Merry Christmas Eve, everyone. It's been a quite day here. I have been trying to do a lot of baking. I'm really not in the mood, though (which is strange in and of itself because I ALWAYS want to bake!). But I sucked it up and dug out some old tried and true cookie recipes. I mixed up the dough, popped it in the oven and out came some of the most awful things ever!!! Okay, so that might be a slight exaggeration, but still! I don't make bad cookies! I tried to fix it - but to no avail. So I tried again with a different recipe. Only slightly better, but edible at least. Then I kept forgetting about them and burned like three different pans of cookies! I still have a batch of brownies, banana bread, a sweet potato pie and biscuits to bake and I am temporarily giving up in the kitchen.
Our friends are on their way to Europe, my parents are in Hawaii, and I have to go back to work the day after Christmas and then I get to work all through our school's Christmas break. Bah Hum Bug!
On an slightly more humorous note, I made some hot cocoa mix for some friends for christmas and apparently ended up snorting a bunch of the cocoa powder because the next day I blew my nose and had - no joke - chocolate boogers!
And tomorrow we get to open the one gift under our tree!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Monday, December 24, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Ho Ho Ho!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Definitely wrapping paper! Bags can look pretty, but are not nearly as easy to sastifying to open.
2. Real tree or artificial? Do you have to ask? Would youlike artificial gifts?
3. When do you put up the tree? When we get a chance to get it. Usually a couple of weeks before Christmas
4. When do you take down the tree? When it starts dying and we need to make room hide the Easter Eggs! ha ha - just kidding! we do tend to keep it up quite a while, though...
5. Do you like egg-nog? Only if it's been cut with other, how did David put it?... "adult fluids"
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Ooze! I was probably 4 or 5 and my grandma got me a can of the ooze that turned those cute little baby turtles from the pet store into lean green fighting machines (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that is). Or maybe the doctor kit I got that year... it was awesome!
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope
8. Hardest person to buy for? my parents
9. Easiest person to buy for? hmm.....i don't know
10. Worst gift you ever received? Well, let me tell you... I was about 4 or 5 and on christmas morning I unwrapped this box for a freakin awesome TMNT action figure. When I tore into the box, though, it wasn't shredder I saw. It was this sickeningly pink baby doll. I wanted to cry. That same year (and from the same grandma!) I also go the Hans Christian Andersen version of the Little Mermaid, which was my favorite movie. I was so stoked! But then I watched and even though it was a little different it was tolerable until the end, when Ariel TURNED INTO SEA FOAM!!!!! seriously?!? come on!
11. Favorite Christmas movie? I'm going to have to agree with Kristi -While You Were Sleeping
12. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually around the end of September/beginning of October.
13. Have you ever recycled a present? oh yeah
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? i really love my mama's shrimp alfredo
15. Clear or colored lights on tree? sure
16. Favorite Christmas song? Just about all of them. Especially We Three Kings
17. Travel or stay home? i like staying home
18. Can you name all of the reindeer? hmmm, yeah I think so
19. What is on top of your tree? Nothing.
20. When do you open presents? Christmas morning.
21. Most annoying thing this time of year? bells
22. Favorite ornament theme? theme schmeme - homemade is best.
23. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? homemade spaghetti and artichokes with melted garlic butter. What can I say? I'm Italian!
24. What do you want for Christmas this year? nothing.
2. Real tree or artificial? Do you have to ask? Would youlike artificial gifts?
3. When do you put up the tree? When we get a chance to get it. Usually a couple of weeks before Christmas
4. When do you take down the tree? When it starts dying and we need to make room hide the Easter Eggs! ha ha - just kidding! we do tend to keep it up quite a while, though...
5. Do you like egg-nog? Only if it's been cut with other, how did David put it?... "adult fluids"
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Ooze! I was probably 4 or 5 and my grandma got me a can of the ooze that turned those cute little baby turtles from the pet store into lean green fighting machines (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that is). Or maybe the doctor kit I got that year... it was awesome!
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope
8. Hardest person to buy for? my parents
9. Easiest person to buy for? hmm.....i don't know
10. Worst gift you ever received? Well, let me tell you... I was about 4 or 5 and on christmas morning I unwrapped this box for a freakin awesome TMNT action figure. When I tore into the box, though, it wasn't shredder I saw. It was this sickeningly pink baby doll. I wanted to cry. That same year (and from the same grandma!) I also go the Hans Christian Andersen version of the Little Mermaid, which was my favorite movie. I was so stoked! But then I watched and even though it was a little different it was tolerable until the end, when Ariel TURNED INTO SEA FOAM!!!!! seriously?!? come on!
11. Favorite Christmas movie? I'm going to have to agree with Kristi -While You Were Sleeping
12. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually around the end of September/beginning of October.
