The lovely Dave bought me a 75-300mm lens for my camera and yesterday we went for an xmas walk on the beach. I cannot wait until spring when the light is better...prepare for lots of photo spam.
- 11:30 RT @browniecow: Merry Christmas! :-) (and happy weekend!) #
- 11:43 if santa didn't bring that stand mixer, check Williams-Sonoma. The green, citron & blue are $100 off. #
- 21:26 Fireworks have been delayed at Disneyland tonight. The crowd is not pleased. #
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See you in 2010!
- 18:43 sure, why not? RT @babybug: "I think the reindeer would like olives." #
- 21:31 @fstop23 we're on the last episode. i want to go again! #
- 21:34 @AngryJulie how do you lose presents? #
- 21:40 @margalit maybe santa will bring you a TiVo - doesn't matter what's on - you watch what you want, when you want to. #
- 22:46 RT @SFMOMA: We're closed 25th bit.ly/6pxHYZ However, SFMOMA neighbor @jewseum is free & has Chinese food if you need a museum fix : ) #
- 22:47 @frogtosser but how will santa ....? #
- 23:13 @kennyeng safe journies! #
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I'm still working on some of the old resolutions (like improving my posture -- this one's a toughie), but I've got two more this year. I'm keeping it pretty simple:
- Meditate
- Try archery
Why meditate? Well, when I do yoga, it really clears my mind and re-centers me. Meditation does the same. It's easy to start practicing, because I can just do it at home. Surprisingly the difficult part is putting 15 minutes aside to do it. But we should all have at least that much time every day to ourselves. I'm getting a couple meditation CDs on Amazon to help me start. Oh, and there are also a ton of health benefits to meditation.
Archery... well, I've just been wanting to try it and haven't gotten around to it yet. I enjoy the focus and concentration of target shooting, and archery also seems sort of meditative in its own way. I found an outdoor shooting range in El Cajon, for both archery and firearms, so I'm going to drag the honey and maybe some friends out with me.
Merry Christmas, and happy holidays everyone! Share the love year 'round!
- 12:25 @onetake are you saying you wouldn't have paid the extra fee? I feel like a cow now. #
- 14:00 "Well, I just didn't have time to talk you back into hanging yourself." #
- 14:03 "I've found that sometimes friends can be more dangerous than enemies." #lost #
- 14:46 RT @CherylSmith999: Just remembering Christmases as single mom & how difficult those days were. Give a special gift to single parent friend. #
- 23:25 Wow!! RT @RickWarren saved every Christmas catalogue from my mailbox this season: 116 total, weighing 40+ lbs. What a waste of paper. #
- 23:32 RT @Suzbroughton: RT @PrincessDuck * ❄ * ❄ * * ❄ . * ❄ * . ❄ ❄ * ❄ Christmas Eve!___☃__ #
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Moonmallow (the adorable plushie above) and I hope you and your loved ones have some very happy hollydays this year. ^___^ I've been busy with buying pressies for my friends and family, wrapping the pressies, and sending out cards to people over the past few weeks. Everything seems like a blur-- but a very happy blur!
I'm sending many warm thoughts your way. <3
Ok, this sounds dumb, but I find this tip very useful. I can't believe I've been so inefficient with bananas all my life.
This is one of my favorite Christmas memories. The time is December 1996 -- it was my freshman year in a mostly Jewish college, 3,000 miles from home. I lived in a tiny 2-bed dorm room with my roommate Coreen, from Alaska. We were probably both a little homesick, culture-shocked (more about the east coast-ness and the college life than being the minority non-Jews).
We were both of the mind to get a little Christmas tree for our room. Neither of us had cars, so we took the campus "Bran Van" to Home Depot, which was a few blocks from the van stop. Home Depot only had full-size trees. What the hell, we thought. So we lugged the tree a few blocks back to the stop, called the van, and squeezed the tree inside, with the other passengers eyeballing us like we were insane (that's not to say they weren't at least partially correct).
With a trail of pine needles behind us, we brought it up to the third floor and started decorating. We didn't have money for much besides ramen and microwave popcorn those days, so we made some popcorn strands and fashioned ornaments from construction paper -- snowflakes, paper chains, spiraly things. All the while drinking hot chocolate with candy canes and laughing about something. It was fun, and a little wacky. Our ginormous tree in the window really lit up that side of campus. People visited us just to check out the Christmas tree. And we'd go to our friends' places to watch them light another candle on the menorah.
I don't have as much time to make all my ornaments now, but every time I get a tree I think back to the first one in DeRoy hall at Brandeis. We named it Ralphie.
Yesterday our neighbour had me help with a bird emergency. There was a
starling in her back garden who had gotten caught up in the netting
from one of these. It had managed to get most of itself free but the
netting was still wound around its tongue...and there was still a bit
of fatball left in the netting so it was dragging the poor wee things
tongue out. It was horrifying...there was blood everywhere which stood
out more in the snow. I cannot stand to see animals in pain and
normally i would be a basketcase...but I just picked him up and held
him whilst i had Dave go get some scissors. We managed to snip the
netting off as close to his tongue as possible but it was pretty
damaged. After i had set him down on the snow again he flew away quite
happily so my mind is choosing to believe that he survived.
I can still feel his little hea5rt beating away in my hand...like a phantom limb.
Please don't buy these...or if you do shred the netting and put the fatballs in a fatball feeder.
