I spent Christmas Day at my 94–year-old Japanese client’s house. We had such a beautiful time!
His private nurse had left food in the fridge for me to prepare for Christmas. And I served it on his late wife’s good holiday dishes, which seemed to just thrill him. She has been gone for 6 years now and so no one ever serves him his meals on the good dishes anymore.
His whole face lit up when he came to the table.
And look at the Christmas gift he gave me!! Gloves. They kind of took my breath away:
Okay!
I hope you’ve had a great Christmas today, if you celebrate it.
And here’s a photo of my family room from this morning:
Of course I refer to Trump’s comments at Amfest, about how, on Day One, he’s going to put an end to the “transgender lunacy.”
I happen to agree with the fine print of that comment, but the timing of that blatant remark… As Sandra and I are getting ready to take our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous” to Off-Broadway in NYC.
That should make for a nice political sh*t storm. Thank you very much.
Anyway!
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Since Christmas is essentially here already, not much news is getting posted. I think a lot of folks are off, enjoying the holiday already.
We’re all hoping that Phil doesn’t cancel again tonight. He’s expected to be live at 7PM Eastern time, but check here later to confirm.
‘Elon Mask’ — the imposter playing the role of the dispossessed and probably dead Globalist arch-criminal Elon Musk — and the committee of Q operatives incessantly posting in his name on Twitter / X together now constitute the single most powerful force supporting The Great Awakening worldwide.
We have already witnessed what this stunning transformation from Globalist Golden Boy to Trumpian Water Boy has done to shift American political opinion rightward. Federal filings have just revealed that Mask spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the final months of the 2024 campaign to reelect Commander Trump. And now, the Frankenstein Monster Media Mogul — in both the form of his ill-gotten money and his puffed-up persona — is being harnessed to the task of promoting the “far right” parties of libtarded Western Europe as well. […]”
Our selection is once again from Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations. And the exciting topic for today is RON WOOD:
Keith points out:
“I’ve known him as stoned out of his brain… and I’ve known him straight sober. And quite honestly, there’s very little difference.”
I don’t know, but I thought that was sort of cheerful news! I guess just keep it in mind if you find yourself vacillating about joining AA this Christmas…
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That’s it for today!
I have the day off. It’s cold but sunny! I have a couple of really quick local errands to run right here in the village, and then the rest of the day belongs to just ME. Yay!
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with the Christmas breakfast-listening-music from today!!
Another one of my favorites. From the Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails collection, 1996, Ray Anthony’s “Christmas Trumpets” from 1966. This is fantastic, gang! It had me dancing around the kitchen, with one of the little foster cats in my arms, and she was purring like crazy!
If you’ve never heard it before, check it out and, if you’re still having your breakfast, with or without a cat, then get up and dance around your kitchen!! Okay. Enjoy!
“The United States has a vested interest in the secure, efficient, and reliable operation of the Panama Canal, and that was always understood. We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands! It was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us and Panama. If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question. To the Officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly!”
And there were other somewhat ominous posts by Q- followers. I’m not going to post it all here, but it was enough to make me feel, like: Oh crap….now what?
And nary of sign of Trump with popcorn this time…
So I guess we just stay alert and wait and see.
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On the home front, I had a really nice pre-Christmas celebratory lunch at Tequilaville with my Q-following girlfriend yesterday. It was her first time dining at Tequilaville, and she said: “Wow, the food here is really good. I never even knew this place was here!” She lives about 8 minutes from there. And now she wants to start meeting there more often for lunch.
I tell you, gang, more proof that you can’t judge a book by it’s cover:
The legendary Tequilaville
Overall, it’s been a really intense Christmas season for me. The combination of the caregiving jobs and my dad being gone now. But here’s something I can attest to:
Hawthorn Berry tea is GREAT at getting your heart to stop racing. I find that my heart has been racing constantly, the last couple of weeks.
2 tablespoons dried hawthorn berries, steeped in boiling water for about half an hour (longer is even better). For me, it starts working right away. (If you have high blood pressure, 2-3 cups a day is recommended.) (You can also take the dried berries as high potency pills, but I’ve never tried those.)
Anyway, I’m hoping to survive this Christmas, if only for the sake of the 723 cats who are relying on me around here. And I am hoping like HECK that next Christmas will be, I don’t know — less overwhelming.
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And here’s our Daily Feature!
What Would Keith Richards Do?
And while it comes from the really interesting final chapter, titled: A Chronology of Trouble, it’s really different from anything we’ve landed on so far. The topic is CHILDHOOD.
