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Almostgotit is going to get booted off BlogHer if she doesn’t shape up.  She understands this.

Thing is, how many posts can a person write about her kid getting hit by a car while getting off a school bus?  And how reporters and kid safety organizations suddenly want to make the Almostgotits their poster family for bus safety, and how can the Almostgotits say no when people HAVE to listen to them? 

Because, you know, OUR KID got HIT.  By a CAR.  While GETTING OFF A SCHOOL BUS.

Oh, blogging.  It’s always about obsessing over something, or promoting a book you wrote, or telling your whole boring life story which inevitably involves other people who may not want to get mentioned in your blog even if they deserve it, like the creepy Jason Mosier from Knoxville who stays up all night posting comments about children being hit by cars as they get off school busses and how natural selection should be allowed to take its course…

Not that I would ever mention that.

Anyway, my apologies to all my friends in blogdom who haven’t heard from me in a while… not so much on this blog, but on your own.  Cause I know how much it matters, Being Heard. 

Meanwhile, we’ve started woodstove season.  Pulled out the crockpot for warm, autumnal meals.  Become fascinated with stacking rock walls around new garden beds, and making hypertufa planters for next spring’s garden.  Been trying out a new volunteer gig, so long as the unemployment rate is 10.2% and still rising.  And on that subject, been clearing the air with some new ears about some old business. 

Had a birthday, too: 29 AGAIN!

My 13-yr-old daughter assures me that there’s a strong association between an increasing number of birthdays and longevity, though, so at least there’s that!

1. Be a rockin’ party host

Because you have time to clean your house!  And time to pull out (and put up) all the Christmas decorations!  And time to look through all those fabulous cookbooks and old magazines you’ve been saving for fabulous party recipes!

2.  Learn how to solder! 

3. Get your volunteer groove on

And feel better about yourself in the process.  You can: help pack Christmas boxes and serve holiday meals to those even less fortunate than you are;  be a temporary “Mobile Meals” volunteer to give some of the regulars time off for their own holidays; help put up decorations at your church, or a nursing home, or at your child’s school; volunteer your time, energy and talent  for those holiday bake and book sales, homeroom parties, church bazaars — it’s all good!

4. Give the best, most creative, most ingenious (plus also cheap) gifts in the whole history of the universe

Make those amazing scrap-quilted placemats you’ve always wanted to give your mom.  Bake gorgeous home-made cookies for all your friends.  Or make them cakes.  Did you know a local caterer here is selling plain old layer cakes for $70.00 each?  Hunt in antique stores (and thrift stores!) for perfectly unique, perfectly personalized special somethings, like the professionally-framed 18th-century French print of a map of Canada that I’ve just scored for my Canadian-born son for ten bucks…  (last year’s prize was the fully-operational Singer sewing machine, mounted in a lovely hard-wood cabinet, that I bought for my daughter… also $10!)

5. Sit in front of the fire and listen to Christmas carols, read a wonderful book, and drink spiced coffee. Right in the middle of the day!

Just because you bloody well can.