Happy New Year 2023
1 Jan 2023 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackI wish you a Happy New Year on this 17th (!) anniversary of the day I started my blog. I cannot believe that much time has passed since I started this thing. It really blows my mind when I think back on sitting in our guestroom/computer room in Sancerre making my first post ever at the bequest of online friends.
That was way before we started our little family and the subsequent tradition of a photo in bed on New Year's morning.
Because the light has blown out the background window, you might have a hard time seeing that those are clementines, growing within reach of our hands. Breakfast in bed!
I think I am going to like this place. ;)
This move was pretty exhausting. We were unloading our last things from the old flat at 11:50p.m. We then piled into the car and drove up the hill to a bonfire celebration put on by our friends to bring in the New Year. We pulled up at exactly midnight. After a brief chat, we came back to our new home and fell into bed. The alarm woke Julien and me so we could go back and clean the old flat before turning over this keys.
That is done, and we are ready for a new chapter. May 2023 be a more settled year.
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Date: 1 Jan 2023 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 Jan 2023 04:46 am (UTC)I know with the photo-book you did for Annie, you can sympathize greatly with what that task will be like.
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Date: 1 Jan 2023 08:48 pm (UTC)And those clementines!! Wonderful! Enjoy them ^_^
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Date: 2 Jan 2023 04:54 am (UTC)And those clementines!! Wonderful! Enjoy them ^_^
Isn't it so great to have them!? There are 3 trees. What I am loving so far is getting to share them. Need to show appreciation to the guys who came to clean up the trash in the garden? Give them a bag of clementines! Need something to take to the potluck but just moved house and don't have ingredients/time/energy to cook? Take a bag of clementines!
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Date: 1 Jan 2023 09:53 pm (UTC)Beautiful family and beautiful, beautiful window + view. I'm envious.
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Date: 2 Jan 2023 04:48 am (UTC)I know.:P. I DO love looking back at the repository of memories; I just wish I had done a better job over the past 17 years of sticking with it, especially when the kids were smaller. But we only have so many spoons. Better to choose living the moments than living to record moments.
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Date: 2 Jan 2023 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3 Jan 2023 03:42 pm (UTC)For my part, I'd enjoy less ickiness. ;)
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Date: 1 Jan 2023 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2 Jan 2023 04:51 am (UTC)That is s a nice wish for 2023. :D
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*Arabic feminine form of "dear" (in case you aren't familiar with it: the Is are pronounces like long Es)
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Date: 3 Jan 2023 05:47 am (UTC)Nalini Singh uses a similar word between Elena and Rafael in her Archangel books. I think theirs is spelled differently- hbeebti? Not to mention their relationship being a lot more intimate (and, frankly, more stressful) than ours! ;)
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Date: 3 Jan 2023 03:41 pm (UTC)And it does kind of surprise you when I total stranger calls you that here. :D
Confessions of attachment?
Date: 3 Jan 2023 08:18 pm (UTC)Though it is rather one-sided, as I never thought to share my fave foot view, which would likely have involved footie socks or picking something up with my toes. Sorry?
Excuse my humor. The hinge of the year has swung and I find myself oddly cheerful about it.
Re: Confessions of attachment?
Date: 4 Jan 2023 06:25 am (UTC)I wasn't referring to me using it with you but with Lebanese people addressing others/strangers--me included--that way. :P
Everyone should share bare-feet photos! Make the world a less totally stranger, total-stranger place! :D