♥ ♥ ♥ Kat ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm with Laura on hearting Kat.

I forgot to say thanks to Bonny and Theresa for the cards. H still goes, "Now, who?"

Y'all don't have any Wolodimr's in your families, do you?

Beverly - that was my favorite part of cards this year. C would ask how I knew each person as he signed cards. After all the answers of "Buffistas" he stopped asking. But it made me giggle. I had explained my Buffy friends to him a while ago, so he knows about my imaginary friends on the internets.

Not that I know of, Beverly. Nikolais, Olegs (I forgot about the multiple Olegs), Vsevelod, Igor, Boris, but not even a Vladimir. Unless my brother's cat counts.

(I just wanted an excuse to put y'all and Wolodimr in the same sentence) We have two Borys-es, a Bohdan and an Ihor, several Natalias, and an Effie June, a Lula Mae, a Lillie Belle, and a Maud Eliza.

The Wolodimr/y'all juxtaposition did not even strike me as unusual, which is amusing me now.

Oh, yeah, Natalias, Irenas, Melania, Shirleymae, Weed, Reno, several Minors (family name), I forgot about the multiple Barrys, too. Quite the variety.

You know, I'd say goodbye and good riddance to 2016, except I'm scared of what 2017 will bring.

Yeah I keep thinking I want to write a summary but this year? My goodness.

The good: took Megan Walker to Hawaii where we had lots of fun and even snuck in a visit with Debitesse and her awesome boyfriend; house renovations all complete; drove around New England visiting people I love (VW, SJ, Jesse! And lovely spouses and babies), seeing beautiful trees and states number 48 and 49 - all I have left in my "Fitty before Fitty" quest is Alaska; two wonderful visits by Joanna and Sean and Noelle that proved that some houseguests actually don't stink after 3 days (they stayed nearly a week for 4th of July and Thanksgiving).

The bad: pretty much everything else. First time in my life suffering from very bad sleep, anxiety nightmares, etc. Realizing that I love being single and independent maybe a little too much (because my stridency about my independence pushes people away and isolates me at times) and while I have friends all over the world, my closest friends have all either moved away or are unavailable. It's very strange that I can pack a week full of fun friends doing fun stuff when I travel, but friends who will go to movies and hang out and confide in me locally are scarce. It's a little depressing.

OK, my Secret Santa box hit the mail today. All is in the hands of the fine people of the US Postal Service.

I got a package from S Claus comtaining flat things including nerdy socks and the first vol of Lumberjanes (which I've been wanting to read for AGES. And best of all, a hint of more to come, which I hope includes a proper reveal so I can properly thank!