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Well, Christmas has arrived.\u00a0 No not the Day or the Eve.\u00a0 We\u2019re still four or five days away but the reality has landed.\u00a0 On Sunday, Camera Girl and her daughters and granddaughter will be making Christmas cookies all day.\u00a0 Now this is a major event in the holiday.\u00a0 When it happens, I can grab a cookie or two with every cup of coffee she serves between now and Christmas (and even a while after).\u00a0 So, this ushers in the end of reasonable eating habits until the end of the holiday.\u00a0 I approximate I\u2019ll put on five pounds between now and then.\u00a0 And at my age that\u2019s a burden because losing five pounds is painful.\u00a0 It\u2019ll take three or four weeks to shed it.<\/p>\n

But I have to admit it\u2019s worth it.\u00a0 Christmas dinner will include both roast beef and home-made lasagna.\u00a0 And I have already seen the ingredients for ricotta cheese cake and several half gallons of very good ice cream.\u00a0 I even complained bitterly until she stocked up on some Klondike Bars.\u00a0 I know for a fact that several of the grandchildren love them and I refused to miss out on a chance to spoil the little guys.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve stated before, I believe my chance at immortality depends on their good opinion of me after I go to that big website in the sky.\u00a0 So, I groused about the ice cream and voila!\u00a0 I saw them in the groceries yesterday.<\/p>\n

So yeah, I\u2019ll eat too much rich food and will be pretty groggy by December 26th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s worth it.\u00a0 After all, the next real holiday after this is Valentine\u2019s Day and that\u2019s a month and a half away.\u00a0 Plus, that\u2019s just one small meal.\u00a0 The next respectable eating marathon is Easter.\u00a0 And whether that\u2019s the end of March or the beginning of April that\u2019s an eternity away.\u00a0 We\u2019ll even be close to the end of winter and that\u2019s an eternity away from right now.\u00a0 So, I\u2019ll begin enjoying myself with those cookies and I\u2019ll continue with my holiday movie viewing ritual and that should insulate me from whatever insanity is breaking loose in the \u201cso-called\u201d real world.\u00a0 And it\u2019s working I\u2019ve skipped right over the psychopaths shooting up innocent people at colleges and on beaches and wherever else they want to target humanity.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just let the other pundits address these depressing abominations.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll concentrate on coming up with a decent line of conversation with my grandchildren and providing a chance for my children and their spouses to relax for a few hours while I distract their children with desserts and black and white movies.\u00a0 That seems like a worthwhile endeavor in this crazy world we inhabit.\u00a0 I won\u2019t think about the plans at the state capitol to raise our taxes to make up for the Biden dollars that aren\u2019t flowing in any more.\u00a0 I won\u2019t worry about the attempts to make homeless encampments permanent all over the state.\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019ll compare the relative merits of the various cinematic portrayals of Bob Cratchit over the years.\u00a0 Yeah, Cratchit should be next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Well, Christmas has arrived.\u00a0 No not the Day or the Eve.\u00a0 We\u2019re still four or five days away but the reality has landed.\u00a0 On<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3366,818,1263,2860],"tags":[94,2093],"class_list":["post-35514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-life-in-dunwich","category-ocf","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","category-reclaiming-the-family","tag-christmas","tag-reclaiming-the-family"],"yoast_head":"\nWe\u2019ve Got to Have Priorities - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/weve-got-to-have-priorities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We\u2019ve Got to Have Priorities - 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