Merry, Merry

Courtesy of the immensely talented and lovely Ashley Brooke Designs*, who designed the Pretty creation above, I virtually send you this card with my sincere for once wishes for a wonderful holiday season - and as a reminder that my dog is more gifted & talented, not to mention better looking, than yours.

*PC / SECRET BLOG POLICE DISCLAIMER: This is not a paid plug. I bought these cards with my hard-earned cash money. Uh, Merry Christmas!

A Christmas Karma

(In which I haphazardly mix religious metaphors in an attempt to appease the Universe via holiday cards.)

I take it you've never brazenly challenged karma by engaging in a possibly unladylike, yet truth-filled gossipfest conversation about someone, only to have that someone not 30 minutes later leave you an exceedingly friendly, guilt-inducing message? Right, me neither.

So in an attempt to start off the weekend on a more karmically balanced, festive foot, I'm turning my retail attentions today to sending some good out into the world through holiday cards. However, I find myself stuck* in one of those life-stage quandaries . . . As a singleton, I merrily sent out cards some years, others not, and no one seemed to care one way or the other. In stark contrast, as a DINK type now, I sense I am expected to send cards annually, but not those delightful photo cards or the informational inserts** that you parent-types often send. Although the Anonymous Husband and I are of course really, really good-looking and all (not to mention humble), I figure our friends and family are familiar enough with what we look like.

*Yes, I realize being stuck over something monumentally important like holiday cards is not an important problem in the grand scheme of things, or as compared to whether I ought to order that on-sale J. Crew daycoat already. Maybe I could just mail out a festive photo of the day coat instead?

**Speaking of informational inserts, certain Anonymous Relatives of mine send out a two-pager. Double sided. Authored by one of the family cats. Which two years ago featured details of medical treatments being conducted in Anonymous Relative's, er, nether regions. Um, so forgive me, but I do not forsee any personal pamphlets being included in my own holiday cards, although I support the brief (BRIEF), non-nether region mentioning sort from others.

Readers, what say you - am I right that as a married with no kids sort, I go with the personalized, non-photo cards? What are you sending this year? Most importantly, can one actually buy karmic offsets, like those carbon thingies, and will any of the above suffice in my case? Gah . . .