January Diversions

 

Before you start partying, read this. You might not be able to see clearly if you wait

 

7 – Old Rock Day

This is a redundancy. All rocks are old. But go ahead and celebrate them anyway. One of the fun ways to celebrate them is to paint them up all purty and such. But as I’ve learned the hard way, if you plan on displaying them outside or around a potted plant, seal them after they are finished! The pic above shows the cactus rocks Lia and painted several years ago.

 

 

8 – Bubble Bath Day

I have always loved a nice, soothing bubble bath. Have a few candles lit and some music playing and I can lay there until the water is cold. 

 

 

10 – Houseplant Appreciation Day

I am terrible at keeping plants alive. I once got a pretty cactus in a little pot and watered that thing to death. My grandma and dad usually had African violets that they took care of religiously.

 

 

16 – Appreciate Dragons Day

I LOVE dragons! Except Barney. Barney makes me want to puke. I would love to see a real dragon wheeling across the sky. The Pern novels by McCaffrey were favorites of mine. The cute little dragon/donkeys from Shrek were adorable. In fifth grade we made a diorama illustrating a book we’d read. I chose Freddy and the Dragon by Walter R. Brooks and made a small clay dragon.

 

 

20 – Penguin Awareness Day

What’s not to love about penguins?? Wonderful creatures. Real ones, of course, but there are so many others too. I’ve always loved Opus from the comic Bloom County. Both the book and movie “Mr. Popper’s Penguins”. And then you have those crazy penguins in the Madagascar movies.

 

Christmas Eve

 

There is a lovely little Christmas hymn in the Children’s Hymnal for the Lutheran church.

The hymnal was compiled in 1955 and we used it every Sunday morning for the opening of Sunday School. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I discovered “The Snow Lay On the Ground.” Our keyboardist at church said she sang it all the time when she was growing up. I just loved it!

 

I searched youtube to find a version with all 4 verses and this was the best one. The words are just slightly changed on the first line of verse 2, but I sang the words to my hymnal anyway. Here are the words. I encourage you to click the link and then come back here for the words.

 

The snow lay on the ground, the stars shown bright,

When Christ our Lord was born on Christmas night.

Venite, adoremus Dominum;

Venite, adoramus Dominum.

 

(refrain)

Venite, adoramus Dominum,

Venite, adoramus Dominum

 

‘Twas Mary, virgin mild, of mother Anne,

That brought into this world the God made man.

She laid Him in a stall at Bethlehem;

The ass and oxen shared the room with them.

 

(refrain)

 

And Joseph, too, was by to tend the Child,

To guard Him and protect His mother mild.

The angels hovered round and sang this song,

Venite, adoramus Dominum

 

(refrain)

 

And thus that manger poor became a throne;

For He whom Mary bore was God the Son.

Oh, come, then, let us join the heavenly host,

To praise the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

 

(refrain)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZW3HK5NfU  

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Sing out! Christ is Born! Hallelujah!!

A Merry CHRISTmas and blessed New Year to you all!

Randomocity Repercussions

 

I do love me some alliteration…

 

What are some fun and interesting alternatives to war that countries could settle their differences with?

Rock, Paper, Scissors. Yahtzee. Maybe a rousing game of Twister. Pie eating contest.

 

If you could switch two movie characters, what switch would lead to the most inappropriate movies?

SO many come to mind!!! Rambo and The Little Mermaid. Mary Poppins and Dirty Harry. The Singing Nun and Samuel L. Jackson’s character from Pulp Fiction.

 

What movie would be greatly improved if it was made into a musical?

Don’t know about improving it, but it sure would make it interesting if The Maltese Falcon was a musical. Or maybe Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, or Psycho.

 

When was the last time you slept more than nine hours?

Three years ago when I was in the hospital and had an unfortunate experience with Haldol. I don’t know if you would call it “sleep” but I was certainly not on this plane of existence for 24 hours. Terrible experience.

 

What’s the shadiest thing you’ve seen someone do?

I was sitting in the car in the parking lot while Marv went into the bank. We were parked close to the plant bed at the edge of the lot. A woman came by with a baby, laid it down in the plant bed and changed its diaper. When she was finished she folded up the icky diaper and looked around. I KNEW she was going to just leave the diaper there. She happened to look at me through the windshield and I just slowly shook my head. She hesitated and picked up the diaper and baby and left.

 

What’s the most imaginative insult you can come up with?

The movie Mystery Men had a lot of great actors in it. Very funny movie. It’s about ordinary people who want to be superheroes, but fail laughably. At one point Wes Studi (as Sphinx) turns to one of the “heroes” and says, “You dress in the manner of a male prostitute.” I LOVED THAT LINE!!!