Dec 13th 2019

The 12 Days each traditionally celebrate a feast day for a saint and/or have different celebrations:

• Day 1 (25th December): Christmas Day - celebrating the Birth of Jesus
• Day 2 (26th December also known as Boxing Day): St Stephen’s Day. He was the first Christian martyr (someone who dies for their faith). It's also the day when the Christmas Carol 'Good King Wenceslas' takes place.
• Day 3 (27th December): St John the Apostle (One of Jesus's Disciples and friends)
• Day 4 (28th December): The Feast of the Holy Innocents - when people remember the baby boys which King Herod killed when he was trying to find and kill the Baby Jesus.
• Day 5 (29th December): St Thomas Becket. He was Archbishop of Canterbury in the 12th century and was murdered on 29th December 1170 for challenging the King’s authority over the Church.
• Day 6 (30th December): St Egwin of Worcester.
• Day 7 (31st December): New Year's Eve (known as Hogmanay in Scotland). Pope Sylvester I is traditionally celebrated on this day. He was one of the earliest popes (in the 4th Century). In many central and eastern European countries (including Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Slovenia) New Year's Eve is still sometimes called 'Silvester'. In the UK, New Year's Eve was a traditional day for ‘games’ and sporting competitions. Archery was a very popular sport and during the middle ages it was the law that it had to be practised by all men between ages 17-60 on Sunday after Church! This was so the King had lots of very good archers ready in case he need to go to war!
• Day 8 (1st January): 1st January - Mary, the Mother of Jesus
• Day 9 (2nd January): St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, two important 4th century Christians.
• Day 10 (3rd January): Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. This remembers when Jesus was officially 'named' in the Jewish Temple. It's celebrated by different churches on a wide number of different dates!
• Day 11 (4th January): St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint, who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the past it also celebrated the feast of Saint Simon Stylites (who lives on a small platform on the top of a pillar for 37 years!).
• Day 12 (5th January also known as Epiphany Eve): St. John Neumann who was the first Bishop in American. He lived in the 19th century.

It is after 10pm and I JUST realized

It was Friday the 13th

With a full moon.

That may explain why my day

Was epically wasted 

Dealing with Bell Canada.

Over 6 hours on hold or talking

To people who were not listening...

Or I swear making ngs up as they went

And very rarely

After talking to over a dozen 

"Helpful" people today

Did anyone have the same ay

To fix the problem!

When at last someone heard me

After being told I need to put an antenna 

On my house by one helpful person!

He announced that it was now

Too late to do anything today,

This was at 9:15pm...

My first call was at 9am this morning.

I have been on hold,

Answered the same question 100 times,

Explained the problem,

Been spoken to like a criminal,

Been hung up on twice,

Been put on hold for 41+ minutes,

Spoken to level 1 and 2 management,

Been told a supervisor would call

And waited 2.5 hours for that,

Cried at the bank

Because they gave me the wrong numbers

And yet...never yelled.

I got angry a couple times

And wanted to scream many too,

But in the end was told the manager

Will call in the morning,

Followed by an email saying

They would be in contact within

The next 48 hours.

Stress came today in the form of

Exhaustion.

I got up and started this process,

Got John off to bed,

Grabbed Mom and went to tea,

Did some 2pnt work at 1pm,

Then to the condo for a minute

And off to Jysk and Michael's.

Mom (and Dad) spent more than me,

But we were at valleyview for 4pm.

Back to the condo

To put Mom's new bedding on,

Hang some bows

And garland her fireplace.

Home to continue Bell Hell.

Ordered pizza for supper

And prepped the fron room 

for holiday decorating tomorrow!

Smoking some ribs for Sunday,

Getting a haircut

And decorating is the only chores 

On tomorrow's docket!

Oh and, you know,

That call from Bell........right.

Good night from John Street