Merry Enough

Dec 25, 2009 by Naomi.

So this christmas day comes to a merry end as I sit in my comfortable lazy boy chair contemplating the hours past. My feet were thoroughly chilled from spending the morning at one of the two Starbucks Coffee shops open this holy day in the Tri-Cities, actually the only businesses anywhere in the area gleefully going about making money and keeping old friends. We were a small group enjoying an silent atmosphere void of any signs - decorations or music - of the newborn for which the day is named. That was precisely why our select few spends the morning of December 25 in that shop sipping delicious, hot coffee. Tradition is tradition so there you are. Our group that meets every Sunday morning with coffee at Hastings Bookstore on George Washington Way in Richland often numbers over a dozen, but doggone it, this morning at 10:00 the temperature had not risen above freezing (nor did it anytime this day.) A different day, a different place so we were not surprised only six showed up. I gave the last person at our table a ride home because when her husband got up to leave she decided she was not ready to give up the conversation. I pulled the short straw because I did not jump up and walk out. Oh well she is a good conversationalist although slow and hesitant with articulation. At home I changed from my “dress” corduroys into my soft warm lounge outfit, pulled on heavy socks, ate dinner, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, courtesy of Banquet micro wave, and here I am, a snifter of egg nog by my side, facing the last blog of the merry time. The last sentence wraps it all up with the comfort and satisfaction of a day well spent.

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