Christmas in Central Wisconsin

Christmas Eve Day

Personal tragic outfit worn at grocery store and running errands:
Cropped jeans with tan socks, maroon leg warmers, hiking boots, oversized men’s hooded brown sweatshirt, glasses, greasy hair in ponytail and zits.

Public tragic outfits found in grocery stores and restaurants:
Christmas-decorated t-shirts and sweatshirts, ornament or bell (or both) earrings, bracelets and necklaces (all worn at the same time), Reindeer ear headbands, glasses, torn and dirty oversized puffy coats, oversized guts, elastic jeans.

Christmas Eve Night

Chinese Restaurant Buffet:
Father (from Chicago) whispers, “they have onion rings on the buffet. That seems strange?” I whisper back, “Welcome to Central Wisconsin, Dad! Did you also see the deep-fried cheese curds next to the dumplings and sliced cling peaches in thick syrup?”

Movie and Cake at Home:
“March of the Penguins.” Sad, hard life. Wouldn’t evolution take care of this hard life by now? Isn’t this proof enough that there is no god? Why would god let these poor little creatures live like this? Can’t we build them a heated hut and a conveyer belt?

Yule log cake from Lutz Bakery in Chicago – Delicissimosso! Despite the fact that they forgot to add the cute little marzipan mushrooms.

Christmas Day

Present Opening – Breakfast Morning:
Breakfast consisted of leftover snacks from night before and bacon (what?) Mom bought the German a cashmere sweater – way too sophisticated for this guy. She bought me a scarf made from Kimono remnants with beads hanging from the bottom. Scarf – nice. Beads – not. Stinker got Scooby Do treats. Dad got Harry Potter wand (what?). Mom got a bug vacuum that traps them live (what?)

Christmas Dinner
Mom and Dad decided to make two main entrees in case one of us didn’t like one (what?). The menu consisted of a stuffed crown pork roast, beef stroganoff with egg noodles, braised red onions, roasted new potatoes, broccoli casserole, crab stuffed mushrooms, broiled tomatoes, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, green salad and dinner rolls. There were four of us (what?).