Joy to the world!

(I walked in on Big Frog watching Monday Night Football on the last night of Fantasy Football playoffs.)
me: Are we winning?
Big Frog: We just need J. Cook to get 6 points.
me: Is that Jay or Jason?
Big Frog: I don't know.  His first initial is J.
ne: What do you think it stands for?
Big Frog: Jeremiah.
me: Jeremiah?  Was he a bullfrog?
Big Frog: No.
me: How can you tell?
Big Frog: I understood everything he said.

Joy to the world, y'all!

Advent - Dec 2

This might be my favorite chorale of Handel's Messiah, too.

Advent - Dec 1

I have had the same advent calendar as long as I've been able to read.  There was a time it was encrusted with gold glitter, to the point that touching the plastic bag holding it could transfer glitter to the books around it.  It lived at the very end of my bookshelf so it would always would be there.  Still does, actually, although now it is really not in the least bit glittery.

Where's the line?

Yoohoo: When do we cross the line and start paying for things?

Philly: Oh it's already been crossed.

(Evidently there's a shame-app that, based on who you've already drafted, tells you how to round out your best team.)
 

Later...

Philly: I can't look at someone else's best picks... oh, I CAN!!

Chicken & rice: That's that $4.99 value!

Later...

Commish: Oh, it's a real app!

God loves us

Evidently K, with M's J, made glitter slime this afternoon.

Me, voicing an opinion that I have long held and have voiced before: I don't understand why slime is so popular.  Instead of slime, you could make chocolate chip cookies.

J: But you can share slime with people!

Me: You can share chocolate chip cookies with people!  Chocolate chip cookies are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!

Shortly thereafter...

Unkie and Uncle J were in the kitchen playing with what I thought was the glitter slime. 

Me: So, is that the glitter slime the kids made?

Uncle J: It's putty.

Unkie: Thinking putty. 

Me (do you ever experience deja vu?): I don't understand why slime is so popular.  Instead of slime, you could make chocolate chip cookies.  Chocolate chip cookies are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!

M's hubs P: Do we have chocolate chip cookies?

Em: I can make shortbread!

PS: recipe 

1 stick unsalted butter

1/2 c sugar

1c flour, can add up to 1/2 cup more flour if needed -- depends on moisture.

cream butter & sugar (if butter is not softened, shred it with a grater to make it usable)

add flour

work manually until it comes together

optional: can add 1/4c mini chocolate chips

bake 15min at 375F or until edges barely start to brown, then remove from oven and let sit 10min on the hot tray.

prick top surface with fork 

Ratscrew

So we taught the nieces and their friends to play Egyptian Ratscrew.  With doubles and sandwiches; no rings.  Like that enormous gold class ring, Unkie...

friend: Stop murdering me!
Unkie: That's good life advice, actually.

That traditional Christmas tune

Big Frog is a consistent supporter of Heart of the Triad Music, because he's a constant supporter of me.  He's a keeper.  He doesn't sing with HTCS, though.  That's ok; we do need an audience as well.  I occasionally poke him about joining, and sometimes others say he's a good singer and does he sing with me?

And then sometimes...

me <listing out the high points of this season's repertoire>: We're doing 3 pieces from Handel's Messiah!  And the Christmas song from Mame!  And Ding Dong!
Big Frog: The witch is dead?
me: Yes.  That traditional Christmas tune.

Come sing with us!  We rehearse Thursdays at Main Street UMC.  And our winter concert is Friday December 14 at 7pm and Saturday December 15 at 3pm, at Sedge Garden UMC, Kernersville.