Retro Christmas Stocking And Christmas Breakfast

As I've said frequently around here, it's important to get yourself some gifts for special occasions, and Christmas shall be no exception.

This year, I decided that I wanted to fill a retro themed stocking for myself. While my initial plan was to wake up with it at the foot of my bed, kind of like mom and dad used to do back in the day to keep us kids in bed for just a bit longer, I honestly forgot about it when dragging myself to be late while Just Doodling my Spidey picture.

When I finally pulled myself out of bed just shy of 8:00 AM, it was with a startle and realization that people were waiting on me to make breakfast. Oops.

I threw some Red Lobster brand cheddar biscuits in the oven to bake, and then started on the hashbrowns.

While those browned on one side, I got to work on the star of the show, homemade sausage gravy. It's a really simple one which consists of one pound of raw ground sausage (Jimmy Dean preferably), 1/4 cup of flour, 2 1/2 cups of milk, and about 1/4 to 1/2 a teaspoon of fresh ground pepper. Simply cook up the sausage, then use the grease to brown the flour, stirring it in with the meat. Add your pepper to the milk, and pour it in, topping with more pepper if you wish. Then simply stir and let it thicken.

Last up was some scrapple. While I'm not a fan of it, my girl and her kid like it.

Toss in a couple of over medium eggs for everyone, and there you have it. An amazing Christmas breakfast to fill you up for the morning.

With everyone's stomach's fed, rather than dive immediately under the tree, people showered, made their calls / texts to others, and as for me, focused on coloring in pictures.

My girl's son then took off for his dad's house to spend a few hours with him, and she took a nap. All of this led to this point of me finally getting to the second point of this post, opening my Christmas stocking to myself. As I mentioned above, I kept it retro themed. Basically, I wanted a stocking that could feasibly have been received as a kid. Well, sort of. Use your imagination for some of it, because a couple items didn't exist back then.

Four packages, packed with so much goodness inside!

Inside the Disney wrapping paper was the complete series of The A-Team. This was followed by the Grinch paper, which had a full set of Topps Michael Jackson cards, series 1 and 2, Cyndi Lauper, and Duran Duran. Next up was the Peanuts paper, which hid a complete 80's discography for the band Marillion. Last, there was the Nightmare Before Christmas wrap, which concealed a Legend Of Zelda Game & Watch.

Fantastic!

Well, while people sleep, and visit other family, I'm off to play!

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