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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (27274)	12/25/1998 9:08:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Message 6970431

To: Rambi who wrote (27274)	12/26/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Well, Penni, a fishy sisterly Christmas kiss from you is the very, very best kind! Are we happier now? I hope that you are. Perhaps I am less driven, particularly by cyber life at the end of the twentieth century. I guess we were really pioneers, plunging headlong into the rapids, and now a little mellow swim at the edge of the raging waters is more placid and soothing for both of us. We escaped our adventures with our fins intact and no nasty hook scars, at least! Somehow I have lost my ability to squeeze everything into my life at the same time. If I read, the bills pile up, and if I play here, my family starts to fade out. I used to wonder why on earth some older people stopped cooking or doing yard work, or paying their bills, and were later discovered in the middle of chaotic piles of paperwork and balls of string. Now I know!! There is just a very gradual process of aging where some things fall by the wayside, as energy is conserved for whatever is crucially important or pleasurable. I feel like I am being pulled in too many directions! You will be pleased, Penni, to know that I got up very, very early this morning and my husband drove the reliable Volvo at very, very high speeds in predawn freezing darkness to get us all to the Macy's after-Christmas sale to buy Czech FISH ornaments for our tree. I saw them a couple of weeks ago, and fell in love. Oh, we bought some cats, and some shells, and some Winnie the Poohs for my daughter (who is relinquishing her childhood slowly). Oh, and a dark green velvet stocking for the hearth with the toe turned up, definitely perfect for an Irish elf. Everything was 50% percent off, and I will finally have the tree of my dreams next year. We were throwing things in bags in the middle of a mob scene, although everyone stayed polite, which is unusual. I had absolutely no idea how much we were spending, which ended up being $251.00 exactly, and so the rest of the day was spent in a state of semi-shock, trying to weigh the importance of my mid-life need to have all the things I love best hanging in my living room for a month every year forever, against practical concerns like paying bills and my moral confusion about everyone who is starving in the third world. I have no idea where I am going with this story, but I just wanted you to know that we will be represented in sparkling, glittery painted glass glory, swimming all over the season, splashing the evergreens of all the years to come, my Piscean soul mate! Love, Christine