Do they know it's Christmas time at all ??
I made cookies , with, sort of children..... they were angels sent straight from heaven, as their mother watches me type. Then the Lovell-Spencers went off for an early Methodist Christmas, and I made us a nice Christmas Eve dinner. I do believe Mary and Joseph had seared tuna and lobster tail that night in the manger....
Seared Tuna
Cold water lobster tail with a fresh never frozen Georgia Brown Shrimp pasta.
The Spencer Christmas tree was lovely this year!
the tree at the TRES Big ass money B'head church was gay-er than P-town in August.....
This may was taken the day before, when we checked to find out if we needed a ticket....
My Adventures in the Church of the Pretty.
So, we are milling about on the 23erd, hither and yon, all over Kyle's Atlanta, pre everything Buckhead being a part of that, and drive by the Atlanta Cathedral, which is right on Peachtree for those not from Atlanta. " can anyone just go there on Christmas Eve ?", I ask. " Let's find out".....
Turns out that yes, anyone can go there.... and we did.
Ok, now in my VERY limited church going experience... Rochester NY, - It's all We are the world, Kum bah yah, feel bad cause there are poor people, women who may ,or may not, shave there legs sort of church. You know, wicker basket, home made bread up on the stage, and the Priest's very precocious daughter threw the challis on her own pottery wheel..... this was SO not that kind of church.
Not knowing really what the parking situation would be, we got there really early. I knew that , way back in pre cable times this service was on tv, and when we got there , sure enough there were all the tv cameras . We had been the day before and knew half of evergreen Maine was up in the front part, so we sat kind of towards the back, and were very early...in time to see the full Christmas Eve runway event.
Very surprised there were not PETA protesters outside as full length fur after full length fur paraded by us, along with the entire third floor shoe department from Neiman Marcus. I put on the facebook for anyone wanting to watch for us on channel 2, easy to find us - we were the woefully underdressed couple. Everyone rich and dressed to the nines, men in suits and festive holiday ties, ladies in pretty outfits, too many black dresses and a few bordering on cocktail, but NO children to speak of.... grown up pretty Church! Where have you been all my life? I could not figure out what the flowers were covering the front of the church, as it was just a mass of color, then realizing it was poinsettias, roses and carnations, all the EXACT same color/hue of Episcopal Christmas Eve red. Four miles of gold painted magnolia leaves, and like I said, half of Maine in evergreens. It was the place where Southern Living covers , who led a good life, go to after they die.....
After we had been sitting for just a little while, the tv lights BLAZE on, making it even more of a movie set. I wish I had written this that night as it would have been more fresh in my mind. A Choir of 100, drums, trumpets, huge organ. Beautiful music, incense, just on and on. Neil said he had been to our lady of the money bags church before, this was new to me, and I liked it! Lots and lots and lots of gay couples there too! It did run a little long, feeding the well heeled masses the body and blood of Christ, took a while, we did not get home till like 1:45.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night, on 1000 thread count sheets and Ralph Lauren duvets!
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These two plates of food have me Jone's-ing. Miss ya
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