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Archive for December, 2007

New Year’s Eve

And I am home alone. It isn’t that I mind being alone - I rather like it and I surely don’t miss Husband 5. It is just that I realized I am home alone, well, alone except for 2 cats which somehow makes it worse, drinking tea and watching Lifetime.
I think I will [...]

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Boxing Day

Although we do not celebrate Boxing day in the United States I am a great fan of the concept. Wikipedia says “It originated as a day for giving gifts to employees and poor people” but for me it has always presented the opportunity for a Christmas do-over. The huge stress of getting [...]

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Holiday Gold

And if there were a Platinum Medal event in the Dysfunctional Family Olympics - I would be holding it tonight on the platform while they played my family’s anthem.

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Inspired by yet another gift of frozen meat received on my doorstep. No card - corporate label greeting only. What do you send to family when you don’t really know them, haven’t seen them in years, nor do you really care about who you are sending it too and you would rather have [...]

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It is a given that most families are dysfunctional and that the holidays are the Dysfunction Olympics. My family has taken gold 3 years running and I am quite sure we are good as gold this year, notwithstanding Jamie Spears’ teen baby not so shocker. We are, after all, competing in the Senior [...]

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Happy Hannuka

I celebrate the light that is my family.

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