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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

On weekends (and holidays), you may find the check-in thread earlier or later than normal because … it is the weekend! Moosies need their beauty rest:

For those new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

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(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

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  4. DeniseVelez

    going up to 66.  This is what my grandmom used to call pneumonia weather – rapid shifts in temps from cold to warm and back again.

    I saw some people in the mall yesterday wearing shorts.  

     

  5. JanF

    Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Bemoans The End Of White Rule In The United States

    There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions to them. Inefficiency, an allergy to cooperation, and stiff resistance to pragmatism have all ground the federal government to a stand-still. But one op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal knows what the real problem is: not enough rich, white men.

    In Saturday’s paper and online, author Joseph Epstein mourns the collapse of what he describes as the “genuine ruling class, drawn from what came to be known as the WASP establishment,” (WASP, the commonly-held acronym for White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant). Instead, he argues, we are living in a meritocracy, governed not by an elite subset of the uppermost crust of society but rather by a group of people who overcame some kind of adversity and achieved success thanks to their own merits, not based on what family they were born into. This, according to Epstein, is a tragedy.

    O.M.FSM.

  6. Diana in NoVa

    Have had toasted whole-wheat waffles with blackberries and blackberry jam. Forgot to eat the clementines. Now drinking coffee.

    When I went out to get the newspaper at six-thirty (yes, the dog woke me up again), the sky was gloomy, with gray clouds moving past like a herd of charging elephants. It was warm and windy, presaging rain, which is happening now.

    There’s an article in my local rag, The WaPo, this morning about how women are stressed out because it’s largely up to us to provide the “Christmas cheer.” I know I’m stressed out, for sure.

    It’s raining hard now.  Going to take a little “coffee time” to read the newspaper before I start on the day’s numerous chores. Hope everyone will have a good day, including–if at all possible–some rest.

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Friday was sandals weather, now back to needing a jacket — and it is supposed to freeze the next 2 nights. Winter in Texas.

    Eating breakfast (finally — an hour is a long time to wait for breakfast) & watching Up — good show today. Only 1 day to work next week, and movies every day so coming up with food next week is interesting. I’ll buy yogurt & granola for breakfast, and make myself at least eat an apple before I go for the popcorn. And lunch/dinners…… Christmas lunch I’ll have at the Alamo Drafthouse, but I should get something nice for dinner — maybe one of those Tofurkey meals.

    Toe is not to pink yet, but it isn’t waking me up, so that’s a vast improvement. My friend’s surgery went well — she actually left the hospital yesterday.

  9. princesspat

    My son, grand daughter and I are going to a performance of An Appalachian Christmas this afternoon. Emma is studying violin this year and Hans enjoys music as much as I do so this should be a treat. RonK has suffered through listened to all the Christmas music he can tolerate so he’ll stay home and cook dinner 🙂

  10. Diana in NoVa

    Campbell’s Cream of Tomato soup with Ritz crackers and lots of pepper.

    Dearly Beloved isn’t feeling well, so he’s watching British football on telly. I had a highly successful shopping expedition this morning (not “fun” shopping, just plastic storage bins and groceries), so now feel entitled to a little R&R. And dinner is a no-brainer tonight, so I’ll be free to concentrate on Christmas-related chores.

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