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Jana Remy

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    • Disability
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    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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December 13, 2006

familyfriends

can’t. stop. posting. today….

A meme from alisonwonderland:
I’m tagging everyone on this one–answer either in the comments or on your blogs (but please do leave a comment here if you reply to the meme):
Tanya, John, JohnW, Caroline, Margi, Amy, Deborah, Brooke, Christi, Seymour, Dora, BIV, Lorell, RyanH, Elise, and the rest of you readers out there… :)

1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? Umm…tea. Duh.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just put them under the tree? Wraps them. He used to wait until Christmas Eve for them to appear. But this year they appeared about Dec 1st.

3. Colored lights on the tree, or white? White.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? I wish. Anyone have some for me?

5. When do you put your decorations up? I aim for T-Day weekend, but it’s usually later than that.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? John‘s clam dip, Mom’s rolls, yams, and rotkohl.

7. What’s a favorite holiday memory from your childhood? Hmmm…maybe this goofy little Santa play that my big sis and I wrote and acted out when we were about 8&9 years old. I was Santa–wearing my bright red Danskin turtleneck and pants. And Becky dressed up as a reindeer in her brown velveteen jumper (with a lipstick-red nose)

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don’t remember. As far back as I can recall Mom was puting the gifts under the tree.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? With homemade ornaments, origami cranes, paper flags from all the countries that we’ve visited, and a slew of applesauce-cinnamon ornaments to make everything smell yummy.

11. Snow! Love it or dread it? Love visiting it. Dread living in it

12. Can you ice skate? Not anymore.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Every year I had a different favorite.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you? Tradition and family time.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Just about anything pumpkin-ish.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Saving up the Halloween candy for making gingerbread house-ish creations (just you wait, I’m already planning the AVCT 3.0 gingerbread extravaganza this weekend–anyone wanna join in the fun??). Also, handmade Christmas gifts for my sibs.

17. What tops your tree? A big golden bow. Someday I want something better, but the right topper just hasn’t found me yet.

18. Which do you prefer – giving or receiving? I love it all as long as neither is too excessive.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? I really love Sting’s “Gabriel’s Message.” I also love Harry Connick Jr and Amy Grant’s Christmas Albums–I can belt out every song! My favorite Christmas hymns are “Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum? Pretty yucky, IMO. I don’t like sucking on sugary candy because it makes my mouth feel all sticky and yucky inside. That said, though, I’m a sucker for anything toffee-ish.

December 13, 2006
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family

bestest part of the day

As the time nears each afternoon that Catgirl and GameBoy will come home from school. Watching the clock. The anticipation. Then the build-up of sound, like jet engines revving up, as their roller backpack wheels grind up the front walk.

Then the moment of seeing sweet faces pressed up against the screen door mesh. My cheer from across the room, so loud:

“Woohoo, you’re home from school. Hey everyone, you’re home!”

Their impish smiles, ear to ear, as they step across the threshold. :)

December 13, 2006
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update: toby
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update: toby


After hiding under various beds most of the day (post-vet trauma, no doubt), TobyJoy is back to her usual rascally self. As if to say that yes, now that it is midnite she is ready to play and why is everyone else so dang tired and uncooperative?

I, for one, am thrilled to have my lapkitty back in action again. It’s just not as fun to type on my laptop w/o her little motor purring as she curls up on my right hip and rubs against my forearm. :)

December 13, 2006
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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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