It’s long, but in part, it says: “…he has a dream to be Roy Rogers: ‘He could shoot, play the guitar, and ride a great horse. What more do you want?’ Little Keith ‘Ricky’ Richards dresses up as Rogers, with cowboy hat and holsters, but is well known as a crybaby…”
After reading this passage on Keith Richards’ childhood, what sprang to my mind was that my grandmother, Cora May (yes! the same woman that served as my inspiration for the novella, A Man in Her Arms), grew up next door to Roy Rogers (aka Leonard Slye), back in Portsmouth, Ohio, a really, really long time ago. And they were great friends until he went off to Hollywood to become a cowboy in the movies.
It is such a small world, isn’t it?
A photo of Portsmouth, Ohio, from 1908. The town is on the Ohio River, so the town floods constantly.
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And that is it for today.
Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world! If you live State-side, stay alert.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this. It is a fantastic Tribute album, wherein a bunch of Country stars, from the 80s-90s, sing duets with Roy Rogers on some really great songs. It was his last album. It charted at #17 on Billboard’s Country Charts. If you have time, listen to the whole thing, because it really is a great collection.
I don’t really have time to post this morning. I slept in a little and now I gotta scoot!
And after my shift with my 94 year-old Japanese man, I’m having my pre-Christmas lunch at Tequilaville with my Q-following friend!
Only 4 more days until Christmas, gang, and so far the house is not a complete disaster. The tree is still standing, although the foster cats climb it every night and they have knocked off dozens of ornaments, unstrung some lights and left the star askew….. I am still just grateful that they didn’t bring the whole tree down!! Yet!!!
Christmas Star Askew! Lights missing!Just some of the dozens of ornaments they’ve knocked off the tree — but only one of them actually broke!!!
Okay, have a great Saturday, wherever you are in the world!
Even though I am still really tired, I am bowled over by the beauty of my clients this season.
I was not expecting any gifts or even any cards, but my clients are kind of blowing me away with their kindness. Yesterday, one of my clients gave me a gift and a Christmas card that sort of took my breath away — and when I thanked her for it, the beautiful things she said to me about the job I do for her and her husband brought tears to my eyes.
It’s a difficult mix between knowing I will be alone this Christmas because my dad is gone now and I basically have no family left who are still speaking to me, and my friends are far away, spending Christmas with their families.
So the fact that I will actually be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with clients who genuinely care about me — it is hard to process that mix of gratitude, love, loss.
I have to say, though, I am really looking forward to spending Christmas Day with my 94-year-old Japanese client that I adore so much!!
We have such an incredible time when we are together. He and I have so many unlikely things in common that I could do a whole blog post about it.
When I saw him on Wednesday, in the course of our conversations, he said, “I only have a couple more minutes to live.”
And I said, “Do you think you could hold out for another week, because I’ll be coming here on Christmas and I’d hate to be here all by myself.”
He laughed. and he said, “Okay. I’ll hold on another week…”
I’m expecting Christmas Day with him to be just beautiful.
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Anyway. I digress!
There is NO NEWS, gang!! It’s getting insane! The amount of stuff that they are pretending is happening that is not really happening….
I’ve been to Telegram, YouTube, Truth Social, Rumble, X….. and it is all the same.
This is not “news” but it’s interesting, if not sickening. You should probably read it.
“…Most Americans over the age of 45, and certainly all readers of The Anti-New York Times, should already know that Fidel Castro was a Communist dictator who ruined Cuba — driving its mostly White upper and middle classes to flee to Florida while the communist state and its rabble hordes dispossessed productive Cubans who stayed. There was celebration in the Cuban enclaves of Union City, NJ and Miami, FL when the unrepentant old bastard finally died in 2016..
Of more interest to our eager students of real history is the long-since forgotten story of the mighty media organization that dusted off the badly defeated rebel, put him back on his feet, and helped to install him as dictator. That’s right, boys and girls. Without the maneuvering of Sulzberger’s Slimes (aka “the paper of record”) — specifically the pro-communist correspondent Herbert Matthews(cough cough) — and the Evil Eisenhower-Dulles State Department, Castro’s revolution of 1959 would never have succeeded..[…]”
Nick Cave sent out the best Red Hand File yesterday!! It’s all about how he is going to be spending Christmas — with his family, and going to church.
I have to tell you, gang, just knowing that he is going to have such a perfect Christmas is going to make my own Christmas that much happier. It really is. I’m going to get a lot of joy out of just thinking about it.
He said, in part:
“…And somewhere, amid the feasting and joyful human messiness – this beautiful, this happy, this sorrowful estate – I will acknowledge how extraordinarily fortunate my family and I are to have this good Christmas Day. I will remember, too, amongst all the making and the doing, the energising principle around which this day revolves that speaks so eloquently of rebirth and renewal, and the end to waiting – that of a mother bearing a child in a stable, revitalising the world for all eternity.”
Our random selection comes from Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations. And the topic is — CHILDREN (!!).
Keith says:
“They give you that little bit — that important bit of living when you absolutely don’t know shit about nothing.”
