O Holy Night - Part Deux

My mom is totally right, Josh Groban rocked O Holy Night, but Michael Crawford will always be king!! He gets extra points for that group of kids he parades out on stage. Cute!

I thought I'd post my nominees in the female category of "the only people who should be allowed to sing O Holy Night are..."

First:


Usually I want to smack Celine Dion, but I really like this version.

And Martina McBride rarely does anything wrong (ignore the lame video & just listen):



And in a category all unto itself:



Merry Christmas everyone!!

This one is for Alli...

So Alli, I hear it's mid-term season. This little guy doesn't like it either:

I Hate Mid-terms...

"This is my worst semester EVER. In History, I have a paper due on the Code of Hammurabi; in Government, I have to write about Alexander Hamilton, and I haven't even started reading Hamlet for Literature class."

Hang in there Al, it's almost vacation time :-)



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Get To Know Me - Christmas Edition

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both

2. Real tree or Artificial ? Artificial. I have cats & hope an artificial tree is less tempting for them to climb.

3. When do you put up the tree? Early to mid-December.

4. When do you take the tree down? Twelfth-Night (January 6th, I believe)

5. Do you like eggnog? Yes, especially when it's spiked. Yum!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Cabbage Patch Kids.

7. Hardest person to buy for? My dad.

8. Easiest person to buy for? My mom.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes. I inherited my grandmothers nativity, complete with removable baby Jesus.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Neither. Maybe next year when I'm married and don't live with my mom. And never one of those stupid "Christmas Letters", EVER!!!

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't remember getting one I didn't like.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A Christmas Story. I swear we watch it for all 24 hours on TBS every year!!

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Whenever I find something that would make a good gift.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? My mom's apricot kolochky!! I could eat them until I puke!!!!

16. Lights on the tree? Yes

17. Favorite Christmas song? I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? STAY HOME!!

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? comet, cupid, donner, blitzen, dancer, prancer, rudolph. that's all i can come up with.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Don't have my own tree yet, but I think there is an angel on the top of my moms.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning only!!

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Stupid Christmas music on the radio starting on Thanksgiving!

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I have a small white tree with pink lights that I put in my room. So I guess pink & white are my favorite color theme :-)

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I prefer the Christmas breakfast that my family has. My mom makes waffles and much like the kolochky, I stuff myself. (do you see a pattern forming here?)

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Cash for my wedding. I don't need any more stuff.

26. Who is most likely to respond to this? Crystal & my mom.

27. Who is least likely to respond to this? Karin

I'm sorry to do this to you...

I found a website called Cute Overload. And it's just that, tons of cute animals doing cute things. It's just one of those sites that I check out when I have nothing else to do and end up spending way to much time watching a kitten play with a grocery bag. Anyhow, I'm not sure if it was all of the cold medicine I was taking or what, but I thought it was hilarious and now it's all I've been hearing in my head for the last 4 days!! So, if I have to be miserable and sing this ridiculousness, so do all of you...







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Congratulations America!

Way to go America, you just elected the man that said this (and by "you", I mean not me, I unfortunately, was allowed to vote only once) :

“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

So, what I want to know is, have we counted the votes in these extra 7 or 8 states? Maybe these were the votes that McCain needed to squeak out a victory. Hmmmm.....

I guess it's a good thing that I've been working late and on Saturday, I'll need that extra cash when "He Who Shall Not Be Named" (that's what I'm calling our new President-elect. He's a jackass and I refuse to speak his name, just so you know...) is in office and taxes the crap out of me so he can give us everything for "free"!

It's going to be a long 4 years and everyday I don't drive my car off a cliff will be a good one.


On a lighter note, I'm going to try and grow out my bangs. I'll keep you posted on how that's going.

Anybody want to hear a joke?

I'm not sure why I think this joke is funny, but when I heard it a long time ago, I laughed really hard. Then someone emailed it to my mom a couple of weeks ago and I still thought it was funny. Here goes:

A duck walks into a store , hops up on the counter and ask the clerk " hey, you got any grapes?

The clerk say's No- I don't have any grapes, and we don't do business with ducks . Now scram.

The next day the duck goes back into the same store, hops up on the counter and ask "got any grapes?

The clerk say's I told you yesterday, we don't have grapes, and we don't serve ducks, now get out of here.

The next day, the duck goes in the store, hops up on the counter and says to the clerk " got any grapes?

The clerk says" Look Duck, I've told you for the last three days, we don't have grapes and we don't do business with ducks. Now if you come in here one more time I'm gonna nail your flat webbed feet to that counter.

The next day the duck walks into the store , hops up on the counter and say's" Have you got any nails?"

The startled clerk say's No.

The duck say's " Good, Got Any Grapes."

Where Ducks Walk on Fish...

well, not so much walk as trample on fish!! 2 Sunday's ago Ray & I went to the spillway in Linesville, PA, to feed the ginormous carp!

When we first got there I didn't see any fish. I got some really bad directions and it ended up taking us to two and a half hours to get there (it should usually only take one and a half hours). So, not seeing fish right away, I'm thinking, we drove two and a half hours for some freakin' ducks???



So, we started throwing some bread in the water for the duck and relatively quickly I got my own little following of fish fighting for my bread:



Here's the real redonkulousness...

This giant round pool looking area (I'm assuming this is the actual spillway as the water spills from the lake into it) is full of fish. Wall to wall massive, nasty, big mouthed carp!!





Here is some of the lovely fall foliage across the lake:


Some nice lady took our picture for us:


More ducks...

Seagulls...


It was an absolutely beautiful day. We took the back roads home and had a great time!!