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Welcome to Twenty Twelve everyone. And while we all savor the last excuse to swill booze and guiltily gobble white flour and sugar, we know the fact remains. Nothing much externally changes overnight from one year’s last eve to the morning of another but maybe the temperature. Yeah, but stuff can change inside your head….
Christmas brings perspective if you let it. I learned you have to let the kid know ahead of time he’s not getting the DS so he won’t open every present ungratefully before he decides he’s not getting one. You are running the show, produce it well. I was out on Monday, the day after Christmas….
Let There Be Light – DivineCaroline. Dear readers, Don’t have it in me today to cough up a new post. So I lead you back to a piece I published two years ago. I was so upset after I published it when I discovered my math was off. It’s still pretty funny though. Click on…
It seems every year without fail, my tree and I have decorating issues. It’s not the tree’s fault (although this year our tree had a little problem I’ll mention later). My overzealous search for the perfect combination of texture and color in the tree decorations that are right for both night and day viewing is…
If the sudden second full-time job known as Christmas makes you crazy, I would second that emotion. So much to do, so little time. There’s the entire decorative overhaul of the house, inside and out. Also there’s an expectation to perform an all out mass mailing to everyone you know and are related to. The…
Today, again, I found myself obsessing over the things that I have lost. Actual stuff, not conceptual stuff. I‘m still perplexed and vexed over the disappearance of my “new” camera. I owned it for year and then I think I must have hidden it from myself thinking someone could walk in the door and steal…
The winter holidays, whatever they’re named at your house, offer the annual opportunity to view oneself in the eyes of friends and relatives. To see your reflection in others’ eyes. Whether it’s mind reading that gives you their vision of you, or the way they actually treat you that belies their feelings, you are destined…
I do not get automatically in the mood for Christmas at Thanksgiving. When did that start, the tradition of having all the decorations done by the end of Black Friday? My Christmas spirit is temperamental. It needs coaxing from it’s year’s slumber. Like horniness, it needs foreplay. I decorated a fifteen foot tree at church…
Glad to say we made it to and from New York on Saturday with no major malfunctions. We were all pretty fried having gotten up at 5AM. And despite the fact that I smelled like a homeless person for the many pee stops I’d made without the benefit of a bathroom app, we enjoyed our…
Dearest Readers, I doubt you are there because I’m a bad frog and haven’t done my due diligence to earn you. But like exercise without results, we still keep working out. The top two mean things I did to my kid in the past seven days? Had a tooth pulled from my child’s innocent face…
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