santa claus

This cartoon was published this morning. But it replaced the one below it, at the last minute. It was a quick change of Santa, as you can see.

I kept thinking after the cartoon was published that it needed something else, and it seemed that if Santa was lying back on an easy chair, it would be the thing.

So after the first one (the close-up of Santa cartoon here), was published, I quickly drew a new Santa sitting back on an easy chair, and I had the published cartoon changed to the easy chair one.

I do this often – not usually changing the whole cartoon, but finding a typo or something minor and I change it before people hopefully see it. After the cartoon is published, it gets passed around the internet quite quickly, so sometimes the “wrong” one gets shown around.

I really like the close-up image of Santa, but I think the other one conveys the message better.

Anyway, that’s it. A quick change on Christmas Eve morning.

I’ll be with my family tonight and tomorrow, hope you will be, too. But I am thinking of Italy and I saw something about Christmas in Rome on the news this morning, and I sort of willed it, you know, manifested it, that I’ll be in Rome for Christmas next year. I’m really feeling it, you know. As I thought it, I felt it. And that is really how manifestation works.

Let’s see if that plays out!

Till next time . . . Merry Christmas!

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I came up with this idea for today’s cartoon while making my own list.

I have a large family and I was writing down the names so I remember everyone when buying holiday gifts, and I said to myself. “I hate this. Not buying the gifts – writing down the list!” And therein was a cartoon.

I hate making the list because I feel like I might forget someone. I should just save the list. I have a travel list. It’s quite old. I have made a couple of changes over the years, but every time I am packing for a trip, I pull the list out and use it.

And yes, I check it twice, and three times or more. I don’t want to forget anything.

Everyday life turns in to a cartoon. I just have to pay attention to what I’m seeing and thinking and hearing.

I bought a bunch of large things this year, which I thought I would not do again after doing it for a few years. Last year I got these Save the Whale bracelets which were easy to transport. In years past I bought air fryers, soda machines and ice cream makers. And they were hard to lug around.

During the pandemic, we didn’t do Christmas Eve or Day, so I lugged the air fryers from house to house. The bunch of them barely all fit in my car, but I got it done.

This year will be a chore lugging the large gifts. They are heavy. The Amazon guy arrived with them yesterday and he was struggling to carry the large boxes, so I helped him, it was quite a workout. I’ll have to repeat it getting them down to the car on Christmas.

First world problems.

Till next time . . .