happy winter break!
Dec. 24th, 2011 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boogieshoesso, for everyone who celebrates a holiday of some sort this time of year - happy holidays! whether it be Christmas, or Solstice, Yule, Kwanzaa or Chanakah, or some holiday i'm not familiar with, i sincerely wish you the best holiday ever.
and for those of you who don't have a specific holiday or break time at this point - i hope your next upcoming holiday or break is just as special and heart-warming and happy-making for you as our Winter Break/Yule/Christmas period is to us.
so, i don't bring it up a lot, but i'm Wiccan. Wicca is a fertility religion that is focused on the cycle of life/death/rebirth, and the wheel of the year - spring/ summer/ autumn/ winter. our big holiday this time of year is the Winter Solstice, one of the 8 Solar Holy Days we celebrate. Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, longest night. although Hallowe'en - Samhain - is the official 'End of the Old Year'/ 'Beginning of the New Year' holy day for most of us pagans, i admit to doing most of my 'turn of the year' chores around Christmas time. it feels normal and natural to me, not in the least because it's the way i grew up - making resolutions every year at this time and planning out the next year. of course, the Gregorian Calendar cycles to December 31st, not October 31st, so it also makes it a practical tradition for things like fiscal organization, etc. and also, most businesses in the Western Hemisphere take this time off - hey look, 'spring cleaning' time... and also time to sort through what i have to do to make my own dreams and wishes come true.
all of this to say that in the immediate future, you can expect:
1) lessons learned from last year post
2) To-Do list for next year
i'm also hoping to clean up a few odds and ends this next week - i'm going to be visiting with my parents at the lake house, and i won't be online much, but my two big things are finishing the silly ornaments i wanted to do for everyone, and finishing a bunch of 'fics that i promised myself i'd do.... we'll see, but i'm hoping to at least make some progress on 7th Gift, and finish the slice of life fics that started with the Chris's 'Wednesday Meetings', and a couple more fics in the Highlander AU thing. when i get back, I'd like to see how many pieces i can upload to AO3....
of course, i'm probably over-scheduling myself. :)
-bs
and for those of you who don't have a specific holiday or break time at this point - i hope your next upcoming holiday or break is just as special and heart-warming and happy-making for you as our Winter Break/Yule/Christmas period is to us.
so, i don't bring it up a lot, but i'm Wiccan. Wicca is a fertility religion that is focused on the cycle of life/death/rebirth, and the wheel of the year - spring/ summer/ autumn/ winter. our big holiday this time of year is the Winter Solstice, one of the 8 Solar Holy Days we celebrate. Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, longest night. although Hallowe'en - Samhain - is the official 'End of the Old Year'/ 'Beginning of the New Year' holy day for most of us pagans, i admit to doing most of my 'turn of the year' chores around Christmas time. it feels normal and natural to me, not in the least because it's the way i grew up - making resolutions every year at this time and planning out the next year. of course, the Gregorian Calendar cycles to December 31st, not October 31st, so it also makes it a practical tradition for things like fiscal organization, etc. and also, most businesses in the Western Hemisphere take this time off - hey look, 'spring cleaning' time... and also time to sort through what i have to do to make my own dreams and wishes come true.
all of this to say that in the immediate future, you can expect:
1) lessons learned from last year post
2) To-Do list for next year
i'm also hoping to clean up a few odds and ends this next week - i'm going to be visiting with my parents at the lake house, and i won't be online much, but my two big things are finishing the silly ornaments i wanted to do for everyone, and finishing a bunch of 'fics that i promised myself i'd do.... we'll see, but i'm hoping to at least make some progress on 7th Gift, and finish the slice of life fics that started with the Chris's 'Wednesday Meetings', and a couple more fics in the Highlander AU thing. when i get back, I'd like to see how many pieces i can upload to AO3....
of course, i'm probably over-scheduling myself. :)
-bs
