And the day felt unusual enough that I blew all my routines.
We had a nice lunch:
We failed to make Christmas cookies because the boy woke up too late and we didn’t really want to bake while his friend came over to our house. It’s nice to see him still being friends with someone he met in 5th grade and it was very pleasant to have him over for an evening.
I knitted and played Genshin, of course, and read.
We did not eat our usual cheese fondue because all of us were already feeling the overdose of rich food the last week or so. So we did white sausages and pretzels for dinner:
That beer is yet another kind of Christmas beer. Very tasty.
The boy’s friend only came over after dinner and we settled down watching the newest ‚Knives Out‘ while my husband was making music in the annex. When he came in the door he announced it was a war zone out there, so much fireworks and right in the middle of the street.
We ate all the salty snacks. There was lemonade and alcohol-free beer.
We stopped the movie at a quarter to midnight and went upstairs to my mother-in-law’s for champagne and watching the fireworks from her living room window.
There were lots and lots of fireworks and they had started pretty early in the day, and went on forever. All in all it seems to have been less than the years before, though, because when the boy’s friend left around 2.30 the air outside was actually clear.
We read a post that most Germans are in favor of banning most fireworks. At the same time my husband saw on V how people were standing in line the second they could buy fireworks at midnight two days before and how one guy plunked down 400 euros for it. For one night, boom, all that money gone.
Anyway. I am still in the process of reviewing the year and I imagine today will be a thoroughly unproductive day, as it should.
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