Lost In Haste
Lost In Haste

Holiday 🎄 The RSS feed for Holiday 🎄.

  • #Flashback-Friday 📷 2024-12-19

    As is our annual tradition, my partner and I went to the local Zoo to see Christmas lights…and wandered into the penguin house to warm up a big. 🤣🐧🎄🏳️‍🌈

    Auto-generated description: Two penguins are positioned on rocky terrain near a small body of water.

  • 🎙️ Just listened to the holiday episode of Upgrade on @relay@relayfm.social, laughed so hard at Jason’s gingerbread house story and it was so gratifying to hear the two hosts views on green-bean casserole (they hold to proper viewpoint that it’s an abomination and is ranked “F” 🤢). 🎄

    A podcast episode cover titled Upgrade: Holiday Special features a wreath surrounding a power symbol with an upward arrow and includes a play bar indicating a Christmas Food Tier List segment.

  • We normally take down Christmas on January 6th (growing up, we’d leave Christmas up until Epiphany) but given the craziness of last weekend (trip to the theater, an engagement party, chores, & migraines), we just didn’t get to it…so tonight is it, say farewell to the Home Alone house. 🎄📷

    A miniature house (the Home Alone house, in Lego form), filled with lights, and van on a snowy landscape, surrounded by trees, with the website address 'lostinhaste.com' displayed as a watermark.

  • Snowfall and a Show

    Over the weekend, my Partner and I were offered tickets to see Mrs. Doubtfire at the local theater. 🎭 It was an unexpected treat (our friends had just come back from London and were rather jet-lagged), both the show and the holiday decoration in the theater.🎄 📷

    It was also the first serious snowfall of the season. 🌨️ It was mostly melted by the time we woke up in the morning but it was a pretty drive home (took back roads, to avoid all the people who are bad at driving in snow 🤣). ❄️

    All in all, it was a lovely night. 👏🏻

  • Merry Christmas everyone! ❄️🎄🎁🎅🏻☃️

    Gif of the Golden Girls, looking out onto falling snow, from behind a window, with the words ‘Merry Christmas’ at the bottom of the image; the Gif is slowly zooming into a closer view of their faces.

  • 🍿 For our last movie of the night, we’re watching Make the Yuletide Gay. As with most LGBTQ movies made in that era, it isn’t the greatest of movies but it is our Christmas Eve tradition. 🏳️‍🌈🎄
    ★★★☆☆

    Movie poster: Make the Yuletide Gay (2009).

  • 🍿 For the second viewing of the night, we’re watching the Holiday, one of my absolute favorite holiday movies. 🥰🎄
    ★★★★☆

    Movie poster: The Holiday (2006).

  • 🍿 This movie has grown on me since last year, Spirited is kicking off the movie viewing experience of Christmas Eve. Three stars…but that might change once this movie is over. 🎄
    ★★★☆☆

    Movie poster for Spirited (2023).

  • Happy Festivus! 🎉🎄
    I hope every enjoys the airing of grievances, I know I will. 🤣

    Image of George Costanza from Seinfeld on a 'Human Fund' card.

    (Side Note: I’m only awake at this ungodly hour b/c I took a friend to the airport. ✈️🌺)

  • 🍿 Ended up doing a double-feature tonight and watched the Christmas Setup, a lovely holiday movie. 🎄 It’s sappy but I do love seeing LGBTQ movies hitting the mainstream. 🏳️‍🌈
    ★★★☆☆

    Movie poster for The Christmas Setup.

    Plus, it has Fran!

  • 🍿 We watched a Christmas Story tonight. 🎄 It isn’t my favorite movie but my Partner loves it, so every year we watch it.
    ★★☆☆☆

    Alternative movie poster for A Christmas Story.

  • Holiday Lights @ the Gardens 🎄📷

    Last weekend, my partner and I went to see some holiday lights at our local botanical garden. It was a wonderful time, they always so such a great job of decorating things and of course, me being me, I took well over two hundred photos (yes, I’m that guy). I wanted to post them all but that would be a little overkill, instead, here are 30-ish of the best ones.

    Note: I wanted to post these photos the day after we went to the garden but I wasn’t really in-love with any of the gallery plugins available…so I ended up making my own.

    When all was said and done, everyone had a great time. 🥰🎄📷

  • 🍿 One of my favorite holiday movies, While You Were Sleeping always brings happy tears. 🎄
    ★★★★☆

    Alternative movie poster for While You Were Sleeping

  • We went to see the lights at the local botanical gardens this weekend, it was a fantastic evening and the lights were gorgeous; will be posting photos in a day or three… 🎄📷

    Glowing sign (it says 'GLOW') behind a series of shrubs and in front of trees and light posts.

  • 🍿 Decided on a second movie tonight: The Holiday Sitter. 🎄 It’s a silly Hallmark holiday movie but it’s rather adorable and kinda nice to see my people represented in the genre. 🏳️‍🌈 We’ll be adding this to our Holiday movie rotation.
    ★★★★☆

    Movie poster for the Holiday Sitter.

  • 🍿 Full of mac ‘n cheese, in honor of Kevin’s meal during the movie. This is my Partner’s favorite movie, even after more than 30 years, it has reviewability. 🎄
    ★★★☆☆

    Alternative movie poster for Home Alone

  • Follow-Up: The IKEA Sonos speaker is working perfectly (which is more than I could ever say of the HomePod Mini stereo set up) this morning; holiday music is flooding the room whilst I’m debugging some legacy Java code. 🤓🎄 (Yes, I had a spare speaker lying around… 🤣) 📷

    Christmas tree with lights and one ornament at the top (a photo frame with no photo for privacy purposes), in front of a record player, with the end of a lamp on the right side of the photo. An IKEA Sonos speaker is on top of the record player, with an 'Ella' record in the middle and a series of objects is on the left side of the record player: three Nintendo amiibo figures (Link, Bowser, and Bokoblin), a Lego penguin, a Jesus stature, and a N64 Lego cube. On top of the cube is a HomePod mini, along with two of the amiibo, and a dried pink rose.

  • 🍿 Tonight’s feature film was an old family favorite: Christmas Vacation. 🎄
    ★★★☆☆

    Alternative movie poster for Christmas Vacation.

  • 🍿 Another favorite, tonight we watched White Christmas. 🎄
    ★★★★★

    Movie poster for White Christmas (1954): Four people in festive red and white outfits pose against a snowy background with the words 'WHITE CHRISTMAS' above them.

  • Currently Listening: A Holiday Carole by Carole King. 🎵🎄

    Album art for 'A Holiday Carole'

    First heard Carole on Gilmore Girls and then bought her compilation album at University. When I went home over the Holiday break and I was listening to it, my mother expressed shock because she listened to Carole when she was my age. 🤣