Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays is such a watered down way of wishing you a Merry Christmas, or a Happy Hannukah, don't you think? I remember, oh, so many years ago, when I was taking my Massage Licensing Course, that I wished a classmate Merry Christmas, and he said, "You know I'm Jewish, don't you?" Well, no, I didn't know that, so I wished him a Happy Hannukah instead. Then we had to laugh - because by that time, Hannukah was over. He never said anything about it, so how was I to know? Also, for our christmas party, he made the best (meaning strongest) eggnog I've ever had. I still have the recipe somewhere, it was complete with raw eggs and at least three different kinds of alcohol. Merry Christmas, indeed. For the last several years, we haven't done much to celebrate Christmas. I think we stopped putting up a tree when my parents died. They each took their downturn around the holidays, and died one in January, and the other in February three years later. That wa...