Christmas Countdown - 2011
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made582
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made582
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Me too!!!!!! I've been wanting to do it for about a week now. I don't know if I can wait another 7 weeks.
made582
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Good morning! It feels more like mid summer than Christmas around Ohio this week!! Lovin the 80º weather though!
It's the same here in Indy. I don't like it though. Our fall festival starts tomorrow and I'm use to carrying hot chocolate around with me. It won't seem right if it's 85 degrees and I'm looking for the shade to cool off.
Hi all,
I can only be here for a short time today. Kim and I are heading out in a few moments. We will be going to vote in our Provincial Election and then to the mall to search for Christmas decorations and displays at the Rideau Centre. Can you guess which one excited me more?!
It's a beautiful day here in Ottawa. The sun is shining, there is not a cloud in the sky and we are currently at a cool 10C, or 50F. I love this weather. At least it's comfortable enough for me to wear shorts and a sweater. I like to wear shorts as long past the summer as possible.
Well, Kim is almost done in the shower, so I should check out a few pages of posts and see what everyone else is up to... Maybe I'll have time to reply too.
We're so close to our next Milestone. It will be an incredible feeling tomorrow, to wake up and see that the Homestretch to the Christmas Season has begun! In fact, a week from today will be exactly one month until the Season! Wow-wee! Have a great Thursday, everyone.
With each day, it begins to feel more and more like Christmas!
I can only be here for a short time today. Kim and I are heading out in a few moments. We will be going to vote in our Provincial Election and then to the mall to search for Christmas decorations and displays at the Rideau Centre. Can you guess which one excited me more?!
It's a beautiful day here in Ottawa. The sun is shining, there is not a cloud in the sky and we are currently at a cool 10C, or 50F. I love this weather. At least it's comfortable enough for me to wear shorts and a sweater. I like to wear shorts as long past the summer as possible.
Well, Kim is almost done in the shower, so I should check out a few pages of posts and see what everyone else is up to... Maybe I'll have time to reply too.
We're so close to our next Milestone. It will be an incredible feeling tomorrow, to wake up and see that the Homestretch to the Christmas Season has begun! In fact, a week from today will be exactly one month until the Season! Wow-wee! Have a great Thursday, everyone.
With each day, it begins to feel more and more like Christmas!
made582
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There's nothing like a 120 volt shock to wake you up in the morning!!! I was replacing the light switch for my sisters ceiling fan in her kitchen and got a little zap. I had all of the circuit breakers for the kitchen turned off but it turned out to be on the one for the Stairs. Oh well. It's not the first time I've shocked myself and probably won't be the last.
Yup it sure does LOL
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Well my niece is still really dizzy this morning and exrelmely itchy. No rash yet but it took 3 days last time before it started to appear. My sister has to take my nephew to the eye docotor this morning(he may need surgery because the muscles that control his eyes are to weak) and then if my niece is still bad this afternoon she is going to take her to the ER. My whole family is just falling apart. I think me and my youngest niece are the only 2 that don't have something majorly wrong with us at the moment.
Oh my......I am sorry you and your poor baby has migraines ! I get them regularly myself.......((HUGS)) Mine are caused because that little pea up there in my head (brain??) just rattles around and bumps into my skull !! ...Seriously.....I know the pain ...Will be praying xo
You sound JUST LIKE ME!!! xo
Oh Brad !!! Too funny !! xo
I do too !!!
Ouch !! Hope your finger boo-boo gets better !! xo
I know !!! Lets decorate NOW !!!!! ox
OMG Made !!! Please be careful..xo
I know how you feel.........Praying for your family, Made!! xo
^^^^^I love this explanation!! Such a magical place you all have introduced me to!^^^^^
That is terrible, so sorry she's going through this. Extra prayers going up for your family!!
Hello everyone!
I have spent the last two nights working at Hallmark and prepping for this weekend. All of the Christmas cards are out (individual ones, not quite done with the boxed ones) and I have been in the Christmas spirit the whole time! Of course, I have had nearly every customer complaining about us having Christmas stuff out "when it isn't even Halloween yet! Don't you guys wanna celebrate one holiday at a time?" In fact, every time I heard someone say it, for some reason instead of getting upset, it would put me even more in the spirit. I would just tell them how much I loved Christmas, couldn't wait for our store to start playing the Christmas CDs...and then they would look at me like I had two heads. Sigh. Some people just don't get it!
What a bunch of grinches! They must not have anything better to do than complain. Their loss! Glad you've been able to keep such a Christmassy spirit! Hopefully it will rub off on them
Thinking of your daughter & sending prayers up for her!
We have our kitchen finished and are now laying the floor:
we have a grey kitchen, in high gloss, and we also got some grey on the walls, actually one of our walls is 2 thirds grey, which was kind of hard, but now looks really unique!
