Archive for December 2003
yet another less-than-lovely christmas
last year, I fell and hurt my ankle. (emergency room on christmas eve!) this year, just a cold. but it meant another christmas of mostly sleeping.
(not that I was too well prepared even without the cold. I used to love christmas, now it fills me with dread: too much to do, […]
ugh.
I surrender. this time I have, in fact, caught C’s cold. no sniffles, really, but I feel like I’m breathing with a heavy weight on my chest, and my throat just won’t stop hurting. (cold beverages seem to help.)
so there will be a hot shower, and a silly movie, and then some […]
holiday snapshots
christmas looks to be as mellow as thanksgiving was, although this time both of us are fighting off colds (C was sick at thanksgiving). I came home a little early today and got some cool pictures of the tree, stockings, etc….
(the picture in the corner where the site name usually goes is of the […]
C’s theory of the ring
on a less gloomy note, C came up with a theory this morning about why the hobbits were (relatively more) able to bear the Ring: it’s because they don’t wear shoes…their bare feet allow them to remain grounded. no, seriously.
it made sense to me….
unpleasant surprises
“Liz writes about the aftermath of her brother-in-law’s death”:http://mamamusings.net/archives/2003/12/20/how_to_live_life.php and formulates a simple rule:
bq. Live so that no one you love
will be unpleasantly surprised
by what they find when you die.
I have a bit of experience with that myself, though probably not as directly as what she’s going through.
Seven years ago one of my co-workers at […]