13. Have you ever recycled a present? oh yeah
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? i really love my mama's shrimp alfredo
15. Clear or colored lights on tree? sure
16. Favorite Christmas song? Just about all of them. Especially We Three Kings
17. Travel or stay home? i like staying home
18. Can you name all of the reindeer? hmmm, yeah I think so
19. What is on top of your tree? Nothing.
20. When do you open presents? Christmas morning.
21. Most annoying thing this time of year? bells
22. Favorite ornament theme? theme schmeme - homemade is best.
23. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? homemade spaghetti and artichokes with melted garlic butter. What can I say? I'm Italian!
24. What do you want for Christmas this year? nothing.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
That's Right...
It's nearly 3am. I'm awake and miserable and now you get to read all about it! If you are one who uses, or thinks of using, the phrase "TMI" often, you should probably stop reading.
Early this week, when I awoke with a sore throat that was nearly swollen shut, I naturally assumed Strep was the culprit. However, as the week progressed and my throat began feeling better, the fever persisted. "Hmm...," I thought, "that's one nasty infection!" Oh, how little I knew...
Thursday night, it began with slight rumblings in my tumblings (mild stomach upset, for those of you not fluent in Pooh-ese). That night I slept poorly and finally got out of bed sometime in the not-quite-wee hours of the morning with that horrible sinking feeling that I had no idea which end was about to explode. Luckily I guessed right and aimed well. I proceeded to spend the next hour+ in the bathroom trying to figure out if it was, in fact, too late to call in sick. After lots of inner debate (and the discovery of some good medication in the medicine cabinet), I decided that I should go to work - at least for the morning. We have been having so many subs, and I figured I could handle at least the morning work time and then maybe go home early. My body had other ideas, and luckily we already had a sub on alert for another staff member who was able to make it, so that sub came for me instead. At about 10am I drove myself home, medicated myself heavily, and then dumped my weary body into bed.
After making my way to pick Shaun up from work later that day and even venturing to the grocery store (so far away from a bathroom!!!), I thought perhaps I would live after all!
But alas, here I am. I could get to sleep (no doubt due to the 6 hour nap) until about 12:30am, and woke around 1:20 with those same darned rumblings and cramps and after another lucky guess made it to the right spot in the bathroom in time. And now here I am feeling drained and pained and restless and awake, looking up old classmates, checking flight prices for trips I'll probably never take, playing text twist... and documenting it all on this oh so illustrious blog of mine.
ENJOY!
and if you don't hear from me soon, chances are i've died. you should send flowers. i always did like lilies
Early this week, when I awoke with a sore throat that was nearly swollen shut, I naturally assumed Strep was the culprit. However, as the week progressed and my throat began feeling better, the fever persisted. "Hmm...," I thought, "that's one nasty infection!" Oh, how little I knew...
Thursday night, it began with slight rumblings in my tumblings (mild stomach upset, for those of you not fluent in Pooh-ese). That night I slept poorly and finally got out of bed sometime in the not-quite-wee hours of the morning with that horrible sinking feeling that I had no idea which end was about to explode. Luckily I guessed right and aimed well. I proceeded to spend the next hour+ in the bathroom trying to figure out if it was, in fact, too late to call in sick. After lots of inner debate (and the discovery of some good medication in the medicine cabinet), I decided that I should go to work - at least for the morning. We have been having so many subs, and I figured I could handle at least the morning work time and then maybe go home early. My body had other ideas, and luckily we already had a sub on alert for another staff member who was able to make it, so that sub came for me instead. At about 10am I drove myself home, medicated myself heavily, and then dumped my weary body into bed.
After making my way to pick Shaun up from work later that day and even venturing to the grocery store (so far away from a bathroom!!!), I thought perhaps I would live after all!
But alas, here I am. I could get to sleep (no doubt due to the 6 hour nap) until about 12:30am, and woke around 1:20 with those same darned rumblings and cramps and after another lucky guess made it to the right spot in the bathroom in time. And now here I am feeling drained and pained and restless and awake, looking up old classmates, checking flight prices for trips I'll probably never take, playing text twist... and documenting it all on this oh so illustrious blog of mine.
ENJOY!
and if you don't hear from me soon, chances are i've died. you should send flowers. i always did like lilies
Thursday, December 06, 2007
The Contemplations of a 4 Year Old
Precious 4-but-oh-so-close-to-5-in-a-month-and-a-half year old girl:
"I've been thinking a lot about lipstick."
me:
"Lipstick?"
her:
"Yes, and, um, I also been thinking about that I am growing up. Into a Human."
I wonder what I have/will grow into?
"I've been thinking a lot about lipstick."
me:
"Lipstick?"
her:
"Yes, and, um, I also been thinking about that I am growing up. Into a Human."
I wonder what I have/will grow into?
Saturday, December 01, 2007
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