MERRY CHRISTMAS actual Christians and cultural Christians and people who are technically neither but live in a society where they can’t help but be exposed to Christmas.

HAPPY WEDNESDAY everyone else!

JOYFUL YULETIDE to those who participate in it!

It is delightful to be at home in the UK with my genetic family again for Christmas, but as is ( Read more... )

So I see that a few holiday card posts have gone up, now, and it's time to repeat what I ask of my friends every year; Please do not send me a card, because I have reasons to not like the practice.

You may, if you want to make the gesture, donate to a charity of your choice with the card and postage money you were thinking of spending on me. If you ( Read more... )

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Well, it’s that time again when everyone’s returning from Thanksgiving (or as I tend to think of it, the Christmas Rehearsal Dinner)  and my friends list  / blog roll fills up with people asking for addresses for their friends to send out holiday cards.

And once again, I explain that I ask people not to put a piece of paper in an envelope and mail ( Read more... )

I swear I’m still doing meme entries. SO BUSY

Anyway, it’s now properly the Yuletide season, and I’m seeeing all my blogs stick up “give me your address if you’d like a card” posts, as is tradition.

I’ll reiterate here what I said last year:

Please do not send me paper greetings

Instead, this year, I’m asking people to donate to Great Ormond Street ( Read more... )

It's five minutes past ten (or it is as I start writing this) and I've just poured myself a large glass of my first drink of the night. And I have to work tomorrow ( Read more... )

I have another PSA coming up when the Holiday season actually starts, but i think I need to say this as I've seen a lot of "Can I have your address?" posts going up.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME A HOLIDAY CARD.

Holiday emails are fine. Holiday gifts both in physical and electronic forms are unnecessary but will be received with gratitude and love. But ( Read more... )

HAPPY BINGMAS EVERYBODY ( Read more... )

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Happy Christmas, internet, and may none of your favourite characters suddenly be given superpowers and lose their religion in the new year.

I'm still pinning my hopes on the fact that my current virus will no longer be infectious by the time baby comes. I said yesterday that I thought it was peaking and was only going to get better from here. I was, obviously, wrong, and this morning could barely walk straight. Right in the middle of party season, too. Oh fun ( Read more... )