What Are You Doing New year's Eve?

I don't know how you plan on bidding farewell to the old year and ringing in the new....

Ah, but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance:
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's Eve? 1

If your plans don't include a decadent chocolate concoction (or two) and me, as bells wildly clang and horns emphatically blare and confetti is jubilantly tossed about and fireworks dance across the sky, think of me....

For auld lang syne, my friend,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne! 2

You know, I really think I'll have a blue [moon] without you! 3



*Sigh* Don't you just sometimes wish everyone else could sing along to the soundtrack of your life?

1 - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
2 - Auld Lang Syne
3 - Blue Christmas

"The Long-Promised Day" from Keepa

Inasmuch as this is the fulness of times and through Abraham’s seed all mankind may be blessed is there no blessing for me?

- Jane Manning

Read the full text of this illuminating article by Ardis Parshall at Keepapitchinin.

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Merry Christmas!

And There Were.... Shepherds Abiding In The Field....

Where in the Bible does it mention that after the angel proclaimed glad tidings to the shepherds (who fussed over who got to walk beside Barbie as they hurried to Bethlehem) she ended up in the swing at the playground?

Inspired By The Beatles?

Just last night, I happened to be driving to the church with a Beehive* in my car. This is a song we were listening to (well, she was listening - I was 16 again and singin' along with the radio):



My abecedarian companion looked at the radio, turned her head to me, and asked, "Is this the Beatles?"

*Beehive - the designated name for 12- and 13- year-old-girls within the LDS Church's Young Women Program; a group of girls devoid of exposure to musical hit-makers whose heyday was in the 80's.

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