“Drive it like you stole it”, The Glitch Mob.
“Fish, booze and chocolate”, Mari Valdur
"Aaria" Eino Tamberg
This Christmas was supposed to be unbearable as my sister, my dearest of all, was away for Christmas the first time and there was no proper snow to look at. Also, I couldn’t ask friends over because I was very lazy last week and wanted to go back to the city soon after holiday to actually get some work done. Hence I came up with a plan how to make these couple of most touching days of the year less dramatic and mentally challenging. Of course I could have gone for the healthy balanced solution but as I was becoming more and more sad I gave myself a right for an easy way out. There are some points that became rules over these days, which will probably help in case my sister being away is the new family tradition. I have adapted.
1. Drink all the alcohol offered. Show initiative to get more. Do not act drunk or you will not get more, this is not a flat party.
2. Try to gain 2 kg and do everything to achieve this during these limited days. This makes eating Christmas food so much more meaningful and guilt free. Eat all the chocolates around. If you’re a vegetarian become a passionate pescaterian for the time being.
3. If an idea of loneliness or holiday related depression kicks in, go back to the basics: this is a meaningless religious commercial holiday.
4. If you now come to claim that this is just a beautiful time that should not be ruined by this or that come to think of all the poor poor children who are waiting for a Santa to arrive but the man never does. So they go to bed feeling empty for Christmas being over, hoping that the year will past quick as hopefull Santa will come around next time. But let me tell you, Santa won’t. So you’ll feel so sad for these children that your own problems seem much smaller as you’re a grown-up and stronger. Now the feeling of being stronger should properly take over and you should feel just furious for all the injustice and hurt in the world. There is no space left for Christmas gloom.
Day 1.
On Friday I got up, watched series, did the dishes and took a train from Tallinn to Türi. This was in the afternoon and it was getting dark. On the side of the rails I saw two huge moose, they seemed so fagile carrying their huge bodies in confusion toward the white line of birch trees. My Mum came to pick my brother and me up, we got vitamins, honey and coffee for my great aunt to whose birthday we were heading shortly. It was a joint one with my Gran, my Gran turning 75 and auntie Vaike 80. They looked fabulous and gave me huge loving hugs. There were many relatives and once the band started playing, most of them took off to the dance floor to shake it from the bottom of their heart.
My Gran at her party. Photo Signe Jäetma
My Gran hugging Santa, Koidula and Jakobson watching. Photo Signe Jäetma
Around 3pm I entered the drink-n-eat shuffle
8 blueberry cupcakes
1 glass of champagne
Fruit
1 boiled potato
2 pieces of herring in sour cream sauce
3 slices of Gran’s bread
1 glass of champagne
2 pieces of fish in tomato sauce
Fruit
1 glass of champagne
2 shots of cranberry liquor
1 glass of champagne
1 shot of cranberry liquor
2 pieces of Gran’s bread
1 plate of fish in tomato sauce
1 glasses of champagne
7 chocolate truffles
1 piece of cake
3 chocolates
(missed red wine, homemade beer!! and various booze offered to me while I was having the cake and was too distracted and inarticulate)
Day 2.
8 pancakes with cream cheese and blackcurrant jam
1 cup of tea
6 chocolates
3 tursamaks salad sandwiches
½ blackcurrant liquor shot
4 chocolates
2 glasses of champagne
2 pieces of salmon with pumpkin and 2 potatoes
4 tursamaks salad sandwiches
2 chocolates
1 glass of champagne
1 chocolate
(now decided to eat all the leftovers within a reach, which was not easy to do at this time of day)
1 piece of salmon
2 pieces of bread
4 tursamaks sandwiches
2 blueberry muffins
1 cranberry liquor shot
Day 3.
I slept til noon and opened my eyes at times to check if the sun was still shining. It really was. I did my daily (no so much daily yet) practice but all the fish, cream and alcohol had made my body very inflexible. Maybe it was the fact that my yoga mat was not there or that there was no support of other people’s presence, it was just so much harder than in the beginning of the week. However, I finished and realised this was the first time I had carried out the whole of my simplified practice at a location other than the yoga school. I’ve always wanted things to come to me quickly, right now and to the full extent. I rarely live up to achieving this and this brings discontent. Whenever I fall, it doesn’t matter whether I am becoming better overall or not, all that matters is to pick it up, forgive and carry on. No more fish, pointless booze or sweets for me for a while.
