65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-21-15”

  3. I am up. I promised Leesee I would do something with her this morning at 10. I went to the seminar/class last night. The speech was everything some of you warned me about concerning yoga. Koshas, chakras, auras, and such. The actual yoga part was good. I like the stretching and concentrating on each muscle or part of the body as you are doing something with it. I discovered that I can no longer stand on one foot with the other leg in the air. Perhaps I need to work on balance.

    I have a goal now. I think that December 2, I am going to host an ornament exchange for the women from the office. Those of us who were admins/managers/ not super star agents. So yesterday I dragged out some Christmas things that never made it to the attic. This afternoon I will work on more and get some things put up in the attic. Of course I will have to work around football, but that’s OK. Mr. P doesn’t ask much of me and all he does ask if that I work around football season.

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  4. So, has anybody else ever confused themselves so much you don’t know if you ordered something online or not? Of course, I also have to plead exhaustion–this concluded after midnight last night.

    For two or three years my husband has needed T-shirts, but he doesn’t buy them and doesn’t put them on his Christmas list. He’s tall enough that he far prefers big and tall, so when occasionally he does look at shirts in the store, they tend not to be big and tall and he ends up not buying them.

    Also, most years some company or other sends me a free wildlife calendar, but I didn’t get any this year. I got a coupon for a free calendar through Shutterfly, and so I decided to make one, since I’d wanted to order some prints through them for the photo cards I’m making for Christmas but was waiting for a good enough coupon to be worth paying shipping. So I made the calendar . . . but I put photos of “birthday people” on the date of their birthday (including a photo of Misten on her birthday, a shot of our wedding day on our anniversary, and a snapshot of the young couple on their chosen wedding day). But I knew only the month, and not the date, for our future son-in-law’s birthday, and I wanted to include him. So I finished the calendar except for that detail and waited until I could find out his birthday to complete it. I kept the tab open.

    So, I went onto Kohl’s and shopped. It was a little frustrating that many of the colors of various shirts weren’t available in large tall, but maybe just in 3x tall and other larger sizes, so for each I had to click on several colors until I found one that showed large tall. I went to check out with my coupons, but found they were asking for my shopper’s code to give me “credit” for the purchase. So I went to my e-mail account and couldn’t find the code (the site said it should be in an e-mail from them, and I knew I was in their buyers’ club, so I checked old e-mails from them), so I went onto their site a different way and tried to sign up again but it told me I already had an account.

    I ordered the shirts, closed all the Kohl’s tabs.

    Then the young man called to talk to my husband (who was asleep), so I got to ask him his birthday, and I finished the calendar, ordered it and some prints. But then I thought, “Wait a minute. Did I actually place the order for the shirts?” They’d had me doing so many things to place the order, and I was ordering from two places at the same time, and in the middle of it both of my girls came home after midnight in the snow, and I wasn’t completely sure I had actually placed the order.

    I checked my e-mail account and there wasn’t a confirmation. But I went onto the site this morning, and it’s there as an order waiting to be processed. I’d never done that, where I ordered something and wasn’t sure whether I had. But then, I’ve never tried to place two orders at once, juggling a couple coupons for each one, and with one daughter getting home from work minutes after friends have dropped off the other one and she has spent time in the library telling me about her day . . . throw in “oh, it’s snowing,” and a conversation with our future son-in-law, and definitely life with a family of twenty-somethings is more complicated (people wise) than singleness. (In other ways it is less complicated. No having to figure out what to do for holidays each year, no having to worry about it when some plumbing goes haywire since that is my husband’s department.)

    (When I asked my husband didn’t he want some shirts, he said I could buy him some, but his focus for his lists of “what I want for Christmas” has been theology books. So I had to go ahead and research and find some shirts.)

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  5. Kim, the actual yoga part includes all of that religious garbage. That doesn’t mean the stretches can’t possibly be useful. I personally would never participate in Christianized yoga, since I’m not sure of the connection and I’d “rather be safe than sorry” on something like that. But when they’re outright teaching a false religion, please stay away. You might as well be offering a cow to Baal–it’s that serious.

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  6. It’s cold and snowy. It looks like we’ll get more than a dusting, as there is already about 1/2 inch and it’s still coming down. The wind is howling. Brrr! I was going to change the oil in D3’s car, but the garage is old and unheated, with cracks in the walls. That means a cold, dark job. Hmm. I wonder if I can take the oil and filter somewhere and have them change it.

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  8. The yoga class I participated in did not have any of that direct mumbo jumbo of the other religion. It was benign except for a touch of what I call New Age Feel Good. I expect it is similar to what the Christian yoga is like, but I don’t know that for sure since I have never done a Christian yoga class.

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  9. I don’t know nothing about yoga. 🙂

    I see in World that the Naval Academy has resumed teaching celestial navigation. This is a good thing because GPS is vulnerable to destruction.
    We had navigators on our planes. They were essential. World say that celestial navigation is accurate to 1.5 miles. I never knew that. The navigator always got us there.
    We also had radio positioning. We could triangulate our radio signals. They have likely scuttled all of those operations.
    Makes sense.
    The ancients could always determine latitude by the elevation of the sun. But until chronometers were invented, longitude was just a guess.

