Winter (Re)Reading

I never used to be the sort who waved goodbye to Hallowe'en and immediately turned to thoughts of the winter holidays. I put that down to being in Retail where I had no choice in the matter, and had already been forced to schedule, hire, plan, train and prepare for Christmas Retail (a.k.a. the most …

Holiday Reading (and Re-Reading), Part Two

My husband had to get up at three in the morning to catch a flight to Miami for work today. Max didn't take it so well, and ended up keeping me awake ever since, so I've been going for roughly four hours now, and it's going to be a long, long day. I imagine there's …

December Will Be Magic Again

The hardest things about Christmas for me will likely always be twofold. First, a couple of decades in retail took most of the shine off the season, and especially the music. It's been a few years now, since I had my six-day work-weeks and dragged my butt home on Christmas Eve super-late (because it was …

Holiday Reads (Part One)

Okay, yesterday I fell short of my "try to post something positive once a day through December leading up to Christmas" goal, and I'm not going to let myself beat myself up about that. It wasn't a great day, that happens, and when my husband suggested we go see The Arrival, I jumped at the …

Getting into the Spirit

By now, you probably all know about my Christmas Ornament tradition (and if you don't, there'll be more on that, later, once the tree itself goes up). It's one of the ways I fought for some Christmas spirit after years and years of working retail at this time of year. Last year was my first …