Topics of Conversation

Christmas Eve my family had a nice sit-down dinner after the kiddos had all gone to bed.  Hey, if Bryce wants to eat chicken nuggets on a plate with ketchup on Christmas Eve, that's fine.  But the grown-ups are eating turkey and potatoes later on.

The meal was so (uncharacteristically) structured for our family that we even made a list of topics we would NOT be discussing on Christmas Eve.  For example, I wasn't allowed to talk about how much I hate Verizon because they don't want to sell me an iPhone.  Dad wasn't allowed to talk about how the NCAA must sell all college basketball tickets to Stub Hub so that good, law-abiding citizens of the United States of America are not able to purchase seats at reasonable prices.  Tay wasn't allowed to ask people about their celebrity crushes in general or Hugh Jackman in particular.  (Although, if you want to guess who my celebrity crush is... check out the otherwise unrelated picture at the top of this post.)  You get the idea.

So it was interesting to me what topics DID come up at dinner, when we weren't allowed to fall back on our stand-bys.  Here is a list.

• The 10 Plagues of Egypt (water turned to blood, frogs, lice, flies, diseased livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn)
• Morgan Freeman - has he ever won the Oscar?  (Yes, one win - for Million Dollar Baby- and five nominations.)
• Heinz 57 Sauce.  What's the 57 for?  (Heinz 57 Sauce is the 57th Heinz product.)
• Hours of the LDS Church History Museum (9 am to 9 pm)

It was actually a lot like the holiday dinner scene in "While You Were Sleeping" where we learn such interesting facts as that Ricky Ricardo was Cuban and that the mashed potatoes are so creamy.