54 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-27-17”

  5. Well, DJ, it looks like Prince Harry is off the market and Carol will have to find someone else.
    I can’t believe that in 2017 people are making an issue of her being half African American (which probably means she is a mutt like the rest of us). On the “fairness scale” I think it is great for black women. Black men have often been accused of “rewarding” themselves with a white woman once they became “rich and famous”. I have watched interviews in the past where black women lamented this. Now a partially African American woman has caught the heart of a true Prince. Doesn’t get much better than that.

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  10. No vertigo issues since Saturday morning when I elected to not go to the doctor. I’ll see my own guy later this week and tell him if I don’t have any more symptoms. Very odd. I slept or read in the blue recliner all day yesterday; I’ve felt really tired but am okay today. Thanks for all your advice.

    Of course, should I test it with Zumba? I’ll know in 90 minutes. 🙂

    I have a radio interview today on All Things Southern and a podcast interview tomorrow, with a handful of blog posts to come, so it feels like the excitement is winding down.

    I’m moving into a more passive marketing plan which should most run itself and then we have Christmas coming (no tree here yet). While normally this would be a gearing into high energy period, I don’t feel that way today. After the last two months, it feels so much calmer and less pressured.

    I’m a little at a loss to not being revving up to go, go, go. But that may also explain why I’ve been sleeping (!!!!) so hard the last couple weeks.

    It feels good to not be frenetic.

    As to the British prince–we can only wish him well and pray that God would be at work in his life and that of his fiance.

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  12. Good morning! The garbage truck just came and I did not get the garbage to the street.

    I am trying not to feel upset by trying to meet the needs of everyone else. My brother was needing phone time when my online Live Bible study happened. Instead of Bible study, I listened to my brother talk about the craziness at the store over the holiday period. I had already put him off one time when Art and I were watching a movie.

    Art has given me more meds to refill. I just picked up meds two days ago.

    Karen called over the weekend and asked if I could take her husband for an epidural shot for his back issues. She said she would go, but ever since she got back from the Thanksgiving trip, her health has been extra bad. Now she can’t go with us. Why am I the only one in our group of four who does not have stenosis? I am the designated driver. Not that I want stenosis, of course. I just want to cry about it all. Art has a new client appointment so he could not go. I just need to pray my way through it.

    Well, I am sorry for expressing my Monday morning blues. Art and I did finally see a good movie from the library, Serenity, a science fiction movie from 2005, based on a short-lived television series, Firefly. It has one of the sci-go cult followings like Star Wars. Art really liked it because of its anti-utopian philosophy. It probably got canned from TV because of that. If anyone who likes that kind of movie has not seen it, it is definitely worth seeing.

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  13. Nah, not this year. It took 2 days to get the tree up and I don’t like it. I put out two Nativity sets but don’t have the energy to drag the big, nice one down. The garland for the fireplace is still on the floor in front of the fireplace. I had grand ideas for using Mr. P’s mother’s punch bowl for a centerpiece on the dining room table. It currently has a very large poinsettia in it.

    Yesterday Mr. P was talking about the cost of Christmas and what we needed to do. I told him I thought our trip was our Christmas present to each other. It was with relief he asked me if I was sure. “Yep. You need anything to go buy it. I need anything I go buy it. We need anything for the house, we go buy it. I can’t think of anything I need or want for Christmas”.

    I know he has been researching cameras, because you know, pictures of the March Granddaughter, hashtag Mimi’s Going to the Poorhouse Before This Baby Is Born! I think I might have him convinced not to buy anything else but diapers and consumables for now. We need to wait and see what they get at baby showers and THEN go fill in what they will NEED. Anyway, I got distracted. I wouldn’t begin to purchase a camera for him. I am sure I would buy the wrong one.

    I did put a stop to him questioning the Mother of the Baby at Thanksgiving. “Honey, you are not her doctor. You are her father in law and if you asked ME those types of questions I would be embarrassed”. He means well.

    I am just exhausted and there is no rest in sight until about December 16th. I won’t be hosting the Black Family Christmas at my house this year. My aunt called last night. She is having it at her beach house, unless I really want to have it, I told her it would be a relief not to do it here but I would help her with it.

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  15. Cheryl and Linda, Mr P made that comment LAST year that we needed to start a tradition of letting “the kids” decorate the Christmas tree when they are here for Thanksgiving so that the grandchildren can grow up doing it. That is why there is currently a 7 foot tree, still in the box, still in the attic, that I bought after Christmas last year. There will be a “family” tree next year.

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  18. The only time you hear Bing and Gene are at Christmas time.
    They play Christmas music in the stores, but no Carols like they used to.
    Only Bing can really sing “Silent Night, though others try. “.

