Weekly Webness - Christmas Carols Online

In keeping with the season, this week's offering is Christmas Carols Online. This site features little stories about many popular Christmas Carols, including history, lyrics, and appearances in the media.

Bailey the Unknown Reindeer

This dog seriously loveses him some snow.

Monday Morning Musings

Okay, it's COLD outside. Not normal cold. Not something you can sing about. It's REALLY REALLY COLD. Nose-hair-freezing cold. Don't-go-outside-you-moron cold. So, of course, I went outside in it.
BUT, I have two - count 'em, TWO - lovely warm wool legwarmers that designatedknitter gave to me for my Robo-Leg so that my Metal Inserts don't get cold. And I gotta tell ya, after that looooong walk across the parking lots (about 1/3 mile or so) the ONLY thing that was warm was my right leg, between my knee and ankle. Coincidentally, that's the part that was covered by my two - count 'em, TWO - lovely wool legwarmers.

I also forgot my cane at home...so I'm having to be QUITE a bit more careful walking than I have had to be. Oh well, I'm sure it'll be good for me. Or something. Without the cane I do tend to "roll" from side to side, though, and i don't like doing that, so I'm working at not-rolling while walking. Which of course means I take a bit longer to walk anyway, so I'm out in the cold a bit longer. But at least RoboLeg isn't getting cold, because i have two - count 'em, TWO - lovely wool legwarmers.

Heard something incredibly stupid today on the radio. "Doctor Joel Wallick" was advertising for his new "energy pack". He's all about Colloidal Minerals and anti-doctor. Incidentally, the guy is a Veterinarian, not a people-doctor. And he's one I certainly wouldn't take my pets to see, I'll tell you what. This guy's new ad touts his energy pack that's made from "flower pollen." He even emphasizes that it's not made from BEE pollen - this is pollen that's taken right off the flowers! (Seriously, that's exactly what he says in the commercial. Just like that, too.)
Not bee pollen, flower pollen. News flash to the stupidpeople of the world: THIS GUY IS SNOWING YOU. Seriously. BEES DON'T MAKE pollen! They collect it from flowers. Right, just like "Doctor" Wallick. Only they're smaller. And probably smarter.

Weekly Webness - Online Devotions from LHM

Another Daily Devotion site: Daily Devotion from Lutheran Hour Ministries. They offer several ways to get that devotion, too: you can get it in your email box every day, you can visit the website, OR you can subscribe to their podcast and hear the devotion on your computer or MP3 player.

Weekly Webness - Online Devotions

Today's Weekly Webness is Portals of Prayer online, a daily devotion provided by Concordia Publishing House.

It has all the features of the hardcopy version of Portals of Prayer: an associated Scripture reading, an associated Psalm, and a little devotion and prayer.
You can also order the hardcopy version, AND they offer an audio version as well - just click the link and you can hear the day's devotion.

Fashion is Stupid

I went looking for a pair of flannel pajamas over the weekend. First I checked with my favorite store - the Internet. Hrm....flannel bottoms, but no tops. O....kay.....
Let's try the store.
Walmart: flannel pajama pants.
Target: flannel pajama pants. Oh, and these "charming" little useless bits of cloth with spaghetti straps that were supposed to be paired with the flannel bottoms. Excuse me? If I'm buying flannel pajamas, I'm not making a freaking fashion statement, I'm trying to keep warm. How is that stupid little bit of nothing supposed to help keep me warm????

Oh, and my personal favorite: "thermal pajamas". Longjohns. They were longjohns in happy colors with little flowers and bunnies on them. Which did, in fact, come with thermal tops as well, so I was all prepared to buy them, not caring much what they looked like, as long as they keep me warm, but apparently fat people don't get cold enough to warrant warm bottoms and tops, since the largest size they had for these thermal jammies were a size medium. Fabulous.

I finally found something that might actually work, and it was on sale, so at least there's that. But come ON. Flannel bottoms with what looks like an attempt at a "sexxxaaaayyyyy" top? Please. I want warm, people, not "sexxxxaaayyy". Market your stupid sexxxay stuff all you want, but give us some warm stuff for on top to go with the warm stuff on bottom, hey? Sell 'em as Separates - that way you can still market your stupid "flannel bottoms and useless tops" to people who want that sort of thing, and the rest of us can have our flannel bottoms AND flannel tops.

Waiting, or copping out?

I had a thought over the weekend - when does "waiting upon the Lord" become actually "copping out so I don't have to make decisions"? Seriously, it'd be so easy to just sit and say, "well, God will tell me what He wants me to do, so I'm gonna sit back and just keeeep floating along until He tells me what He wants me to do with my life." Easy - no decisions, no responsibility for those decisions if they go wrong, because it's all God's Plan, you see?

But...I wonder at what point "waiting for God's Plan" becomes "so I don't have to do anything." How can you tell?