For your holiday reading pleasure...the Friday Five.
1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
No.
2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
I don't do ideals and perfects. They don't exist.
3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
I give people presents. They give me presents. There's usually food. I often do a Yule ritual. I don't consider those traditions, though. "Tradition," for me, conjures up images of things that people mindlessly do for no good reason other than that it's what people always do and it's expected. Exchanging gifts actually serves a purpose when it's done right; it's a bonding thing, and it's fun. Well, for some people. For others, it's just a way to get them off your back so they're not even more unpleasant towards you for leaving them out.
4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
I am the needy.
5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
Money. Lots of it. If I can't get that, then I'd like for my mom to be successful at quitting smoking.
Now some news...
My week in brief: Got Depo. Got Rx for Effexor 75 mg filled. Mom is sick--something where she coughs a lot and can't breathe well. Ran errands for her, including grocery runs and a trip to the drugstore to get Rx nicotine patches because her chest is so bad that if she smokes she can't breathe, so she's decided to take advantage of the health insurance's stop-smoking coverage and try to quit. Spent 2 hours in dentist's chair getting 4 fillings put in, 2 on each side, leaving me unable to taste anything except with the back of my tongue for the rest of the morning. Listened to dentist chatting with assistant about the Dru Sjodin case and saying, as he's gently grinding my fillings down with the greatest of care, that he'd like to get the kidnap suspect [who was found with Sjodin's blood type in his car & on his knife] in the chair and open his teeth up one by one until he tells where the girl is. Decided this is the coolest dentist I've ever had. It snowed like a motherfucker Tue. Shoveled the part of Mom's sidewalk that wasn't done by kindly neighbour. Attended safety meeting and did 2 audits afterwards in a monster 11 1/2-hour workday. Wrapped presents and dropped them off at Mom's for pickup by bro. Have been taking echinacea, goldenseal and vitamin C and cutting down on sugar because I don't want what anybody else has. This weekend I get to make cards.
Could somebody just stop the damn sleigh for, oh, 48 hours or so? thx :)
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
Neat yoga thing to do that people will think you're weird for, for the day: The lion position for sore throats. Get on your knees, put your hands palms down on your knees and spread your fingers outward on the floor. Stick your tongue out as far as it will go, trying to touch your chin. Hold this position for 60 seconds [or until somebody comes up and goes, "...the hell are you doing?" forcing you to laugh]. This will help bring blood to the throat and stretch the throat muscles, relieving throat pain and helping the throat heal. It's bizarre, but I've tried it and it works. If you can't do the whole position, it also works just fine if you just stick your tongue out as far as you can for a minute or so, sitting or standing or whatever position you feel like being in. The effects vary, I'm sure, but I've gotten partial to total relief--with no other treatment--for several hours.
Posted by Frida Peeple at December 12, 2003 07:50 AM