'TIS THE SEASON

Long time no see, no blogs, no nuthin' -- all 'cause of a head cold that gets almost well but then decides to return! One of our grandsons and his family (in another state) had a cold running through his family according to his wife's blog. I must have caught it from them via reading her blog! Gotta blame someone!

We had maybe an inch of snow yesterday -- something we don't often see. Great big giant flakes floating down so gently but in great abundance. If it's gonna snow, that's the kind I like to see. But poor Tippy didn't know what to make of it all. He jumped up in the window sill and looked up at the falling flakes, then looked down at the white ground that's always been green before! Don't tell me cats can't tell color! Back and forth went his little head, up and down and finally he started meowing! He was so cute.

It wasn't cute later on, however, when I was almost finished with my Christmas letters. Had six more to do when I ran out of printer ink, both color and black. No problem -- so I thought. I just reached up in the storage area of my computer desk and grabbed two new cartridges, one black and one colored. Lo and behold, when I ordered the ink last October I inadvertently put down the wrong number -- by just one letter, mind you! I have a Dell printer, and you can't just walk into the store and get some more ink. You HAVE to order it direct from Dell!!! So here I am surrounded by half finished Christmas letters, a printer that doesn't work, and ink cartridges all over the place! It took a couple hours on the phone this morning to order more ink and get permission to return the unused cartridges. I was passed around from one person to another and put on hold most of the time. And most of the people I talked with sounded as though they lived in Timbuctoo! I could barely understand them! How I hate asking them to repeat!

Then I phoned a friend we'd had lunch with yesterday only to learn she had been taken to the hospital with heart problems! She was perfectly OK yesterday! That didn't help my day any!

On top of everything else, my husband has hidden my chocolate candy and I can't find it! He doles it out piece at a time!!! Of course I blew my diet over Thanksgiving, but finally got back just this morning to within one pound of what I had lost! So I want to lose some more real fast so I can blow it again over Christmas! Isn't life fun?

From out of nowhere a few minutes ago I thought of the song, "'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la, la, la, la!" Guess that's better than "Bah, Humbug!"

Preacher's Kid
P.S. I'll get back to being serious one of these days and start my devotional blogs again! In the meantime, I hope you have your jollies, too!