Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: SATURDAY 9: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Saturday, December 20, 2025

SATURDAY 9: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

SATURDAY 9: HAPPY HOLIDAYS
On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

From the archives

1. As you can see, when Sam Winters was a little girl, she loved giving her annual wish list to Santa. If you could ask Santa for anything at all, right now, what would it be?
My two front teeth is all I want for Christmas!
But seriously, as you get older “Wants” don’t matter any more, but being with family does.
So all I want for Christmas is to be surrounded by family.

2. Are you currently on the Naughty or Nice list? How did you get there?
Well it depends on whose list we are talking about!
On Santa’s list I am nice…
On the government list I’m a terrorist (I'm not kidding, so if anyone wants a little extra cash this holiday season, turn me in and we can split the reward!).

3. Are you traveling this Christmas? If so, are you going by car, plane or train?
On Christmas Day I will be with friends and the weekend I will be with family.

4. Did you ship any gifts to friends and family this year? If yes, which one traveled the farthest?
The adults do not exchange gifts, we have a Yankee Swap.

5. Did you buy yourself a gift this year?
I cut way back on what I’m buy this year… everything is so expensive!
One thing that I found with Amazon is you can look at back orders and see what you paid;
2024: Royal Dansk Danish Cookies Tin, butter, 24 Ounce = $9.36
2025: Royal Dansk Danish Cookies Tin, butter, 24 Ounce = $9.78

6. Which do you prefer: candy canes or gingerbread?
Do Gingerbread cookies count? The look farm store has homemade cookies. Their gingerbread and raisin cookies are very good, especially with some of their fresh apple cider.

7. Can you see any holiday decorations from where you're sitting now?
Nope.

8. What's your favorite winter beverage?
Hot chocolate milk with the above cookies.

9. Share a memory from last Christmas.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… I got snowed in for Christmas. They are no longer are massive storms but just enough for us seniors to panic.

1 comment:

songbird's crazy world12/20/25, 9:43 AM
You’re a terrorist now? 🙄🙄🙄

The current administration … 🤮

Enjoy the gingerbread and hot chocolate
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers