Christmas Countdown - 2011

xmas365 · Feb 12, 2011

Christmas-A-Holic said:
Tomorrow is my birthday but I work which is fine because I will be in good company with my co-workers and the owners. They are great people to celebrate with! Wayne and I will do something today to celebrate it. Not sure yet what I want to do but will figure out something!

Happy early B-day!

Seawaters · Feb 12, 2011

Good night y'all. I am off to watch TV with hubby!

xmas365 · Feb 12, 2011

Bullypup said:
Good morning fellow Christmas lovers! Going to have a "heatwave" in Illinois today...30 degrees! I'm going to get out and about and enjoy. Have a happy weekend.

Try to keep cool today! cheesy

xmas365 · Feb 12, 2011

gabulldawg said:
Good saturday night everyone! I finally saw snow weds night!! about a half inch. It was great becuase I could see it from my hotel bed..they were predicting rain/snow mix but it was all snow and it lasted about 5 hours or so. now on with spring! the ret of the weekend I am going to relax and study some for work. I missed being around here lately and its funny how you get use to being here then when you are away something seems "off" hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend!

1/2 inch, lightweight. I still have 3 feet in my front yard cheesy

xmas365 · Feb 12, 2011

Seawaters said:
Now. I don't want to make anyone jealous or hungry, but I have to say that I am having homemade raviolis and homemade Italian sausage tonight. It will be sooooo good. We have a Sicilian friend who invites us over to help him make both of these items! YUMMO!!!

MMmmm! Italian sausage, Hot or Sweet?

superdave1225 · Feb 12, 2011

Christmas-A-Holic said:
Today we went to Borders book store and all calendars were on sale for a buck. The only calendar I had was a freebie from the feed store that's just OK so today we bought a Peanuts calendar to replace it. I also bought a runners diary calendar, my daughter a Busy Mom's calendar, my son a turtle calendar (he loves turtles) and 2 Christmas Advent calendars that pops out a village in 3D (hard to explain). The Advent Calendars were regularly $16.00 a piece and of course the others were regularly priced over 10 bucks a piece.

I got all 6 calendars for $6.50. At the bottom of the receipt it said that I saved $81.96! If you have a Borders you might check out the Christmas Advent Calendars. They have them with or without candy. The one I got is without, not sure the candy will hold up that long. cheesy

Don't wait to long to check out you local Borders might be one of 200 possible stores to close Borders is in trouble. Yesterday The Wall Street Journel was saying that the company was going to file for bankruptcy protection early next week.

xmas365 · Feb 12, 2011

Seawaters said:
I cannot help it. Just to take us over to 4,600, even if it is not politically correct!

I'll say it quietly Congrats!

xmas365 · Feb 12, 2011

Have a good night fellow Yule-igans! cheesy

made582 · Feb 12, 2011

Well it looks like Dale Jr's luck is going to remain the same this year. I am not sure if I like the new style of racing at daytona or not. I have a feeling that nascar will make a change in the next couple of days to try and stop it. Well I am off to bed to get plenty of rest before qualifying tomorrow. Goodnight Everyone!!!!!!!!

Undrtakr · Feb 12, 2011

Good Saturday evening to all! A nice relaxing weekend so far! I'm watching Season one of the Drew Carey Show. Man I miss that show! Exchanged Valentines day gifts today with my Wife. She isn't feeling that well. The outbreak thats going around daycare, she got it AGAIN. William has been needing more and more timeouts. Getting to the terrible 2's! lol. We are supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow tonight so that should be nice. Just sitting here eating my Cheeseburger Doritos and having a pop! Have a good evening all!

made582 · Feb 12, 2011

Coach- If you get a chance watch speed channel's The Day. It has alot of good behind the scenes stuff and interviews about the day that Dale Sr. died.

Mark Nash · Feb 13, 2011

It's 1:30 in the morning and insomnia is in full effect. The good news is it's Saturday night and I don't have to worry about work tomorrow. I was scrolling through the tv menu today and happened up a couple of Christmas films with Peter Falk. "A Town Without Christas" and "Finding John Christmas". I really like Peter Falk and he was in both of them. It was a very nice and surprising treat in the middle of February. I'm back to trying to sleep. Wish me luck.

