Goodbye, 2021

The night is getting older, and the old year is approaching senescence. Let us send it off with a champagne fueled coup de grace.

I look to the New Year for hope, and for love, and for laughs. I look to the New Year for challenges, for things to learn, for fears to overcome, for stories to tell.

I know that you will help me find some of ( Read more... )

Holiday Cards

Hello, all - I'm hoping to get at least a few holiday cards out this year, and I'd love to send you one. I have addresses for some of you, but if you do want a card, message me even if you think I have your snail mail address. Better for me to have it twice than not at all. You can also let me know if there are any types of cards you'd ( Read more... )

OK, It's Happening!

Well, it's actually starting with an online party at 11:30 p.m. Chicago time, so I'm going to be up late, starting my writing at 12:01 a.m. Which is, of course, quite ridiculous, especially since I'm also slated to do a writing sprint at 9 a.m. Monday.

I don't mind being ridiculous especially since I got a fair amount more done ( Read more... )

2020: the year of "Oh, Fuck Off."

That's how I've come to think of this hell year. The most recent "Oh, fuck off" I've given came a few minutes ago, when something ate my original post. As is always the case, I know that that post would have been much more erudite, civilized and amusing than this one. Leave it to 2020 to eat a post. Fuck you, 2020, ( Read more... )

Three Weeks and a Few

Somehow, it appears I've gone *checks calendar*  25 days without posting. I've checked in occasionally with other people, but apparently I haven't had enough on my mind that I thought worth saying to put fingers to keyboard.

For someone for whom "prolix" should be a middle name, this is unacceptable. And here I am to repair my ( Read more... )

It Is Friday

There is steak being broiled, salad prepared, and I have a flute of very nice Costco prosecco to sip on. All is Well.

No, wait, we're not saying that phrase for at least another year, giving it time to air out from its use by 45.

All is awesome. This entry was originally posted at https://kaffyr.dreamwidth.org/757886.html?mode=reply, ( Read more... )

2019-2020

Where was I this time last year? Where was I this time 10 years ago?

I'd planned to write something meaningful, or at least witty, about the new year coming on. I'd planned to be snarky about the number of people going on about the past decade, because FFS, wasn't 2009-2010 just last year?

But the day got longer and I had to prepare for ( Read more... )

Cards! I'm Sending Cards!

For various reasons, largely because we are tired this year, and because my regular post-buyout Trib checks have ended and my Social Security won't start for a couple of months, and the Guild pay is intermittent, BB and I are not doing Christmas. That means for the first time in years, we haven't gone out and bought a ( Read more... )

Lists, Or I Don't Happen

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Thank You

Thanksgiving; one of those problematic holidays.

I used to take it on faith. It was sold to me as the celebration of two vastly different peoples, who shared food and companionship. That was nice, and if teachers elided the subsequent history of colonial usurpers and the indigenous people they ruthlessly betrayed, suppressed, force-marched ( Read more... )