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Dec. 24th, 2022 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerWe opened this year's aged boozy eggnog yesterday, and it was as delicious and dangerously non-boozy tasting as ever. We'll be sipping at it for the next couple days.
I took a small amount to the dairy folks at the farmers' market today. (Since I used their half-and-half in it.) I had thought about doing that each week over the last month, and then... didn't. It worked out better than I could have hoped: it was just the local manager there, and he was feeling depressed because it's the anniversary of his mom's death. So me showing up with a shot of holiday cheer boosted him far more than the nog itself.
Sometimes, little things like a gift from a random person with no ulterior motive have a greater impact than the actual gift.* I've been on the receiving end a few times in recent years so I'm happy to have been a giver this year.
*ETA: This is also one of my big complaints about officer burnout in the SCA - although it's not unique to the SCA. Basic acknowledgement by the Royals should be a bare minimum for thanking greater officers, but most of the time isn't done. Then there are other small awards that could/should be given: for example, the West's Defender of the West is for supporting the Kingdom in out-Kingdom wars, but basically "everyone who goes to Pennsic." I should have gotten it any of the times I worked the entirety of W/AT as war exchequer three times in a row.
I took a small amount to the dairy folks at the farmers' market today. (Since I used their half-and-half in it.) I had thought about doing that each week over the last month, and then... didn't. It worked out better than I could have hoped: it was just the local manager there, and he was feeling depressed because it's the anniversary of his mom's death. So me showing up with a shot of holiday cheer boosted him far more than the nog itself.
Sometimes, little things like a gift from a random person with no ulterior motive have a greater impact than the actual gift.* I've been on the receiving end a few times in recent years so I'm happy to have been a giver this year.
*ETA: This is also one of my big complaints about officer burnout in the SCA - although it's not unique to the SCA. Basic acknowledgement by the Royals should be a bare minimum for thanking greater officers, but most of the time isn't done. Then there are other small awards that could/should be given: for example, the West's Defender of the West is for supporting the Kingdom in out-Kingdom wars, but basically "everyone who goes to Pennsic." I should have gotten it any of the times I worked the entirety of W/AT as war exchequer three times in a row.
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Date: 2022-12-26 06:01 pm (UTC)