Christmas Countdown - 2016

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Solice said:
Good morning!
Morning already? ☕️
Have to take my daughter to the Dr today.
She hasn't slept all night, cos some pain in a finger.
A teacher threw a hard ball to her yesterday, (she is not a ball player) and hit her finger.
It's swollen and blue.
My poor girl.
(I would have taken her yesterday, but she didnt come home before late)

Well, have a GREAT Tuesday!
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I hope your daughter's finger is feeling better.
 
Edge612 said:
Yeah we had around those temps this morning. Woke up to 8 degrees and -10 windchill. It's a shock to the system after the 50s and 60s we had in November and December!
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It feels pretty normal to me, I spend a bit of time in a -10f freezer at work. I think I was made to handle the cold. :)
 
Holiday said:
Good morning Edge. I took Gracie for a walk around our neighborhood last night. There are about a dozen houses with lights still on, including ours. The number of houses with lights are dwindling. But I love to see it!!! Have a good day!
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My outdoor lights are down to their final 3 days. (Jan. 6,7,8):(
 
SnowflakeMom said:
Hello MMC...Merry Tuesday! Just working today and my oldest daughter is home sick with the stomach bug. She was up a few times last night and did not feel 100% this morning so she stayed home from school. It is very cold here..I think we finally got hit with winter! I am going to try to go to the gym today...I am in full Operation Slimdown mode..:D Really just trying to make better food choices and get back into exercising on a regular basis!

Have a great day all!
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I hope your daughter is feeling better.
 
No PCB's yet for this guy, even with shutting the lights down and taking decorations down this weekend...the Mrs bought me some eggnog tonight!!! I knew there was a reason I am marrying that woman!! :jump:jump
 
graywolf70 said:
Guys.....
Guys.....
HEY GUYS!!! (Yes it's my Pittsburgh-ian plural for everyone in the room)
I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!

No one else would get why this is a big deal except for this forum, but for the past 18 years I have been searching for a particular Christmas album that was released in 1972. My mother bought it new way back then in the cassette tape version. When we moved to Florida, I was so disappointed and disheartened, particularly at Christmas, that I began playing it in my room at night as I was falling asleep.

When Christmas was over that year, I asked if I could keep it in my room and continue playing it. I remember my mother thinking I was crazy to want to continue playing it past Christmas, but by then it came to be a peaceful solace for me. So whenever I was missing my grandparents, aunt and uncles, home, snow, weather, seasons, school, friends... you name it... I played it while falling asleep. I think in the long run, it became a self-hypnosis of sorts. LOL The more I listened, the more of a Christmas-aholic I became. I kept it through college, into my first apartment, through every move.... you get the picture. It was old and I treasured it. When I got my first stereo system that allowed me to back up a cassette tape, I did so, to protect the original. It became so cherished to me, I only played it on Christmas Eve for fear of the tape breaking.

In 1998, two years after we were married, we had a bad hurricane come through and our house flooded. The cassette tape was at the bottom of an entertainment center cabinet along with other holiday CDs and such. Floor level - with the rest of the watery muck - it was ruined. I was crushed.

It wasn't until after that I realized I never really paid attention to the finite details of the album. I thought it was Time Life books or Reader's Digest who had published it. I knew for sure it was copyrighted in 1972 and the album picture I knew like the back of my hand. All those years I thought the album name was Christmas Magic. I started an internet search. Every once in a while I'd look for it hoping to find a copy, but it seemed hopeless.

Today for no particular reason, in between projects, I decided to just go through Google Images after putting in "Christmas Magic, 1972" Way down on the 8th page of images, I saw it!! The jpeg of the album cover!! It was an ebay item that was sold, but the cover images showed me that the name was "The Magic of Christmas," it was 1972, but the publisher was Columbia House Music! Back to Google - I put that in and found the vinyl album (turns out it was 3 albums in one set, I never knew that), on a collector's site store on Amazon in "Like New Condition," still in the plastic sleeve, records look flawless in the images! I bought it!!!!

It'll be here in two days!! Noah has a stereo system in his room that plays vinyls and records them to mp3s! I am so excited!!! I can have one of my favorite memories of Christmas back, on my cloud drive to access from anywhere and keep the vinyls in tact! I am on Cloud 9!!!

Yes - I'm that goofy. LOL

This is it:
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Congratulations on your finding of such a cherished item!!!! That is just so awesome!
 
e_xander said:
No PCB's yet for this guy, even with shutting the lights down and taking decorations down this weekend...the Mrs bought me some eggnog tonight!!! I knew there was a reason I am marrying that woman!! :jump:jump
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Enjoy your 'nog!
 
Good evening,

Day 2 of being back to reality is done, another good day. Day off tomorrow, I planned my vacation days that way so I could still get my normal days off this week.
I have no real plans tomorrow, maybe run to Goodwill to see if there is any new treasures there after the holidays.
I hope you all had a good day.

Goodnight, everyone.
 
Good morning :)
9F today, so I'm trying to stay warm. Just sitting here looking at our Christmas tree, and listening to the sounds from the fireplace❤️
 
e_xander said:
No PCB's yet for this guy, even with shutting the lights down and taking decorations down this weekend...the Mrs bought me some eggnog tonight!!! I knew there was a reason I am marrying that woman!! :jump:jump
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Glad to hear it!
Enjoy the eggnog :)
 
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