Tag: NYE
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Taking Back NYE
Every year, my mom makes some mention of wanting us to not be disappointed at Christmas, to have it meet our expectations. But for me, Christmas is predictable. There are rituals and traditions that I help create every year. I celebrate with the same people every year, and eat the same food every year. I…
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26
New Year’s week always feels a bit more significant to me, I think, because my birthday is on January 5. So I’m truly beginning a new year, not just of the calendar, but of life. From Friday: It feels like a new decade to me. I turn 26 tomorrow, and it’s like crossing some threshold…
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2013 – What’s the Word?
After a low key NYE, I spent New Year’s Day on the couch further trying to recover from whatever nasty thing I contracted right after Christmas. Chad and I took the opportunity to work through Susannah Conway’s Unravelling the Year Ahead year planning tool. The workbook claims it will take an hour, but it took…
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Low Key NYE
I wasn’t feeling any huge elaborate to-do for NYE this year. I’ve been fighting this seriously disgusting throat/sinus thing for over a week, and staying up all night and drinking too much whiskey didn’t feel like a good idea for my body. I spent most of the last moments of 2012 laying in bed and…
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Christmas may be past us . . .
but this is chest-achingly beautiful. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Pedro the Lion by hannahd