Christmas Countdown - 2012

[Bradmac]

yep!
Unless of course you want to take over her job?

Good point.

***Runs over, kisses her on the cheek. "Honey, you're the best!!"***

"You bet I am. Now get back to washing those dishes."

 

[Bradmac]

Good Wednesday morning, my Christmas friends!

I left work early yesterday to go with Jacob and the family to his guitar lesson, and to do the Walmart run. We also stopped by Hobby Lobby, so I got the peruse the Christmas aisles again!

I splurged on some pork lo mein for supper. Pretty good!

I hope y'all have a great day! See you at the 'Pines! cheesy

 

[MerryCarey]

Wednesday hello ... No further rumbling last night! Next time there's an earthquake, I'll know what it is.

Debates....blah....blah....blah...job rates...blah...blah....plans....blah....blah...blah...elect me...blah....blah...blah...

I don't know who you are voting for...it's none of my business....but I think George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) would be a heck of a President.

Or Jefferson Smith ... :wink:

Time to pay a visit to the one, the only, Shispering Pines.
Carl says the fired twinkies turned out extra crisp and flavorful and he's eager for taste-testers!
Oh, and the decor! Carl's really getting into Autumn now with a full-fall theme.
Lots of colored leaf displays, gourds and pumpkins, not to mention earth-tone frosting on the twinkies.
Don't miss it!

Caramel frosting is sort of earth-tone ... maybe ... ! I hope the party's still going on after I get out of work. It's supposed to be a late one tonight. We're preparing a pitch (presentation to try to win a new client) for tomorrow.

 

[Christmasstar]

Debates....blah....blah....blah...job rates...blah...blah....plans....blah....blah...blah...elect me...blah....blah...blah...

I don't know who you are voting for...it's none of my business....but I think George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) would be a heck of a President.

well you did once have an actor for president so I guess another one would be ok. I do like George!

 

[Holiday]

Good morning my Christmassy friends! It has been too long since I have checked in & I've missed you all! Good news is I have finished my SIL's afghan, started a new one lol, pulled off a surprise 60th birthday party for our neighbor, helped my sister cut nylon for scrubbies, put up what is possibly the last batch of tomatoes from the garden, AND I became a great Aunt again! AND we are week closer to Christmas! Wew! What a week it's been. Ha ha! Since starting my Christmas countdown clock on Oct. 1st, time is already going to fast!

Temps are going into the 70's here today too. Beautiful day!!

I'm sure I've missed a lot, so I'm heading back to read some posts!

See you later on at the PINES!!!!

I hope you are all doing well!!!!

 

[xmas365]

The doctor says I have psoriatic arthritis. All arthritis is painful and this is not nearly as bad as rheumatoid arthritis or the arthritis that Made's dear little niece has but it IS a very painful condition, I won't lie. There have been plenty of days when my husband had had to help stand up to get moving. I have to see a rheumatologist and my doctor also started me on Cele**rex. I can tell you that within an hour of taking that first dose my pain started to abate and even now 9 hours later it continues to work and I have NO PAIN. I will see the rheumatologist and discuss their recommendations and go from there.

I have been back on Jenny Craig now for about three weeks and I have lost about 7 pounds !!!! I only have 15 more to go !!

I am glad the meds have helped with the pain, and I am proud of you for your weight loss. You can meet your goal, I know you can!

 

[xmas365]

Hello everyone! It's been a couple days since I last posted, and boy has a lot happened...

We finally got ahold of our wedding photographer on Friday...and I honestly can't say more about her now without going into a cuss-filled rant, which is obviously inappropriate for this forum. Basically she lied to us on more than one occasion, we ended up having to shell out money for something that was supposed to be free, and the pictures we ended up with were, for lack of a better word, crap. We ended up getting almost 1500 total, but when nearly 1200 of them are useless, either because of lighting issues, blurriness, or she cropped them wrong...what we are left with, we can't even make a full wedding album out of. She took (not even lying) over 500 pictures JUST OF MY HAIR GETTING DONE! That would've been fine if she'd've taken that many pictures of everything else! A lot of pictures that we knew she'd taken, we didn't even get on our DVDs, and a lot of the ones that did turn out were of just me getting ready. Hubs and I are both really upset and we have asked all of our friends/family who were at the wedding for ANY pictures they may have of that day as we try to salvage together pictures for an album. Aside from all the lies she fed us, when I asked her about some of the pictures that were missing, she accused me of not being happy with her pictures or services (which she wasn't wrong about, but I hadn't even said anything at that point) and suggested that we "sever our relationship and that we should pay someone else to edit our pictures". I was blown away (read: VERY IRATE) after that and didn't even say anything back to her. If any of you would like the whole story I will be more than willing to tell you, but it's wayyyy too long to just post out here.

