Dec 21

Here it is the Sunday before Christms and there are still so many things to talk about. We had our traditional Christmas song Sacrament meeting where our choir presents the program all in song. There are songs and words I want to talk about from that. Then there are all the things from our Sunday school lesson I want to talk about. The least of which is this, why whenever Brother D. is the teacher do I always get called on to give one of the prayers? Not that I mind, just askin'.

And then there is the Relief Society lesson. Just what I needed to hear today to help me with my issues with Brandi's principal. One thing I learned about myself this week- I am not always a nice person. I may do the right and nice thing, but that doesn't mean I am thinking the nice thing. You know the movie "Field of Dreams"? Remember the part where they are at the school board meeting and the mom calls the other mom a Nazi cow? Yeah, I have had to repent of my thoughts a lot this week.

And, no one brought in the mail yesterday. I noticed it as I walked past the mailbox on my way to church. I sent it back in the house with Brandi but I kept out the envelope from my doctor. Bad news, the blood work shows that my kindeys are "irritated" so I have to stop taking the pain meds that he has me on. We had agreed on Th. when I was in that I would go a day or two without it and see how I felt. So I hadn't had any Friday or yesterday. This morning I could tell that I hadn't taken any and my back and tailbone were hurting. So I took a pill so I could sit on the hard chairs at church. He did give me a prescription to exchange it for- Predisone. I don't want to take Predisone. I just lost almost 20 lbs and don't want to regain it. I also don't want to fill my body with it. I keep thinking that I can control all of this with my diet, but I am having to learn what and what not to eat or what to replace and what to replace it with and it is slow going. What I really need is someone to make me up about 4 weeks worth of menues and the recipes and then I would be set.

Because it takes less time and thought process on my part, I am going to post a couple of videos from this year's Christmas in the Grove instead of going into the above mentioned topics.

Calypso Christmas- a fun little upbeat tune

Monotone Angel

Another fun little upbeat ditti. The "angel" actually has quit a good voice, but this part was perfect for him, he is quit the ham. I used to choreograph plays and if we had had blooper reels from rehearsals he would be featured in most of them.

Halle, Halle, Halle

Kathryn always has at least one audience participation song and this is one of them from this year's program. It is also one of my favorite tunes this year. Sometimes I think that the Hulseys must have been Southern Baptists before they left South Carolina and I got the gene that wants to sing the Olde Time Religion songs, because they are always my favorite.

When I wrote the short, short story "The Choir", the choir director was inspired by my friend Kathryn Little. I know I didn't quit catch the essence of her, but when I go back and do some more revising I will work harder on that part. But you can see a bit of it in this video. You can also tell the moment that Brandi realized I had turned the camera in her direction.

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Indeed.