It's the first Monday after Christmas, and the last one for 2024!

So, where are you with your words, and what are your plans for ending the year, comm-wise and/or personally? I am planning to settle into icon-making for the current 100-in-100 challenge to end mine, while Hubby and I enjoy a quiet night in, in front of TV! We may break out a bottle ( Read more... )

Happy Holidays across the board to you, 1MWers! As is a custom of the end of the year, it's time to start thinking about those New Year's Resolutions. Apparently most of them last about two weeks, on average... I have bucked this average, personally, by simply resolving to mot make resolutions. Works pretty well ( Read more... )

This weekend marks the annual Christmas concert for my church. It’s been a strange year with us losing our longtime choir director in September and several choir members as a result. Our small but mighty group has been feeling our way through the music with the help of three interim directors with distinctly different styles and will hopefully ( Read more... )

Greetings Comrades!  I am running the Weekend Challenge on this first fabulous December weekend and I decided we are going for Holiday Superstitions--WOO HOO!  Just choose a number between 1 and 25 and I’ll give you a strangely humorous--or just plain strange--holiday tradition that people may or may not be afraid to not believe in :):)  I also ( Read more... )

Happy holiday season everyone! With U.S. Thanksgiving passing us by yesterday, I thought it would be a fun weekend challenge to talk about holidays. But not those normal holidays everyone knows, but the weird ones only the cool people know! Like one of my personal favorites, Talk Like A Pirate Day! (September 19 for all those interested ( Read more... )

How’s it going today?  If you’re in the US and if you celebrate, are you ready for Thanksgiving?  I’m lucky in that my 78-year-old mother still insists on going all out for the holiday.  So my only responsibility is making sure my vegan child doesn’t starve.  (My mom, my brother, and sister-in-law do not understand that dairy is not vegan lol ( Read more... )

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Hi everyone! I'm back for another weekend challenge! This time from my handy dandy challenge list since it's this close to Christmas I've chosen Santa walks into a bar (or coffee shop, tea shop, juice bar, etc ( Read more... )