Ugh.

Other than that, I had a pretty great weekend. We spent time with hubs' best man and his son (one of our "nephews") on Saturday, and the little man was just so cute! While hubs and I are still on the thought of not having kids of our own, we are very much enjoying our friends' kids! =) Sunday, my parents came over (and yes, my mom and I have made up, thank goodness) and we had dinner and looked over the craziness that is our wedding pictures. Yesterday was spent cleaning up the house and applying for more jobs, and today I spent the majority of the day at my "twin"'s house with her, my "niece" and new "nephew" (born 3 weeks before my wedding day!). Such a nice couple of days after what was a disastrous Friday & Saturday.

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! Pines Day tomorrow - yay!!

I am glad to hear you and your mother made up. I am sorry about the ordeal with your photographer, she just does not sound professional at all.

 

[xmas365]

Good Morning Christmas Gang!

I'm pretty tired today and so far a lot of crazy things happened at work. Can't wait until it is 5.30 p.m. and I can go home.

Dinner yesterday was good and the food was great. Unfortunately my stomach and intestine weren't in a good condition. Guess I have to make a lactose intolerance medical test someday. My sister has lactose intolerance for years and it is not the first time I wondered if I have a lighter version of this intolerance as well.

I hope you are feeling better now.

 

[xmas365]

Good morning,

It's Wednesday... yadda yadda yadda ...don't want to go.

I am burning my Christmas CD's in my computer right now, getting ready to put them in my MP3 player, it is so nice to listen to the songs right now. I am not feeling 100% today, I wish I could afford to call out today, but I will tough it out. I woke up and it was very frosty out, made it feel Christmassy out. Starting to get so excited now!!!

Have a good day!!

 

[Christmas-A-Holic]

Good Evening!

I just got myself a second job...temp one until Christmas, but will be nice to make some extra spending money. Only 14- 12 hour days!

I will be a demo girl for the keurig coffee machine I don't even drink the stuff, but oh well, guess I can take everyone's word for it that it is good. Maybe Binger can stop by and help with the promotion! Have to get myself a good chair since I only get a 1/2 off for lunch and am expected to stay at my display table the rest of the time.

Maybe I should have thought more about this before saying yes!!

I love my Keurig!!! It makes tea also!

Did anyone else from the Northeastern U.S. feel the earthquake about half an hour ago?? The whole house rumbled and shook as though there were a huge truck right outside the door going full throttle. It was stronger than the little rumble we felt over a year ago when there was an earthquake centered in Virginia. This one was centered in Maine.

It went for several seconds ... I didn't stop what I was working on, just wondered "what the heck? the only thing I've ever felt similar to that was that little earthquake last year ... COULDN'T be another earthquake." Then I checked the news. Mm-hm---another earthquake.

No damage that I know of, just literally shaken up.

I am glad you are safe!

Good evening, Christmas family

I took the day off today and did a lot of running around. We went to Hobby Lobby to get lights to redo our garlands for our big window and also I went to Jenny Craig for more food and also to my doctor's appointment. I was really surprised to see that our Hobby Lobby is OUT of the tree we bought !!! I am sure they will get more in.....xo

The doctor says I have psoriatic arthritis. All arthritis is painful and this is not nearly as bad as rheumatoid arthritis or the arthritis that Made's dear little niece has but it IS a very painful condition, I won't lie. There have been plenty of days when my husband had had to help stand up to get moving. I have to see a rheumatologist and my doctor also started me on Cele**rex. I can tell you that within an hour of taking that first dose my pain started to abate and even now 9 hours later it continues to work and I have NO PAIN. I will see the rheumatologist and discuss their recommendations and go from there.

I have been back on Jenny Craig now for about three weeks and I have lost about 7 pounds !!!! I only have 15 more to go !!

I hope everyone is okay and that you all have a very restful and Christmassy evening xo

Seawaters - Thinking of you and praying you feel okay xo

(((HUGS))) to all ESPECIALLY:

Ella, Harlowe, Snowball, Gomez, Ophelia, Sidney, Alex, Merlin, Snickers, Victor, Daisy, Diva, Mickey, Palmer, Mouse, Bo, Chico, Meca, Alvin, Charlie, Gary, Bailey, Jerrold, Irving, Martha, Uncle Julio, Missy, Scooby, Sasha, Jacob, Cracker, Bunny B, Penny, Pocket, LuLu, Bear-Bear, Stripey, Holly, Fate Puppy (London,) Buster, Missy, Baby, Santa's Polar Bears, Sangria, and all furkids everywhere xoxoo

I am so glad the medication is keeping you out of pain! Will continue to pray for you.

I love your glitter picture!!! Drink up!!!

