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Notes from the Blue and Green Cottage
Nov. 29th, 2023 04:09 pmThanksgiving weekend was quiet but tasty. The boy toy made a great meal for the holiday itself and found some innovative ways to use the leftovers. (Turkey and stuffing quiche is surprisingly good!) It was a little weird not going to Chessiecon, but since last year's convention was such a bust, I'm not surprised there wasn't one this year. I have no idea what's going to happen next month.
The weekend before Thanksgiving, I had a great time at Atlantia's Holiday Faire, while R. went by his lonesome to Philcon. I don't think any of his friends were there. (Well, one longtime friend of ours from Massachusetts, a fellow named Phil, died at the end of October, so he's not going to any more SF conventions.)
My last year of serving as a church trustee is proceeding apace. Things have been a lot less hectic -- i.e., fewer emergencies. Granted, we are having a special board meeting tonight, but that's to decide what kind of arrangement we will have with our next minister -- someone in the UUA's developmental minister program, which would mean a four-year commitment to trying to fix our flaws, or a contract minister, who would just be an employee who does the ministerial work for a given period of time. We are now too small of a congregation to call a settled minister, who would be a permanent minister staying for an indefinite period of time.
The boy toy and I have some Christmas decorations up, including our new Christmas tree. (The old one was a pre-lit model whose lights stopped working, so we abandoned it in the move.) But we still have more holiday stuff, including the ceramic tree my Aunt Bev made for my parents and my mother's Santa pitcher, are still in our storage unit up in North Laurel. Little by little, we are emptying out the unit, but some of the stuff will have to wait until there's a new floor in the bedroom (long story).
Movies: I would like to see The Holdovers in the theater, because a film stylized to look like a quirky 1970s movie should be seen on technology that existed in the 1970s. I really, really want to see Maestro on the big screen, but it's not playing that close to me. Sigh.
The weekend before Thanksgiving, I had a great time at Atlantia's Holiday Faire, while R. went by his lonesome to Philcon. I don't think any of his friends were there. (Well, one longtime friend of ours from Massachusetts, a fellow named Phil, died at the end of October, so he's not going to any more SF conventions.)
My last year of serving as a church trustee is proceeding apace. Things have been a lot less hectic -- i.e., fewer emergencies. Granted, we are having a special board meeting tonight, but that's to decide what kind of arrangement we will have with our next minister -- someone in the UUA's developmental minister program, which would mean a four-year commitment to trying to fix our flaws, or a contract minister, who would just be an employee who does the ministerial work for a given period of time. We are now too small of a congregation to call a settled minister, who would be a permanent minister staying for an indefinite period of time.
The boy toy and I have some Christmas decorations up, including our new Christmas tree. (The old one was a pre-lit model whose lights stopped working, so we abandoned it in the move.) But we still have more holiday stuff, including the ceramic tree my Aunt Bev made for my parents and my mother's Santa pitcher, are still in our storage unit up in North Laurel. Little by little, we are emptying out the unit, but some of the stuff will have to wait until there's a new floor in the bedroom (long story).
Movies: I would like to see The Holdovers in the theater, because a film stylized to look like a quirky 1970s movie should be seen on technology that existed in the 1970s. I really, really want to see Maestro on the big screen, but it's not playing that close to me. Sigh.
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