the Christmas spirit is stirring
Dec. 20th, 2010 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensModerately busy Sunday today.
a) phoned second branch of local shoe shop to see if they had a pair of the boots I wanted in the colour I wanted. They didn't. But at least that spared me the decision of whether or not I wanted to go out this afternoon to try and get them. And there are branches of said shop all over the UK, and I can always order a pair after Christmas if I don't mind waiting. So no big deal.
b) cleaned bathroom.
c) made earrings for coworker (for his wife - he requested "Bollywood style"). http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a1852/g38
d) finished small purple quilt.
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a528b/g39 - front view
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a639r/g39 - back view
(And here are photos of the cushion from a few days ago.)
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a31rz/g39 - front view
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a422y/g39 - back view
e) watched Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol.
f) wrote Christmas cards and wrapped presents for coworkers.
Tomorrow involves a long meeting. It also involves work Secret Santa, which should be more fun.
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“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
“I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
“No, no,” said Scrooge. “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.”
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
“Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
-- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
a) phoned second branch of local shoe shop to see if they had a pair of the boots I wanted in the colour I wanted. They didn't. But at least that spared me the decision of whether or not I wanted to go out this afternoon to try and get them. And there are branches of said shop all over the UK, and I can always order a pair after Christmas if I don't mind waiting. So no big deal.
b) cleaned bathroom.
c) made earrings for coworker (for his wife - he requested "Bollywood style"). http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a1852/g38
d) finished small purple quilt.
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a528b/g39 - front view
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a639r/g39 - back view
(And here are photos of the cushion from a few days ago.)
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a31rz/g39 - front view
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/000a422y/g39 - back view
e) watched Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol.
f) wrote Christmas cards and wrapped presents for coworkers.
Tomorrow involves a long meeting. It also involves work Secret Santa, which should be more fun.
---
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
“I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
“No, no,” said Scrooge. “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.”
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
“Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
-- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
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Date: 2010-12-20 02:50 am (UTC)I'd best not tell you.
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Date: 2010-12-20 01:17 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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