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Year End Review
Jan. 4th, 2008 11:40 amEveryone seems to be posting a year in review - but I'm thinking little about the past year and more about the coming one. Why, oh why, did we ever take on this worldcon thing? There's more work than time and I'd really rather just curl up on the sofa with one of my Christmas books and the last of the bon bons from Swiss Colony. Oh well. Perhaps next year.
We did end the year with a bang with our 25th Anniversary party - run entirely by my talented daughter and nightclub-manager son. There was music. There was DANCING. I got to do a waltz with my beloved husband. And when we announced the other country dances people just stood right up and danced them. The refreshments were tasty - and I didn't have to make any of them - the tea was poured by lovely ladies, and a good time was had by all. I received the ultimate compliment from our housekeeper the next morning. She and her husband (both Bosnian refugees) attended the party, and she told me the next day in her careful, broken English that it was the most wonderful party she had seen since coming to the US. "You acted like real people, not like Americans." How can you get a better (or more thought-provoking) compliment than that?
It's hard to imagine that we've been married 25 years - and spent 16 of them in Colorado! Colorado still seems like the place we came to, not so much the place we are from. And at 25 years I don't feel much different than when we moved out here after nine years of marriage. I suppose when you find the right match and settle in, things seem pretty normal.
Until, of course, your spouse wants to run a worldcon...
So I'll just end the year in review with my reading list for the year. ( Read more... )
We did end the year with a bang with our 25th Anniversary party - run entirely by my talented daughter and nightclub-manager son. There was music. There was DANCING. I got to do a waltz with my beloved husband. And when we announced the other country dances people just stood right up and danced them. The refreshments were tasty - and I didn't have to make any of them - the tea was poured by lovely ladies, and a good time was had by all. I received the ultimate compliment from our housekeeper the next morning. She and her husband (both Bosnian refugees) attended the party, and she told me the next day in her careful, broken English that it was the most wonderful party she had seen since coming to the US. "You acted like real people, not like Americans." How can you get a better (or more thought-provoking) compliment than that?
It's hard to imagine that we've been married 25 years - and spent 16 of them in Colorado! Colorado still seems like the place we came to, not so much the place we are from. And at 25 years I don't feel much different than when we moved out here after nine years of marriage. I suppose when you find the right match and settle in, things seem pretty normal.
Until, of course, your spouse wants to run a worldcon...
So I'll just end the year in review with my reading list for the year. ( Read more... )
