John Herman pointed out that the word 'holiday' is translated from the phrase 'holy day' and is therefore just as appropriate to use as 'Merry Christmas', so for crying out loud, can we stop all the hissy-fits?
In other news, we helped the youth group with their Holiday Party, and were grieved to see that for the $5 gift exchange, about 50% of the students brought Starbucks gift cards. And when it came for 'Yankee Swap' that was all anybody wanted. These are the same disillusioned youngsters that looked at me like i had a unicorn horn growing out the side of my neck when i used the word 'hymnal' in a study meeting last month. i heard crickets chirping, saw a tumbleweed, then one of them finally said 'What's a hymnal???' Kids these days.
Not much else is going on, Cosmo got mad at Josh for hanging a picture frame on his favorite blank wall. (It was the wall where he first made friends with a fly.) He has learned to open closed doors using the technique of standing on his hind legs and jumping and beating the door handle senseless until it unlatches itself out of sheer frustration. This is particularly fun when it happens to our bedroom door handle in the middle of the night. He made such a racket i woke up and thought we were being robbed/mutilated/you name it. Then i realized a robber wouldn't have such a hard time opening an unlocked door, and probably wouldn't be meowing at it anyway. Last night Josh covered the handle in double-stick tape, which seemed to work. Apparently cats don't like sticky all over their paws. Today he spent the entire morning standing in the bathtub and staring at a shower tile. (There wasn't so much as a water spot there, i checked twice.) i'm almost finished with all the Christmas gift-wrapping, not that there's much paper left that hasn't been tackled, chewed or smothered, so it will be nice when i don't have to fight that battle multiple times a night. He did get 'normal' enough to play fetch with me last night, and what's more endearing than a cat who acts like a dog?
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