Christmas Concert, December 23, 2012

In Support of Cold-Eeze

I can't think of many worse situations for the spreading of airborne viruses than a choir, where we not only stand close to one another, but we're breathing deeply. I suppose if we were kissing that would be worse, but we're not going there.

When Cory and other chorus members were talking about Cold-Eeze Sunday night, I thought it was one of those powdered products that you mix with water and drink, like AireBorne, or Tamaflu. I have tried a couple of those and not only hated the taste, but found them ineffective.

Last night I started getting a sore throat and feeling achy. I checked my temperature and, sure enough, I had a low-grade fever. I sent Paul to the store for Cold-Eeze, because Cory swears by it and I really need to not be sick--as we all do. When he came home with this package of what looked like cough drops, I told him he got the wrong thing and actually sent him to another store in search of what existed only in my imagination. Fortunately, while he was gone, I looked Cold-Eeze up on the Internet and discovered that he had, indeed purchased the right product. I sheepishly called him & admitted my mistake.

I decided I had nothing to lose and stuck a lozenge in my mouth. They taste great--better than cough drops! By the time I was done editing the audio files, my fever was gone and with it, the sore throat. I'm not getting paid to say this, and Cory knows nothing about it either. This morning I have a slight runny nose, and I'm sucking on more of these things in hopes to be rid of that too.

I think the trick of taking this medicine is taking it within 48 hours of your first symptoms. If you start to come down with a cold, give it a try. It might just work for you like it did for me.

Christmas 2012 Program Outline

Harold Nufer

1. Angels From the Realms of Glory

Shirley Gibson

2. Once Upon a Wintertime
3. Sing We Now of Christmas
4. Fear Not
5. Born Where the Shadows Lie

Mitch Swenson

6. The First Noel
7. Come, Shepherds, come
8. How Great Our Joy!

Michelle & Andre Dupaix

9. On With the Snow

Jodie Visker

10. Listen!
11. Silent is the Night
12. Dear Little Stranger
13. O Holy Night

Joe Belnap

14. No Time to Diet
15. My Wish For You This Christmas

Cindy Pearson

16. Angels We Have Heard on High

Congratulations, Basses!

The basses won the coveted Stunning Section Award this week! Congratulations!

The Sopranos Win the Award!

Congratulations to the soprano section for winning the Stunning Section Award on Saturday the 8th!

Stunning Section Award Adventures

The Stunning Section Award ended up at the Dupaix house recently. It discovered a bin full of dress-up clothes and immediately set out trying on new outfits. The first it tried was a construction worker's get-up.

The next outfit was not as successful--something like Rapunzel-jester-baker.

Then it decided to go for a more seasonal look--Santa's elf.

This was a favorite--royalty robes!

In its spare time, the award enjoyed a bit of knitting, made some new friends,

And chilled with its peeps, listening to music.

When Michelle suggested baking bread, the award was so excited, it jumped right into her apron pocket.

Here's Michelle and the award getting ready to bake bread. Aren't they cute together?

 The Stunning Section Award was invited to eat with the Dupaix family. It enjoyed a bowl of chili and rice.

 That night, it buckled up safely for a night on the town!

It had a chocolate-peppermint milkshake with Michelle...

and a second one with Andre!

Program Song Order

For the program on the 23rd, we will sing our songs in the following order:

1. Angels From the Realms of Glory
2. Once Upon a Wintertime
3. Sing We Now of Christmas
4. Fear Not
5. Born Where the Shadows Lie
6. The First Noel
7. Come, Shepherds, come
8. How Great Our Joy!
9. On With the Snow
10. Listen!
11. Silent is the Night
12. Dear Little Stranger
13. O Holy Night
14. No Time to Diet
15. My Wish For You This Christmas
16. Angels We Have Heard on High

Pull Two More Titles

In case you didn't get the message at our last couple of rehearsals, we have officially pulled "Lullaby Carol" and "In the Bleak Midwinter" from our repertoire. Please remove those two pieces from your folders.

These are the last two pull pieces. Everything else in your binder will be performed, so work hard on them! See you Thursday.

Almond Cake Recipe

This recipe is out of my Tooele 4th Ward Favorite Recipes Cookbook. It was contributed by Jeannette Bunn, of Tooele.

Almond Cake

3 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon pure almond flavoring
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional--I added this ingredient)
Sliced almonds for top (optional)

Mix all ingredients together and pour into 9 x 9-inch square pan. You can double this for a 9 x 13-inch pan size. It is a moist cake. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 20 minutes.

Note: Sister Nufer told me that when she tried this recipe, her cake fell. I remembered then that I had to bake it longer than the recipe says. I kept adding a couple of minutes until the center looked solid.