Your flooring is beautiful!
Made
Your party sounds like a blast! Do you play any spooky games? Have fun!
Tomorrow is Friday....................................
Thank God!!!!
Hey all,
Feeling pretty bad today, sore thorat, ear hurting and it's not making me feel very merry right now
Hope you feel better soon!!!
WHA....?!?!
Oh, costumes! I though you meant clothes are optional! I wondered what kind of party you were thowing!
Hahaha! That was a good one!! I had to go back & re-read his post!
So sorry that this is all happening with your family, Made. Extra, extra thoughts & prayers for them.
Yes - I can believe it because you're such a sweet person like that! Thank you so much for caring and thinking about us.
Thanks Shellie! I'm glad to hear your boxer is still doing well with it. Thanks for the comment about my DH - he is wonderful!
Praying that everything goes well!
Isn't that the truth!
Enjoy your day as well, Made!
Hope you feel better soon!
Thanks! I appreciate it!
Brad - you crack me up and have me always LOL!
Still thinkin about you - hope you feel better soon!
Have safe travels!
Oh Made...hopefully things will start looking up soon. I will continue to keep you and your entire family in my prayers!
Good afternoon Christmas family! Not a whole lot going on here. Getting ready to get a shower and head out to do some shopping for the kids. DH and I have to go get diapers, formula, and that kind of thing. I have to go to a retirement party this evening at 6 for a friend from work who put in 40 years or so at work. She will def. be missed. Well, I better get running. Be back later hopefully.
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Can't wait to hear!
Hang in there, Made---things have got to get better. Lots of heartfelt good thoughts coming your way for you and yours.
Thank you, sugar!
I will keep your family in my prayers. I'm sorry so many bad things are happening to you all at once!
Good Morning, friends~
I can't believe we are down to 79 days!! Woohoo!
We have been getting some rain, which we desperately need, and it is finally cool! High of 65 today.
Feels like Fall
umpkin:
I'm going to really enjoy it, because it will be back in the 80's-90's next week.
My sister & I did a Haunted Vegas tour while she was here, to get in the Halloween spirit. It was really interesting. More of a spooky history lesson than anything else.. they took us to the Flamingo where Bugsy Siegel lived & still haunts. And talked about the MGM fire that took so many lives. Such a tragedy.We also went by Redd Foxx's old home & heard about his life story. It's now a real estate firm that reports strange occurrences. They hired a psychic medium to come in & find out why he was haunting it. Apparently, he just wanted people to remember him & know that it was once his house, before the IRS took it away. So he "requested" that a red fox be put out in front of it to honor his memory. And they did. I thought it was a pretty cool story!
I spoke to Harlowe's vet yesterday, and her basic cbc labs look good- a real improvement. Unfortunately, her pre liver function test shows an increase in the enzyme count. Of course, we still need to re-do the post part of the test to get accurate results. But, she feels we need to put her back on the liver function meds. Bummer, but we will do whatever we have to do to get her well again. Thanks you again for keeping her in your thoughts & prayers! She means the world to me!
I hope everyone has a fantastic day!
:rudolph:
I can't believe we are down to 79 days!! Woohoo!
We have been getting some rain, which we desperately need, and it is finally cool! High of 65 today.
Feels like Fall
umpkin:I'm going to really enjoy it, because it will be back in the 80's-90's next week.
My sister & I did a Haunted Vegas tour while she was here, to get in the Halloween spirit. It was really interesting. More of a spooky history lesson than anything else.. they took us to the Flamingo where Bugsy Siegel lived & still haunts. And talked about the MGM fire that took so many lives. Such a tragedy.We also went by Redd Foxx's old home & heard about his life story. It's now a real estate firm that reports strange occurrences. They hired a psychic medium to come in & find out why he was haunting it. Apparently, he just wanted people to remember him & know that it was once his house, before the IRS took it away. So he "requested" that a red fox be put out in front of it to honor his memory. And they did. I thought it was a pretty cool story!
I spoke to Harlowe's vet yesterday, and her basic cbc labs look good- a real improvement. Unfortunately, her pre liver function test shows an increase in the enzyme count. Of course, we still need to re-do the post part of the test to get accurate results. But, she feels we need to put her back on the liver function meds. Bummer, but we will do whatever we have to do to get her well again. Thanks you again for keeping her in your thoughts & prayers! She means the world to me!
I hope everyone has a fantastic day!
:rudolph:
Catching up with everyone / Update on The Christmas Angel
Hi everyone... So the bake sale is sent, and yes Seawaters it appears I will be making whoopie again!!! Whoopie Pies that is, Red velvet whoopie pies with vanilla and peppermint filling!!!:!!
We are also having an Octoberfest too, so maybe we will have some German apple deserts too....
