Tenoclockbird's Blog (3)

Christmas Eve

You know, I was going to leave a little rant about my husband and my need to remind him that Christmas, just like my birthday, our anniversary, and Mothers' Day, comes at the same time every year. He needn't wait until the last minute to brain storm ideas. I have decided against it for a few reasons. First, it sems that he actually likes the chaos at Meijer's on Christmas Eve. Totally out of character, sure, but I think he finds it to be a bit of a tradition, or more likely, a ritual, and that… Continue

Added by tenoclockbird on December 23, 2008 at 9:36pm — No Comments

Christmas morning at your house?

Christmas morning was very different for me when I was a kid. My parents were the first generation since their families immigrated to Ohio in the early 19th century to leave the state. We were the first kids to grow up far from the farm, and the extended family. So, grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles all sent boxes of presents. Some of them were great, some of them were lame, but all of them were wrapped and put under the tree until Christmas morning. And then there was Santa, and the gift… Continue

Added by tenoclockbird on December 22, 2008 at 10:42am — No Comments

Twitter, huh?

What is this twitter business all about? I'm on Facebook. I tried LiveJournal. I have a completely separate, but wonderful group of 18 or so women that I keep up with exclusively online. I even have a MySpace page, but I haven't signed on in a hundred years or so. I think I'm doing okay with the digital age for someone who learned BASIC in high school on Radio Shack TANDY. If you don't know what a TANDY is, you were probably born after 1980. But Twitter? What is this? It's been around awhile,… Continue

Added by tenoclockbird on December 20, 2008 at 11:49am — 1 Comment