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Falling on the Wagon 2005-12-20 - 9:24 a.m. This always happens when I take a long break from this thing. So much goes on that I miss writing about that it feels like a major task just to try and fit it all in, to catch up. So I don’t. No way that I can. I have a brief moment to update here so away I go. First off, I am very, very proud of Kimmie for starting weight watchers. I have been doing it too but I have not been as resolved as she has. (Thankfully we are taking the week between Christmas and New Years as Point’s Free Time so we don’t stress that.) Like most things in my life, I only get hip to what the “In” crowd is doing a couple of years later. Right now it is the Point’s Cult and Harry Potter. WW is sorta a pain in the ass but I know I can loose weight if I stick to it. Harry Potter has been all sortas fun. Kim finally got me over my distrust of reading it by reading it to me, a little at a time, at bed time. The movies have helped a great deal too. I am a really slow reader, so I am just getting into book 3, which has been my favorite so far. Both Sarah and Chris had their baby girls since I updated and I got to see Wren last Sunday. Precious little thing held onto my finger. Very, very cute. Christmas is barreling ahead with all the commercialism that it can muster. Kim and I are trying really hard to back away from all the rampant spending of the season and just getting each other a few small gifts, and gifts for our immediate family. This keeps the holiday much more meaningful for me, though I wish we had been able to afford a Chrstimas or Thanksgiving party like year’s previous ones for our friends to gather and celebrate. (With the size of the Household now though we’d need a bigger house or to have two parties) We really can’t host them anymore. Partially this wouldn’t be possible because we are painfully broke from the wedding right now (I looked at Kim the other night and brandished the ring and said, “I gots you your Xmas present right here, Byatch!!! MERRRY CHRISTMAS!”), and partially it is hard because we seem to have fallen out of touch with some of our older friends, especially those that were such a big part of our lives for the last five years or so. Fall out from the end of the Chez’s living together is part of it, part of it is all of our friends getting married and/or moving away. I rarely see or even talk to most of my oldest friends these days. A lot of my time is devoted to work and home, and frankly, this past year has been a really tough one for my health, both mental and physical. The first half of the year was amazingly active in the SCA, and the second half has reflected our change in martial and financial status. I’ve been sick for what seems like months and months (After a recent trip to the allergist it was confirmed that yes, indeed, I HAVE been sick for months and months.) And I’m involved in an aggressive program to get my allergies under control. It tough when several of our friends have pets though. I spend ten minutes in their house and I’m having a reaction an hour later that takes me several days to get over. It’s not that they aren’t good housekeepers or that I dislike their company, it’s just that I have gotten to the point where I have to make decisions based on what is best for my health. And often that means no hang out in a house with dogs or cats. And very often it feels like everyone seems to have them. I’m not allergic to Mold at all though, did you know that? Weird huh? Anyway, I guess I am moving into my annual period of introspection and evaluation. So my diary, if it gets updated is going to reflect that. Skip over all this if it bores you. It’s been sorta therapeutic to get it all out there though. Today at lunch I will attempt to get the last couple of small things I want to get and then tonight I will wrap pressies. Tomorrow is the annual Chrstimas luncheon from the Commonwealth Club so be prepared for some post vodka ramblings. A couple of recommendations for my tragically hip friends out there if you have the time. The Boondocks on Adult Swim, and Warren Ellis’s FELL. Great stuff. Later. previous - next

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