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“Finally it has happened to me / right in front of my face and I just can not hide it”

—Cece Peniston…oldie but goodie! I should get this song

“Let’s fade into the sun / let your spirit fly / where we are one / just for a little fun / oh oh oh yeah ! // I want to get away / I want to fly away / yeah yeah yeah”

—Lenny Kravitz…OK not really but see below, a song from yore

time 4:18 pm feeling tired but happy wearing fuchsia sweater, black pants reading sort-of Lincoln book, but…not really music CHRISTMAS music! ready for bed next fixing things

What?

Are you ALSO disappointed in the decreasing frequency of lxforever updates?

Would you daresay, even, that Trike is BEATING me in this regard, just like days of old?

Yep, pretty much. Well…sorry. What can I say, some days/months/years are for writing, and some, well, are not.

(I’m even already anticipating what an EOTY update might look like. I reread some of that sort of thing from 2011, and, damn! That year was bad. Oh so bad. But, at least there were good things. And this year! Mostly good. So much better. But, there were of course bad things. And So It Goes etc etc etc.)

FOR THE RECORD, my two favorite traditional holiday songs are Carol of the Bells and O Holy Night. Just FTR.

I also really like Dance Party Christmas Mix and the Charlie Brown soundtrack…DUH!

Well OK. So far this update is a fail. I just spent over an hour trying to get something in XCode to work, I could not get it to work, then all of a sudden I did…something, I don’t know what…and then suddenly…it worked. I feel like both a complete idiot and an evil genius all at once. I wish I knew what I did! Gah!

Also today is Christie’s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTIE! May your days be merry and bright. A week from tomorrow is Jeff’s birthday (tomorrow is his last Thursday of being 34 woohoo!). THEN it is Stephie’s birthday (SIDE NOTE: her birthday is also the b-day of little Ki., and ALSO the b-day of my boss’s kids, which TOTALLY made me look like a TOTAL CREEP for remembering that on Monday when he discussed their party, but, aaaaah I can’t help myself – I honestly never forget birthdays once I’ve committed them to memory. AAAAAH! I’m a psycho birthday stalker I guess). Then LeRoy’s, from afar, then Elizabeth’s, then Mike B’s, etc etc etc. You get the picture. I GOT THIS!

I got TWO emails from former gymnasts’ moms yesterday asking about where to sign their kids up, also one with an update on a former beloved student (who is totally thriving and a totally great bars worker already – yay monkey-bar tricks). STELLAR / super cute! So happy to hear they are all continuing. Me, I continue to laze around and soak up the holiday season.

Did you know our house is the absolute BEST this time of year? It is the MOST cozy space EVER, with the lights, the tree, the village, etc. It just makes me want to be there ALL THE TIME. Jeff in fact is there today, and so was I yesterday – surprise day off! It was super super cool (and super cool of my boss to let me have a last-minute day off). GREAT, relaxing, wonderful random day off in the Cozy Christmas House with THE BEST EVER, Jeff. YES!

We had a most wonderful weekend. One of those hang-out, chill-out, supergold types. Friday was a super secret special errand followed by fried rice…yep!, Saturday was yoga with Kristin (first time I’d been back to Corepower in awhile, they were kind of jerks at the desk but the teacher was AMAZING and the class very very good for level 1, kind of want to return…we’ll see) followed by a magical holiday brunch/shopping. We went to Chez Arnaud and had the most delicious little pastries (and tea!) ever, then ‘Santa’ came to bring us candy canes, THEN a troupe of costumed carolers filed in and began performing. WTF/awesome! We were trapped there for awhile, then we had majorly productive shopping together along Grand. Glorious glorious day! Kristin is one of the most thoughtful people I know. I am very lucky to know her.

(OK so I’m doing EOTWkd now, FYI) THEN I did some more shopping by myself, then came home and just…CHILLED…with Jeff. By the tree. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO nice!!! We ordered pizza just to continue the total laziness and I reveled in it. Jeff finally cracked open his new video game and I finally went to sleep…

…then Jeff could not fall asleep because he was soooooooo amped up from the awesomeness of his new game! OH NO! However I used the techniques I had learned in that amazing insomnia book once I realized he was still awake (very very late, or very very early, depending)…and successfully lulled us BOTH back to sleep. SCORE me! It was very, very comforting.

Then it was Sunday. Got up, made raspberry chocolate chip pancakes and mint tea, ate and read and watched shows and cleaned Rudy’s tank. He’s so cool! Good job Jeff for always taking care of him. Then off to swim RIGHT at 12 which was great, got my own lane and everything, YEAHhhhh! AND free parking til 1. Suckas. I’m pretty sure I went somewhere after that…can’t recall…then home to make cards. Love it. Always fun. Card-made the afternoon away. Made us some best meal ever – yay for finally cooking meat again, ha ha! – and we watched the Walking Dead finale. INTENSE!! Then to bed.

Great weekend! Yesterday was lovely too. Hooray. AND Monday I had lunch with Tiffany, and a fun department lunch today too…score. And now to solve my JS issues (I hope).

Man! You know what else I was thinking about? How INTENSE this time of year was when I was in high school. MOSTLY because of gymnastics (although there was the added excitement of getting-into-college letters/NMSQT results being announced in ’99, so, that was cool). It was serious make-it-or-break-it time, and while I LOVED that whole life (duh), I don’t know that I miss how tough it made this time of year feel – it was like, I wanted to party/celebrate for the holidays, yet there was this added layer of DESPERATION (gymnastics-wise) in EVERYTHING. Whew! Lots of listening to “never gonna get it” and “fly away” for that, ha ha ha. Geez louise. So much drama as a 15/16/17/18-year-old, man. But intense! Whatever!

ALSO: I can’t go into detail, so this will seem ridiculous, but I have a friend who is really struggling right now, in a situation more or less completely out of her control (health issue) but completely scary. SO even though I know this is way vague and weird, if you could please think of this friend, that would be great. Thanks.

All right that’s about all I got. Looking forward to a few fun things next week. Holding out hope for good news to roll in. Hang tight (or loose), my friends!

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