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Okay, that’s it.  I give up.  I didn’t know how having a Christmas this year was going to be at all possible.  In light of everything that’s happened in the past nearly two months, yuletide joy was something that seemed way past feasibility.  Although, I haven’t begrudged anyone from having that.  Just feels like I’m on the outside looking in this year, is all.

But then before tonight’s performance of It’s A Wonderful Life: The Musical two young ladies who I’ve been working backstage with surprised me with a little something.  And as I told Joy and Makia, this has to be the sweetest thing that has happened to me since Lord knows when.

Look!  Dalek action figures from Doctor Who!

Joy and Makia spotted these in a nearby store and… well, words cannot possibly convey how touched I am to be given these by two such wonderful people.  ...

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All two regular readers of this blog know that last week I hosted four friends from Belgium in my home. We had quite a number of interesting adventures while they were here… and things got so wild we even had to dial 911! So to memorialize the fun times I thought I’d post a few pics from the past few days.

This is Bennie. She and I have been friends since 1992, when we first met while she was tagging along with family that was visiting from out of state (she used to be an exchange student with them). We hit it off so well that the following summer I visited her in Belgium… and that was my first time ever outside of America! We’ve hooked up quite a few times over the years. Here she is in the kitchen, making a special Belgian dinner…

What was Bennie and ...

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Well, Bennie, Eric, Gaetan and Fleur just left a short while ago. For most of the past week I have been host to four friends from Belgium: one that I have known since 1992 and her wonderful lil’ family that we have had the pleasure of meeting for the first time.

And already, I’m missing ’em.

It’s been a long time since I’ve known such a fun and action-packed last few days. Eric’s incredibly bold hike through the Rockingham County wilderness yesterday, has truly inspired me. Dude only speaks French, and yet he took off on a fifteen-mile trek through woods and landscape that he had never seen before. Lord willing I’m going to get to bring him back just so I can get him to talk to our Boy Scout troop here, ‘cuz he set a whole new standard for outdoorsmanship here 🙂

And I made sure that Bennie ...

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