Lost In Haste
Lost In Haste
Full Stack Developer and Digital Packrat

Holiday 🎄

  • 🍿 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. 🤣

  • 🍿 Kicking off the winter movie season with You’ve Got Mail, which is an old Holiday favorite of ours. 🎄

    Modified movie poster for You’ve Got Mail, with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.

  • We put up the tree last night, with one of my favorite ornaments in a place of prominence. 🎄 We bought more than a few of these beauties in 2020, giving them to a number of Friends. 🤣 📷

    Christmas tree ornament, with colored lights in the background, hanging from the tree. The ornament is round and white, with the following verbiage in the Friends (the TV show) font: 'The one where we were all quarantined, 2020'

  • 🎵 Yes, I know it’s too early for holiday music but it’s been a rough year…and it’s Cher, so the rules don’t apply. 🏳️‍🌈

    Artwork for Cher's Christmas albumn.

    Bring on the holiday music! 🎄

  • 🍿 As it’s Halloween, of course we’re watching The Nightmare Before Christmas. 🎃
    ★★★★☆

    Jack Skeleton looks at a giant snowflake he's holding in his hand, a screen grab from the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.

    I suspect I’m going to start decorating for Christmas tomorrow; it’s been a rough year and I could use the extra “holiday” time. 🎄

  • It's too early for this, right?

    Went to a hardware store last night (my Partner is ripping up the carpet and putting in new flooring) and as we walked in, we were assaulted with Christmas cheer. Given the past few weeks, I was digging it but a couple walked in after us and one of them was complaining it was too early for Christmas … read more

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 6: Well

    Big bucket of red liquid in the foreground, with a person directly behind it (their face has been replaced with a smile emoticon) in a white shirt, with another person in the background; a white Christmas tree, with lights, is in the background behind the second person.

    Closest thing I could find in my photo library, this is a “well” of alcohol at a Holiday party back at University. 🎄🍾🥳 #mbsept

  • Holiday Lights at the Zoo

    Every year part of the local Zoo is decorated with lights and Holiday cheer…and the past few years, my fella and I have made a point to stroll around. Pretty night for a walk by the lake It’s just one of our Holiday traditions, to wander around the lights, see the penguins, and … read more

  • Didn’t expect to enjoy Spirited to much but wow, that movie…lots and lots of sad but mostly happy tears. 🎥 What a great #holiday movie! 🎄
    ★★★☆☆

  • The Christmas village has been destroyed…it might be time to take it down, before further casualties are caused by the feline invasion.

    Grey cat looking at the camera, from on top of a piano, behind a tiny, decorative Christmas village, part of which he clearly moved / destroyed.