Good Morning from the Celebrity Suite of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek. Today is Thursday, December 9.
Happy Birthday to:
Beth Caruso
Shad Rasco
Holiday Countdown:
13 Days until Winter Solstice
16 Days until Christmas
17 Days until Kwanzaa
23 Days until 2022
Today is National Christmas Card Day. Each year around this time, friends and families begin mailing their holiday cards. Christmas Card Day on December 9th serves as a reminder to get your stamps, envelopes, and cards together so you can share your holiday cheer.
Sending a card during the holidays hasn’t always been a tradition. In Victorian England, Sir Henry Cole received frequent letters, and it left him little time for other responsibilities. In 1843, he asked his friend J.C. Horsley to illustrate a design he had in mind. Soon, Cole was off to the printer, and he mailed the first Christmas card in the Penny Post to friends, family, and many acquaintances.
Today, we mail a variety of cards at Christmastime. The tradition of Christmas cards continues in a broader sense. Social and electronic media keep us connected in this modern world more than ever before. However, the Christmas card continues to be a part of our annual tradition, even if it takes on a different style or pattern.
Happy National Christmas Card Day!
It’s going to be a warm, partly cloudy day in Dallas today (to start). It’s going to be 81 degrees today. We are in December, right? My day kicks off in a few hours with a trip to the UT Southwestern Spa and Resort (hospital) for my final plasma exchange - #5 of 5. Then it’s home to pack and get ready to head to SC tomorrow morning. My laundry is done, I just need to get it all in my suitcase.
I am ready to go home and see my family, neighbors and friends. I have not been home in a year. 2021 has been a stressful / rough year: purchasing / moving into a new condo, three stays in the hospital for a total of 25 days (almost an entire month) and a regime change at work which was not always easy. I do not care to repeat any of that in 2022.
I am hopeful that 2022 is going to be less stressful in all aspects of everyone’s life (not just mine) and more pleasant and exciting. I am also hopeful that remission is right around the corner and I will finally get my MS under control.
What’s on your schedule today?
Anyhoozle, I hope you all have a wonderful day and whatever you do today and every day, do it with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And as always:
...wear a mask
...be kind and compassionate to one another
...dance/sing/laugh it out. It might not help but it sure as hell couldn't hurt.
Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ
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