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  10. I would consider going to a yoga class with the religious component to be the same as attending a religious service worshiping a foreign god. You pay the class fee which is essentially like giving an offering in support of the deity, IMO.

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  11. Yoga is big out here, we even have “yoga in the park” overlooking the ocean.

    My cousin took Tai chi for a while to improve her balance, but injured herself. 🙂 Some of those things are dangerous to your health.

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  16. Good Saturday everyone….we got another 4 inches of snow last night….and it is cold out there….the deer are roaming around looking for something to eat….Paul took all the pumpkins out to the back of the property to give them a treat. There was a huge buck out there…beautiful antlers!
    I’ve been listening to Christmas music and rearranging furniture…..now I’m sore 🙂

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  19. We’re putting up Christmas stuff Friday. And 1st Arrow just walked in the door right now, after beginning his Christmas shopping, and told me, “Don’t look in my trunk. There’s something in there for you. ” 🙂

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  20. It has been snowing most of the day here, though initially it wasn’t sticking, and it still may not be down to freezing. So it’s a snow that clumps deeply on all the boughs and plants. Very pretty, but we still have more than a week of November left!

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  21. No new snow here, just the skiff from a few days ago. But that tells us that it is cold out, at least cold enough to keep it from melting throughout a bright sunshine day. Of course, it is all in your perspective. Some would not say it is cold. They might not even put the cute little jackets on their animals. I am not naming names or places. Just saying. Cold is cold unless it is not.

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  23. Snow….we are loving it! And they are predicting we will get some more on Thanksgiving Day! Lulah loves the snow….she likes to walk on top of it…then all of a sudden she disappears…you see a little black nose pop up with a scoop of snow on top of it and she leaps out and bounces all over the place….I wish I had her energy!
    Kare I am glad to know I’m not the only one sprucing up the place for Christmas….I put out one tabletop tree on the dining table….lots of wreaths today…day after Thanksgiving, the big tree goes up….or if it is snowing on Thanksgiving…I just may put it up that day!

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  24. I’m not sure when we will put up our tree. It usually goes up the day after Thanksgiving, but future son-in-law has invited us over to his apartment to put up his tree, and to have supper, on that day, and we have other things going on that weekend. So I expect we may see a bit of a delay, unless the girls request that it go up the day before Thanksgiving or something.]

    Me, I don’t need or want it up a full month, and I definitely don’t want it up a month before and two months after, which has happened the last two years because snow on the ground between the house and the garage has made it difficult to put things away . . . if it were just me, we wouldn’t have a tree this year, but it isn’t just me, it’s my husband and me, two young ladies, and a young man joining our family in a few months. So we’ll have a tree, and I won’t complain about having a tree.

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  25. Lulah loves the snow.

    It’s fun watching a dog in the snow. When we had our blizzard a few years back our poor 35 pounder had to jump over 2.5 ft. drifts to do her thing.

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  26. My dogs were afraid to step on the snow. 🙂 So funny.

    No doggie jackets out here this weekend, it’s 85 degrees — but I did see a little white fru-fru dog wearing a gauzy, fancy pink tutu in Hollywood. 🙂

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  27. No snow here, just cooler weather. The snow sounds pretty and like it has been visiting in many areas.
    I can’t even begin to think of decorating for Christmas. But now that I am thinking about it, I had a dream about a Christmas tree made of wood and painted white and without any greenery. It had ornaments hanging from the branches and presents sitting on some limbs near the trunk. I was giving the tree to someone.

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  30. When I was in high school and attending church with my parents, our pastor did a swap with a pastor from New Zealand for a short term. I felt like our pastor got the best side of that deal.

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  31. Roscuro, I just finished reading a book for review, I Have Seen God, by Klaus – dieter John, about the missionary hospital he and his wife founded in Peru, the Diospi Suyana. It’s a very interesting book, and I immediately thought of you as one who might work with them. I can mail the book to you if you are interested or you might find a used one at Amazon Marketplace or Alibris.

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  32. Weird thing happen yesterday. The Kid helped me clean house yesterday morning and part of his reward was a trip to the Lego store at the mall. While we were in the store we heard shouting out in the mall seeming to come from the center near the food court. With all that has happen lately, people got rather nervous and started gathering up their children. For a few seconds we were all looking around for a back door. Turned out it was just a parent yelling at their kid.

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  33. When Carol and I left the Hollywood library yesterday there was a very heated shouting match in full swing among some of the homeless loitering outside on the sidewalk. That was very definitely a homegrown, local disturbance.

    But I’d kind of worry, too, if I heard a disturbance inside a mall these days. Or a movie theater.

    Strange days are on us.

