Chariot racing with a team of milky white horses is a Christmas tradition at my house.

I always hole up over the Christmas holiday and watch one of my very favorite flicks, Ben-Hur. When that nomad fellow introduces Charlton Heston to his "children", the white arabian horses who pull his chariot, I am simply hooked all over again. Well, at least over the weekend I made it all the way to the big chariot race scene before falling sound asleep on the sofa. And I got to give Ben Hur's backstabbing Roman friend with the red chariot with those crafty razor wheels and team of black horses a good cussing out like I always do.

It was just the four of us, my husband is not a football fanatic by any means, and for a little while there, I had control of the universal remote.

Yippee.