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Sunday Gratitude – 18.X.2026
Hi everyone! Glad to be back here. I’m still struggling with a lot, and there’s a lot that’s really overwhelming. However, I’m going to give it a shot as far as gratitude here.
Most importantly, probably, is that my son had a surgery on his ear a couple of weeks back, and everything went really, really well. Yes, he had the same surgery back in February on the other ear, and it went really well, but there’s still a good bit of nervousness attached to all these things.
Secondly, I recently took part in the Serbian Orthodox Choral Association’s annual choir festival. Because it was only a week after the surgery, I wasn’t going to go, but then there were people who had signed up who either couldn’t go or couldn’t sing, and I was asked if there might be some way that I could go. I managed to get things arranged, and I went. It was an amazing trip, and I hope to write about it separately. Most of us who went ended up driving, including the people I rode with, but everything went off without a hitch, there were no accidents or incidents with the driving, and the event was a lot of fun. I am very grateful for that, and for getting to see the city and experience the city a little.
If any of you are interested, our choir’s performance can be found here (our group starts at 45:15):
The weather has gotten cooler, and I’m grateful for that (St. Louis at over 90F was quite a shock to the system). This just seems to be one of those patches that is especially rough, so I’d appreciate your prayers for me and my kids.
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Every New Beginning…
…comes from some other beginning’s end
So sing the band Semisonic, and I could do a music memory post on it, but I’d be sidetracked from just wanting to keep it short.
It’s the beginning of the Liturgical Year in the Orthodox Church. As we know with all these things, the beginning of the year comes always with the end of the old one, new pages to fill, so to speak, and a putting away of the book that has been written.
It’s been a day like that today.
I actually saw the band Semisonic perform when this song was quite popular; the venue had horrible acoustics, and most of the people were not familiar with most of their music. It was kind of hilarious; once this song played, a lot of people headed for the exits, not really aware that it wasn’t the end of their set – however, even as the next two songs played, it didn’t stop people from leaving.
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Wordle #438
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. Oh, boy, back to the lone “E” in the incorrect place. Maybe I need to find a different starting word that ends in “E”
Line 2: Yay! “E” and “I” – still lots of opportunities out there but this helps a good bit.Most of the time, I like to avoid the double letters, but here, I figured there was a good chance of two “E”s being in the word, but I was wrong. At least this possibility is eliminated.Most of the time, I like to avoid the double letters, but here, I figured there was a good chance of two “E”s being in the word, but I was wrong. At least this possibility is eliminated.
Line 3: Another letter, yay! 🙂
Line 4: I was contemplating finding a word that started with “P”, but “G” was my other strong contender. With “gripe”, I get to try both of them.
Line 5: Another “Z” word! At least this time I got it!
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Wordle #437
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. This is promising; “T” is correct, and “E” and “S” are just placed incorrectly
Line 2: Most of the time, I like to avoid the double letters, but here, I figured there was a good chance of two “E”s being in the word, but I was wrong. At least this possibility is eliminated.
Line 3: With the “S” now having to be in position #2 or #3, could the word end in “SET”? Yes!
Line 4: If it wasn’t “inset”, “onset” was the other choice.
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Wordle #436
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. “F” and “E” but in the wrong places.
Line 2: Let’s move the “F” and “E” to the end. No luck on that front, but the “I” is nice.
Line 3: I was lucky on this, but I was still thinking that the “F” and “E” went together somehow. I didn’t think that the word started “FEI”, so I went with something that ended “IEF” and “chief” was the first thing that came to mind.
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Of All the Things I Miss…
…I miss my mind the most!
But right now, I’d be happy to find my wallet or one of my pairs of glasses!
Yes, it’s an old joke, but when I get stressed about things, very often I start losing things. I can still legally drive without my glasses, but I feel much better having them. As for the wallet – it wasn’t turned in at the last store I was at on Friday, so I think there’s a good chance it’s around the house somewhere. My mind was just in a different place as we rushed home after my 5-year-old threw up all over the floor in the candy aisle of 5 Below. (I’m very sorry about that. On the other hand, I’m also not stressing too much about that happening in a store. I’ve worked retail and service and I’ve had to deal with that sort of thing as an employee and… it’s unpleasant, but it happens. As an FYI, drunk puke is much worse.)
In any case, I probably won’t have another “real” post until Friday or Saturday. Life is crazy & prayers for us are appreciated.
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Wordle #435
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I think this is the second time in about 200 where I failed to get the word – see the tragedy unfold! *L*
Line 1: One of my typical start words. “E” and “A” It helps a little, I guess.
Line 2: “E” and “A” again. Spectacular!
Line 3: “A” and “E” Help please?
Line 4: Well, I guess “A” and “E” are in the right place now.
Line 5: Can I please get any more letters? Please?
Line 6: Well, if I had a line 7, I’d definitely get it! This was tough! I was trying to think of something that ended in “ange” but the letters that would have gone with that had already been used. Unfortunately, “A” and “E” are so common, it made it really hard to narrow it down. Now to start a new streak!
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Wordle #434
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. Oh! Back to the “E” in the incorrect place! Yippee!
Line 2: Eliminating more letters, la di da di da!rd #2 and we’ve made some progress!
Line 3: Yay! I found where the “E” goes!
Line 4: I’ve even got a second letter! Bonus!
Line 5: Here’s the process of guessing: considering what was left, there probably was a second vowel, and it probably had to be “U”. Considering the letters left, I figured I’d try “ruder”, even though it’s basically a 4-letter-word with a suffix, which is not what the writers usually choose to do.
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Wordle #433
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. Nothin’.
Line 2: Start word #2 and we’ve made some progress!
Line 3: Just guessing at how the letters might work together here.
Line 4: Now I’m really puzzled – how many 5 letter words end in “RONY”?
Line 5: Oh, “irony”! I found this a really fun game to play today. 🙂
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Wordle #432
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. Nothin’.
Line 2: Start word #2 – “L” is completely correct; “N” belongs somewhere else
Line 3: Obviously, it couldn’t have been “clunk”, but I wasn’t thinking of that when I played it. I was happy to get the “CL” though.
Line 4: Knowing that this was a word that started “CL” and that the vowel probably had to be “O” and the end had to be “N”, the choices of word got narrowed down very quickly.
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Wordle #431
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Line 1: One of my typical start words. Good news: One letter correct and in the right spot. Bad news: It’s the “E” in spot 2. (There’s only thousands of 5-letter words with “E” as a second letter, don’t worry!)
Line 2: At least I got to play “weird”. And I now know there’s a “D” in either spot 1, 3, or 4.
Line 3: I get to play strange words – yay!
Line 4: Now we know that the D has to be in spot #4, and we have a misplaced “N” as a bonus.
Line 5: You mean you don’t think “bendy” is a word either? As in “bendy” straws???
Line 6: Considering that the word had to start with “NE” and end in “DY” and “R” was already eliminated, “needy” seemed like it had to be the answer… I was still relieved to see it show as correct though!
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