Blue Christmas

This is my favorite Christmas song.  Ever.  And it has to be this version.  Not that I hate the versions with words or anything.  I just adore this one.

I was listening to it in the car on the way home today, and I had this feeling of longing for Christmases gone by.  Not that I've ever ridden in a sleigh pulled by a horse through the snow or anything.  This song just makes me think of all the past Christmases I've had, and here I am in this new place where I know very few people, and I'm going to be here celebrating Christmas.  Our first Christmas away from both of our families.

In a way it's exciting to decide what traditions we're going to start in our own family, but it's going to be so weird.  Will it even feel like Christmas?  Or will it just feel like another day except that we opened presents in the morning and made some food?  And this weather (which I really do love) is not getting me in the Christmas spirit at all.  Aren't Christmases supposed to be cold?  I love being able to wear shorts, but it's really hurting my Christmas mentality.

I actually feel kind of lost because I don't even know what we're doing for Christmas yet.  Usually my day is filled with family obligations, but what happens when all your family is far away?  What do you do then?

I guess if all else fails, the theaters are open on Christmas Day, right?

Chili Powder? On Fruit? Whaaa?

This past Saturday, I took my kids to a children's activity at my church. For lunch, they provided pizza, chips, and oranges.  I saw that they had this bottle of stuff that looked like some sort of sauce or powder on one of the tables, and I assumed it was for the pizza.  You can imagine my surprise when I saw the girls at my table putting it on their oranges.  These girls were in their teens, and as far as I know, have always lived in Laredo. The conversation went something like this:

Me: "Um... what is that?"
Them: "Chile Powder."  *in their minds: "Uh, Duh?"*
Me: "And you're putting it on an ORANGE?"
Them: "Uh, yeah."

The whole time they're looking at me kinda like, "You're an idiot," because EVERYBODY was putting it on their oranges.

The bottle looked like this:

It says you can put it on oranges, pineapple, watermelon, you name it!  I was intrigued...  I grabbed that bottle and put some on my orange.

My Verdict:  DELICIOUS!

It's not at all what I expected.  It was kinda sweet and actually made the orange taste good.  I ended up eating all my oranges, and my kids' oranges, and some other kid's that left his on his plate.  And today when I went grocery shopping, I bought some and had my husband try it.  Now, he likes it, too.  YUM!

Also, on that same day, I bit into what I thought was a plain potato chip, but it was NOT!  Once I got over the shock of it not being plain, I actually liked it.  I'm pretty sure it was Lime flavored.  Never had that before I moved down here.  I bought some Limon flavored chips today in hopes that they would be the same ones.

I'm really loving trying new food.  We bought a bunch of Mexican candy to try.  Maybe my next post will be about how that is.  Wish me luck!