Tuesday Afternoon Rambly Bits
Dec. 14th, 2010 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomi-- Sorry I've been kind of scarce around here recently. I'll try to be better about posting more regularly.
-- I've been knitting much more in recent months. Something about Muffin and Squeaker having a real, set schedule and an actual bed time makes my free time more free. I've made four winter hats for the girls, two pairs of mittens, part of a baby gift, and I have a couple of projects on needles. It feels good to get back to a hobby I love but didn't have brain space for.
-- Our most recent Patch column is up, this time written bymabfan about cars. Or, more precisely, about no car.
-- This is a weird winter so far (yeah, I know it's not yet actual winter; I'm using the colloquial sense): everywhere, it seems, has had snow except Boston. Thoughlcmlc reports a dusting of snow on the driveway this morning, and we're supposed to get something this week.
-- Muffin and Squeaker continue to expand their vocabularies. Beside "banana," "this," "that," "Mama," and "Daddy" (or, as Muffin says it, "dah-DEEEE!"), they now say "go," "done," "down," "baby," "beep," and many other words that we're still not 100% sure what they mean.
-- Chanukah is over, and this year -- like other years when the Jewish holidays fall early in relation to the Gregorian calendar -- I have again the dilemma of how to respond to greetings of "happy holidays." My default is "and to you as well."
-- I've been knitting much more in recent months. Something about Muffin and Squeaker having a real, set schedule and an actual bed time makes my free time more free. I've made four winter hats for the girls, two pairs of mittens, part of a baby gift, and I have a couple of projects on needles. It feels good to get back to a hobby I love but didn't have brain space for.
-- Our most recent Patch column is up, this time written by
mabfan about cars. Or, more precisely, about no car.-- This is a weird winter so far (yeah, I know it's not yet actual winter; I'm using the colloquial sense): everywhere, it seems, has had snow except Boston. Though
lcmlc reports a dusting of snow on the driveway this morning, and we're supposed to get something this week.-- Muffin and Squeaker continue to expand their vocabularies. Beside "banana," "this," "that," "Mama," and "Daddy" (or, as Muffin says it, "dah-DEEEE!"), they now say "go," "done," "down," "baby," "beep," and many other words that we're still not 100% sure what they mean.
-- Chanukah is over, and this year -- like other years when the Jewish holidays fall early in relation to the Gregorian calendar -- I have again the dilemma of how to respond to greetings of "happy holidays." My default is "and to you as well."
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Date: 2010-12-14 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-15 03:47 am (UTC)is too! meteorological winter starts dec 1!
you still have new year's yet to celebrate, so you can consider them "in the midst" wishes!
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Date: 2010-12-15 03:20 pm (UTC)For me, "Happy holidays" and the reply, "to you as well," serve as a nice, safe catch-all. Most people, whatever their background, celebrate something in midwinter - I think it's a basic human need to raise some cheer at the darkest and coldest time of the year - and wishing or returning wishes for happy holidays acknowledges that without making any assumptions about what anyone is calling their holiday.
So even if one's own holiday is over, "Happy holidays" strikes me as something that can be accepted and returned in good faith (er, so to speak). The wisher isn't making any assumptions beyond the fact that you're celebrating something this season. They're wishing you joy.
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Date: 2010-12-15 10:20 pm (UTC)