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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - January 2021

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Thanks for reading our December 2020 issue. We hope you checked out some additional holiday articles from our previous December issues. Next month will be a new year and hopefully, the much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccines will be available to all of us soon.

Next month we’ll be talking about new beginnings and I will start the Twelve Months of Soup paring each soup with a suggested sandwich. We’ll also have some delicious Vegan and Vegetarian soup and sandwich options for 2021. Linda Cahill will share more popular recipes from Pampered Chef. Orlando Bartro and Jim O’Brien will be back with articles during the 2021 year and we hope to hear from Rachel Bovier and Patricia Petrusik.

Christian Joyce will start a new 2021 Playlist and we’ll start another year in pictures. We’ll have more book recommendations, suggested reading, book reviews, and quizzes.

We’ll be moving forward with Patreon and hope to have your support.

Have a safe and wonderful holiday season and wear your mask!

Be safe, be well; You are important, and you are loved.

From All of Us at This Awful Awesome Life 

Answers to the December 2020 Holiday Movie Quiz:

“It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.” Scrooged 

“This is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back.” Home Alone

“They can’t evict you on Christmas! Then you’d be ho-ho-homeless!” Go

“You're skipping Christmas! Isn't that against the law?” Christmas with the Kranks

“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas ... perhaps ... means a little bit more!” Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas

“I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier, and the giddy even giddier.” Frosty the Snowman

 “So, technically, you slept with Santa?” This Christmas 

“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” It’s a Wonderful Life

“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.” Polar Express

"The secret of life is butter." Last Holiday

“I’ll just be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.” Love Actually

“Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing.” The Santa Clause

 “I spend months picking out the perfect present for everyone. You know the only thing I get in return? Coupons, free back rubs.” A Bad Moms Christmas 

“Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” Miracle on 34th Street

“We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup.” Elf

 “You say you hate Washington’s Birthday or Thanksgiving, and nobody cares, but you say you hate Christmas, and people treat you like you’re a leper.” Gremlins

“Merry Christmas you filthy animal.” Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!” A Christmas Story

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all really. Maybe it just needs a little love.” A Charlie Brown Christmas

“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” A Christmas Carol

 

“Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.” Christmas Vacation

“Now I have a machine gun. Ho-ho-ho.” Die Hard

 “Put that cookie down. NOW!” Jingle All The Way 

“My balls are freezing. I never thought I’d say that with a smile on my face.” Jack Frost

“Little baby Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary…J Blige.” The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 

 

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November 2020 in This Awful Awesome Life