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What do I want for Christmas?

Paul’s contest got me thinking again about what I want for Christmas.

I always do my best thinking on this topic way to close to Christmas for it to make much difference — my family is typically done with shopping and often pissed at me for having made picking a present for me so hard. The only reason that I can come up with for procrastinating this so long is that I am in a service industry where everyone wants to push everything out before everyone else takes vacation — and that means that my early December is wicked-busy. This year was no exception. Today is day 2 of my vacation — I was so busy the first half of this month that I needed the entire first day to decompress.

So now I sit — in a quiet house (not totally quiet, Airtunes is playing Sarah McLachian right now — recent tracks). Paula and my two girls are out on a play-date and it’s just me and the laptop — ah, the life.

What more could I want? Continue reading ‘What do I want for Christmas?’

Voices from Darfur

This is the kind of ad that makes watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade worth it.

For more Information, visit Save Darfur.

Hat Tip to Jeneane Sessum at BlogHer.

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