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Date Posted: Sat, October 22 2022, 21:03:48
Author: Betsy BFS, recently returned from witness protection
Subject: QOTD for Sunday, 10/23. 2022

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening (take your pick,) to all Lallylanders. Holy Roly Bloomers! It's been a very long time since I have done QOTD! It was before I set off for the summer of camp fun and frolic, that I know. So a HUGE hug to you All and wishes for a great week-that-is-to-be.

I have three confessions to make:

1. I haven't completed Bees yet. (Stop the boo-hissing...there's a reason. I'll explain later.

2. I swore at my 12 year old grandson for 10 solid days. Put the phone down, you don't need to call DHS. There is a reason for that one, too.

3. While attempting to purge my closets/book cases/table tops/ and a huge supply, REALLY huge supply, of cards I have amassed over the years that I knew for sure I would use at some point, (two of the cards I bought with you in mind, kgp. I've never sent them to you, but they're there!) I found all the Holiday Cards I had written last December, stamped and ready to mail. Note the Ready to mail. Not actually Sent. How and why? I have no idea.

I started Bees, read almost half, and just couldn't read another word. I had to stop listening to the news, reading anything online, beyond a few comments here and there, and stopped answering the phone unless it was someone I knew, and who wouldn't mention anything about:

A. Politics
B. Religion
C. the money market

I'm not sure why the money market thing got to me. We don't have any money to worry about. It's the principle of the thing, and reminds me of People I Wish I Didn't Know.

I made an executive decision to read only no-thought-process-needed, happily ever after books.... ie. Scottish historical fiction, or Kilt-smut if you ask my husband. I just needed a break from the world, even the stress of wondering what might be on the next page. I think I may read the rest of Bees now. And I want to vote, so I'm watching the news a bit. My emotional tantrum may be over. We'll see.

About the swearing thing. I'll tell you tomorrow.

My quotes this week are random, things that made me laugh or go awwww. I'm still on the fringes of denial so it's only feel-good stuff from me this week.

The following quote is taken from 'Seven Stones to Stand or Fall,' by Diana Gabaldon. "Virgins." Copyright © 2017, by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

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He woke to find a priest kneeling over him, intoning the Lord's Prayer in Latin. Not stopping, the priest took up a little bottle and poured oil into the palm of one hand, then dipped his thumb into the puddle and made a swift sign of the cross on Jamie's forehead.

"I'm no dead, aye?" Jamie said, then repeated this information in French. The priest leaned closer, squinting nearsightedly.

"Dying?" he asked.

"Not that, either."

The priest made a small discusted sound but went ahead and made crosses on the palms of Jamie's hands, his eyelids, and his lips. "Ego te absolve,", he said, making a final quick sign of the cross over Jamie's supine form. "Just in case you've killed anyone." Then he rose swiftly to his feet and disappeared behind the wagon in a flurry of dark robes.

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