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Question: What do you have to do to finish getting ready for Christmas?
I’m getting there. “There” this week is the point where I can answer “yes” when the umpteenth person asks me, “Are ya all ready for Christmas?” I think everybody asks with the same intent that goes along with the perennial automatic question, “How are you?” Half the time, we don’t really care how the other person is; it’s just something to say, and usually the answer is “fine.” Occasionally, I catch myself halfway between “fi” and “ne,” flog myself for lying and spout out a much more truthful, ” No, I’m not fine. I’m sick and I have too much work to do and my pet mouse died this morning”/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Me on December 17 at 8:05 p.m.
I have all my shopping yet to do. Very bad this year.
Phaedrus on December 17 at 9:47 p.m.
All done.
Arch_Druid on December 18 at 8:39 a.m.
Mail ordered and still trying to get stuff made to ship out. I am actually not concerned about how soon it arrives. Otherwise, looking at finally putting up a few outside decorations.