Who could say it better ???
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And that is actually it for today. I essentially have the “whole day off”, but then, tonight, I will be with that sweet 99-year-old blind lady, who lives out in the middle of deep, dark, snowy nowhere with 3 huge happy dogs and two big rascally black cats.
It’s a full house and it’s full of love, gang.
Okay.
Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this.
The 94-year-old Japanese man had the great good fortune of seeing “South Pacific” on Broadway (in 1950), back when it was brand new and the legendary Mary Martin was starring in it.
What a fantastic show it is– the music, alone, is incredible. Imagine anyone being able to experience that show, live, on stage, when it was brand new. Let alone, being a young Japanese-American, who spent his childhood in Japan, during WWII, then returning to NYC at age 17, and then seeing a show like “South Pacific”.
He and I discuss that show all the time, actually. It’s a show I just love. And I adored Mary Martin when I was a little girl.
Last night, by candlelight, I lay in my bed, listening to a few of the songs from “South Pacific”, but once I landed on the song below, I couldn’t stop playing it!!! “This Nearly Was Mine”. I just kept thinking about the miracle that I have even met this amazing man so late in his life. It is such a blessing to me, to be able to hear about the stories of his life — they are extraordinary. Okay. Enjoy, gang!!
“This Nearly Was Mine”
One dream in my heart One love to be livin’ for One love to be livin’ for This nearly was mine
One girl for my dream One partner in paradise This promise of paradise This nearly was mine
Close to my heart she came Only to fly away Only to fly as day flies from moonlight Now, now I’m alone Still dreamin’ of paradise Still sayin’ that paradise Once nearly was mine
I’ll keep rememberin’ kisses From lips I’ve never owned And all the lovely adventures That we have never known
One dream in my heart One love to be livin’ for One love to be livin’ for This nearly was mine
Nothing but optics and psyops, for as far as the eye can see, across all the lands, hither and yon.
Phil posted that he had HUGE news and will try to do a livestream soon. Of course, the stock markets are also tanking, so his huge news might have something to do with buying gold and silver. I guess we’ll see.
Meanwhile — here is an example of the endless stuff I see constantly right now. Anytime you see or hear the number 17 these days, it’s a sure sign that it’s a Q-related psyop. [Q being the 17th letter of the alphabet.]
The formerly holy and exalted post-World War II institution of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) coming up short on its spending targets, in spite of a “war” going in the Ukraine, — coupled with Commander Trump‘s mounting threats to pull out of the already defanged organization — are just further indicators that the New World Order is dead. All that remains now is the play-acted closing drama to start in 2025. […]
Among the religious devotees and dupes of NWO Globalism, NATO ranks right up there with the UN, the WHO, the EU, the World Bank and the IMF as an “indispensable” institution of “global stability.” The truth is, that from its inception to the present day, NATO — a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CIA which itself was founded just two years before NATO — has always been a enforcement racket in service to the Globalists.
The origin of NATO traces back to the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 among Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK — four European states which had conspired to start World War II in the first place […]”
If you scroll down to the bottom of the article, you find the passage about Solomon dealing with the Queen of Sheba’s hairy legs. It is actually pretty interesting.
However, if you read the whole article, you’ll see how, depending on which religious texts you are studying, the stories of Biblical characters can often change greatly. (Which is why, long, long ago, among myriad other things, some people were taught that Jesus never married, while others were taught that he was married to Mary Magdalene, and so they worshipped her as much as they worshipped Jesus.)
Actually, yesterday, I was with my 94-year-old Japanese client. He was a ministerial student while also attending NYU — back in the 1950s. So we talk about God and Christianity a lot.
And yesterday, in the course of our conversations, I mentioned something about Christmas not really being Jesus’s birthday and he had never heard that before.
However, Pope Julius I, in the 4th Century AD, declared December 25th to be Jesus’ birthday. This was allegedly to help Pagans be more comfortable just celebrating Christ right along with the Winter Solstice.
And even though Orthodox and Ethiopian churches consider Christmas to be in January, even longer ago than that, Jesus’ birthday was celebrated on (what we would call) April 17th, around 6 BC.
So it all depends on what you’re studying.
But me and the Japanese man concluded that it doesn’t make Christmas any less joyful.
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I apparently digress!
Oh, however, I should probably tell you now, in case I forget– I saw my schedule for January, gang, and it looks like the agency has finally settled on a truly manageable schedule for me! Only 3 double shifts in the whole month, plus I’ve got plenty of room to finally set up a writing schedule for myself again.
So I might actually start being a sane person sometime soon. We can only hope. I know that I’m getting pretty tired of constantly feeling like I’m out of my fucking mind…
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Our Daily Feature!
What Would Keith Richards Do?
