For about 20 years we've been sharing Christmas dinner with friends at the same house, the New Years at another house. People bring various things. There was Roast Beef, a roast chicken, mashed potatoes, salad, appetizers.... and I guess *I* have become the semi-official gravy-maker for roast beef. (I figured out how to make gravy 40 years ago when I saw what I felt was WAY too tedious procedures...so I analyzed the process and now get requested to handle the making)

There was wine, but several of us like different beers, so I had only a small glass of wine.

I eat more than I should on Xmas & New Years...but it results only in indigestion, as I seldom gain weight from brief indulgences (sorry to those who must work to lose it again...I claim no credit...only genetic luck)