a study of
the weather or solving intellectual problems. Day dreaming was not possible, as
I had an oven full of meat cooking and the water was approaching boiling point.
The noodle packet was opened ready for the dive into the boiling water. First
of all add salt and then let the cooking process take its course. At 12.30 the
dinner will be served and afterwards,perhaps a desert, a coffee or tea
and another stress process comes to an end.
If
it was a normal midday, a normal week, no Christmas stress, then I would have
finished the meal by midday and might even have had thoughts about what to do
today. Go out to town, take a walk through the countryside, even read a book,
but no chance. It is Christmas and we are all trying to do our best to please
all the people all the time. I really do not need this holiday marathon. No
chance to take a pause or think, just work.
At least Gary Cooper could have a shoot out with the baddies and rid himself of
unnecessary trouble. He won the gun battle and everyone was happy. I will have
a shoot out with the meal and afterwards recover with an hour’s sleep, before
the carousel starts again.
LOL Well I do hope that it all worked out well in the end. I also have been busy beyond belief but some relief today for Boxing Day. Happy Holiday season to You and Yours Pat. XO
ReplyDeleteAh well, it's all done and gone for another year now. Now you can relax :-))
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