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Long day driving up and back to West Palm to see my BFF from college, her husband and kids, and her parents, and her brother. Lovely afternoon - we saw a mama manatee and her baby! - although one kid tried to do a Pollyanna on the edge of the lawn where it drops off to rocks and water, one kid got both a fishhook in his hand and a splinter in his foot, and one kid said, "Rock Band sucks!" in front of friend's mom and 3 year old son. OOPS!

Finishing my

spn_j2_xmas giftie tonight and tomorrow, and generally pleased with it. Finished a slew of document reviews for a client who wanted to close on something today - and they did! Finished my last two trademark apps for the year for a fun client. Finished making a massive batch of ginger cookies, which I usually try to do before Christmas, but at least I can give them around as a New Year's treat; I think I need to see what happens if I put dark chocolate chips into the mix.

Sent flowers with my co-panlists from 2008 and 2009 - as well as one of the expected 2010 panelists - to the memorial service for Eric Bowling that will be held in San Diego on Sunday. Anyone who wants the address, let me know.

And then I came home and read this morning's NY Times and they had an article about Good Riddance Day. Tonic.com wrote this:

Times Square Alliance — the same group that plans the big New Year's Eve bash — helped people officially shed what sucked about this past year.

On Monday, the group sponsored Good Riddance Day, which allowed people to literally shed their bitter memories and failures from the past 365 days or so. The way it worked was simple: folks lined up near the discount theater ticket booth and tossed their bad memories into an industrial-sized shredder. A big Dumpster and a sledgehammer were available for items that couldn't be easily shredded.

I'm going to suggest this locally for next year, but this year, I want to do it virtually - so I'm hosting this poll about the best of 2009, and I also want to know what you'd put into the Good Riddance shredder, or take a sledgehammer to. I'm the only one who'll see the text responses, but if it's ok for me to share what you write, just indicate that somehow - a * can mean it's ok for me to share it without your name, for example. Poll is public so anyone with an LJ account can answer - or OpenID, I think? - so feel free to share the URL around.

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This, btw, is what I put onto the Wishing Wall:
Safe travels and joyous days for my family, friends, and all the friends I haven't met yet.