Yanno, I haven't started the Christmas letter yet. I should do that if I'm going to get the cards in the mail by Orthodox Christmas (Jan 6).

Christmas was very quiet here. Mum sent us a gift basket of holiday breakfast (add buttermilk and breakfast meat of choice) and musical dominoes -- not the kind that make music (sigh), but the pips are musical ( Read more... )

MRI results came in today. Nothing obviously wrong on the scan. Doc says "stay in the splint, see the specialist as scheduled. We'll figure it out." So far today, I have said "ow" three times, and all I have done is made breakfast, taken a shower, and gotten dressed. (OK, so the last two were done without the splint, but it's not supposed to hurt ( Read more... )

Yesterday (Sunday) was the Cemetery Walk at church -- the cemetery associated with the church has graves in it from the 1830s, and the church historical society writes skits involving some of the people there (it's somewhat interesting to get comments on an early 1900's character from people who actually knew her...). In conjunction with that, the ( Read more... )

I *still* haven't gotten the holiday cards sent out. I picked the pictures up and had the letter written on Monday after Christmas, and the cards have been addressed since Thursday, but didn't print the letter, mostly due to not wanting to ruin what was left of my holiday by muttering at the printer. And I was right. I've been trying to print the ( Read more... )