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aterat2021-11-27 09:51 pm
brotherofagod) wrote in aterat2021-11-27 09:51 pm
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I know there are serious things happening but focusing on that has never been something I'm good at. That said, Thanksgiving just passed by. [Not that Jacob has a good track record for celebrating or understanding most holidays but it got him thinking.] Not sure who has thanksgiving or who celebrates it.
It's a pretty strange holiday.
[Jacob remembers it as a holiday dedicated to overeating.]
But it also reminds me that Christmas is coming up too. I don't remember doing much the last time I was here. [He thinks he gave away wooden carvings but then that might have had no relation to Christmas, Jacob's memories were still a bit fuzzy.]
Anyway, I wanted to know what sort of traditions people had.
My traditions changed a lot after my parents passed but when I was very young I remember a lot of cookies and a lot of pie. Along with a great deal of decorations that I had to help with or, I wouldn't get the aforementioned cookies and pie.
What about you guys?
It's a pretty strange holiday.
[Jacob remembers it as a holiday dedicated to overeating.]
But it also reminds me that Christmas is coming up too. I don't remember doing much the last time I was here. [He thinks he gave away wooden carvings but then that might have had no relation to Christmas, Jacob's memories were still a bit fuzzy.]
Anyway, I wanted to know what sort of traditions people had.
My traditions changed a lot after my parents passed but when I was very young I remember a lot of cookies and a lot of pie. Along with a great deal of decorations that I had to help with or, I wouldn't get the aforementioned cookies and pie.
What about you guys?
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What did you and your twin do for Hanukkah? I don't know much about it.
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But damn, I don't understand even a quarter of it. My birth-mom wasn't practicing. I didn't learn that stuff.
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I do remember that Hanukkah has 9 days and 9 candles for the days that the oil burned but that's about the extent of what I know.
I don't know what a Latke is or how gambling worked its way in but that sounds like fun. [He hasn't really thought about it but is gambling prevalent in the city?]
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Latke are potato pancakes. The gambling is with a dreidel and felt, which is chocolate coins. At least with Kaplans it is. Oh, and jelly donuts too. A lot of the food is fried in oil, supposed to show how the oil lasted. There's lots of customs to it.
[He may have picked up more than he admits.]
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[It's nice to hear about these sorts of memories.]
I do know what a dreidel is but how do you bet with it?
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Each of the sides of a dreidel, they have a letter on them. Everyone antes in, then on their turn each player spins the dreidel. Depending on the side that comes up, you either get or give to the pot.
You play until someone's won it all.
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I could make you a few dreidel's if you want. No charge. It'd be a gift.
[It doesn't matter what holiday people celebrate, Jake likes to give people gifts.]
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I- I think I'd like that. To remember people by.
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How many do you want?
[It's an easy thing to make and Jake likes doing what he can to help people. It's something that he recently learned from his older sister.]
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[I will only take him a few days to finish something so simple and he can get it done with spare wood so it'll only cost him a little bit of time.]
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Thanks, man. You’re pretty cool for a new guy.
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[He likes the compliment.]
I'll talk to you later.
[Jake hangs up with his polite goodbye.
It'll take a week before Tommy gets a delivery from the woodshop.]
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