Just so the rest of y’all can share the funny

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One of my dear friends tied the knot in Vegas over Thanksgiving… this is her description of her Aunt’s congratulatory card:

Hi Gina,

I had to share this with you, as one of the few I know who can really appreciate it. My Aunt, a Very Well Bred Old Southern Gentlewoman, wrote me a note congratulating me on getting married. It starts with the usual: congrats, happy, etc. etc … “And what an unusual wedding! I hope your parents were too pleased to be critical of the offbeat way you did it!!” Oh, lawd have mercy, I practically fell over laughing. I do love a well-bred passive-aggressive smackdown.

*Names changed to protect my dear friend, but published with her permission.

Branding

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A very worrisome sign I saw in Raleigh… notice the name of the business:

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My holiday card this year (I’m quite proud of it)

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Card construction details, if anyone’s interested

Being scared as a call to action

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Often when I’m scared of doing something the fear acts as a strange signal to me that the very thing I’m scared of is, in fact, something that I need to do.  I don’t know when exactly this behavior pattern started, but I do remember the first time I noticed it, which was when LJ decided that for her 30th birthday she wanted to go skydiving.

Now, I love roller coasters, but I’ve never liked plummeting part, just the loops and roles and twists.  Therefore, jumping out of a plane had always seemed like all the worst parts of roller coaster rides without any of the good parts, yet when LJ said it, I felt compelled to do it.  Upon examining further this seemingly oxymoronic behavior. I realized that I’d been acting this way for quite a while, but that as I grew older — and more determined to continue to grow and challenge myself and not become a fossilized old poop — the drive has become even stronger.

This afternoon there was another example of this sort of behavior

Happy B’day

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Happy Birthday, thebroomeclosetMike

Heading West — California here we come!

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So, I survived the ANFDCS (Annual Norman Family Dysfunctional Christmas Shindig), which was this past weekend; as a matter of fact, it wasn’t even all that dysfunctional this year (!).  Having Jeff there certainly helps, as does the fact I’ve finally gotten straight the names of all of my step-cousins.  Those things, plus the fact that I’d lost three pounds due to having the plague1 the week before and thereby met the “lost weight” criteria (which is *very* important to my Grandmother…what can I say, she’s from another age..), meant that all-in-all there was no criticism directed my way, making me very happy.

I’m now in that odd place where I think I’m mostly ready for Christmas…until another boxload of things arrives via mail and the wrapping & tagging cycle begins again.  Or until I realize that there’s Mandatory Work Fun the next day and I have to bake (most recently, Monkey Bread, for tomorrow’s IS breakfast.  Anyone know why it’s called Monkey Bread? Or why there’d be Mandatory Fun at 8:00am?!). Or until I realize that I leave on Friday and haven’t yet sent emails out explaining itinerary.  Or….

Anyway, between Christmas prep and recovering from the plague1 I got the day after my show (thank heavens for small favors, at least!), I’ve not been paying much attention to LJ.  If something important has happened and I didn’t make any appropriate comments…well, pretend I did.  Or drop me an email or something.

Upcoming Plans:
On Friday night (or maybe Saturday morning), Jeff and I are headed to Charlotte to have Christmas with my mom and Grumps (Sat. afternoon) and Dad (Saturday evening).  Then Sunday morning we fly to California (WHEE!), to stay one night with our friends Spider and Eli, then three nights at Wilbur Hot Springs.  Then we’re heading south to Santa Cruz to stay with our friend Darryl, with lunch on the way in Calistoga with Edson and Minna, folks Jeff’s known from years from the European motorcycling crowd. 

Hopefully on the 30th/31st we’ll be able to head back up to the Bay area to see folks I work with/friends of mine from high school like Alan/sundry others who might be interested in catching up.  Have no idea what’s up for New Years, other than we’ll be with Darryl, and then we’re flying back to NC on the 1st.

1 Ok.  Just a nasty head cold.  But it felt like the plague.

Craft show reminder

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The very, very good news is that I managed to load in this year without any injuries that might require major surgery!

I’ll not be there most of tomorrow (meetings), but will be there all day Friday and all day Saturday… for more info

Hope to see you there!

Are you behind on your holiday shopping?

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If so, I can help!

The Holiday Shoppe (note again the extra ‘e’ — still makes it special  ;-) will be at Cary Academy again this year, and they’ve been kind enough to invite me back!  I am fervently hoping that I’ll manage to get through this one without busting my knee (or any other part of me, for that matter.  Knock on laminate.)

(If you’d like to know more)

Well there you go…

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I’d been stressing recently about not having said much for a while, and then I was stressing about the stupidness of stressing while trying to remember why I was doing this (not out of any need to “journal” in the commonly used sense, but because sometimes I have things that are worth saying), when finally this morning it occurred to me that I hadn’t been journaling because I haven’t had that rare combo of grandly excited and three free seconds to breathe.

What’s been going on of late

Halloween

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This year I carved one of those fake pumpkin things (“funkin”?  That doesn’t sound right, does it?).