How about a new Daybook? It's been since the end of August, which means more than three months have passed, so why not?

( New 'Daybook' )

This week's Friday Five were inspired by the calendar. We are now less than four months from Christmas, so the questions are all about things associated with the big December bash. Oddly, I was *just* saying in a Facebook comment yesterday that I am a bit of a Grinch where the holiday is concerned, despite having many happy childhood Christmases in ( Read more... )

Time once again for what's become a twice-a-year feature of the blog:

( New 'Daybook' )

For some reason assuming that I haven't already consigned it to the bin, today's Friday Five is asking about my holiday correspondence. In fact, I am an unsentimental soul who has already processed those cards and letters, but I'll take a stab at the questions anyhow.

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Wow, I haven't done one of these since October -- well, okay, unless you count the "Dark Side" version, and even that was six weeks ago.

( New 'Daybook' )

( New 'Daybook' )

Between finishing up my Fall semester grades (late) and practicing for, then playing, three Christmas Eve services, the run-up to Christmas was for me as frantic and frustrating as ever. Indeed, I long ago accepted that the season of Advent and the joy of Christmas preparation simply cannot exist for me the way they do for other people. This is ( Read more... )

( New 'Daybook'! )