Merry Christmas!

I have had the oddest few days.

HUGE amounts of drama, some cookies, some pumpkin loaf which would NOT come out of the pan, more drama (no, like scary stuff involving the police -- details later), a great Christmas morning, kids successfully sharing a Wii (whoa. That's cool), and some good gifts.

Best gift this year, well, maybe it ties with Cutey the Cat made by my youngest, complete with a story about Cutey that she wrote all by herself, was the gift from my husband.

On the tree was an envelope. And inside was a single sheet of paper with two small sentences typed in the center of the page.

You may have a cat.
Merry Christmas


I'm not sure who was happier, Neo or me, but he got hugs and kisses from us both. (What was funny was that neither one of us believed that he meant it at first. Looking back on it, why in the world would he give that as a gift if he had been joking? Odd thought.)

Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus to everyone.

No time to take a breather. Munch to do.

Hat Tip to Disapproving Rabbits.

Feedback

Why ask for feedback if you are only going to respond by vehemently defending your original idea?

Oh.

You wanted PRAISE. Got it. I'll make a note.




Here's a tip. If you want praise, then you need to say, "I've worked really hard on this idiotic animated logo for the website. Top Priority For Me!! I love the idea of the person in silhouette juggling things which could be navigation buttons or just be symbols that turn up later on the navigation menu or I Don't know, but look! He's juggling! Isn't that what we all do in our lives with our children? Juggle? We've decided that she, or maybe it's a he, (hee hee!) needs to be standing on a compass because we'll need more navigation buttons than the original hearts, stars, and moons. Please don't question us about the Lucky Charms and how they relate to the compass. We've got it all figured out and it will all make sense when the website is up and running. I just wanted to show you guys so you knew that I'm hard at work on it. OK?"

This causes everyone in the room to say, "Awww. Cute logo. What a great job." If you say, "Here's the logo in it's earliest stage. We'd like some feedback from the group," you are going to have to prepare yourself for the people (not just ME) in the room to ask questions about why we are advertising a breakfast cereal on the website for a Special Ed support group and expressing discomfort with the professionalism of such a design. I'm sorry that was so hard for you, my dear. Maybe fighting with your fellow voting members about how wonderful it all is isn't your best plan. You know? Maybe you don't.

Man, that was uncomfortable.