This year is the clear winner for Least Posts Ever.
Starting a business is just about as exhausting as having two new babies, and it uses a lot more words.
Business has been going well enough, all things taken into account, but the star of Murphy has been in the ascendant and when things can go crazy, they have. El Niño has given us an endless succession of rain and wind and power outages. One case goes crazy, and then another does, and then they push something else out of the way which takes three times as long to fix as it would have to have done right in the first place, but mind and body do break down at some point.
Still, we've been in our own business for nearly a whole year and we haven't gone broke or had a malpractice claim yet.
Beginning the first of the year we are moving to a location only seven minutes from home. We are keeping a satellite office at our old location at the other end of the county, but we will all be relieved to avoid the daily bottleneck and hopefully spend more time working (or possibly even sleeping) and less time driving (and, in my case, carsick). Our new location is also much larger and we will be subletting to other attorneys.
I gave the kids and myself an extra week off school for Christmas. I haven't exactly used it to relax yet, but we did do a massive purge of the playroom and bedrooms. They decided they had outgrown most of their toys--trains, toy food, most dress-up--so we are down to Legos and a zoo's worth of stuffies. They may have made up for quite a bit of it when they went Christmas shopping for each other at the variety mall--they were flush with cash after we hired them to stamp numbers on the documents for a trial--but they mostly got more stuffed animals which, if somewhat space-hungry, at least don't hurt to step on.
This year, Christmas dinner is going to be gourmet frozen pizza. And cookies. Surely I can still manage a couple of batches of cookies.
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Soo godd to hear from you again. I wish for you all that the last days of advent will be relaxing and that your Christmas be filled with joy over the new born Child.
"[T]he star of Murphy has been in the ascendant..." That made me laugh.
I hadn't looked closely, but your past posts used to be really frequent. I can't imagine trying to post anywhere near 300+ times a year. One year was more than once a day (!)
I top out in the 80s, and even that is a lot of work.
That's because each of your posts is the length of a novella. ;-) Those heavy post years undoubtedly predate Facebook and have more quick quips on them.
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