Holidays
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Many people consider Friday the 13th to be a very unlucky day, the kind of day when it’s probably best to stay home with your head under the pillow. Well, maybe not UNDER, because then, being Friday the 13th, you would probably suffocate. In my family, however, Friday the 13th is considered to be a lucky day. Perhaps we’re rebels, or perhaps we’re demon spawn, which puts us at odds with everyone else, but regardless of these possibilities, we do. The reason that Friday the 13th is a lucky day dates back to when I was in the 5th grade. Back then, in the days before direct deposit and so…
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Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all of my Easter Celebrating friends! Whether you celebrate the Resurrection as part of your faith, or the return of spring, as symbolized by bunnies and eggs, I hope you have a wonderful day, and have some chocolate. 😉 This is my favorite Easter book, bar none. It’s about the Country Bunny, who wants to try out to be an Easter Bunny, but as she is a single mom, the old Easter Bunny doesn’t think she will be able to manage. But, like good single moms everywhere, she has taught her little bunnies to do all of the chores around the house, which they demonstrate by cleaning,…
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Happy Passover
Happy Passover to all! When I found out that the traditional Passover meal includes 4 glasses of wine, it made me wonder…how do you get up and go to work the next day? So, please, I gotta know…what do you do…do you go to work during Passover? Or take the day off?
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3 Day Weekend…
It’s Monday afternoon, the weekend is almost over…why can’t every weekend be a three-day-er, I ask? Friday was plumbing and the good news that said plumbing and wall destruction will be paid by the homeowners association. LOVELY! Knew there had to be some advantage to living in a condo… Saturday was a 2-hour drive to Salinas, a chance to get to know my step-mom’s family a little better at her mom’s funeral service. The unexpected cozy feeling in my tummy when she introduced me, not as her step daughter, nor as Michael’s daughter, but just as, “My daughter”. These people were all her family, so they knew that she wasn’t…
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That Sounds About Right…
You Are A Realistic Romantic It’s easy for you to get swept away by romance… But you’ve done a pretty good job keeping perspective. You’re still taken in by love poems and sunsets You just don’t fall for every dreamy pick up line! Are You Romantic or Realistic?
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Happy Valentine’s Day
To all…but mostly of course, to my dear beloved Py. Love this groovy trip we’re on together, sweetheart.
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Eat Some Pie
I could have left this until tomorrow, I thought of using this picture for a Wordless Wednesday post, since so far, I don’t have a post brewing in my head…unusual for me, I know. BUT, I would be remiss in my responsibilities, and I cribbed the picture from a bakery website anyway. Alas, I have probably put this off for too long, and my morning readers will not find out in time…but, if anyone is still out there, today is National Pie Day. So stop at the store on the way home, and get a pie. Or, if you’re that way, make a pie. Could be a Shepherd’s Pie for…
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Happy 60th Birthday, David!
There may be a few of you out there who don’t know, David Bowie was my first husband. This is before he dumped me for Iman, and before I dumped him for Ted, and before I realized just how OLD he is, just a few years younger than my parents. So David, in case you’re considering dumping that supermodel, it’s OVER for us. We can never be together again. I’m with Ted now, and there’s just no going back. I know, trying to squash our love is like “putting out a fire with gasoline”, but really…I’m sorry to break your heart like that, but sometimes, it’s best to be blunt,…
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Happy New Year!
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A Question…
Me: Why do you think some people start their Christmas shopping in August, while others wait until December 23rd? Ted: Because some people are women, while others are men. Me: That sounds about right.
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Holidays at our House
It’s the 6th night of Hanukkah, and we’ve lit the menorah, and the candles are burning low…the Christmas tree is lit, and there are depressing Aimee Mann Christmas songs playing. Just another holiday at our house. A few years ago, we decided, for fun, to start celebrating Hanukkah. Neither Ted nor I know of any Jewish folks on either side of our families, so this is a pretty secular celebration of a religious holiday, but we kind of felt like since we’re not Christian, and we celebrate Christmas, it would be nice to expose Maya to some of the other traditions of the season, and heck, what’s not to like…
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Almost Ready….
Christmas Cards sent….check Christmas Gifts purchased…check Christmas Gifts wrapped….check Christmas Gifts mailed…check Hanukkah celebration attended…check Latkes and jelly donuts eaten…check Menorah candles lit…in progress Scrooged watched….check Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer watched…check Tree decorated…check The Year Without a Santa Claus watched….check (love those Miser brothers…they’re too much!) Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town watched…check A Charlie Brown Christmas watched…check How The Grinch Stole Christmas watched…check Yummy treats baked and eaten…check Holiday luncheon for work to attend…later today Lunch with Cherry, and yummy cookies to receive…tomorrow Go to San Francisco to see A Christmas Carol…not yet – This weekend or not at all Plan dishes to bring to Christmas dinner…not yet…
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A Good Day’s Work…
We put up the tree the other night…I love our fake little tree, though I wish we had a bigger living room, so it wouldn’t have to be smashed between the chair and the TV like that. But it’s a cozy little tree. 🙂 I bought about half of the ornaments all at once, when I first moved out on my own, and wanted a tree in my San Francisco flat. The other half have been bought or given to us since then. I’m a Donald fan, so there are several Donald Ducks, and lots of other cute ones, but one of my favorites is this one, that I brought…
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Favorite Holiday Songs
I like Christmas music ok, but not when it’s played all day, every day, on the radio. Ugh. And I like a Hanukkah song or two, which is why I titled this, Favorite Holiday Songs, and not Favorite Christmas songs, though, really, they’re mostly Christmas songs. Sorry. And, even though I was raised atheist, and don’t really go in for Christmas being that much about Jesus, kinda think it’s more about pagans and the winter solstice, and it was coopted by the Catholic Church early on while trying to convert said pagans, blah blah blah, etc. etc., there is truly something so wonderful and hopeful about the more religious songs,…
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Holiday Depression…
I’ve been hearing lately about how the holidays are a hard time for so many people…how they depress people and stress the hell out of people, and I’ve been wondering, what is it about Christmas (and Hannukah…do any of my Jewish friends get depressed around this time of year?) that brings folks down? Isn’t this supposed to be a happy time? So I thought, what is it that we do to ourselves around the holidays? 1. Maybe too much pressure put on shopping and gifts, you think? In a culture where the majority of retailers go into the black finally in the last month of the year, and our whole…