“Fish, booze and chocolate”, Mari Valdur
"Aaria" Eino Tamberg
This Christmas was supposed to be unbearable as my sister, my dearest of all, was away for Christmas the first time and there was no proper snow to look at. Also, I couldn’t ask friends over because I was very lazy last week and wanted to go back to the city soon after holiday to actually get some work done. Hence I came up with a plan how to make these couple of most touching days of the year less dramatic and mentally challenging. Of course I could have gone for the healthy balanced solution but as I was becoming more and more sad I gave myself a right for an easy way out. There are some points that became rules over these days, which will probably help in case my sister being away is the new family tradition. I have adapted.
1. Drink all the alcohol offered. Show initiative to get more. Do not act drunk or you will not get more, this is not a flat party.
2. Try to gain 2 kg and do everything to achieve this during these limited days. This makes eating Christmas food so much more meaningful and guilt free. Eat all the chocolates around. If you’re a vegetarian become a passionate pescaterian for the time being.
3. If an idea of loneliness or holiday related depression kicks in, go back to the basics: this is a meaningless religious commercial holiday.
4. If you now come to claim that this is just a beautiful time that should not be ruined by this or that come to think of all the poor poor children who are waiting for a Santa to arrive but the man never does. So they go to bed feeling empty for Christmas being over, hoping that the year will past quick as hopefull Santa will come around next time. But let me tell you, Santa won’t. So you’ll feel so sad for these children that your own problems seem much smaller as you’re a grown-up and stronger. Now the feeling of being stronger should properly take over and you should feel just furious for all the injustice and hurt in the world. There is no space left for Christmas gloom.
Day 1.
On Friday I got up, watched series, did the dishes and took a train from Tallinn to Türi. This was in the afternoon and it was getting dark. On the side of the rails I saw two huge moose, they seemed so fagile carrying their huge bodies in confusion toward the white line of birch trees. My Mum came to pick my brother and me up, we got vitamins, honey and coffee for my great aunt to whose birthday we were heading shortly. It was a joint one with my Gran, my Gran turning 75 and auntie Vaike 80. They looked fabulous and gave me huge loving hugs. There were many relatives and once the band started playing, most of them took off to the dance floor to shake it from the bottom of their heart.
My Gran at her party. Photo Signe Jäetma
My Gran hugging Santa, Koidula and Jakobson watching. Photo Signe Jäetma
Around 3pm I entered the drink-n-eat shuffle
8 blueberry cupcakes
1 glass of champagne
Fruit
1 boiled potato
2 pieces of herring in sour cream sauce
3 slices of Gran’s bread
1 glass of champagne
2 pieces of fish in tomato sauce
Fruit
1 glass of champagne
2 shots of cranberry liquor
1 glass of champagne
1 shot of cranberry liquor
2 pieces of Gran’s bread
1 plate of fish in tomato sauce
1 glasses of champagne
7 chocolate truffles
1 piece of cake
3 chocolates
(missed red wine, homemade beer!! and various booze offered to me while I was having the cake and was too distracted and inarticulate)
Day 2.
8 pancakes with cream cheese and blackcurrant jam
1 cup of tea
6 chocolates
3 tursamaks salad sandwiches
½ blackcurrant liquor shot
4 chocolates
2 glasses of champagne
2 pieces of salmon with pumpkin and 2 potatoes
4 tursamaks salad sandwiches
2 chocolates
1 glass of champagne
1 chocolate
(now decided to eat all the leftovers within a reach, which was not easy to do at this time of day)
1 piece of salmon
2 pieces of bread
4 tursamaks sandwiches
2 blueberry muffins
1 cranberry liquor shot
Day 3.
I slept til noon and opened my eyes at times to check if the sun was still shining. It really was. I did my daily (no so much daily yet) practice but all the fish, cream and alcohol had made my body very inflexible. Maybe it was the fact that my yoga mat was not there or that there was no support of other people’s presence, it was just so much harder than in the beginning of the week. However, I finished and realised this was the first time I had carried out the whole of my simplified practice at a location other than the yoga school. I’ve always wanted things to come to me quickly, right now and to the full extent. I rarely live up to achieving this and this brings discontent. Whenever I fall, it doesn’t matter whether I am becoming better overall or not, all that matters is to pick it up, forgive and carry on. No more fish, pointless booze or sweets for me for a while.
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