Category: Miscellaneous

Holy crap! I can’t even remember the last time I was able to see my desk! I’ve been doing Christmas cards–for the first time since my mom died, so it’s kind of a big deal to me–and my hand is tired from writing out addresses and Merry-Christmasses, so I was looking for labels with my return address. You know the ones–they’re usually sent by charitable organizations looking for donations, and you open the envelope and think, Oh cool, these’ll come in handy someday, as you throw the rest of the contents away, and you put the labels in a drawer somewhere. Then, when someday arrives, like today, you go looking for those labels and can’t find them anywhere! I swear they have little sensors on them that self-destruct when you ignore the plea for a donation. But on the bright side, my desk is, while not clean, a hell of a lot clearer than it’s been in years.

Yesterday, as I mentioned, I put up the Christmas tree. Last night, when I returned from the tree lighting ceremony in Old Town Pasadena and the Festival of Lights at Griffith Park, I put it up again–didn’t take the cats long to knock that sucker down! At least they didn’t break anything this time. I’ve moved it to the middle of the room, where hopefully they won’t be as likely to knock it down. It was still up when I awoke this morning, so that’s a plus–although two ornaments were knocked down.

I have more cards to write out, so I leave you with one of my favorite displays from the Festival Lights:

And if you’d like a holiday card and you have my email address, send me your snail mail! I’ve got a bazillion cards and not nearly enough addresses to go with them! 😀

It’s the day after, and I’m regretting saying no to leftovers. Ah well. There’s yogurt in the fridge.

I just finished assembling and decorating my little four foot tree (three and a half, really). I’m too tired and lazy to upload a picture right now, so I’ve posted a picture of it from last year instead. I decided to forgo the star this year, because it’s heavier than the tree and makes it wobble in a scary way, so I’m in the market for a new treetopper. Not quite sure yet what I’m looking for.

Yesterday was good, btw. Had dinner with friends and an adorable baby, had PIE, and made plans for tonight to view fun Christmas lights. Spent this morning using up my iTunes credit on new (to me) Christmas music to augment my growing sappy Christmas music collection.

That’s about the it. I may go nap now.

Things I am thankful for:

• My family, particularly my sister and brother-in-law, but also my uncle and cousins and aunts and half brothers and stepbrothers.
• My friends, particularly those I consider my second family.
• The good health of Noah, and the improving health of Grace.
• The snuggles of my kitties.
• That I have a job I still love even after seven years.
• The roof over my head, even though it’s riddled with termites and rain damage.
• That I can pay my bills, even though there are so!many!of!them!
• My own general good health.
• That I have people I love with whom to spend Thanksgiving.

Have a good turkey day!

WGA Strike: A Love Story (A YouTube video)

As was said elsewhere, this is what happens when people who are paid to be funny have too much time on their hands.

On the not funny side, WGA picketers put the home address of a studio exec on their signs for yesterday’s big rally down Hollywood Blvd, which then got posted online. That’s not cool, yo. It’s disrepectful, and doesn’t win points for the cause.

I have that song stuck in my head, the dreeeeeeam, dream dream dream, dreeeeeeeam, dream dream dream song. It’s the last song playing on the ipod this morning before I got out of the car, which was quite apt at the time, given I’d daydreamed my way along my commute. It’s a wonder I didn’t cause an accident.

The Christmas confusion has started, wherein I feel happy and joyous for all things Christmassy and cheery, except for when I feel depressed and stressed about presents and shopping and packing and missing Christmasses past. It’s a topsy-turvy time of year. Sometimes I’m sad that I don’t have “that special someone” to share it with, who might help take some of the pressure off while at the same time adding to the special joyousness of the season, but I try not to dwell on it, since I’m unwilling to take steps to change anything.

Hmm. I think that stupid song has to come off the ipod.

In other news, I had Thanksgiving-themed nightmares last night, which is odd since I’m not hosting this year, nor am I doing the bulk of the cooking, so really, what the hell? Nightmares be gone!

And speaking of, when I was a kid, I suffered from frequent nightmares that scared the bejeesus out of me. I even became frightened of the very word “nightmare”, and would flip out anytime anyone said it in my presence, convinced that the word caused the dreams. I can’t remember when I stopped fearing the word, but it obviously happened at some point. I still get nightmares sometimes, but the really bad ones are usually only once or twice a year. (And a hallelujah! to that!)