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  19. Morning! Oh Chas…Paul agrees with you about Gene Autry and Rudolph!! Seems like every time we turn on the radio that song is playing!
    Ok Kim…I have been feeling the same about my tree and decorations this year….I don’t like it!! I was trying to put up garland on the front porch and it just wasn’t working…I kept muttering to myself “I’ve lost my mojo”!!! I don’t even know what mojo is but it seemed I’d lost it!! I ended up just placing the garland in the rocking chair, placing a grapevine wreath on top along with a primitive birdhouse and called it…done!! And the tree just isn’t looking right…I got some thinking to do about it and how to fix it…or not!

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  20. Bing Crosby is my favorite crooner…my Dad could croon just like him..he had a beautiful voice my Daddy….I still am a puddle of tears when I hear Bing sing “kiss me once kiss me twice”…Dad sang it to us all the time…..

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  22. One of our pleasures this weekend was taking our eleven year old granddaughter to see, “Wonder.” She had read the book, but probably would not have gotten to the theater to see it. Mom stayed at our house with the two younger siblings, 18 months and 2 months old. Big brother was not here. It was the perfect opportunity. She was the biggest help at Thanksgiving. It is difficult to have these opportunities when they live so far away, so it was a special joy for grandma and grandpa.

    Christmas decorating will commence when the laundry is all done after Thanksgiving weekend guests have left. It will be a gradual process, so I can actually enjoy it.

    Cheryl–all editors were, apparently, on Thanksgiving holidays this weekend. Hence, the people climbing tall letters. 😀

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  23. “Tossing” Christmas lights and decorations into a tree. Reminds me of the big family debate my parents always had about tinsel, which back then was very popular — throw? or drape? Tinsel is long since gone out of favor, thankfully 🙂

    Prince Harry’s fiance is beautiful, a lucky girl. Prince Harry is, as they say, quite the catch. She also has cute dogs.

    Did they announce where or when the wedding will be? I haven’t seen the news this morning yet.

    I’ve been busy hauling things out from under the kitchen sink, the guy comes today while I’m at work to fix that leak, we hope.

    I was always partial to Rudolph, but then it was the go-to Christmas song for kids when I was growing up. I liked Gene Autry too. His museum is in Griffith Park, I’ve been a few times — very cool cowboy and Indian stuff, along with Autry memorabilia.

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  25. Just down off the roof cleaning the chimney. We draped carefully, lights on a couple of trees this morning. I have never wanted outdoor lights on my trees but somebody on here (Linda maybe?) had a beautiful little outdoor tree and somebody mentioned solar lights and so of course, I mentioned it to husband and now I have them. They looked very nice and hopefully will look better today. Eleven year old did it with nineteen year old supervising on one tree. I did another with ten year old helping and she did the last with nineteen supervising. It will be beautiful whatever.

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  26. Just so there’s no misunderstanding, I love how our tree is decorated and wouldn’t change anything about it.
    So, is “Silent Night, though others try“ a new Christmas song?

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  27. Mumsee, it may have been me. We have a cute little evergreen in our back yard (where our door and windows face) and last year I kiddingly said that it needed lights so Hubby got solars and surprised me. Which reminds me, they aren’t up yet.

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  28. That is the picture I was thinking of. It was a beautiful picture and I thought I would like to look at that after all. Though we enjoy the stars, it is fun to have a couple of trees far apart, lighting up at night, and they are not so bright as to stifle the starts. Thanks for the idea!

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  30. Just to be clear that I am not a total snob. BG has helped decorate her share of Christmas trees—colored lights and all. I will have to find a certain tree and share it with all of you. It was the year we had 3 trees. One silver and white, one red and gold, and a mish mash tree in the living room.

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  33. I suppose it would feel more like Christmas if I decorated. There are a couple of my angels around. But my things are all packed up where I can’t get to them and this house has nothing. I did see a little nine inch tree in the closet upstairs, perhaps I will get that out. Since I am leaving on Jan 7th there will not be anything to put away.

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  35. I currently have several trees lit outside (not solar – I don’t think our hours of daylight would suffice) Two trees finished in the family/dining room. I added red to the normally all white tree this year. I also made a wreath from an old found barrel ring, some dollar store red berries an antler and some pine cones. I think it looks lovely 🙂 I will post a picture on FB once we’ve hosted the camp family Christmas party. My theme for the party is buffalo check – so red, white and black.

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  36. Jo, at least put the little tree out somewhere – it will help 🙂

    We’re cutting down our real tree for the living room this Saturday and will decorate it on Sunday. I love walking out into the brush to get a tree.

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  38. So, the past three nights, I have been having weird nightmares. We have decided that it has to do with handling daughter’s meds. Apparently, CNA daughter is not allowed to handle meds without gloves as the handler is then exposed to the effects of the meds. If handling her meds is causing this reaction in me (admittedly, I am quite sensitive to meds and my hands are generally quite open to infection due to eczema) I cannot imagine what they are doing to her brain. One of the many listed side effects is nightmares. According to an old coot at the old coot’s coffee this morning, he is not supposed to handle his wife’s chemo drugs without gloves so it sort of makes sense. Using a spoon from now on for her pills.

