dual personalities

Category: New Year 2017

A few nice things

by chuckofish

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Well, we ended up with quite a few Christmas cards this year, and isn’t that  nice?

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Another nice thing is that daughter #1 organized all the CDs while she was home! Daughter #1 likes to play DJ with our collection and we did have at least one dance party–so the CDs were in quite a state of disarray, as you can imagine. Anyway, this is a huge job, which entails reuniting the CDs with their correct cases and then putting them back in the right section on the shelf. Awesome.

Last night I took down the Christmas trees so that I could drag them out to the curb for pick-up today. This weekend I’ll put everything away. And take down the festive outdoor lights.

Not so nice, but inevitable.

It would be nice to toast Robert Duvall tonight on his 86th birthday and watch one of his many great movies.  Truly the list is amazing! He was in everything from To Kill a Mockingbird, to True Grit, MASH, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Network, The Natural, Sling Blade, The Apostle, Lucky You, and on and on…What a career! I think it might be time for a little Lonesome Dove.

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“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

Have a nice day!

 

The Lord bless you and keep you

by chuckofish

…the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.

And a happy 2017 to you!

Well, it was a busy week here in flyover country–here are a couple of postcards from my week off with daughters # 1 and 2. We went to Ikea with the boy…

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…and sat in front of a roaring fire…

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admiring our trees…

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…took long walks around the neighborhood…

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…and had a (semi) rockin’ New Year’s Eve party…

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I even went to church on New Year’s Day, following our party, because I had traded with another lay reader in a moment of spontaneous generosity. Then when I got there it turned out she had been wrong in the first place and there were three other people all set to read. Well, I stayed, readers, and was okay with it. Starting off the new year at church isn’t a bad idea…

…especially when it is followed by a movie binge-watching New Year’s Day afternoon/evening! We watched Singin’ In the Rain (1952) in memory of Debbie Reynolds,

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along with Best In Show (2000), 21 Jump Street, (2012) and Pillow Talk (1959).

Tomorrow it’s back to the salt mines.

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Now I just have to take down the trees. Sigh. Have a good last day off!