C my normally stumbally & bumbally boy in the mornings is set and ready to go see grammy & grandpa! Now don't get me wrong he still stumbled & bumbled his way down the hall this morning but fully dressed, well except for sock & shoes I pointed out he might need those.
so we are set
-charged dvd player altough it does have a car jack thingy
-charged nintendo ds & gameboy
-some transformer learning thing he got from his cousin yesterday
-couple of activity books
-snacks & drinks
-gifts
-clothes
-dog is off visiting-thanks again to feed the monkeys
what am I going to do without computer access for 24 hours?!?
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
random christmasness
-love being able to get gift cards for multiple locations at Kroger or Walgreens it makes my life a smidgen easier
-got out Christmas cards for the first time in THREE years this morning-it's a miracle anyone actually sends us cards any more
-the post office was surprisingly quick & efficient this morning
-did not bake cookies but our rum cakes kick butt-have to make the last 2 tonight
-still have no idea what to buy my mother for Christmas
-just talked to my Dad he was no help on the mom Christmas gift idea problem
-I have not seen Christmas Story in it's entirety just yet but I think there is a marathon on Christmas Eve
-got out Christmas cards for the first time in THREE years this morning-it's a miracle anyone actually sends us cards any more
-the post office was surprisingly quick & efficient this morning
-did not bake cookies but our rum cakes kick butt-have to make the last 2 tonight
-still have no idea what to buy my mother for Christmas
-just talked to my Dad he was no help on the mom Christmas gift idea problem
-I have not seen Christmas Story in it's entirety just yet but I think there is a marathon on Christmas Eve
not going to work for me
this whole let's wake up every hour on the hour the entire flippin night...
it is going to be a very long and cranky day for me...
it is going to be a very long and cranky day for me...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
hooray!
my brother is home safe & sound-an early Christmas gift for my SIL & neices. Welcome home Chris!
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
CHRISTMAS
now this is a meme I can get behind!
link to the person that tagged you-thanks to house of flying monkeys
post the rules on your blog
share Christmas facts about yourself.
tag 7 random people including links to their blogs
now that the rules are out of the way
1. wrapping or gift bags? wrapping all the way and in an OCD sort of way I usually assign each family a specific roll of paper. Santa of course has his own paper as well. I found it odd that Santa used the same paper as my mother when I was growing up.
2. real or artificial tree? I must hang my head in shame yes we have a fake tree but we also have a vacuum that works(see post from last week)
3. when do put the tree up? just after Thanksgiving. The Christmas season does not start in my household till the day after Thanksgiving
4. when do you take the tree down? after Jan 6 the feast of the epiphany. I am still Catholic after all
5. do you like eggnog? yes with rum or in muffins I really need to get my mom's recipe
6.favorite gift received as a child? wow I always got really great gifts but honestly I would say the best was my annual trip to NYC with my Uncle. We would leave on the 26th and do whatever I wanted to in NYC for a few days, museums, book stores, Macy's & Bloomies, Rockefeller Plaza, The Russian Tea Room, South Street Seaport, Empire State Building just about anything I wanted to do they were always WONDERFUL trips
7. do you have a nativity scene? yes well sort of I have a hand carved manger that my grandfather made but no figurines currently. The ones that I inherited were a sad mixed bag of broken items I suppose I should buy a set one of these years
8. worst Christmas gift ever received? the old lady track suit my dear hubby gave me our first holiday together
9. mail or email Christmas cards? mail even though they are sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be addressed & stamped hell I still have a few days
10. favorite christmas movie? Christmas Story hands down. If you had asked about cartoon that would be The Year Without A Santa Claus although it would not be Christmas without at least 1 viewing of the Grinch
11. when do you start shopping for Christmas? I have become a last minute panic shopper. Each year I vow to be finished by Thanksgiving so I can enjoy the season but that has happened yet
12. favorite thing to eat at Christmas? christmas cookies
13. clear lights or colored on the tree? colored but not blinking. Blinking lights make me want to have a seizure.
14. favorite christmas song? Oh Holy Night but I pretty much like them all
15. travel at christmas or stay home? prefer to stay home but don't mind traveling to my parent's house which use to be home. We haven't had christmas with my parents since C was 1 so I am looking forward to the trip(except for the driving part)
16. can you name all of Santa's reindeer? you bet your sweet bippie I can
17. angel or star on top of the tree? we have a star currently but my mother gave my a gorgeous Louis Nicole angel that I will use when we have a better tree-don't want that angel to fall & break!
