The Aerie
Oh, hi there. Yeah, almost a month this time. Actually I did have a couple blog entries I started, but then time got hold of me and off I went. I included the half-written one after the jump just as proof, it's from 12/17.
The Holiday madness is over, now, and we have entered The Slog - the long, grim, nine-week campaign across the featureless Arctic desert of January and February. The only consolation is the goal - the sultry slushy days of March, and the hysterical greenery of April.
Christmas went pretty well. No major family catastrophes to report. Christmas Eve we spent at my sister-in-law's. Despite her husband hiding upstairs with stomach flu, none of us contracted it across the next week, so his self-imposed quarantine must have worked.
Christmas Day we got to my family's place early. I endured the usual avalanche of gifts under my mother's tree by spending much of my time updating and fixing the laptop I gave her last Christmas. Applying security patches and program updates took hours.
And we had the Best New Year's Eve Ever. Our friend Z threw a party in her new and absolutely gorgeous house, and T and I actually stayed out dancing til 2:30 in the morning! Amazing!
As far as Resolutions go, this year's is a little unusual. I make resolutions some years, and some years I don't. In 2000 my resolution was to Not Give In To Fear, which had to do with being given a challenging new role at my last job. This year's resolution is similar: this year I've decided to Go Towards the Fear. In other words, not stuff it down, not avoid it, not act in spite of it, but to actually examine the things that make me afraid and try to understand them.
Meanwhile I have to pick up the rubble of my 2007 attempts at returning to college, to say nothing of my financial picture, and maybe even improving my health!
So welcome to 2008. Hopefully the Presidential elections won't drive us all insane, and by this time next year the whole world will be a better place. Meanwhile if you want to read a half-written entry from December 17th, it's below...
------12/17/2008-----
Ah full-time employment, it makes the weeks pass so quickly. 'Course that's what drives me crazy about it - yes I need to make money to support the family, but time accelerates so quickly that I start to get motion-sickness. Any chore that i put off never gets done - heck if i don't fill the car when it's a quarter down from full, the tank is suddenly empty.
I suddenly have a few minutes to blog because a meeting at work cancelled, otherwise I'd go from meeting to meeting to the car to another meeting to home to dinner to bed.
This weekend passed quickly. On Friday I took my daughter for Dad 'n Kid day, we did some Christmas shopping and went to see Enchanted. That was a fun film, I about laughed my head off, particularly during the apartment-cleaning scene. Saturday I took my youngest out and he picked up a couple of presents.
And Sunday went zoom-zoom-zoom from home to church to piano recital to the Christmas tree farm. We got a fresh tree, too - it was sucking up water like a camel within minutes of being put in the stand.
Things are gearing up for Christmas, I ...
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