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[mamadeb]

The cleaning person was late. She's currently coating my kitchen in bleach.

My husband was sewing a button on to his pants. I asked him why he didn't ask me. "Because I can do it myself." The pants are khaki. The button is khaki. The thread he's using? Green. Why? "There is no khaki thread, so I thought I'd use a random color, and you have a lot of green. No one's going to see it, anyway."

This, folks, is why I love him. It's just the way his mind works.

That "do you read me thread" produced a couple of interesting results.

My friending policy, see, goes like this. I friend people for a variety of reasons. RL friends and acquaintances. People I know from other parts of fandom (IRC and mailing lists). People I've seen on friend's comments, or in LJ communities, or from journals like daily_snitch - if I find myself looking for a reference to a post by someone, or always clicking on links to their journal, and especially if I'm always commenting, I will friend them. Finally, if someone friends me, I'll probably friend them back, unless it's a quiz/meme only journal.

I rarely defriend - partially, I think it's that loaded term. Partially it's that I like having lots to read.

If I am not friended back -shrug. Just because I want to read somone doesn't mean they want to read me. And I have friended people with HUGE friendsof lists - I expect them to be picky. If I am defriended, it might bother me for a moment, but it's their friendspage, and I get over it. I may or may not defriend them - it's not automatic. If I friended them because they were interesting and I still find them so, nothing has changed.

The point of friending, to me, is to read good stuff. If this includes actual friends, or creates actual friends, that's a major, major bonus. I really think a change in terminology would be a good thing.

So, I was amazed, and yes, delighted, when I found that some folks I didn't suspect (not because of lack of comments but because of size of flists) read me did. Thank you.

I was looking at the ithurtsmybrain list, and realized I just don't watch enough tv/anime/movies. I can't write 90% of the stories. But they'll be fun to read.

(Um. It's August, so it's a ways away. Would it be totally hypocritical if I said that, despite earlier protests, I'm thinking about doing the Yuletide thing? I still *hate* the name, mind you, but it always looks like such fun.)

Comments

[kid-lit-fan.livejournal.com]

You probably knew I read you, I comment. (Not usually on the slash I read, because one more "That was sooooo good!" seems silly.)

I am technically Catholic, and I love a good Victorian-style Christmas, but I consider the story of the risen Christ another pretty myth, like Persephone or Harry Potter.

A mid-winter story exchange sounds as pagan as all get-out. The stupid people who give Christianity a bad name forget it, but Christmas is just a way of saying "Yay, we made it past the longest night of the year, there's only gonna be more sun!"

I've always liked the speech Dickens gave to Scrooge's nephew Fred:
"I have always thought of Christmas, when it has come round, as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable pleasant time, the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts and to think of people below them as if they were really fellow passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Christianity. Paganism. Still not kosher. :)

Judaism's minor midwinter festival isn't related to midwinter as such - we'd be lighting those candles in June if that were the original date - and there's no record of one existing to be supplanted (and we have good records.) The only other thing we have that time of year is a minor fast - and couple of years ago, it happened to fall on the 25th!