Early Christmas

 And what have you been doing today that you're running so late in the evening, Fiorella? Well, for one thing, she wasted almost an hour in Austin Heart South waiting to be called into her nurse's office, then discovered that the new woman at the take-in desk had misplaced your girl's papers. Ah, well--Fio has to go back tomorrow anyway.

Okay, babe, it isn't even October and you have a Christmas quandary: should you try out the Lutheran church and stay true to your mother's heritage way back to who knows when--or scoot on over to the Methodists, who have already started preparing for the holiday with clever decorations and special choir music? 

Actually, your girl is wary of both sides of the coin because the traumas she's gone through may have changed her singing voice so much that she couldn't make the cut. As for her Christmas compositions, Lutheran or Methodist, they'll have to wait till next year.

On to happier times--what does Fio want for Christmas? How about getting her mattress lifted so she can rescue everything from trash to silver plates that have eased themselves under her bed during the year? She'd also like her clothes closet adjusted to her height--or lack of it.

But Fiorella is getting far, far ahead of herself. After all, we still have Halloween to go.😁