We have held the auditions, (everybody gets a part though) and the Angel is being played by I believe six different children and we have 4 understudies. The main person character who is called Miss. Terry will also be played by eight different children, other characters will also be different children, to give as many as we can a chance. This works really well, years ago, it had been said that the same children had the same parts and it made quite an issue. Well, needless to say the kids are always happy just being able to help. So, we have asked the members to come and help build "the set". We have had a lot of interest this year and I think it is because no-one had heard of this story, and then I tell them where I heard about it and a few people have come and asked me about this website, I am keeping a watchful eye on new membership lately!!! Tee Hee!!!
With the approval of the church members my pastor is going to ask everyone if I can invite the youth group and have them participate. I think them getting involved and helping with a project like this might "soften" their views on people in general. I had been on vacation and well I missed one session and when I was back with them on Monday, they were like oh we didn't think you'd come back!?!?! Kind of sad really, but I can completely understand them, when you hear what family is suppose to be like and then you see what you have it can be a bitter pill to shallow. I just try and focus on positive, I tell them if I can do it you can too, it is choice, and it isn't easy. You have a choice, you can be that one who turns your life around, and I tell them flat out, you have to want it because there will be no support system like others will have, but as you keep going further your support system will grow, and while it may not be the conventional system of Mom, Dad, Sibs, it may be someone like me, a teacher, or prof., a friend, and soon you will have a family made out of all of these, family is what you make of it. I start each group that way, every meeting we tell each other that. I won't lie I have never heard from a lot of them after they were done with the sessions, but I have a few that have "gotten out", I speak with them, one is even a team leader now too. It is rewarding to know that I have helped and I often try to focus that this is the reason I never had children of my own, that this is what I was to do, help children who didn't have a mom or dad they could go too.
OK so a long one today. Sorry thanks for "reading".:witch:
Hi everyone... So the bake sale is sent, and yes Seawaters it appears I will be making whoopie again!!! Whoopie Pies that is, Red velvet whoopie pies with vanilla and peppermint filling!!!:!!
We are also having an Octoberfest too, so maybe we will have some German apple deserts too....
We have held the auditions, (everybody gets a part though) and the Angel is being played by I believe six different children and we have 4 understudies. The main person character who is called Miss. Terry will also be played by eight different children, other characters will also be different children, to give as many as we can a chance. This works really well, years ago, it had been said that the same children had the same parts and it made quite an issue. Well, needless to say the kids are always happy just being able to help. So, we have asked the members to come and help build "the set". We have had a lot of interest this year and I think it is because no-one had heard of this story, and then I tell them where I heard about it and a few people have come and asked me about this website, I am keeping a watchful eye on new membership lately!!! Tee Hee!!!
With the approval of the church members my pastor is going to ask everyone if I can invite the youth group and have them participate. I think them getting involved and helping with a project like this might "soften" their views on people in general. I had been on vacation and well I missed one session and when I was back with them on Monday, they were like oh we didn't think you'd come back!?!?! Kind of sad really, but I can completely understand them, when you hear what family is suppose to be like and then you see what you have it can be a bitter pill to shallow. I just try and focus on positive, I tell them if I can do it you can too, it is choice, and it isn't easy. You have a choice, you can be that one who turns your life around, and I tell them flat out, you have to want it because there will be no support system like others will have, but as you keep going further your support system will grow, and while it may not be the conventional system of Mom, Dad, Sibs, it may be someone like me, a teacher, or prof., a friend, and soon you will have a family made out of all of these, family is what you make of it. I start each group that way, every meeting we tell each other that. I won't lie I have never heard from a lot of them after they were done with the sessions, but I have a few that have "gotten out", I speak with them, one is even a team leader now too. It is rewarding to know that I have helped and I often try to focus that this is the reason I never had children of my own, that this is what I was to do, help children who didn't have a mom or dad they could go too.
OK so a long one today. Sorry thanks for "reading".:witch:
That was real nice of your husband he sounds like a very caring person.
I did not know that about Goldens, I will have to check on my girl, Snickers is a golden. I am very glad it is benign, that must have been a weight off your mind. I will still keep her in my thoughts.
Thank you Made (and to MC for the e-mail). I have to say this sounds just about as magical as a special place could be!
I do not even know what to say to this, we go to hospitals to be "CARED" for, not shoved away like a liablity but that is I think how they see us... I will be praying for your family...
Wow 100 posts a day CRAZY!!! Have fun with Football!!!
This is so upsetting, on Saturday I was in KMart and I was like OMG YAY you have Christmas stuff out and another customer says I know it is too early, I looked at the employee and said, it seems it is just in the nick of time as some need it more then others and winked - he laughed!!!
I know the other stuff you had to tell us.... YOUR WEDDING PLANS how are they going?!?!?! What's next?!?!?!
I agree Britt always has me giggling!!! And I 2nd what you wrote!!!
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