1) Awake early, candlelight parlor coffee and devotional. KJV Luke 1, C.S. Lewis daily (on the subject of pity), and the work habits of Igor Stravinsky from How Artists Work.
2) It is now officially the Christmas season! And because the Sunday forecast is a vigorous and snowy one, it means prioritizing assignments outside the house today and inside tomorrow.
2a) With it being the Christmas season now, that also makes it the official season for viewing the 1951 A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim, after which you’ll never need to watch any of the others.
2a.1) Happily this also includes Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit! (Children of my generation will remember her as Bea Arthur’s housekeeper Mrs. Naugatuck on Maude.)
3) At times I have an appalling knack for saying the exact wrong thing. I wish I knew where this came from.
BONUS: TFW your phone makes a sound that you’ve never heard, when you didn’t do anything, and you think it’s the Russians hacking your phone.