December 2021 – Book of Jen

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Husky High Five

I was walking home from acupuncture. A person with a brown husky dog walked toward me on the opposite side of the street.

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Things Our Roomba Has Attacked

Photo by **Kindel Media** from **Pexels**

No one told us that this little robot would become a hunter!

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D&D Beyond Holiday Coloring Sheets

A coloring sheet from D&D Beyond that features a mage wearing warm clothing out in the snow.

D&D Beyond had an advent calendar that included one special item or offer each day. If I remember correctly, the calendar didn’t include the entire month of December. The things in it that caught my attention the most were the coloring sheets.

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We Won’t Go Back to “Normal”

A black man in a light blue button down shirt is wearing a tan face mask. A white man in a black shirt is wearing a black face mask. They are in an office environment. Photo by Good Faces on Unsplash. — Photo by Good Faces on Unsplash

What you considered to be “normal” life is gone forever. The sooner you accept this – the easier it will be for you to move on and make better choices.

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Kitchen Scramble App: North Pole

The town of North Pole has a winding road going through it. Along the road, there are several levels the player must complete. Oversized cupcakes are off to the side, and there is a giant snow globe. A silhouette of Santa and his three reindeer that pull the sleigh is over the moon.

North Pole is an “extra” town in Kitchen Scramble. It appears in December, and is only around for a limited time. This town (that you can ignore if you want to) is decorated for Christmas.

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California Requires Masks In All Public Places

Two people are wearing masks indoors. They are doing an elbow bump. Photo by Maxime on Unsplash. — Photo by Maxime on Unsplash

Public transportation, and several stores, already required people to wear masks while indoors. The new requirement makes mask wearing indoors standard across California.

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And So It Goes

“And So It Goes” is a song I wrote several years ago when I was working in a big-chain retail store. I had the misfortune to have had to work through a grand total of five Christmas seasons. It was exhausting.

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Season 25: Fighting the Big Bads

A box says "Season 25 Has Begun". It show the loot a player can obtain during this Season, the transmogrify items they can get, and what the conquests are.

Season 25 of Diablo III is called The Lords of Hell. The special thing about this season is that players will be collecting Soul Shards that connect to one of the Prime Evils or Lesser Evils. Level up those shards to make them more powerful.

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Countdown – Episode 095

For NaPodPoMo 2021, I read to you pieces of a hand-written journal that I was required to write as part of my student teaching experience in 1997. There are a few pieces of the journal left to read. This episode includes some of those pieces.

I read “Countdown” on Episode 095 of Words of Jen (the 1997 Series).

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Christmas Brings Me Down

A photo of the top part of what appears to be a plastic Christmas tree. The tree has red and gold garland, red and gold round ornaments, and a glittery star on the top. The photo is bordered by a black frame. Photo by Lisa on Pexels — Photo by **Lisa** from **Pexels**

When my father decided to throw the Christmas tree out into the snow covered front yard, I realized that this was not “the most wonderful time of the year”.