2011 is dead! Long live 2012! In my job, I regularly plan for future years. Writing spreadsheets or negotiating fees for three to five years out is normal, so in my head it has been 2012 almost since last July when our fiscal calendar changed over. I’m already planning for 2013. The fact that it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Holidays'
The Year is New
January 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays, What I Did Last Weekend
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In the Middle of the Holidays at the End of 2011
December 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Holidays, In Summary, Travel
Continued holidays! So many holidays! This is my third and last day of work this week, and I am off again soon for another long weekend. I didn’t start padding my holidays with long weekends until last year, maybe, or the year before. I used to just work every day if I didn’t otherwise have [...]
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All The Holidays
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays
I have the smell of onions and garlic in my nose this morning because I woke up early to make sweet potato chili for a family party at my house tonight. I put it in the Crock Pot for the day. It’s the first time I’ve used a Crock Pot unattended, and it makes me [...]
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Trees
December 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays
The Christmas tree is up at home! As I posted on Facebook, it was a real pain in the ass, of course. On a high shelf out in the cold garage, where the lights are currently both burned out because I am far too lazy to replace them. It took all of three minutes and [...]
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Winter is Here
December 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays
These are the shortest days of the year, these days right now. Two weeks before the solstice, and two weeks before Hanukkah, and two weeks before Christmas. Light is such a big part of these celebrations, but I never think about what it might be like to celebrate these light-centered holidays south of the equator [...]
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Molly Snapple’s New Age
November 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays, What I Did Last Weekend
Tomorrow is my birthday. Somehow I am going to be 34 tomorrow, which is a bit surprising to me, but then a lot has happened since I turned 30. A lot! So I guess I should well believe that it has been four years since that day. Which it has been. I’m taking off work [...]
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Thanksgiving Week
November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays, Travel
Hooray, Thanksgiving week! I am trying to get myself into the mode of getting Christmas things done, because I have done little to nothing in preparation of presents and cards and all of it, and there are things to do. I think I have the idea of the cards sorted this year. Instead of making [...]
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The Week Before Thanksgiving, Somehow
November 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays
My weekday evenings are getting over-scheduled these days, and it’s hurting this week. Tonight is my night off, the only night this week without something going on. While I’m very much looking forward to going home and not doing much at all, I’m still wracking my brain for whatever it is that I’ve possibly overlooked [...]
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Halloween Parties and Party Prep Parties
October 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays, Photography
Halloween weekend! And it looks to be a busy one, too. My costume is together, but I need to conjure up some Halloween party snacks and some food for a BBQ on Sunday afternoon, and I’m drawing a blank so far on anything creative. I guess I don’t need to be creative, but I’m invited [...]
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Ending the Holidays
January 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Holidays, In Summary
I am so behind. I had lots of great ideas for how I would start the New Year off right, all sorts of resolutions about blog posts, and then I got sick and then I had to go away for work, and now I’m barely resurfacing after finally getting a full night’s sleep on a [...]
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