I haven’t been near the Loosely Speaking admin panel for, what, two weeks??

In the interim I have been tapping into my inner elf:

• chugging away on the few work projects delivered by some especially industrious clients,
• baking and building a gingerbread house with my granddaughter,
• making cookies and thinking about making bagels,
• cooking yummy dinners (like risotto with clams, mushrooms, and carmelized leeks with buttercup squash on the side),
• wrapping gifts,
• going to the movies with son-home-from-college,
• throwing the football with son-home-from-college,
• knitting,
• studying up on CSS
• setting up my husband’s new biz computer for him

What I haven’t been doing is: shopping at malls or writing Christmas cards. Not a boycott, just a personal preference.

Yesterday at the gas pump, I saw someone I had worked with some years back. She commented that she is still slaving away in a job she never really wanted to begin with. She lamented that she feels stuck and that many of her work colleagues are now getting ready to retire, but that she can’t. She went on to say that even thought I, ktcosmos, am not able to retire just yet, at least I am in control of my work and life.

So, then, doesn’t it all just come down to choices? Whether you have a little or a lot in material wealth, in every moment of your life, you face choices. And then seconds later, you begin living with the consequences of those choices.

For today, instead of snapping some photos of my lastest and greatest projects to accompany this post, I am instead cleaning the oven so it will be ready to produce some great holiday eats when my family converges here in the coming days.

Instead of working on Christmas cards, I will wrap up the last of my client’s work for 2007 and take my dog out for a great hike before tomorrow’s anticipated snowfall.

May you be well and on the path you want to follow.