The trouble with being on a extended vacation is that three day weekends are darned inconvenient. I mean, I’m sure that it’s very nice for FedEx employees to have today off, but I need to mail things now.
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Check out the audio Rejection Letter from Santa Claus that Luc Reid did.
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I will write a minimum of one page a day, and I will do it before I do anything else on the computer. (Otherwise I get sucked into a pit of email and other “pressing matters.”)
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For New Year’s Eve we all went down to George and Julie’s house in Atlanta. Based on the amount of food, Julie seemed to be expecting more than the dozen guests attending. We dined and drank champagnes and Spanish wines. My cousin Robert, their eldest son, is off to Spain for five months of study
After the High Museum we all went to the Center for Puppetry Arts to see Shoemaker and the Elves. Tears of Joy will be restaging it and I am slated to be the designer for their production so it seemed like a good idea to catch the show while I was here.
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We drove down to Atlanta early so that we could go to the High Museum and see the Andrew Wyeth exhibition. He has long been one of my favorite artists.
and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we went. Mom, Rob and I went to Grandma’s to do some New Year’s cleaning. I say that we cleaned Grandma’s house. In truth we just vacuumed and then I attempted to dust, but there wasn’t any dust. In between my cleaning attempts, we got to do some
Rob and I drove my brother to the Atlanta airport yesterday. We visited friends, stayed at George and Julie’s (my cousins) and then drove back today. In other news, I’ve spent most of my time on the computer today trying to put the finishing touches on Shimmer.
How can we still have so many leftovers in the house? It is staggering. At each meal, the counter is covered with food from Christmas Eve. It doesn’t help that Mom is also cooking something to supplement the leftovers, as if there isn’t enough food already. Dad took us out on tromp around the property
Ah youth. Peter knocked on our door at 8:00 to let us know that Santa had come–no, more accurately, to let us know that it was time for him to open his presents. I have to give him credit for letting us sleep past 8:00, I suppose. When all the gifts were opened, actually, by
The festivities went off without a hitch last night. Twenty-three relatives in one house for dinner. The Menu Oriental Napa Cabbage Salad Cornbread Angel Biscuits Rice and Shrimp Curry Cranberry Congealed Salad Butternut Squash with Apples and Currants Pomegranate Garbanzo Bean Salad Spinach Artichoke Casserole Brandied Fruit Carrot Casserole Corn Pudding English Toffee The crazy
I had to go to the mall today. Surely, that explains all of the horror without further detail, so I may go onto the pleasant things. Steve and his family arrived during the night and somehow managed to get a teenager, a proto-teenager and a three year-old into the house without waking anyone. Now that,
Rob and I made it safely to Chattanooga last night. My parents have already had us busy with Christmas preparations. Today, Rob and I went for a walk up to the log house to see the preparations for moving it. I took a basket to cut greenery for the mantle down at Woodthrush Woods. I
We’re on our way to Chattanooga. I got no comments from the typewriter in security. How disappointing.
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John, Rob and I went to Kevin’s woodshop. They are just starting a new project, so kept apologizing that nothing was happening. The shop is well-equipped and has lots of tools that I’ve never seen before. And routers. I’ve seen them before, but now I covet one. After that, Laura, Rob and I went into
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