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Dec. 22nd, 2007 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupMichigan is so freaking weird. Last week we had a snowstorm. This week it's all melting. I don't remember the last time we had an honest to goodness white Christmas because this keeps on happening. Am slightly vexed.
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auntiemeesh, I got your card! It was delightful! Thank you ever so much, my dear.
Have spent the day cleaning and wrapping presents. I only have one more thing I want to get and I should be all ready. I ventured out today to pick up an equalizing present for the Big Lug and the crowds weren't nearly as bad as I feared they would be. I also tried to frame the LotR poster I got for the Da but realized that it's 25 inches instead of 24 and I can't seem to find a big enough frame. I got one so we'll see what I can do. Stupid New Line, couldn't they make a normal-sized poster?
Had a discussion last night about Santa Claus. It's interesting to me that some kids, when they find out where they're presents are coming from view it as a big conspiracy, their parents lied, to them, OMG! My experience was quite different. I actually believed in Santa for a ridiculously long amount of time. I think I wanted to believe so badly that I purposefully closed my eyes to any other possibilities until I organically realized what the truth had to be. But there's still a part of me that kind of believes, the same part that still believes in Narnia and Middle-earth, and Oz. There is truth and there is reality and sometimes those concepts are not as clear as they may seem to be. I'm grateful for that little bit of me that still clings to concepts like wonder and magic, it helps me trudge through the cold and the dark.
But, anyway, I'm 100% behind telling kids about Santa because Santa is the coolest. Just so long as he's not Evil Santa or the Anti-Clause or anything like that cause no child should ever have to be traumatized in that way.
In sum: I almost bought a magnet today that said, "It took me years but I finally quit dieting." A very wise magnet. I think I might like to make some Christmas cookies tonight. Yeah, that might be fun. =D
In other holiday news,
auntiemeesh, I got your card! It was delightful! Thank you ever so much, my dear.Have spent the day cleaning and wrapping presents. I only have one more thing I want to get and I should be all ready. I ventured out today to pick up an equalizing present for the Big Lug and the crowds weren't nearly as bad as I feared they would be. I also tried to frame the LotR poster I got for the Da but realized that it's 25 inches instead of 24 and I can't seem to find a big enough frame. I got one so we'll see what I can do. Stupid New Line, couldn't they make a normal-sized poster?
Had a discussion last night about Santa Claus. It's interesting to me that some kids, when they find out where they're presents are coming from view it as a big conspiracy, their parents lied, to them, OMG! My experience was quite different. I actually believed in Santa for a ridiculously long amount of time. I think I wanted to believe so badly that I purposefully closed my eyes to any other possibilities until I organically realized what the truth had to be. But there's still a part of me that kind of believes, the same part that still believes in Narnia and Middle-earth, and Oz. There is truth and there is reality and sometimes those concepts are not as clear as they may seem to be. I'm grateful for that little bit of me that still clings to concepts like wonder and magic, it helps me trudge through the cold and the dark.
But, anyway, I'm 100% behind telling kids about Santa because Santa is the coolest. Just so long as he's not Evil Santa or the Anti-Clause or anything like that cause no child should ever have to be traumatized in that way.
In sum: I almost bought a magnet today that said, "It took me years but I finally quit dieting." A very wise magnet. I think I might like to make some Christmas cookies tonight. Yeah, that might be fun. =D
