The Holidays

The holidays were pretty good this year. I spent Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day with my family.

Christmas Eve we gathered around, talked and shot the breeze before going to church. Which didn't really do anything for me. I'm not religious. I don't have anything against it, it just doesn't make sense to me. That's all.

We went to the same church that we used to go to when we lived in Larchmont. The Larchmont United Methodist Church. All in all a relaxed and relatively laid back church. My parents used to give me the option (option with no choice) of going to two church events each Sunday. They didn't make me go because they were very religious or because they wanted me to be. No they made me go to become more social and to interact with other people. Which was probably for the best. Truth be told I would have preferred to stay at home and read, but I didn't have a choice. So when I did go on Sundays I usually went to Sunday school in the morning and youth group in the afternoon. Now we really didn't cover anything about religion in youth group. The only reason anyone attended was because we had a pool table, so we sat, played pool and shot the breeze. In fact people, stopped attending when they finally got a teacher in for Youth Group and started actually teaching about Jesus.

Now what was I talking about...oh yeah, Christmas. So we are sitting in church watching the service when the skit started. The same skit they do every year. The one about Jesus and Mary and Joseph and the whole birth. Yeah we all know the story. So about two minutes in my brother and I started writing notes on the program and passing them back and forth between each other. Basically we started riff tracking (MST3King) the skit. Terrible I know, but so was the play. Terrible. I really liked how the kids held up speech bubbles for their lines. Except for the angel. He held up a thought bubble. So I actually learned something. Mary was telepathic. She could read the angels thoughts.

Well I had more on my mind, but that will come later.