Hope you all had a Nice Christmas!
Nels Satterlund
afternoon (guess what I got for Christmas) with an nice dinner following.
Nels
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Dorothy J Heydt
Nels Satterlund <Ne...@starstream.net> wrote:
>Skiing in the morning, with the new helmet and Wii bowling in the
>afternoon (guess what I got for Christmas) with an nice dinner following.
Well, I had an amusing Christmas. I went to the eleven o'clock
Mass as usual, and the first thing that happened was the lector
got up and said, "Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family
of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." Stunned silence from the congregation
for about a second, and then several voices said loudly,
"Chhistmas. It's CHRISTMAS!" (Holy Family is the Sunday between
Christmas and New Year's.) Then later on, one of the priests got
up to deliver a sermon all about the childhood of Christ, and how
he did all the things normal human children did, so as to
experience our humanity from the beginning, all very wonderful
... but in the back of the church (right behind me) was a cute
little two-year-old girl who insisted in telling her father,
nonstop at the top of her lungs, "I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT"
or alternatively "I DON'T WANT I DON'T WANT I DON'T WANT."
Theoretically Father had an advantage over her, since he had a
microphone and some large speakers in the rafters, but she had
youth and energy on her side. There were many snickers among the
congregation.
The rest of the day (particularly by comparison to the foregoing)
was pretty dull. Daughter and son-in-law went out to dinner with
friends and took their own two-year-old with them (who has just
as much lungpower as the other one, but isn't speaking English
yet). Hal played Lord of the Rings Online for hours and hours,
at least till midnight and maybe later. I napped a lot, being
still on lots of meds for the broken wrist. I've had worse.
(Being in labor on Thanksgiving, e.g.)
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Philip Chee
> Skiing in the morning, with the new helmet and Wii bowling in the
> afternoon (guess what I got for Christmas) with an nice dinner following.
I was on duty for Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. I arrived early so
someone shoved a lightsabre in my hands and told me to do traffic
control. I put on the yellow reflective vest I got from Interaction in
2005, the one that says "Glasgow Space Port" and then spent half an hour
directing traffic (actually I was pretending to be a Jedi Knight waving
the lightsabre around). I think the worst drivers are little old ladies
who ignore your directions and then try to drive right through you as if
you didn't exist. Perhaps this Jedi mind trick stuff is working too well?
Phil
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