ending 2009...

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p-jammers and goose down

i have slept most of the nights of the last 30 years nekid. bare nekid. buck naked. quite frankly i found sliding into clean sheets one of the neatest feelings in the world. i could just stretch out and shake off all the day's ick and slide right into la-la land.

but i have to tell ya...i found the ultimate way to sleep the other night as i slid into bed, wearing my new p-jammers, under my new goose down featherbed. ahhhhhhh. air fluffed all around me. i do believe i began to purrrrrr. my feet were warm, my legs were warm, my body was warm, my arms were warm, and my face was enjoying the wash of fresh rain air from the window. an air muffler. yeah. that was nice. real nice. i wasn't hot. i wasn't sweaty. i was mmm mmm mmmm warrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmm. snuggly.

i had forgotten long ago featherbeds. i can not believe i have been deprived of such luxury for so very long. it probably explains why people are so darned cranky all the time. can't sleep? get a featherbed. feel like you got up on the wrong side of the bed? get a featherbed. i am telling you........ if you don't have one, get one!

tonight...george foreman is taking me to dinner.

the new year is coming.......

and now for .......

the bulletins are finished and posted with care,
the arm tendons are warming for the ringing at 11,
the skies are so blue you cant but help believe He is up there in heaven.

kids are coming at 3
pork is in the oven
cole slaw and tater salad await
you'd think it was summer.

presents they will be bearing,
well some anyway....
but its the gift in their hearts
that mean more than they can say.

thank you dear Jesus for coming
to earth
today we remember our dear savior's birth.

for God so loved the world.....that much

something to say

so today i went to the thought dock for a while and then hopped over to b's page because i do know her.....between the two and the attached comments...it just got my wheels turnin'. now i am debating whether i should just let it go and make my way to the bedroom for a nap or write. well, here i am. so i guess you are in for it..

i havent finished my christmas shopping. thats making me a little nervous. which really it shouldn't because i have spent plenty of money,,,,,okay how about it shouldn't because i gave each of the gifts a lot of thought,,,,,no, wait, i can do better. it really shouldn't because i am giving from the heart. i have made purchases for those near and dear to me,,,but not everyone because my wallet won't stretch that far. c'mon now, we are facing reality here! does the thought "i would get so-and-so this, if i had the money." count? i know. don't spend the money,,,make the present! don't spend the money....its the thought that counts. so for all of you that don't get a present from me this year, just think how much i think (thought) of you. i know...you buy yourself a present and put a tag on it from me... :)

two things have upset me this season. one is hearing that some stores are selling BLACK christmas trees made from plastic. they are being sold with with silver ornaments. now there IS something wrong with that. its like that is the ultimate commercialization of christmas. makes me wonder if they are making them to hang upside down....which brings me to the 2nd thing....hanging your christmas tree upside down. for those of you that have done this...too bad...i am about to offend you. there is something sacriligious about hanging a christmas tree upside-down. i know trees are not really even related to christmas(see my prior blog), it's not like the baby jesus was laid in one when he was born or that mary and joseph even actually had one....but it is just wrong. it would be better not to have a tree than to make a mockery of such a delightful element of the holiday season.

the weather...are you caught in that snow storm? i am sorry if you are, however, find a way to enjoy the quietness of the falling snow. sometimes it is just good to sit and hear ,,,,Nothing.
we had rain this past week. probably more than we have had in the last three years. except for the fog that it brings in the early morning hours, the rain is wonderful and we do need it awfully bad. prayers for more, please. today it is sun-shiny. but cold. really cold. and it makes my feet cold. which in turn makes my body cold. i can usually solve this dilema by crawling under the covers. :)) maybe later, lol, i have christmas presents to shop for....and groceries.