Snow-in-Texas · Feb 13, 2011

made582 said:
Well it looks like Dale Jr's luck is going to remain the same this year. I am not sure if I like the new style of racing at daytona or not. I have a feeling that nascar will make a change in the next couple of days to try and stop it. Well I am off to bed to get plenty of rest before qualifying tomorrow. Goodnight Everyone!!!!!!!!

It was kind of strange how they paired up like that. They make the cars too dependent on drafting that they aren't really racing. I was thinking the same thing, that I don't think NASCAR was going to like it and make some changes. It will be interesting to see what it looks like with 43 cars out there.

Christmasstar · Feb 13, 2011

Seawaters said:
Binger, hey, Binger!!! Shouldn't there be a Valentine's Day opera??? Maybe one with a Christmas flavor???

PLEASE???

Patience, patience, you will most likely have to wait until tomorrow when it is actually valentines day!
cheesycheesycheesy

Christmasstar · Feb 13, 2011

Christmas-A-Holic said:
Oh darn! It was suppose to be a surprise!

You being a wonderful husband is enough for me too!

Are we making anyone nauseated yet with our mushy stuff? :lol:

I personally like to hear about people who love each other and are not afraid to say so!

Christmasstar · Feb 13, 2011

Christmas-A-Holic said:
Today we went to Borders book store and all calendars were on sale for a buck. The only calendar I had was a freebie from the feed store that's just OK so today we bought a Peanuts calendar to replace it. I also bought a runners diary calendar, my daughter a Busy Mom's calendar, my son a turtle calendar (he loves turtles) and 2 Christmas Advent calendars that pops out a village in 3D (hard to explain). The Advent Calendars were regularly $16.00 a piece and of course the others were regularly priced over 10 bucks a piece.

I got all 6 calendars for $6.50. At the bottom of the receipt it said that I saved $81.96! If you have a Borders you might check out the Christmas Advent Calendars. They have them with or without candy. The one I got is without, not sure the candy will hold up that long. cheesy

Christmas-A-Holic said:
I found a picture of the Advent calendar we bought today that I was telling you about on the post above. Not bad for a buck!

superdave1225 said:
Don't wait to long to check out you local Borders might be one of 200 possible stores to close Borders is in trouble. Yesterday The Wall Street Journel was saying that the company was going to file for bankruptcy protection early next week.

those are amazing!
I have never heard of that bookstore before, but would certainly shop there if we had one close by. To bad they are closing shop.

Christmasstar · Feb 13, 2011

Good morning MMC!

I should get off of here and get ready for church.
Going out with a friend this afternoon, I think we are going to watch the Kings Speech.

Have a fantastic day everyone!!cheesy

Bradmac · Feb 13, 2011

Christmasstar said:
I should get off of here and get ready for church.
Going out with a friend this afternoon, I think we are going to watch the Kings Speech.

Have a fantastic day everyone!!cheesy

That's what we're doing, running around like crazy! BBL! cheesy

superdave1225 · Feb 13, 2011

made582 said:
Well it looks like Dale Jr's luck is going to remain the same this year. I am not sure if I like the new style of racing at daytona or not. I have a feeling that nascar will make a change in the next couple of days to try and stop it. Well I am off to bed to get plenty of rest before qualifying tomorrow. Goodnight Everyone!!!!!!!!

Well what we saw last night I don't think we will see come next weekend. ARCA cars was running almost as fast and they was not running as the cup drivers was last night. The Mark Martin, Kyle Busch wreck as well will weigh heavy in teams minds. You can't race for 500 miles like that and things not probably go bad for you.

No I think to judge last nights race as possible fact is a long shot. If you look back in past non points racing events it always seem that it looks different and it is. First place is all that matters, anything else is moot. Where as rest of the year winning is good but top ten finishes is good as well for the chase. Number one reason I hate "The Chase." If one guy wins more than anyone else then hey he is the better driver and is the champion. To me the season is never over till the last race is ran. I don't care if someone has the chanpionship locked up by August or not still going to be some good racing going on. There will be 42 other drivers plus who ever has it locked up still trying to win as many races as they can.

Hated to see Denny Hamlin beat himself racing like that last night and as well my hat off to Nascar for doing what they didn't do a few other races in the past. Not give the win to a driver just because he went across first. Then as well you have to say to Denny you the man for saying you messed up and thats racing. Love it when people such as that admit they made a mistake instead of saying and crying they was robbed and that they did nothing wrong.