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December 7, 2005 by Patsy

Merry Little Christmas

Today was one of those days when I’m so very thankful that I can work from home sometimes. Because today was a day when I wanted to do that. It was frigid all day. It’s 4 now. It has snowed almost all day. It’s just been a generally unpleasant day to be out and about.

I was supposed to go to the diversity luncheon today but didn’t. I spent that time dragging up more boxes of Christmas stuff from the basement and making myself homemade pizza.

Tonight I decorated and made some real progress. I finished the lights on the tree early this morning and started decorating it. Then I did some more tonight.

At one point I snapped a photo of the various boxes of lights I had unpackaged to add to the tree. I buy a supply every year when they get cheap so I’m prepared for the next year. I have almost depleted my supply this year. I went a little crazy with the lights.

People are always asking me how many lights. A few years ago I stopped telling people because they’re either one – shocked. Or, two – shocked and disapproving. I just stopped telling people how many – then I don’t have to deal with it. This year is my best one ever, I think. I was glad I had a stash of lights from which to draw. I just say there are “thousands” of lights. That’s accurate. And vague.

There was an accident on the corner about 5:30 tonight. I heard it and went out on the porch and looked. I’m not sure what happened but there were police vehicles there for more than an hour afterwards. I never saw an ambulance, but there were flashing red and blue lights for a long time. I walked out onto the porch, but that was as far out of the house as I got today.

I truly am thankful I can work from home. This time of year I’ve got a ton of paper/computer things to do and I generally do those on my home computer anyway as the work computer can’t handle too many things. So, I had a productive day without having to go outside.

Greg got home tonight and I’m so glad he’s back safe and sound.

It’s rare I’m interested in something on television but I wanted to see the White House Christmas special on HGTV tonight. I was a little disappointed in it. The plan this year was to use all natural things – lots of fruit and fresh flowers. I guess I’m old fashioned. I like my red and green and glitter and glow. The other stuff is fine as additions, but I need my basic Santa and tree contingent covered this time of year.

I took some video of the tree with the lights on today – before I started putting ornaments on. I had planned to post it but I’m not sure what format to use and how to get the .mov file my camera took it in into whatever is useful. I found a tool to convert it into an .avi file but those seem really large. Oh well, maybe I’ll figure it out.

I have done a couple more podcasts. Those are easy for me since I can just adlib them, and they seem to be striking a cord with some people, so that’s good.

Well, time for bed for me. We have a screening tomorrow and I have a lot of things to do before then.

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Epitaphs for Patsy

In a document she left behind for a good friend, Patsy listed five possible epitaphs that could be used at the time of her passing.

  • ‘Lived Fully. Laughed Loudly. Gave generously. Gone.’
  • ‘Lived, Laughed and Loved. Continuing that elsewhere.’
  • ‘Lived fully every day. No regrets now.’
  • ‘The journey continues It has been magical.’
  • ‘A magical journey so far no regrets.’

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