Happy Boxing Day!
Dec. 26th, 2012 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beamjockeyMy sister received a lovely gift from my Aunt Mary for Christmas: a feisty Notre Dame leprechaun.
Seems to me it might also have made a good gift for Boxing Day.
My sister was able to join my Peoria relatives for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, which made it a joyous occasion. We shared memories of prior Yules when there were more Higginses to participate.
(The men's football team at Notre Dame also had a good year. Undefeated, for the first time in many a season, they are ranked number 1 at the moment. I understand they are to play Alabama in a kind of bowl game. Puzzlingly, this game is not called the Somethingcolorful Bowl, not even the Giantcommercialentity Somethingcolorful Bowl. It's not Rose, it's not Cotton, it's not Orange, it's not Sugar, it's not Super, it's not even the derided Fiesta or Liberty. I know things have changed since I last attended a football game, back in the Ford Administration, and I have the serenity to accept things I cannot change. Yet it does seem odd that the supertitanic highly-awesome January showdown game that determines the absolute and majestic ruler of college footballdom is not called the Anything Bowl. I wonder what the Leprechaun thinks of this.)
Happy St. Stephen's Day to one and all!
Seems to me it might also have made a good gift for Boxing Day.
My sister was able to join my Peoria relatives for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, which made it a joyous occasion. We shared memories of prior Yules when there were more Higginses to participate.
(The men's football team at Notre Dame also had a good year. Undefeated, for the first time in many a season, they are ranked number 1 at the moment. I understand they are to play Alabama in a kind of bowl game. Puzzlingly, this game is not called the Somethingcolorful Bowl, not even the Giantcommercialentity Somethingcolorful Bowl. It's not Rose, it's not Cotton, it's not Orange, it's not Sugar, it's not Super, it's not even the derided Fiesta or Liberty. I know things have changed since I last attended a football game, back in the Ford Administration, and I have the serenity to accept things I cannot change. Yet it does seem odd that the supertitanic highly-awesome January showdown game that determines the absolute and majestic ruler of college footballdom is not called the Anything Bowl. I wonder what the Leprechaun thinks of this.)
Happy St. Stephen's Day to one and all!
