Tidings of Comfort and Angst: The Simple Woman's Daybook

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For Today: Monday, December 7, 2020

Looking Out My Window ... I've been working for the past few weeks on decorations for my apartment.  For this Christmas season, I am done decorating.  As time and budget allow, I'll try to add something new each year. My neighbors are already enjoying them.

 

I am Thinking...

• About what to do about Christmas.  Since everyone is scared to pee without a permit from the government, even a small gathering seems out of the question.  How do you spread Christmas cheer like this?  Like I said here, I'm done with trying to find any joy for myself in this season of government mandated solitary confinement and media-perpetuated fear, but I'll be hanged if I'm going to be stopped from bringing a smile to someone else's face.
  

I am Thankful... I may not get everything listed in this post, but I have been overwhelmed with thankfulness.  It's not necessarily big things, but a lot of small blessings from God that have overflowed in my life.

• For Colorado Community Church's lovely Thanksgiving Eve service. 
• For a lovely Thanksgiving day with a family from work.
• For a co-worker's negative test results for cancer.
• For an amicable solution to a problem that had been plaguing me for weeks.
• For some wonderful times of prayer and fellowship with God.
• For my nephew, George's completion of truck driving school and the obtaining of his CDL license.  I'm a proud Auntie.
  

From the Workshop...  

The latest "Get 'er Done Art Challenge" post is here.  

#5 in the Dollar Tree challenge is here.

Since moving to Colorado, every year, I try to find an ornament that kind of represents the year.  The other day, I went over to Diana's to make some creations with her Cricut.  I decided to make a set of Advent ornaments for my tree (plus a bonus ornament.  Each one represents the focus of each week of Advent--all of which we need a truckload supply of right now. 

I got a pack of wooden ornaments and some holiday-themed scrapbook paper from hobby-lobby (I'm temporarily off restriction, remember?).  I glued the paper to the ornaments, then glued the cut out letters and shapes to the paper.  After they dried, I coated the paper with homemade Mod-Podge.  I took my gold paint pen and colored the top of the ornament, added a ribbon, and there you go.

From Auntie's Test Kitchen... Nothing new at the moment.

I am Reading...  

Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis

On Prayer and the Contemplative Life by Thomas Aquinas

God With Us:  Reflections on the Incarnation by Charles Spurgeon

Faith Outside the Lines by Rebecca List-Bergeron

Completed volumes since my last Daybook:

1. The Message:  The Bible in Contemporary Language translated by Eugene Peterson.
2. Thirsty for God by Bradley P. Holt.
3. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.
4. The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
5. An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
6. The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
7. Conspiracy of Kindness by Steve Sjogren
8.  A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
9. God is in the Manger by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
   

Favorite Quote(s) of the Week ...

"What's the opposite of homemade sin? Storebought sin? Do they sell it on Black Friday? If so, somebody bring me some. I'm fresh out." - Auntie's Musings 11/28/14

"When you have to be told a word's offensive, and nobody knew it beforehand, that means it wasn't offensive. Don't know if y'all know that." - Greg Burgess

Now For Something Totally Different ...

Five Minute Friday word of the week:  Cancel.

 

  

 

 

 

Jimmy Crack Corn and Nobody Cares: The Weekly Hodgepodge

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It's Thanksgiving week in the US of A so let's talk turkey. And by turkey I mean the elephant in the room because it's still 2020 and our blogs are a record of sorts of the times in which we live. Do you live in a state (or if you're outside the US, a country) that's instituted restrictions on the size of gatherings in your own home? What do we think about this? (keep it classy folks)

In Colorado, the rule is "personal gatherings limited to ten people, no more than two households."  I hope I'm wrong, but I seriously doubt Governor Polis is following those rules himself.  As we have seen with the governor of California and other public officials and well-to-do folks, they are great about giving speeches and mandates about what we who they consider beneath them should or shouldn't do, while doing exactly what they want to do.  I even temporarily unfollowed someone on social media I really admire and respect because while she was telling us we need to stay inside and wear our masks and blah, blah, blah, she's posting photos of her trips and gatherings to see family and friends.  As hypocritical a move as I've ever seen.  I got so frustrated with it that I posted this on social media:

I think the whole thing is ridiculous.  We've been asked for months to isolate.  Can we not be given the holidays as a concession?  I believe these restrictions are going to do nothing for reducing the virus, but increasing mental health issues and suicide.  The holidays are the absolute worst time to be isolated.  Sorry, folks, but "safety" is not always synonymous with "health."

Let's move in a cheerier direction. Will there be corn on your holiday dinner menu? How so? Cornbread-corn pudding-corn chips and dip-cornbread dressing/stuffing-corn chowder-or regular canned, frozen or fresh corn in a bowl...which of the 'corns’ listed is your favorite? 

Since I'm eating with friends (within the rules of course 😷 ), I have no idea what we're eating.  I don't even care, so long as I'm not alone. Out of the list, cornbread dressing is my favorite. 

What is there a cornucopia of in your home, job, or life currently? Sadness and depression.  Hey, you asked.

Have you ever quit something (such as a habit, a food, a time-sucker, a relationship) cold turkey? Is there something you need to quit cold turkey?

Not that I can think of.  I wish I had that kind of determination.  I need outer accountability to succeed at establishing or ceasing a habit.  I wrote about my disdain for being so weak here.

Insert your own random thought here. 

In case you're interested:

* My latest Five Minute Friday post is here.
* My latest Simple Woman's Daybook post is here.

* My latest Auntie's Workshop post is here.

Five Minute Friday: "Cancel."

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I'm tired of the cancel culture where people who think for themselves are "cancelled" by those who claim they want people to be free to think for themselves.

I'm tired of plans being cancelled.

I'm tired of needed items like toilet paper and paper towels being cancelled AGAIN.

Quite frankly, I'm pissed that our spring commencement might be cancelled.

I'm tired of fun being cancelled.

I'm tired of life being cancelled.

I'm tired of being tired of life being cancelled.

I'm so done with this.

How do I find joy in the midst of a cancelled life? 

I think I'm done...very done.

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