We are right back into Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations. And the topic is SHOW BUSINESS.
Keith maintains:
“I go onstage to get some fucking peace and quiet.”
I’m sure we can all relate….
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And that is it for today!
Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys! See ya!
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I leave you with this morning’s Christmas breakfast-listening-music!!
We’ve moved on to the fantastic Andy Williams Christmas album. (Yes, in fact it IS occurring to me that I am getting really old. Thank you very much!) Anyway.
“Do You Hear What I Hear?” Andy Williams. From 1965. (But it’s STILL a great fucking Christmas album!!!!) Okay. Enjoy, gang!
Yesterday was a great day! Not only was the weather gorgeous, but also, Kara and I had such a nice time celebrating her birthday at our favorite Mexican restaurant. No, not the one we go to when we drive a million miles to see a movie, but this one, which is much, much closer:
Yes, Tequilaville!
And even though it looks like some sort of drab warehouse from the outside, it is incredibly festive inside right now — Christmas lights and ornaments strung everywhere. Plus, the food is just really good.
However, my Q-following friend — the one I’m having a pre-Christmas lunch with on Saturday afternoon, after my morning shift — well, she texted me in the middle of the night and said she’d rather go to Tequilaville for lunch on Saturday instead of the Peony Bistro (directly across the street from there — Chinese & Japanese food), like we were planning. Not wanting to hurt her feelings and say that I’d just eaten at Tequilaville 5 minutes ago, I texted back: “Okay!”
So now I have to drum up some other friend and go to the Peony Bistro some other day, because I was really kind of looking forward to having Chinese food for a change.
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All right.
There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on out there right now, gang, but it’s still just a ton of optics.
If you follow Q, then you know that this is a really exciting time because the Q comms & deltas are just piling up all over the place. But other than that, you can get the “news” all over the place.
Instead!!
We will dedicate this post to not only wishing Keith Richards a happy 81st birthday, but also wishing Keith & Patti a happy anniversary!! (And, btw, that beautiful family has grown since that photo was taken!!)
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And in keeping with our Keith theme– here’s our Daily Feature!
What Would Keith Richards Do?
And as luck would have it, we landed back in the chapter A Chronology of Trouble. Yay! This is another weird one — it concerns the seemingly endless feud between Keith and Mick in the 1980s:
“The Brenda Years and WWIII: Keith comes across a book by an author named Brenda Jagger at a Paris bookstore near the very same apartment he couldn’t find a few years earlier. He now refers to Mick as “Brenda”. Tensions between Keith and newly named “Brenda” get worse. Keith claims he’s gearing up to replace Brenda with Roger Daltrey.”
No comment, I guess.
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Meanwhile, have a great Wednesday, wherever you are in the world! I will attempt to brighten my mood here before I have to leave for my shift, even though the rain is kind of getting me down…
Thanks for visiting, though.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with a nice blend of Keith and Christmas!
Keith Richards and the X-pensive Winos do their version of Chuck Berry’s “Run, Run Rudolph”. From 1992. Enjoy!!
Wow, did I have some great dreams last night, gang. And I woke up just feeling really happy today.
And today is Kara’s birthday, so I’m really looking forward to taking her out to lunch before my afternoon shift. I haven’t seen her since we saw the incredible Andrea Bocelli film.
And I have to say that yesterday’s visit with the insurance guy was actually quite fantastic. Not just because he’s making the whole Medicare Plan B thing a breeze for me, but, most importantly, we focused more on getting me truly affordable Long Term Care/ Assisted Living insurance.
This means that if something happens to me (like I fall and break something), I can now afford to have someone much like myself come in and take care of me every day!!!
Honestly, gang, when I am with my clients it is always in the back of my mind — what am I going to do if I ever need a home health aide? I can’t afford it!! And I know firsthand, what a difference it makes in someone’s life. Being able to stay at home and not have to go into one of those awful places where the poor elderly have to go to either recuperate or die.
My long term coverage starts February 1st (!!). And of course my Medicare starts July 1st. So on we go into the glorious sunset of old age… Actually, it really is a relief to me.
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Okay. Honestly, gang. NO NEWS. Assuming of course that you ignore the false flags, the false-false flags, the psyops…
Naturally, il donaldo trumpo posted this AGAIN last night. I’m guessing it applies to just about everything going on out there right now–
Andy the Gabby Cabby (UK) – About That CRASH 👀 (2 mins):
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A new interview with Colin Greenwood from yesterday.
Design Matters Media 16 December 2024 • 55 mins
“Since 2003, Radiohead’s bassist, Colin Greenwood, has taken his camera to the studio and on stage to document the rise of one of the world’s most cherished bands. He joins to discuss his legendary musical career and his beautiful new book,How to Disappear, capturing intimate photographs of his bandmates at work.”
Marilyn's Room 