- Today is the Winter Solstice and the full moon. Last night there was a lunar eclipse. Those are some extremely mystical occurrences. I suppose pretty much anything could happen today.
- A co-worker gave me a Winter Solstice card this year instead of her usual religious card. It's a very pretty card. I wonder if someone said something to her and she went to the opposite extreme.
- I'm not sending out Christmas cards this year (again). Please consider my blog my Christmas card to you. Beside that, I haven't fully recovered from the "address book incident of 2008" yet.
- I really dread receiving the annual holiday newsletters in Christmas cards. Ugh. My sister needs to rethink some of her descriptions. When she reported on her dog being eaten by a gator she said that she (my sister) was really "tore up" by the accident. Then when she described the new dog's enthusiasm for shotgun hunting she said that he has a "blast."
- I went to Target last night to get a few stocking stuffers. I refuse to go back there until after Christmas. What a zoo!
- My brother and his family are coming into town this week. This will be the first time in 20 years that my brother, sister, parents and I are all together on Christmas Day. Only now we have spouses and children in the mix too. My mom couldn't be happier!
- I love to gift wrap. I actually have fun doing it. My father always gives me my mother's gifts to wrap because I enjoy it so much.
- When I was in high school my sister's boyfriend taught me how to wrap packages. I've never seen a man gift wrap so beautifully as Calvin. For 25 years every time I wrap a gift, I think of him. Now that's a legacy and he wasn't even my boyfriend!
- I sorta consider gift bags to be cheating. But I will use them when I'm tired or pressed for time. Plus I love the reusable aspect of them. There is one Christmas gift bag with a Currier & Ives print on it that has been going around the family for the at least past eight years.
- I thought I was all finished with my gift wrapping until I realized that I haven't finished knitting my aunt's scarf! I better hurry up!
6 comments:
I am a horrible wrapper! I am a big cheat...I haven't wrapped a gift in a couple of years - gift bags all the way, baby! It's a saving grace for those of use who are gift wrapping impaired! Merry Christmas!
I'm not doing holiday cards either. Feel only moderately guilty and inadequate because of this. Hey, will you wrap my presents? :)
Happy holidays!
Love the excerpts from the newsletter - hilarious!
I like your randomness.
Holiday letters have become like candy to me. I love to read them and laugh my arse off at how ridiculous they are.
Here is to fast, nimble knitting fingers!!! (I am laughing over what your sister wrote, oh my goodness, tore up and blast... LOL!!!! It isn't too evil to laugh on the tore up, right?) =)
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