for anyone who’s interested in participating this year-

Flirt has been the person who has organized all of the holiday card exchanges. She’s been absent on here for quite a while, so I sent her an email to see if she planned on doing this again this year. Her answer was YES! so expect to see a 2012 goal created sometime soon :)7 months ago

to bring the holiday spirit back during our unseasonably warm weather (it was 71 degrees F this evening at 8:30 PM. In Denver In March! That’s more like June weather!)

Thanks to newsurfiegirl (received today) and Ru (received a week ago). 13 months ago

but hey, Ru just finished her Christmas post;) so I guess I’m still good.

The spot where I post my Christmas cards is a good one because I see them all of the time, but it’s a little difficult to get a pic of. I got almost all of them here. Recognize your card? :)14 months ago

Nope, I didn’t. Thanks for all the cards and the letters. Hopefully next year will be another chance. 14 months ago

But there is always next year too! 16 months ago

has killed me on this.
Too much to do and not
enough
me.
Next year maybe.
Thank you for all the wishes and greetings.
They were cherished and remembered.
Love. 16 months ago

to wrap this one up to open up room for a new goal! I’m going to mark it as “I want to do this again” so I can add entries if I receive more cards.

I had a great time with this again this season- thanks to all who participated! :)16 months ago

and another Christmas card!

Thanks Josh :)16 months ago

Yes, I’m tardy. Thanks to all of you who sent timely cards to me. I appreciate each and every one of them.

Postage rates go up here in the States tomorrow, so I spent the morning working on getting all the foreign cards ready to mail (with one exception because she is getting more than just a card). So nine exchange cards prepared, plus five more for non-US 43ers who didn’t participate this year but are getting a card from me. They’ve all be deposited at the Post Office so they will go out on the afternoon truck. 16 months ago

cards trickling in… :)

Thanks to Contemplative Jenn for the card I received this week! 16 months ago

Lob! What a wonderful ornament. How much fun you and your son must have had making those! Thank you So Much!

Awwwwww, MsRAD, how cute is that puppy. =)

Jess.Dream =) I DO believe I can embrace the day. Thanks for the encouragement!

ugogrl, Christmas isn’t Christmas without Snoopy!

ooooooh, AmyBB25, what a beautiful card!

Mignon, I loved everything about your card. The stamps, what a talented artist your friend is, and mostly that you plan to spend more time on 43T this year! xoxo

Tiger, (((Hug))) Thank you!

Hoptna, your card not only arrived “in time” in arrived in perfect time!

E….. I love the fight for sight card. Thank you for the amazing wish!

(((Hugs to Everyone!))) These cards have really made the post holiday blues banish! MA-WAH! 16 months ago

Thank you to you =) for the swirly snowman card, and to TG ( I always love the photos and how beautiful the scenery is!; I hesitate to mention all the cards by name, when they are signed by a proper name, because I don’t know off the top of my head if its the 43T name or not, so KNOW that if you sent me a card I got it, I love it and =) Thank you! It made my homecoming so much more homier!

Tikini! oooooooooh! Fabulous card, Fabulous wish! Can’t wait for the Meetup in February!

Josh, your card made me smile. =)<— like that! xoxo

Wren, you sent a card near and dear to my ♥

Bryn, =) Your message touched my ♥ thank you! xoxo (Loved the card of the plaza lighted. I used to have a bed and breakfast in Warrensburg!)

ohmygosh, Surly, still laughing at your wonderful homemade card. You Rock!

Look how great my door is coming along! ♥ everyone!
_alter_eggo, your wish made me grin. thanks! 16 months ago

Thank you all for sending this awesome holiday cheer! 16 months ago

and Power of Frisky! (I love the snowflake!) 16 months ago

I’ve been gone a long time. Coming home is wonderful and … well, a sigh and a heave of the shoulders, isn’t it?

Having my vision impaired friend stay at my house was nice in that the broken wire on the winged scarob painting was fixed and I am really glad that happened. I wasn’t strong enough to get the bolt loose myself. I had it on the list for when I could hire a handyman.

A cupboard door hinge was removed and given to home depot in exchange for some that don’t fit and thus, my kitchen cupboard door is off and sitting on the counter. My friend says the right size has to be ordered. (Honestly? I don’t think the hinge was broken. Those doors come off that hinge thingy all the time. I just put them back in. It took a boyfriend I had when I bought this house showing me how those clever type hinge thingies worked and once I did it was no problem when it happened. Which, generally is when you yank on the door opening it. So, fixing the door via a special order part is now added to my already full to do list. =/

A mirror that I hadn’t hung in the downstairs bathroom was hung and I am really glad for that. Now I only have to lower it two inches to cover the messy wall patch I did when the original mirror came down. And, since I am much shorter than the person that so nicely hung the mirror was, so I can see in it without standing on my tipey toes. Hanging the mirror was also on a hire a handyman list. It is a large mirror and it was pretty heavy for me to manage.

A kinda funny, kinda wish it hadn’t thing happened. Two of my foreign coca cola’s that were in the refrigerator were drank and one bottle tossed away. I can’t blame my friend as he can’t see to notice the foreign writing on them. It’s kinda funny because one was from Morocco, Africa, and I got it there in 1978. Can’t imagine how that thing tasted after 34 years! The bottle was recycled, so that’s a shame. The other one that was drunk was from Japan. Brought back 22 years ago, in 1990.

I have scrubbed at the tea water warmer carafe until my shoulders are tired and now have white vinegar being cooked in it, in hopes of getting the hard water stains. I knew my VI friend wouldn’t wipe the carafe out after each use to prevent the hard water from building up. I expected this to be on my coming home to do list. Truly, I did.

So, as I sit here and look around and my small carry on day pack unpacked to the living room floor, feel sad that the beautiful hand blown glass bowl I bought at a charity auction supporting animals arrived broken, causing a trip to the post office to be added to the to do list. I have the feeling of heading to the world of the overwhelmed.

My solution? (And why this is posted here!) Is each time I glance over at The Land of The Overwhelmed is to open one of the wonderful Chirstmas cards of good cheer you all sent. =) =) =) Just thinking about them raises my spirits.

So, THANK YOU, MB AND Zujie for the wonderful cards to raise my spirit, and bolster me on to Embrace The Day!

xoxo
me

(I would post a photo, but now my cell phone doesn’t seem to be sending things properly. I think I need to figure out some setting to change. It’s on my to do list!) 16 months ago