In which I’ve seen in the past week both of my parents and all of their siblings and nearly all of their siblings’ spouses and children. For no particular reason, both of my parents came to town to visit this week. They’ve been divorced for twenty-seven years, so it’s strange that they should both have […]
In which I tell you what I got for Xmas! Christmas day was fun. I slept in, which is always awesome. Then I vacuumed the living room, helped G’ma with food preparation, set up the card table and found chairs. Around 1:30 the family showed up. We ate, opened gifts, and then had dessert. It […]
In which I had a Thursday off. On Thanksgiving I did the following: Slept in. Got up. Hung out with Sue & Blue. Demonstrated my iThing for my aunt Sue. Showered. Got dressed. Rode to Dave & Reva’s in my bro’s truck. Ate black olives. A lot of them! Had a glass of white wine. […]
In which Xmas day was super plus fun! Christmas Day totally rocked. It’s been years since I’ve celebrated this holiday with my blood family, and it was really great to be at Gramma’s house with a whole passel of aunts and uncles and cousins and their spouses and parents. We ate dinner mid-afternoon, then Dave […]
In which I count my blessings this holiday season. (I’m a blessings-counter by nature.) (Which seems like a good quality, but it gave me a fucking panic disorder when I was too stupid to know when I was unhappy.) (Just sayin’. Pollyannaism ain’t always good.) Dangerous, my uncle, sent me a huge Amazon.com gift certificate. […]
