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1. How do you feel about winter? Why?
Ih. It's cold, it's grey, and the dark-time is too blasted long. Intellectually, and in my bones, I understand that everything needs to die for a while to live well. But in that ego-space where I spend most of a day? Ih. Done with the constant thunderstorm, thanks.
2. How about snow? Does it redeem an otherwise-gloomy season or just annoy you?
It redeems the living hell out of winter for me, at least until I have to drive in it using the same roads as the rest of the Huntsvillians. Snow brightens things, makes 'em smell crisper. And it's fun to play in. I <3 teh snows.
3. How does winter affect you physically, emotionally, etc? What do you do about that, if anything?
I don't remember ever feeling as useful and capable and alright in the winter as I do the rest of the year. Somewhere around late October, my ability to apply reason to emotional reactions just frays, and doesn't knit back well until cherry and magnolia blossom time. Staying mindful of it has kept me alright for the past couple of years; still sucks.
4. Do you celebrate $winterholiday(s)? If so, which one(s)? What do you like or dislike about them?
Giftmas, although it's only Mark and I who call it that. :) I dig the handing of shiny things to people. I dig the unwrapping of shiny things. I dig the noise and chatter of being around people when there's that "Do you like it?" vibe in the air. I could do without the small-scale nervous wreck I become in the space between "Do you like it?" and an answer, but I'm working on that.
5. Do you have inherited or created winter traditions for holidays, foods, activities, etc?
Heh. On a year where Giftmas finds my household be-squeakered, we make our hajj to my mother's house. Woe unto the scion of my mother's mother's mother who doesn't bring her child to her mother's house in the twilight of the year. Heaven and earth may be shattering, but thou shalt bring thy progeny to thy clanhouse, or thou shalt never hear an end of wailing.
Which makes it sound like going to my mom's for Giftmas is like taking my newborn son to visit Herod, and that's not fair. I love my family and it's good to see everyone...for a few days.
I just wish they were a little less shocked by the idea that my household might like to make its own traditions.
So every other year, when Dae's with his dad's folk, we skip the state.
Charlotte?
Here's our rough itinerary and our phone numbers; here's Dae's insurance data.
Call us if anything goes sideways.
Happy Christmas!
Bye.
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1. How do you feel about winter? Why?
Ih. It's cold, it's grey, and the dark-time is too blasted long. Intellectually, and in my bones, I understand that everything needs to die for a while to live well. But in that ego-space where I spend most of a day? Ih. Done with the constant thunderstorm, thanks.
2. How about snow? Does it redeem an otherwise-gloomy season or just annoy you?
It redeems the living hell out of winter for me, at least until I have to drive in it using the same roads as the rest of the Huntsvillians. Snow brightens things, makes 'em smell crisper. And it's fun to play in. I <3 teh snows.
3. How does winter affect you physically, emotionally, etc? What do you do about that, if anything?
I don't remember ever feeling as useful and capable and alright in the winter as I do the rest of the year. Somewhere around late October, my ability to apply reason to emotional reactions just frays, and doesn't knit back well until cherry and magnolia blossom time. Staying mindful of it has kept me alright for the past couple of years; still sucks.
4. Do you celebrate $winterholiday(s)? If so, which one(s)? What do you like or dislike about them?
Giftmas, although it's only Mark and I who call it that. :) I dig the handing of shiny things to people. I dig the unwrapping of shiny things. I dig the noise and chatter of being around people when there's that "Do you like it?" vibe in the air. I could do without the small-scale nervous wreck I become in the space between "Do you like it?" and an answer, but I'm working on that.
5. Do you have inherited or created winter traditions for holidays, foods, activities, etc?
Heh. On a year where Giftmas finds my household be-squeakered, we make our hajj to my mother's house. Woe unto the scion of my mother's mother's mother who doesn't bring her child to her mother's house in the twilight of the year. Heaven and earth may be shattering, but thou shalt bring thy progeny to thy clanhouse, or thou shalt never hear an end of wailing.
Which makes it sound like going to my mom's for Giftmas is like taking my newborn son to visit Herod, and that's not fair. I love my family and it's good to see everyone...for a few days.
I just wish they were a little less shocked by the idea that my household might like to make its own traditions.
So every other year, when Dae's with his dad's folk, we skip the state.
Charlotte?
Here's our rough itinerary and our phone numbers; here's Dae's insurance data.
Call us if anything goes sideways.
Happy Christmas!
Bye.