 

[Christmas-A-Holic]

My 3 year old granddaughter is just like me! She got a set of Olivia books and one of them is titled, "Olivia helps with Christmas". Her mom sat down to read some of the books to her and my granddaughter picked up the Christmas one and said, "Grandma will read this one to me, I have to take it to her house"! Guess what? The book is here at my house to stay!!!

My granddaughter talks about Christmas and Santa ALL YEAR LONG! What a smart little girl! :thumbsup:

 

[Cetacea]

My working day ends in 40 minutes. Tonight I will do some duties at home and then I will watch a couple episodes of "The Waltons". I'm in the mood for old tv shows and they are one of my favourite tv shows (along with LHOTP, my all time favourite and Bonanza)

I hope you are feeling better now.

Thank you so much! I am better than yesterday but not completely well. Maybe I caught the bug my mother had two weeks ago.

My 3 year old granddaughter is just like me! She got a set of Olivia books and one of them is titled, "Olivia helps with Christmas". Her mom sat down to read some of the books to her and my granddaughter picked up the Christmas one and said, "Grandma will read this one to me, I have to take it to her house"! Guess what? The book is here at my house to stay!!!

My granddaughter talks about Christmas and Santa ALL YEAR LONG! What a smart little girl! :thumbsup:

I remember when my sister and I were little we used to play christmas during our summer holiday. We used to lower the blinds to make the room dark, set up a house (or was it a iglu, not sure anymore) and we listened to my mothers christmas cds. It wouldn't be real summer holidays without it!

 

[made582]

Good Morning MMC!!! It's going to be a warm day here with a high of 73 and then it looks like storms are going to move in to the area tonight. I'm going to play mechanic again today and do some work on one of my neighbors trucks. Then I'll be off to the Pines!!!!! I hope everyone is having a GREAT DAY!!!!!!!

 

[xmas365]

And away I go!!!

 

[Christmas-A-Holic]

I remember when my sister and I were little we used to play christmas during our summer holiday. We used to lower the blinds to make the room dark, set up a house (or was it a iglu, not sure anymore) and we listened to my mothers christmas cds. It wouldn't be real summer holidays without it!

Sounds like Charlie from the movie, The Santa Clause! The part where he is playing Santa long after Christmas was over. =)

 

[Christmas-A-Holic]

We took our grandchildren to the State Fair of Texas last night. My 3 year old granddaughter was fearless and wanted to ride EVERYTHING, even the rides she was not tall enough for. We went to one ride (as pictured below) that looks very scary. She wanted to ride it really bad but as soon as a scary clown stepped out on the balcony (where the eyes of the skull is) she said, "I don't want to be with him"! She decided not to ride it because of the clown! I can't say I blame her but funny that the ride itself didn't look scary to her, just the clown!!!

It was crowded last night but we had a blast! I laughed so much with the kids when we rode rides together. Fun times!!!

 

[brent]

My 3 year old granddaughter is just like me! She got a set of Olivia books and one of them is titled, "Olivia helps with Christmas". Her mom sat down to read some of the books to her and my granddaughter picked up the Christmas one and said, "Grandma will read this one to me, I have to take it to her house"! Guess what? The book is here at my house to stay!!!

My granddaughter talks about Christmas and Santa ALL YEAR LONG! What a smart little girl! :thumbsup:

You have certainly brought her up very well, CAH!

 

[brent]

Good afternoon everyone.

'Pines Day! The middle of the week. We're inching closer to that wonderful date and I'm sure signs of Christmas are Blossoming before your very eyes! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little dazed today. I took a muscle relaxant last night. I should be taking the all the time to help with my knee - which still hasn't fully recovered - but they always make me feel slow and hazy until about 3 PM the next day. Still, I think it is something that I should deal with as it helps speed the process...

My mom is flying into Ottawa tomorrow. I'm excited to see her! I will have to come into work a few minutes early in order to meet her at my apartment. On Friday we're heading to see Bruce Springsteen at Scotiabank Place. It is going to be a fantastic show! We're both real excited to see the Boss. I don't know of any other plans, but she's only here until late Sunday afternoon, so we will have to cram in a little bit on Saturday.

Well, I should get to some lunch, but Carl has done such a wonderful job with the Fall decorations in the 'Pines. It is mesmerizing. I can only imagine what he has in store for the upcoming weeks.

Have a great Wednesday, everyone. The work week is almost on the descent into the weekend!

 

[Solice]

:-xGood Evening!

 

[xmastidings]

Debates....blah....blah....blah...job rates...blah...blah....plans....blah....blah...blah...elect me...blah....blah...blah...

I don't know who you are voting for...it's none of my business....but I think George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) would be a heck of a President.

Right with you Coach!!!