Phil & Abra Staffin Wiebe

& Cassius & Theia

Dear Friends and Family,

Well, this is one hell of a year to try and write a Christmas letter in, isn't it? The pandemic, the Uprising (we live only a few blocks from George Floyd Square), distance learning and working from home, and that's without even getting into the politics of 2020. So much has ( Read more... )

Woke up, opened presents, ate breakfast of semmel with blue cheese, went to an oddly empty church for an oddly short service (apparently, this is what Christmas service is like when Sunday actually falls on Christmas ( Read more... )

Overall, a productive day. Aside from the writing stuff, I also managed to do dishes, including handwash dishes, to do laundry, to change the bed sheets, to run the Roomba, to set up the birdfeeder my parents got Phil for Christmas, to update my resume, and to cook dinner. So that was good.

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Just finished getting out the last of my Christmas cards! Don't bother to check your calendar; it's still February. But losing a chunk of time to sickness around the holidays left me drastically behind on, well, life.

With no further ado, I present...The Staffin Wiebe 2010 Christmas Letter!


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At work, I always walk around with a pen and a small post-it pad in my back pocket, in case of notes or labels being needed.

At home, I'm walking around with a candy cane in my back pocket.

I know which I prefer.

(Though to be honest, candy canes don't store well in back pockets. Is sad.)

• ++ Delighted to be safely home and online again after visit to internet-free in-laws.
• - Unexpected luggage additions: niece's DVDs "Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun!" and "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales." Hello, USPS!

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• - Our kitten, Fu Manchu, is now big enough to jump on kitchen counters. Heaven help us all.
• Yay, Google! ping.fm/pqJzk
• Loving the "Decreased Productivity" Firefox web-surfing add-on: ping.fm/c7yqb
• Disable favicons in tabs in firefox: ping.fm/j4VHa

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