Advent Playlist. I put together an Advent playlist for those who are interested. Secular Christmas music makes me stabby so this is a nice change from all the tripe that’s playing in the malls right now. Props go to Bonnie of A Knotted Life and to my friend Thomas as I borrowed some of their ideas for mine.
Free Advent Reflection Book. My BFF Rebecca put this Advent reflection book together.
Advent game of sorts. On Sunday, our senior warden (translation: president of the “vestry” or congregation council) was handing out white mailing envelopes with a blue piece of paper attached signifying that it was “The Advent Game”. The instruction was to take a slip of paper out each day and read it with our families before doing the action indicated. (If it wasn’t something we particularly wanted to do, there were “extras” in the envelope so we could draw another one.) Each slip of paper has been something fun or thought-provoking. I’ve been asked to do things like write in a journal, go outside after dark and listen to the sounds of the night, say a prayer for a pregnant person if I see one, or ponder some interesting reflection questions.
An “interesting” arrangement of “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”. We’re working on this for next weekend in my church choir. It’s good to be able to listen to it on the JW Pepper website because it can sound kind of like music from a haunted house if not heard with all the parts together.
Christmas cards. I was hoping to get my Christmas cards out on the day after Thanksgiving but that obviously didn’t happen so I’m aiming to have a workday on Tuesday to get them ready to take to the post office. My plan: curl up at $tarbux after I get Daniel to school and watch YouTube videos while I try and get it all done.
Messiah Sing-a-Long on Saturday! Provided that Daniel isn’t being the pill he has been a few nights this week, I’ll be singing Handel’s Messiah with the Skagit Symphony Chorus. I used to sing it with the San Jose Symphonic Choir when I was in high school and college so I’m pretty excited!
End of the Quarter. I just have to submit my Access assessment and take my in-class test for Practical Accounting on Tuesday before I’ll be officially done with the quarter. It has been interesting thus far and I’m looking forward to continuing with accounting next quarter.
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Listening to the let All Moral Flesh now…it IS kind of haunting.