Well, not so much.

I managed to get out 2 Christmas potholders. The snowman spoon-rest for the stovetop. 1 Christmas placemat for the kitchen table. A Christmas dish towel.

And a Christmas coffee mug from my stupidly large collection of Christmas coffee mugs…

And that was it.

I just wasn’t up for anything more than that yesterday. I figure I’ll wait until I am truly in the Christmas spirit and also have a ton of energy.

I did watch a little bit of Yogi Bear!! (See yesterday’s post.)

Well, I didn’t exactly watch it. It was on the TV in the kitchen while I made a big pot of soup for the weekend.

But that was about as festive as I got.

And now I’m getting ready to head back over to my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man’s house and I am really dreading it, gang.

I’m not dreading seeing him, I’m just dreading what I will find. I am really, really hoping the Agency was able to find a good last-minute replacement for him yesterday — a caregiver that would be able to persuade him to get out of bed and to EAT. (I can’t stress enough how difficult he gets when he has a caregiver that he doesn’t recognize.)

One of his far-away family members texted both me and the private nurse yesterday, to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving. And of course I was polite, etc., but I really wanted to text back to the private nurse and say:

ME (texting furiously): “Why didn’t you fucking TELL me you were fucking going away??!! He ran out of FOOD!! He didn’t eat for TWO FUCKING DAYS!!”

(Also see yesterday’s post.)

Anyway.

Instead I just let it go.

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Anyway.

When I wasn’t NOT decorating for Christmas, I did some yoga. Then started yet another new course! I finally finished the course on the Protestant Reformation last week (wow, what an intense course, gang), and while I wait for James Tabor’s new course on Christianity before Paul, I started a 36-lecture-course on Alexander the Great.

I really have no idea why this course jumped out at me, but it did. And I listened to the first lecture yesterday and I was instantly fascinated by it. It’s not just on Alexander but also on the era of Greek history in which he lived. And the sharp divide in people’s opinions of him back then.

I knew none of this stuff so I think it’s going to be very interesting. However, the moment James Tabor’s new course becomes available, I will set the Alexander the Great course aside until later.

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Meanwhile —

This was so cool.

From NYC LGBTQ historic sites on Instagram!! Peter Hujar’s old apartment in the East Village has just been made an LGBTQ historic residence site!

(Here he is in his living room. I remember this room so well, gang. It is where all his most iconic photographs were displayed.)

(If you are new to the blog, back during the AIDS crisis in NYC, during the mid-1980s, I was a volunteer with the Visiting Nurse Services of NY, and Peter Hujar was one of my patients up until he died.)

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And I think that’s it for now.

I need to sort of get myself together for today’s shift and then head into town.

Enjoy your (Black) Friday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visitng.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this.

James Tabor posted this video to his private Patreon group yesterday.

“The roads of the Roman Empire restructured mobility in the Mediterranean area. This animation movie reveals the diversity of Roman roads, from paved roads leading to major ancient cities, over wide camel tracks in the Egyptian desert, to steep roads in mountain passes.”

Travel the Roads of the Roman Empire (8 mins). Enjoy gang.