The Special Tree

The tree is up. Thank you, W. I must say, it is about the prettiest Christmas tree I have seen in a long, long time. Especially at my house. Seems these past few years I was devoid of ........ money. I chose to use one of those "beautiful" optic lights trees to put our packages under. Yikes. What was I thinking? I didn't realize it until now what I was missing. The smell. The lights. The ornaments. The memories. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and there is also a reason for a real Christmas tree. The Christmas tree. Encroaching winter, with its growing cold and darkness, provides the seasonal context for Advent, at least in the northern hemisphere. The "dead of winter" as we say, invokes images of fallow fields, barren trees, hard ground, absent birds and lowering skies. From as far back as we have record, people in northern Europe decorated their dwellings at midwinter with evergreens such as holly, ivy, laurel and yew. "The strange survival of summer greens in the snows had always been a sacrament of the hope for new life through the winter," Explains Hill. In fact, Gregory the Great instructed missionaries to tolerate such customs and dedicate them to Christ. So, for example, holly can remind us of Christ with its prickly leaves (crown of thorns) and red berries (blood).

The decorated Christmas tree derives from this ancient tradition. The custom flourished in Germany as far back as the fifteen hundreds (Martin Luther is said to have decorated a tree indoors), although it did not spread widely in Europe until the nineteenth century. Interestingly, Christmas trees may have reached Revolutionary America by way of German settlers even before they appeared in England! But not until the early twentieth century did Christmas trees become more widely popular in the United States.

The Christmas tree, then, with its dark green branches and forest fragrance, its garlands and lights and bright adornments, comes into our homes in the dead of winter as a symbol of life and a sign of hope.

I think i am going to go turn off the lights and watch the sparkle for a while....

geo

Beat It.

2009 .....won out. I am at 103 now. two so far over 2008. and no we are not talking about weight...the numbers would have had to have been reversed....but lets not go there.

so what's for dinner???? wait i don't want to talk about food either. the popcorn i am choking on is satisfying for the moment.

okay. where have you been lately? hmmmm. i have been right here. never often outside of my 10-mi radius. boring. whatever happened to those days when we just packed up the kids and took off. oh wait. that what when i was the kid. those were fun road trips. they always started with someone in the back seat yelling, "Are we there yet?????" to which the grown ups always answered, "no, lay down and take a nap, we'll be there when you wake up." Can't say that always worked, but more often than not sleeping did make the trip go faster. I guess it was the company.

how about carpet beating? anyone ever heard of that? back in "those days" when brother D was really young.....ummmm that would be the big brother cause all my brothers were D's....so was my Dad a D...get it...haha....when we lived in germany the first little place we set up house in was built into the side of a hill. the only window it had in it was a sky light. up top...it was just a green grassy hill with a clothesline. the woman that owned the place would take her carpets up there, hang them on the line and whack the crap out of them (literally) with a carpet beater. it looked like a big really stiff wicker fly swatter. she's whack those carpets till there wasn't an ounce of dust left in them. quite an art, actually. since i don't have a "real" vacuum cleaner, you know one that actually SUCKS it own weight, i think i am going to rig a carpet whacking station. i have area rugs..and probably add more as time progresses.....something to think about. if you have one, share you design!

there was a cat that lived in that same house. not ours...it belonged to the carpet-whacking land-lady. she made her cats stay out side. but this ol' cat took a likin' to my mom and every morning he/she/it would deliver a huge dead rat to the doorstep of our house, thanking mom for the food she would put out. yuck. that was rather nasty. but it is the thought that counts.

im thinkin' its time to get a dog. i just haven't made up my mind...or mr. p's. i wonder if there is some kind of rental agency where you can rent the dog durin the day,,,,,maybe provide food, maybe the deal would be that it comes with it's own food, but you can spend the day pretending like its your dog but not have any responsibility for it,,,,just to love it and/or brag about it. you know bragging right is half the fun of dog ownership. just think, you could try out a variety of dogs and find the one that is just for you. and it would give some relationship opportunities to the dogs....maybe a bunch of pound puppies...rotated though various homes. think about that one for a while

dang. it is almost 930. my eyelids are shutting down for the evening. i guess i better call it a night. besides its getting cold in here and i don't want to turn on the heater.

g'nite. sleep tight.

g