Dreaming of a white Christmas (still)

I'm listenting to Star 102.1 (Kansas City's Christmas Station) which plays Christmas music from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas day, was just playing "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" - but as I look out the window at the 60+ degree day, I can't help but think it's beginning to feel a lot like...spring. Except of course that everything is still dead, no flowers, no greenery, and, naturally, no snow (it used to snow in NE Kansas when I was a kid, now we get maybe two decent snows a year) everything is just brown and dead.

Its quite depressing actually. I miss the white Christmases we had while living in Colorado and Alaska (of course, in Alaska, we also had white Halloweens - not so good). I can fully empathize with the bloke what wrote the song "I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas." I dream of that every year now. The unseasonably warm weather does make it rather difficult to 'get into' the Christmas season.

Sure, my house is lit up like the Griswold's, and the radios in the house, at work and in the car are all tuned to 102.1 so I get my fill of wonderful Christmas carols. But the warm weather. If I wanted warm Christmases, I would move to Texas or Arizona or some other southern state where that kind of stuff is expected. I guess, if I want a white Christmas, I'll have to move back to the mountains or up north, I think Minnesota has snow, and Montana.

I dunno, I'm just ramblin'.

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The new arrival

Just before the ice storm we had a couple of weeks ago there appeared on our back porch a cat. Well, kind of a cross between a cat and a kitten. Probably about nine or ten months old. Of course, against my feelings, the wife and kids actually fed the thing. Now, I'm not a mean person, but I detest cats. They claw things up, you have to empty their litter boxes, they don't come when you call them. In general, cats are much more high maintenance than dogs.

Well, it appeared the cat was living in a hollow tree on the side of our house and when the ice storm came, and I didn't want to do it, but with three kids with big watery eyes, and their mother all plotting against me, the cat was brought into the house. For the first few nights it slept with my middle boy because the dog and other cat weren't terribly happy about having a new contestant for affection. The dog I could understand, but why in the world would the cat be bothered? It's not like cats are friendly to begin with and this cat hides 90% of the time anyway.

Long story short, we have a new cat, it has been given the name Chicago because it bears four white socks (get it, Chicago White Sox? - pretty clever, huh?).

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Religious Quiz

Okay, over at the Evolution blog, he had this really neat quiz regarding where one falls in relation to the religions of the world.

The Belief-O-Matic quiz is actually here. My results are below:

1. Orthodox Quaker (100%) - they do have good oats though!
2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%)
3. Islam (86%) - who new I was as much a muslim as a Catholic?
4. Orthodox Judaism (86%)
5. Eastern Orthodox (86%)
6. Roman Catholic (86%)
7. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (81%)
8. Sikhism (76%)
9. Reform Judaism (75%)
10. Liberal Quakers (74%)
11. Seventh Day Adventist (71%)
12. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (67%)
13. Bah?'? Faith (67%)
14. Unitarian Universalism (63%)
15. Jehovah's Witness (59%)
16. Hinduism (58%)
17. Jainism (49%)
18. Mahayana Buddhism (48%)
19. Theravada Buddhism (46%)
20. New Age (36%)
21. Neo-Pagan (34%)
22. Secular Humanism (32%)
23. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (30%)
24. Taoism (30%)
25. Scientology (29%)
26. New Thought (29%)
27. Nontheist (23%)

Sammy 4 Prez?

I read in the Topeka Capital Journal that Sam Brownback is looking into running for president. I hope he does a good job in the races. I don't know how far he'll get if people haven't forgotten his amnesty for illegal aliens push earlier this year. But it would be nice. It's been far too long since we had a good, down-to-earth, God-fearing midwesterner in the White House.

You know you're from kansas

LadyGunn posted some pretty funny stuff about being from Kansas here:
LadyGunn: You Know You're From Kansas If...

Other places of interest

I have several other blogs, they are updated as my schedule permits, but at least a couple of times a week.  You can get there via the following links:

Adventures In C#
Bigsibling
At The Top Of My Lungs
C# Follies

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