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  44. Jumping in here (I do that a lot lately) to ask if anyone can explain a couple things for me from the “Tax Return for Non-Taxable Estates” that I need to take to probate court with me. (Doesn’t the title of that sound like something from Monty Python?)

    “Did the decedent have an interest in life insurance on the life of another? If Yes, report the cash surrender value in . . .”

    Would this include his being the main beneficiary on my life insurance? If so, why would they need to know the cash surrender value, since my daughters are now the beneficiaries?

    “Did the decedent have an interest in life insurance on his or her life? If Yes, report the entire proceeds in. . .”

    Now, I think this sounds like the life insurance payment that I received, but the addition of the phrase “have an interest in” is throwing me off. (In the section where I’m supposed to put that in, Column C is for “Life Insurance Value. Report the entire proceeds from each policy.” And Column D is for “Amount of Column C Passing to Spouse.”)

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  46. Kathaleena – In the Moebius Syndrome Facebook groups, there has been some discussion of the book & the movie Wonder. There is some fuss about the fact that the producers didn’t use a young person with the actual condition, especially by one lady who is a disability rights activist. (Many, including her, consider Moebius to be a disability of sorts.) Another issue is that, supposedly, he is given an award, not for anything he actually accomplishes, but what some see as a pity award. (Many disabled bristle at the idea of being considered an “inspiration”, as they just want to be treated as any other normal person.)

    I have commented on a couple of those posts that we shouldn’t reject the good because it is not perfect, that this movie is certainly a step in the right direction. The little thing I did notice is that the boy’s eyes are very cute, kind of overcoming the rest of his appearance. But I have seen photos of some children with Treacher-Collins, & their conditions are often a lot worse than how he was made up to look. But of course, Hollywood needs to make their protagonist characters appealing in some way.

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  48. Kizzie, I get that about being “an inspiration.” When I was in school, I wasn’t good at sports, and I used to hate it when I would almost get the ball and someone would say “Good try.” I think they were trying to be nice, but not saying it to other kids when they tried and missed, to me it emphasized that the “best” I could generally do was to try and fail. I know they didn’t mean it that way, but I didn’t like it.

    One of my own pet peeves of a sort is listening to people talk with someone with cancer, someone who has just lost a spouse, etc., and hear over and over again people saying to the person, “You are so brave!” And I want to ask what does bravery mean, and what does it mean to be “brave” when facing a crisis you can’t leave? Are they brave for not crying in public, for not killing themselves, or what? It’s often said in a kind of breathless, worshipful way, and I want to say don’t hold up “holding it together” as the ultimate test of bravery. First, it’s OK if the person does cry sometimes, but also it’s not like they really have a choice. “I’m happy to see God sustaining you and I’m praying for you” or something like that might be better, I suppose.

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  49. Interesting piece posted on FB by a former bi-racial colleague I sat next to for several years:

    http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/news/a26855/more-than-an-other/

    Meghan Markle: I’m More Than An ‘Other’

    Suits star Meghan Markle on creating her identity and finding her voice as a mixed race woman. Originally written in July 2015 published in ELLE Magazine in 2015.

    MORE FROM MEGHAN MARKLE

    ‘What are you?’ A question I get asked every week of my life, often every day. ‘Well,’ I say, as I begin the verbal dance I know all too well. ‘I’m an actress, a writer, the Editor-in-Chief of my lifestyle brand The Tig, a pretty good cook and a firm believer in handwritten notes.’ A mouthful, yes, but one that I feel paints a pretty solid picture of who I am. But here’s what happens: they smile and nod politely, maybe even chuckle, before getting to their point, ‘Right, but what are you? Where are your parents from?’ I knew it was coming, I always do. While I could say Pennsylvania and Ohio, and continue this proverbial two-step, I instead give them what they’re after: ‘My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. I’m half black and half white.’

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  51. The instructions & warnings that came with Hubby’s last prostate cancer medication (basically, chemo in pill form), also warned about the effects on the caregiver. (He never had the med at home, as it was prescribed the day before he went into the hospital.) One warning was to wear gloves to clean up any vomit or any other bodily fluids from the patient.

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  52. Cheryl, good thoughts on being labeled “brave”. It reminds me of what Captain Sullenberger said about being called a “hero”. A hero makes a choice to run into a burning building when there is no obligation. Sully was at the plane’s controls and really had no choice other than to do what he was trained to do. He deserved praise for his discipline, calm, and skill, but he resisted being labeled a “hero” just doing his job.

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  53. Bravery is what all the workers on my house have exhibited. Running into a falling-down house …

    Kitchen sink issue/leak still unresolved. Guy returns tomorrow after spending all day today on replacing pipes. Hmmm. No surprise, nothing is every “simple” in my house.

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