Here at my house, I celebrate Chanukah, and my kids celebrate Christmas. I love years like this, where Chanukah is long done before Christmas arrives, since it means I don't have to mix them together: I put the tree up after the menorah was away. In the future - maybe next year, maybe the one after that - I won't bother with the tree anymore, but ( Read more... )

Now that it's officially a new calendar year (at least according to the common (Georgian?) calendar), I decided to list some of the things I'm looking forward to this year.

First, I'm really looking forward to owning a copy of The Crooked Kind of Perfect, lurban's forthcoming book. And trust me, so are you. I'd say I was looking forward to owning sarazarr's ( Read more... )