With apologies to all the women I have loved this year
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Ho ho ho!
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Everyone else seemed to be doing Christmas cards so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. It being Thursday, the last sensible blogging day before Christmas, I tried to be festive and fold in the too-much-information thing. [Obligatory link to Lilu, The Queen of TMI's blog]. Did I succeed? You can hardly tell the cat’s been composited in, right? I tell you, I’m never doing cat photography again. I thought it was meant to be easy! Damnit, I’m a bona fide PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHER now! She kept scarpering ‘neath the tree with her tail ‘tween her legs. No amount of coaxing would get her to play ball: she just wouldn’t eat the fucking tuna. So yeah, the cat was there in spirit, but I did cheat a little; sorry. (That really is tuna in the bowl, incidentally — I do have some integrity.)
So, Merry Christmas to you all, or a happy and festive winter holiday if you don’t do Christmas. I’m not meant to do Christmas, being a Jew and all, but… well… it’s very close to Hanukkah (which was last week) — what’s a few days going to matter? It’s not like our calendar is anywhere near accurate after 2000 years anyway. It’s just religious scripture mumbo jumbo; where’s the spirituality in fixed dates? I think we humans just like organised, predictable holidays… makes our life more tangible, secure, safe.
I think I can squeeze in a few posts next week, before the New Year. They’ll probably take the usual, banal ‘review’ format — I might, if I have one of those rare, sentimental moments, even ask you about how your year has been.
Have a lovely few days anyway. Eat too much! Don’t drink too much! Relax — properly, deeply, wholly — and enjoy the holiday. You’ve earnt it (probably).
P.S. My mother also wishes you a Merry Christmas! She bubbled most effusively at the idea of her festively-dressed living room being on my blog. It does look rather nice!
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Merry Christmas Mr Seb and Mrs Seb Mother, hope you have a lovely time xx
December 24th, 2009 at 8:19 amMerry Christmas, mate!
December 24th, 2009 at 9:13 amSee you on the other side (or, you know..the New Year)
Merry Christmas!
December 24th, 2009 at 12:01 pmGood will to all men, Chase! And stuff!
Thanks, perky-Pinko and CANDACE!
December 24th, 2009 at 12:27 pmMerry Christmas, Sebby. Give your mother a Christmas hug from me!
I hope you guys have a great holiday!
December 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pmIt is the time the time when the days get longer, that I love to celebrate! Happy lengthening of days to you
December 24th, 2009 at 3:15 pmAh, you’re a Winter Solstice celebrator…!
You should come visit Stonehenge some day — if you haven’t already
December 24th, 2009 at 3:19 pmthere are only 6 presents under our tree at the moment ,they are all petite, and from me…lovely!
December 24th, 2009 at 4:46 pmxxx
They’ve probably got you a bicycle or something… and it would be a give-away if they brought that out too soon.
But if you stay up late tonight and sneak into the living room…
December 24th, 2009 at 4:47 pmHave a great holiday, Sebbie!
And dude, look for girls with better hygiene
December 24th, 2009 at 6:02 pmNext year- I feel as if I should ship you a real tree. What happened to the branches at the top?!?! In Wisconsin we have massive trees. I will even cut the damn thing down for you because I? Think I can figure out a chainsaw. It can’t be that hard.
Have a great Christmas! We are snowed in so I am not going to the 7th ring of hell, also known as my in-laws house, so that’s a bonus. Yay for blizzards!
December 24th, 2009 at 6:42 pmHah.
That’s a fine tree! But yeah, I don’t know why they’re so sparse at the top. Probably just a kind of tree — ours are… spruces? And yours are probably… Big Fat-Ass Pines? Or something…
December 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pmHello mr Sebby
Merry Xmas (and Hanukkah!) and a happy new year to you (and you too mr Sebby’s mom!) Cute tree tho… 
So any new year’s resolution yet?? Can’t believe 09 is coming to a close…kinda sad really. I like 09. 
Oh you almost got me fooled there, with the cat and all 
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December 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pmThank you for all of your good wishes, boys and girls. I hope that Santa brings you all lots of lovely presents and much joy. ( please remember to write your thank you notes as soon as possible, dears, it is only good manners, after all….)
December 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pmLove
Mrs Sebby
Bit disturbing, mum — you’re my mother, not my wife… please don’t forget that… though I know it’s a little fuzzy when it comes to matriarchal Jewish families…
Thanks, Aiko, and to you! I loved 2009. Best yet. 2010 will be even better, I am quite sure.
December 24th, 2009 at 11:49 pmhappy hanukkah seb and seb’s mom and seb’s dad and seb’s sister!!
that is a lot of presents.
December 25th, 2009 at 12:37 amThat was yesterday! Today there’s about twice as much.
Thanks; and to you
December 25th, 2009 at 12:38 amFestive merryment to all of the Seb family!
I hope you have a great holiday.
(and yes I’m up at 5am on christmas day, but only because I haven’t gone to bed yet, not because I’m excited about it)
December 25th, 2009 at 4:54 amGasp…! I hope you didn’t make your family wait until, like, MIDDAY for you to wake up…!
Thanks, Ben
December 25th, 2009 at 4:45 pmMerry Christmas, Sebbie! I hope you had a splendid Hanukkah, filled with delicious latkes and sour cream and dreidels and applesauce…I’m Catholic and not well-versed in Jewish tradition, but I love me some potato pancakes, LOL!!!
Have an awesome 2010! XO!!!
December 25th, 2009 at 9:28 pmMmmm latkes!
We had chicken soup for Christmas lunch today, courtesy of my Jewish grandmother
Thanks; I hope you had a nice one too!
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