Get your German on

.... because it's St. Nicolas day!!!!  (Please, if you aren't reading the title of this blog entry as part of the post, you best start now).  As per our German tradition, we celebrate the feast of St. Nicolas who supposedly wandered around to poor people's homes and left gifts for people in their shoes or something.  The part that I'm sure of is every year my parents would leave a bag for us to find outside the front door, filled with German goodies.  Namely, nuts, chocolates and lebkuchen (which is a crazy German cookie which I actually never liked), and ORANGES!  Clementines and the like, which come out this time of year and go on sale, were always my favourite.  We just called them "Christmas oranges" because we always found them in our St. Nicolas bag, and then again in our stockings on Christmas.  We celebrated Christmas about 3 times a year:  St. Nicolas' day, Christmas Eve, and then Christmas Morning.  You wish you were German (and also Canadian at the same time).  Mixed traditions are awesome.  Anyway, I bought myself a box of oranges to keep the dream alive.  Really, this has zero to do with the fact that my website is "slightly orange".  Just childhood memories.  I just always loved how the skin peeled off so easy and the oranges were so juicy and it just has become almost synonymous with Christmas for me.... or at least St. Nicolas day.

Oh, and if you're all, hey, what about the website update this week Steve?  Then you best be reading the previous post, because I posted twice today.