Hall of $$$.

I'm about to head to Hallmark, and it's the holiday season...

I probably need some supervision.

Seriously, if I can get out of there having spent under $100, I will call that a monumental success. That store is my CRACK.

Christmas cards: shout-out.

I must announce to you all that I received my first Christmas card on Saturday. It was from a dear, very on-the-ball-already lady named Gretchen (ashen_butterfly). Wow!

I really hope to receive lots and lots of cards this year. We had a damper on the cards coming in last year, and I'm sure that had more to do with - for the first time in history - my not sending out cards myself. But, last year, I just couldn't muster up the energy to do them, much less write a newsletter that would've been 90% fake.

This year, I'm doing cards again. I've compromised with myself to do the cards with pics, but to lay off the newsletter once more. To be honest, I'm not sure if/when an honest newsletter may come out again, and all the "faraway friends" don't really need details anyway, you know?

But this very special, very FIRST card is already mounted on the wall, and the newsletter that accompanied it is tucked into the special holder for those as well. I'm excited!