Posts Tagged ‘giving’
December’s Here!
Crashes and spinouts. That is what the first significant snowfall produces for commuters. My hour-long drive to work yesterday morning almost doubled in time due to the first wave of snow that flowed over the region. Wave two, which started last night, added enough new depth that I expect the trip to work today will be slow once again.
That’s okay. It’s December!
Time for wish lists and holiday parties, gift planning and benevolent scheming. Bring on the holiday good cheer.
Sadly, our sweet doggy isn’t feeling very cheerful today. No sooner did we get her back to her normal old self, when she suddenly returned to vomiting again last night.
Is this the same issue or something different? Hard to say. Cyndie did recently give Delilah a couple things to eat that were not her ordinary fare. That will be curtailed entirely while we nurse her back to normal. It may be that we will need to restrain her to a strict diet indefinitely.
In honor of December, I’m including this picture of a wreath that Cyndie made this year while horsing around with some ribbons and tree branches.
Makes our place look festive, as if it were the holiday season or something. Of course, that was taken back in November, before all the white stuff blew in. Maybe I can get a new shot of it this afternoon while I am out plowing the driveway.
I’ll want to get things cleaned up and ready for the big melt that is forecast to be following this snow event.
Happy December!
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Happy Winter!
What if they held a winter, and nobody came? Today marks the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The daylight doesn’t get any shorter than this. Kind of inspires a reason to hold a celebration, doesn’t it? If you aren’t ready for that yet, don’t fret, in four days it will be Christmas. You can celebrate then.
The best part of Christmas is the giving of gifts, and the best part of giving is surprise. The person receiving and the person giving both get fueled by it. Yet, we have this natural tendency to seek the information that spoils the surprise. People will go to great lengths to hide and greater lengths to seek the packages brought home this time of year. I know someone who claimed he hid his wife’s gifts in the oven because it is one place she would never look. I tend to try the obvious and hide things in plain sight. If it doesn’t look hidden, it must not be something that needs to be hidden. Why investigate something left out in the open? This technique benefits by having a lot of clutter around in the first place, in order to make the new additions blend in.
My brother-in-law and I long ago discarded the surprise aspect of gift exchange in the family name-draw routine and deviously scheme ways to end up with each other’s name. Then, we ask what the other wants and get that very item. No muss, no fuss. But both have always found a way to doctor it up a bit, because even as we are busy navigating around the whole ‘what-gift-to-surprise-them-with’ dilemma, we still can’t overcome that connection to the surprise aspect of gift exchange.
I am also quite fond of anonymous gift giving. There’s nothing like inventing a fat man that inexplicably navigates a chimney to deliver gifts to cover up that it was you. Good luck with that one.
Happy Winter everyone! Enjoy the celebrations.
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