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erm...
Yanno, I haven't started the Christmas letter yet. I should do that if I'm going to get the cards in the mail by Orthodox Christmas (Jan 6).
Christmas was very quiet here. Mum sent us a gift basket of holiday breakfast (add buttermilk and breakfast meat of choice) and musical dominoes -- not the kind that make music (sigh), but the pips are musical notations. (yes, my mother is still sending me educational toys. LOL) J got me a nice bottle of bourbon. I didn't get him anything, because he has no self-control, and every time I thought "ooh, I could get that", it'd show up in a box from Amazon within a couple of weeks.
The Bell Choir rang chimes at church on Christmas Eve. Turns out that the new pastor was correct, and we only needed one service. If J and I had stayed, we would have been the only ones seated in the overflow building. We decided that we could sit in the same room at home much more comfortably.... so we put the chimes away, dealt with the few other things we could without disrupting the service, and came home. There were a number of reasons for that, not just the lack of seating -- Pastor was changing things in the program 15 minutes before it started, the sound tech in the overflow space would have bothered J all service, it looked like a particularly sappy/twee program, and communion does not belong on Christmas Eve in a protestant church. Especially with overflow in a second building -- I have no idea how they'd have handled that. (not my circus, not my monkeys.)
I was song leader today, and that was easy. Other than the fact that I wound up helping after service with many of the things that need to be done then - moving poinsettias, picking up bulletins, etc. To be fair, I don't really mind doing little things like that especially on days when a lot of the regulars aren't in attendance. There were no carols/christmas songs, but that's because the pastor is on vacation and we had a lay speaker who picked old reliable hymns. I *think* that the pastor would have picked more seasonal hymns, but she's new, so I don't really know.
Just before I left for church, I asked J to feed the cats, as the cat bowls were nearly 'people empty'. I got home from church 90 minutes later, and he'd not done it. So I did, and the cats nearly ran me over getting to the freshly filled food bowls. (He went off to the gym, because they close at 1 on weekends. He's turned into that annoying guy who is just finishing his workout as they're trying to lock up the place.)
Christmas was very quiet here. Mum sent us a gift basket of holiday breakfast (add buttermilk and breakfast meat of choice) and musical dominoes -- not the kind that make music (sigh), but the pips are musical notations. (yes, my mother is still sending me educational toys. LOL) J got me a nice bottle of bourbon. I didn't get him anything, because he has no self-control, and every time I thought "ooh, I could get that", it'd show up in a box from Amazon within a couple of weeks.
The Bell Choir rang chimes at church on Christmas Eve. Turns out that the new pastor was correct, and we only needed one service. If J and I had stayed, we would have been the only ones seated in the overflow building. We decided that we could sit in the same room at home much more comfortably.... so we put the chimes away, dealt with the few other things we could without disrupting the service, and came home. There were a number of reasons for that, not just the lack of seating -- Pastor was changing things in the program 15 minutes before it started, the sound tech in the overflow space would have bothered J all service, it looked like a particularly sappy/twee program, and communion does not belong on Christmas Eve in a protestant church. Especially with overflow in a second building -- I have no idea how they'd have handled that. (not my circus, not my monkeys.)
I was song leader today, and that was easy. Other than the fact that I wound up helping after service with many of the things that need to be done then - moving poinsettias, picking up bulletins, etc. To be fair, I don't really mind doing little things like that especially on days when a lot of the regulars aren't in attendance. There were no carols/christmas songs, but that's because the pastor is on vacation and we had a lay speaker who picked old reliable hymns. I *think* that the pastor would have picked more seasonal hymns, but she's new, so I don't really know.
Just before I left for church, I asked J to feed the cats, as the cat bowls were nearly 'people empty'. I got home from church 90 minutes later, and he'd not done it. So I did, and the cats nearly ran me over getting to the freshly filled food bowls. (He went off to the gym, because they close at 1 on weekends. He's turned into that annoying guy who is just finishing his workout as they're trying to lock up the place.)