Christmas Day in San Francisco

It's been a long time since i updated this tiny little blog. Two review sessions in Marin, followed by two days of licensing exams, with much studying in between. Lots of deadlines at work, happily. To be employed and actually LIKE your employer is a true blessing. And then...surgery. Some massive fibroids had been getting a free ride for too long, and causing me too much pain, so out they came.

As a result, this has been a holiday season of rest, recovery, and reorganization. My husband has been channeling his worry over me into purging, condensing, and labeling all the bits and pieces in our home. Which is awesome. I have been de-duping my print photos, organizing negatives, and generally purging my half of the equation as best i can from the couch. It's amazing, as always, to peer through the flotsam and jetsam of one's life. Pictures of women i dated, san francisco sweethearts i no longer remember the names of, pictures of events i had utterly banished from memory, mystery dogs, and even more mysterious party photos. I refuse to believe the card catalog of my mind is full all ready. I do, however, suspect that I did the mental purging years ago, and am just now catching up in the material plane.

2009 is a year of Big Winter Storms in the Mid-West, where my family all lives, and where my cousin Tom and his partner Thomas are getting married (Iowa! yay Iowa!). San Francisco, however, had a sunny, gorgeous Christmas Day. We count our blessings daily.