18. open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? hell Santa comes Christmas Eve what are you doing opening them before he comes? 30 years ago I would have answered this differently
19. the most annoying thing about this time of year? that retailers start the season earlier each year.
20. do you decorate your tree in any specific theme or color? all about family I have ornaments from my family growing up and my family now
21. what do you leave for Santa? growing up he would get cookies & Jack Daniels these days he gets a single malt Scotch and cookies
22. least favorite holiday song? Grandma got run over by a reindeer-hysterical when I was 8 but a little over done at this point
23. favorite ornament? I have lots of favorites but I suppose the little gold guitar that was picked out for me when I was an infant. As I previously blogged growing up each family member would get a new ornament each year when we got married my mom sent boxes of stuff to each of us so my tree is rich with family history.
I don't think I know 7 people to hassle with this but I can get a few-please feed the monkeys, retro-moderns, appalachian feminist breeder , my brother if he had a blog...
link to the person that tagged you-thanks to house of flying monkeys
post the rules on your blog
share Christmas facts about yourself.
tag 7 random people including links to their blogs
now that the rules are out of the way
1. wrapping or gift bags? wrapping all the way and in an OCD sort of way I usually assign each family a specific roll of paper. Santa of course has his own paper as well. I found it odd that Santa used the same paper as my mother when I was growing up.
2. real or artificial tree? I must hang my head in shame yes we have a fake tree but we also have a vacuum that works(see post from last week)
3. when do put the tree up? just after Thanksgiving. The Christmas season does not start in my household till the day after Thanksgiving
4. when do you take the tree down? after Jan 6 the feast of the epiphany. I am still Catholic after all
5. do you like eggnog? yes with rum or in muffins I really need to get my mom's recipe
6.favorite gift received as a child? wow I always got really great gifts but honestly I would say the best was my annual trip to NYC with my Uncle. We would leave on the 26th and do whatever I wanted to in NYC for a few days, museums, book stores, Macy's & Bloomies, Rockefeller Plaza, The Russian Tea Room, South Street Seaport, Empire State Building just about anything I wanted to do they were always WONDERFUL trips
7. do you have a nativity scene? yes well sort of I have a hand carved manger that my grandfather made but no figurines currently. The ones that I inherited were a sad mixed bag of broken items I suppose I should buy a set one of these years
8. worst Christmas gift ever received? the old lady track suit my dear hubby gave me our first holiday together
9. mail or email Christmas cards? mail even though they are sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be addressed & stamped hell I still have a few days
10. favorite christmas movie? Christmas Story hands down. If you had asked about cartoon that would be The Year Without A Santa Claus although it would not be Christmas without at least 1 viewing of the Grinch
11. when do you start shopping for Christmas? I have become a last minute panic shopper. Each year I vow to be finished by Thanksgiving so I can enjoy the season but that has happened yet
12. favorite thing to eat at Christmas? christmas cookies
13. clear lights or colored on the tree? colored but not blinking. Blinking lights make me want to have a seizure.
14. favorite christmas song? Oh Holy Night but I pretty much like them all
15. travel at christmas or stay home? prefer to stay home but don't mind traveling to my parent's house which use to be home. We haven't had christmas with my parents since C was 1 so I am looking forward to the trip(except for the driving part)
16. can you name all of Santa's reindeer? you bet your sweet bippie I can
17. angel or star on top of the tree? we have a star currently but my mother gave my a gorgeous Louis Nicole angel that I will use when we have a better tree-don't want that angel to fall & break!
18. open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? hell Santa comes Christmas Eve what are you doing opening them before he comes? 30 years ago I would have answered this differently
19. the most annoying thing about this time of year? that retailers start the season earlier each year.
20. do you decorate your tree in any specific theme or color? all about family I have ornaments from my family growing up and my family now
21. what do you leave for Santa? growing up he would get cookies & Jack Daniels these days he gets a single malt Scotch and cookies
22. least favorite holiday song? Grandma got run over by a reindeer-hysterical when I was 8 but a little over done at this point
23. favorite ornament? I have lots of favorites but I suppose the little gold guitar that was picked out for me when I was an infant. As I previously blogged growing up each family member would get a new ornament each year when we got married my mom sent boxes of stuff to each of us so my tree is rich with family history.
