Christmas Countdown - 2008

[Binger]

JAY??? Plaid Gal? What's up.. everyone is" Jimmy Hoffa" around here....
yab..

 

[Holiday]

Good afternoon!! I tried to post this earlier, but after I hit send I got a "page cannot be displayed" message. Then when I hit the back button, everything I typed was gone! I'm hoping to have a chance this afternoon to read all the new posts I've been missing out on this week...been a busy week! I went to the coffee shop yesterday after work & guess what??? They were CLOSED!!! What a bummer!! If I have time, I'm going back after work tonight. They are open til 6 on Thursdays! Can't wait to try some of their different flavors! I'm sending some in a care package to a friend who just lost her Mom. I got a new Christmas cd from a friend last week...it's Sawyer Brown's Christmas cd! I really like it! Been listening to it in my car! :-D I hope you are all having a great week!!!

Have a great trip Crown!!!

 

[JayIsh]

Hello Everyone!!! Sorry for my absence...I've been on the board but not on the beloved countdown...I've been reading but not writing so I thought I'd change that...Hope everyone is doing well as we skate closer and closer the magic season...Can't believe it is less than 100 days...That has me almost speechless...That's it...I'm speechless...that's why I haven't posted...But I am here for the moment and happy to be saying hi!

I sort of count the weeks by Thursdays cause it's pay day and for some reason as I sit in the bank drive up line I always seem to say or think "another week..." And I can't believe how quickly I seem to say that...

Where oh where has our Cedar gone? Oh where, oh where has she gone???

Jay

 

[RavenHardt]

hello my beloved family.....I too have been mia. I have finished all my christmas shopping though...which makes me mighty happy. Things are all wrapped, and put away for that very special day. I have been buying christmas dvd's everytime I see a new one to add to my growing collection, and have been listening to christmas cd's as well....I am really in the spirit this year.....so watch out !!!!!

 

[JayIsh]

Shopping done??? Presents wrapped??? DVD's bought??? CD's listened???

Folks, I think we have a new champion!!!

Way to go Raven!!!

You'll actually get to watch those DVD's while the rest of us scurry about buying and wrapping...I like your style!!!

jay

 

[Holiday]

No Way!!!! DONE??????? What oh what will you do with yourself in December???? :lol:

 

[Annette]

Hi friends...Hope everyone had a good day! I worked this morning got home made some dinner and I am off to work another job in about an hour. Wanted to pop in to say hey to everyone. Weather here has been hot but it looks as if the clouds are moving in. So it looks as if we might get some much needed rain.

 

[SparkleNana]

Hello to everyone -- as August rolls on... (sung to the tune of Old Man River! SweetPea1992= yes, insects become the entire focus of attention here in August -- (in the Washington, DC - Northern Virginia area. The lovely fireflies. Also joined by evidence of the August cicadas. So far the evidence consists of the dry outer shells - left on trees and brick walls and everywhere. The cicadas live most of their life underground. Then they climb up high somewhere and their shell splits and they climb out. But NOW - they have wings. So they fly slowly around (resting most of the time). And they make high-pitched buzzing sounds - sort of like a factory at tree level. (I am not making this up. It is their "mating song". Well, that is August for some of us.

 

[SparkleNana]

August is rolling along... (sung to the tune of "Old Man River".)

Our entertainment in August is mostly watching insects here in the Northern Virginia/Washington, DC area. Beautiful fireflies. Little Tiger Mosquitoes that bite all day (and really hurt). Old fashioned mosquitoes that bite from dusk to dawn. And cicadas.

 

[RadioJonD]

The cicadas live most of their life underground. Then they climb up high somewhere and their shell splits and they climb out. But NOW - they have wings. So they fly slowly around (resting most of the time). And they make high-pitched buzzing sounds - sort of like a factory at tree level. (I am not making this up. It is their "mating song". Well, that is August for some of us.

I've got this one and it's good!- http://tinyurl.com/6ra5nv Wonder if they will ever record another album?

 

[ReineV]

I feel like I haven't been on the boards in forever, but life is rather busy on my end! T-minus 4 months till the wedding and only about a month until the big move into our house! Life is BUSY! But anyways...I have a day off tomorrow and a friend of ours is getting married Saturday so we're taking a little road trip! Christmas is almost heeeeeeeere!

 

[MerrySilver]

SparkleNana - I lived in the Roanoke area of VA for almost 12 years...cicadas are definitely a marker of August for much of the country They're even up here in Toronto but only on hot days. And since we're in a really abnormal cool streak this summer, I don't hear them that often

 

[Holiday]

Good morning gang!!! Happy FRIDAY!!! Where oh where did our Cedar go? Decide to stay on vacation with the girls???? I hope everything is alright!!

You all have a great weekend!!!

 

[Binger]

fall leads to the leaving of Daylight Savings Time, which means we approach Crown's fave nightof the year- where they get an extra hour of sleep.. then their second fave night- Dec 21st.. longest night of the year...... ( longer sleep..)

YABBA....

 

[Binger]

Michigan Gal.. Time To Check In.....

 

[SparkleNana]

Binger -- Michigan girl is not here. I don't know where she went! She doesn't call! She doesn't..... I'd better gethold of myelf!

However -- it was lovely reading the posts this morning!! It makes me feel better to know that we ARE getting closer to wonderful things like Labor Day, Daylight Savings Time ending or beginning or whatever....

Does anyone have more coffee? I think I need some.

Happy Day To All!!

 

[SparkleNana]

Binger -- I don't know where Michigan gal is. She isn't here. She doesn't call... She doesn't write....... I'd better get hold of myself. Does anyone have more coffee?

It's great to think about Labor Day coming AND only 3 weekends left in August AND fall coming...

Happy Day To ALL!

 

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

And the Crownster is on the road again. ) Nice of you to pick up the countdown reins again, Dom!

Howdy y'all. We're back. Returned late lastnight. Missed the cat, missed home, missed thinking out loud on the computer about Christmas.

Missed the 99 day count - read up though so I can pretend I was here.

Read all about it ...

Ravenhardt is the first member at MMC to finish Christmas shopping for 2008!

Amazing. Come December, you won't feel any pressure at all.

I've barely scratched the surface of my shopping list, but I'm about where I was the same time last year only with an extra roll of Scotch Tape.

I'll shop a bit in early September and finish most of it in Novemeber leaving my husband and my father until about a week before Christmas in case they change their minds or buy what they want themselves before I can get it.

Keep a festive thought in your head!

Christmas Time is Here ~ A Charlie Brown Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRm5qofw5vs&feature=related

 

[kelly ann]

:elf:

Well, well well, I cant believe I'd forgotten about this thread!!! What a lot of posts so far!

 

[MerrySilver]

Good afternoon, Christmas lovers! It's chilly and grey and rainy here in Toronto at the moment...not like a typical August at all from where I'm from (Virginia). It feels like autumn already, which is making me even more excited