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  34. When Art and I recently went to see A Walk in the Woods, no one else was in the theater until a little later when only about three more people came in. It felt a little strange, too.

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  36. Good to hear Janice, glad he has you 🙂

    I grabbed an angel tree tag at church today, picked a 9-year-old girl who (judging by her list on the back which I didn’t look at until later) is a wanna-be clothes horse. 🙂

    When I was 9, the last thing I wanted for Christmas was clothes. But it’s a different time and kids do get into the pre-teen phase much sooner than we did, I realize.

    Still, was looking forward to some toy shopping. Oh well. 🙂 Maybe I’ll throw in a little fun thing.

    (Or maybe the mom made the list and they really do *need* clothes).

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  39. I have the message program on my ipad and my daughter entered all of their numbers for me, so it would be easy, just not something that I am used to doing and wasn’t even available when I came here 11 years ago.

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  42. Donna, my church in Nashville started having people buy stuff for needy families. They’d put up a Christmas tree with gift tags, and you were supposed to choose a tag and buy the gift. I looked at a bunch of the tags once, and every one that I looked at was “Wal-mart gift card.” OK, I can see why that might be the most flexible gift to give, but for me as a potential purchaser of a gift for someone I didn’t know, it didn’t resonate at all, and all the cards stayed on the tree. The tree seemed to stay pretty full, too, so I suspect I’m not the only one who looked at the tree and walked away.

    Honestly, I was hesitant to give to such a program, anyway, with no idea of who was making the selections of who needed help, or how they determined that help was needed, there was a very good chance that many or most of them were in better financial shape than I was. But that choice of only buying gift cards sealed it–no thanks.

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  43. cheryl, this is through Prison Fellowship, we’ve been doing it for years and they’re pretty established. They discourage gift cards, churches are given family names for members to contact (one of the parents is incarcerated) and that’s where the lists of gift requests/suggestions, sizes, etc., comes from.

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  44. I just like shopping for toys more than i do clothes. 🙂 So I try to pick younger kids, but this time I missed the mark. Oh well.

    So obviously department stores, target, etc., but where’s the best place to shop for a 9-year-old fashion-forward girl these days?

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  45. Teens are the hardest, and to be honest that is where I wish they took gift cards — but I always include a gift receipt so they can take it back. Teens, of course, are usually very specific about their tastes so shopping for them is a shot in the dark when all you know is they want “skinny jeans” or something else kind of general.

    The younger kids’ tags usually go first at our church; if you’re late in picking a tag, you’ll get a teen (which has happened to me a few years — last year I missed out altogether, all the tags were gone when I went to pick one up on the 2nd Sunday they were out 😦 )

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  47. Our church in Hendersonville has something in common with the church in Annandale.
    In the winter, coming and going, by the time the car gets warm, you’re there.

    The “Special Friends” class sang for us tonight. They do so every year.
    Special Friends is a class for those with mental problems. Usually retarded. Some are children. Most adults. They require the same treatment. There are about 25 of them. They have a worker for about every four students.
    Sandy, one of them, about 57 years old, sang. She has a beautiful voice. She is the daughter of f friend and SS member. Sandy can’t read, but she knows the words of all the songs.
    A nightly ritual at their house is for her mother to play the piano and Sandy sings before bedtime.

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  49. Donna, many girls..pre teen, teen, twenties….like Old Navy…it’s Hannah’s favorite store. Marshall’s has a great Junior dept in Colorado Springs….Aeropostale is a favorite of the younger crowd too….
    I see Clemson is faring very well this football season 😛

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  50. Yes, I knew about Old Navy — but hadn’t heard of Aeropostale, so thanks! (and I’m told Old Navy sizes run ‘small’).

    I’m cooking up some chicken breasts tonight … I check the work email and found out there’s a last-minute news conference at the port in the morning that I’ll have to attend. Some big announcement with the Navy about an event coming in the summer of 2016.

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  53. Art asked if we had anything sweet in the house. I told him I would make some bar cookies. I did not have enough peanut butter, but used what I had and subbed some applesauce, used oatmeal, and mini chocolate chips. They still turned out nicely despite the substitution. It is nice to be an experienced cook so I can guess what will work.

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  60. Miss Bosley is being quite the bother tonight. I know, better to be bothered by her middle of the night antics than be kept awake by other concerns. I think I have aged ten years with all we have been going through. Next we have to go through it all again with stones in his other kidney. Really don’t wanna do that, ya know? Then I will age ten more years. I will have to borrow some of Miss Bosley’s nine lives.

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  62. That is great, Jo, that you got them all for such a large order. It can be disappointing when a mom has taken a long time deciding between books and then not to receive the carefully chosen one. So glad you got them long before Christmas so you don’t have to worry about that, too.

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  63. If Miss Bosley were an indoor/outdoor cat, even though this is the coldest night of the year, I would put her out tonight. I do not know what’s up with her bad behavior this evening. Maybe because it is so cold it has made the warmer heat kick on, and she is not use to that.

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