I don't think I know 7 people to hassle with this but I can get a few-please feed the monkeys, retro-moderns, appalachian feminist breeder , my brother if he had a blog...
goatman chronicles
yes I know it is probably not a great idea to post things about my boss but here goes anyway...
-9 days before xmas I have a message on my phone we are out of the Hillary nutcrackers at one of the stores I NEED to order more and get them in this week. This from the man who was freaky about us carrying them-he didn't like the George Bush toilet paper we sold last year either but that sold without complaint. He thought we sold these so well because people equated it with the nutcracker suite?! as in Tchaikovsky?? alrighty then I just deleted the message and did not respond at all besides it's not like I can wave a magic wand manufacture them and have them in the store this week.
-wanting to improve our web site he took a bunch of really bad pics of some of the novelty & accessory items we carry(this is part of my job I order all of the "crap" for both stores) anyway photos with price tags on them, bad backgrounds just bad pics. we have a guy on staff who is a photographer in the sense that he has been paid to do this sort of thing so last week we well he took a bunch of pics I just got to play assistant. Great photos but I got an email that the owner felt his were better
-he also tends to email a lot even though he is sitting almost next to you in a small office
and there are a few more stories that further illustrate that he did not know Christmas was so close I guess?! Maybe he though the date changes like Easter? It seems like a lot of his instructions lately should really have been dealt with oh before Thanksgiving
-9 days before xmas I have a message on my phone we are out of the Hillary nutcrackers at one of the stores I NEED to order more and get them in this week. This from the man who was freaky about us carrying them-he didn't like the George Bush toilet paper we sold last year either but that sold without complaint. He thought we sold these so well because people equated it with the nutcracker suite?! as in Tchaikovsky?? alrighty then I just deleted the message and did not respond at all besides it's not like I can wave a magic wand manufacture them and have them in the store this week.
-wanting to improve our web site he took a bunch of really bad pics of some of the novelty & accessory items we carry(this is part of my job I order all of the "crap" for both stores) anyway photos with price tags on them, bad backgrounds just bad pics. we have a guy on staff who is a photographer in the sense that he has been paid to do this sort of thing so last week we well he took a bunch of pics I just got to play assistant. Great photos but I got an email that the owner felt his were better
-he also tends to email a lot even though he is sitting almost next to you in a small office
and there are a few more stories that further illustrate that he did not know Christmas was so close I guess?! Maybe he though the date changes like Easter? It seems like a lot of his instructions lately should really have been dealt with oh before Thanksgiving
Monday, December 17, 2007
weekend part 2
yesterday we went to visit D's father who is in a nursing home. Now I must admit that I do not go as often as I should usually D& C go as part of their weekend boys only jaunts about town. So it was no big surprise the first thing out of his mouth yesterday was where is C? ok so he asked for D who was standing right in front of him but he meant C.
In fact all of the grandparents really view as us the bringers of C apparently no one actually wants to visit with us. again another story for another day..
I was amused to see that pee-paws room appears to be a tribute/shrine to the oldest grandchild A who is married now and lives in Oklahoma and C the youngest grandchild. Now there are photos of the 3 in-between but clearly pics of the first & last out number the rest
In fact all of the grandparents really view as us the bringers of C apparently no one actually wants to visit with us. again another story for another day..
I was amused to see that pee-paws room appears to be a tribute/shrine to the oldest grandchild A who is married now and lives in Oklahoma and C the youngest grandchild. Now there are photos of the 3 in-between but clearly pics of the first & last out number the rest
lazy weekend
honestly I should be in full on panic mode at this point, not all gifts purchased yet, some that are need to be shipped, christmas cards are still down at the store, stamps, need to bake, road tripping in less than a week and am I ready no not all, hell I didn't even grocery shop or finish the laundry this weekend. But you know that is ok I had a lovely weekend nonetheless. D found a proper English tea house in Chattanooga so we drove down with some friends and had a spot of tea. To counter balance for the boys we also stopped in for wings & beer at another local establishment. A really enjoyable time was had by one & all!
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