My musings on the world that surrounds and astonds me. For December, 1999
UGH! The weddings are done! The Inbound Sales Reps have all been hired! Now we can go on with the fun part of the holiday season, the baking!
My mom is an excellent cook and baker. One of the more trivial things about not being able to go to St. Louis for Christmas is that we will miss out on all her excellent food. Sourdough bread with her special spread...Cinnamon rolls...pizza burgers...lasagna...mmmmmmmm.
Bread is probably mom's greatest culinary skill. She has a way with bread dough. It rises, stays tasty, always perfect. I'm not at her level as a baker.
Mike is pretty close though. He's got a hand with breads and pastries, but his big speciality is sauces. He can do so much with sauce. Barbeque, bechemel, he can do just about anything.
So as the holiday comes closer, the preparations become more and more frantic. I've already got a few decorations out, but only 2 trees. I need to get the lights for the bedroom tree and I might be inheriting another tree to add to the mix. That would put me at 5 trees including the live one.
I got a surprise party for my birthday. And I was totally surprised. I love surprise parties. It's just the right level of party for me. My birthday should be a time when I put ABSOLUTLY NO effort into a party, but I still get friends and presents. I love getting ornaments as presents. It helps me get stuff on the trees.
The best thing with this year is the gift baskets are going to be for Y2K. We're going to give survival gear. Not that I think anything is going to happen, or I wouldn't have planned the New Year's party. But I do think it would be cool to have emergency flares in the holiday gifts.
Now I get to think about what to do with myself for the holidays. I've got all these parties and work, and I'm going to eat a lot. I need to get an exercise program going or something. Of course after the great skating accident...
Flashback to the night of Ann's bachelorette party. We go to play laser tag. The laser place is at a roller-rink. We go roller skating. I'm doing pretty good, I start showing off and BAM! I crash down on my knee. It hurts but not so much that I can't function, so I go on with the night. The next week the bruise is still huge, my leg still hurts and it's spreading! So I hit the hospital, where they tell me bad bruises do that and to elevate it and it'll eventually get better. But the chances of me doing as I am supposed to are slim.
Now I'm just looking forward to the new year, to my continuing success at growing as a person, and to the future of the lives around me. My favorites being Mike and Xcylur of course. Xcylur gets cooler everyday, and I am pleased as can be to be his mom. He is becoming one of my best friends, which is cool, since he's only four, and his needs are so simple that I can provide for him quite well.
Next year I want to move forward in both the electronic world and the real one. I'm thinking of starting a campaign and running for a local office. I need to investigate how, where and why, but I'll probably be pretty successful in the investigation stage. Running for office... we'll see.
With luck, work will be successful in the next year. Hopefully there will be some big positive changes. I hope so. I like my job, and I have such great bosses. I just hope I can really do something good this year. Move up and ahead.
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The spirit is willing, but the urge to be a creature who hibernates and hoards is overcoming the creature that should be sharing with all the world. We've had the huge champagne stock up, and I'm tempted to charge everyone to come to the party! We've not spent a fortune, and we've spread it out over quite a few months, but it is a little frustrating to spend so much of my hard earned cash for other people's fun.
But, it's the season of giving. Generosity in both possessions and spirit. Giving of myself, thinking and acting kindly, and being generous with the things I have. So I'll stfle the urge