Christmas Countdown - 2012

[sugar142286]

Going to relax for a little before work, maybe even catch a quick nap. Talk to you all tomorrow! Have a great day tomorrow!

 

[ballcoach]

Happy Pines Day, everybody! Hope you had a great day! Busy here, as usual. Got some great news today...we are getting an extra day off for Thanksgiving! AWESOME!!!! I really enjoy the days around Thanksgiving and will love to have an extra day to celebrate!

Raining here....I love it! Hope it's still raining when I go to sleep. My wife and I have been married for five years and we take turns rubbing each others back at night...I'm a big ol' bum and I usually fall asleep on my nights after about 10 minutes...but when it's raining I bet it doesn't even take 5 minutes!

Anybody got big plans this weekend? We are going to go out Saturday to see what Christmas stuff is out....should have some pictures for the Blossoms page...

I'm out! Gotta type a letter for school. See everyone in the morning!

 

[Kimothy]

Hi Everyone! Half the week is over--YAY!! I hope this finds you all doing well. :-D

 

[Christmasstar]

had some time to read through some of the posts here, it was nice to have a quick visit.
For my turkey cake I now have cauliflower and carrots formed, just waiting for them to dry so I can add the color touch ups.
Still have not found the stand I want for the wedding cake. Might have to change what I want for that. Will give it another week and see what turns up.
Now I have to go and pick up my future pilot.

 

[snowflake22]

Good afternoon everyone. The wife and son came back from the church youth trip Monday night. (wife was one of the chaperones). They had a great time and grew closer to each other and Jesus Christ in the process. I missed them but it was nice to have some alone time.

Fall break starts at the college tomorrow so I have a 4 day weekend. I worked in private industry for 25 years and now with the college for 5. It is a nice place to wind down a working career. My wife and son still have work/school tomorrow and Friday so I will have the house to myself during the day.

Hope to enjoy some time outside. Weather forecast is nice with highs in upper 50's/low 60's and lows in upper 30's. In between raking leaves, I may even watch a Christmas movie.

Have a great afternoon everyone.

Enjoy your 4-day weekend!! Any idea what Christmas movie you want to watch? =)

feeling so festive and also really looking forward to halloween! so many christmassy days out planned, shame they cost so much money, but what can you do? i'm going to try not to stress about it. i can still have a wonderful christmas on a careful budget.

going to cook a lovely roast pork dinner this sunday and stay in all day watching christmas films. i just LOVE this time of year.

That sounds wonderful, Johnor!! I love this time of year, too! :smile:

Good evening! How are you all? All is well here. Just sitting by myself and relaxing. The kids are with DH at his parents for the evening - he's going out to Notre Dame two weekends from now, for the Pitt vs. Notre Dame game for 4 days, so they are talking about the trip. I couldn't go up since I work tonight.

How was everyone's day? Mine was good - I had a busy night at work last night. I work tonight yet, then I am off tomorrow - looking forward to it as I always do. I think I am going to wrap some of the kids gifts. I know it's kind of earlier to do it, but the gifts are really pilling up and I need to stack them somewhere, so I think it will be better if they're wrapped.

I'm excited the new podcast is out. I am going to listen to it here shortly and catch up on some posts.

Happy Pines Day! Hope all of you are well and enjoying your evening! God Bless and keeping smiling! Give hugs to your furbabies! Talk soon!

Hope you're enjoying some quiet time, sugar. Have a great day off tomorrow!!

Good evening, Christmas family

Getting ready to finally get a bite of supper......I am WHIPPED....I couldn't sleep last night probably because my body is adjusting to the new medication. I am planning on having a light supper and hitting the hay SUPER early !!

Thanks everyone, for your kind words and encouragement about my pain and also about my weight loss - You are THE BEST !! xo

Take care and big (((HUGS))) to EVERYONE but 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


Have a magical Christmassy evening !! xoxo

^^What a beautiful snowglobe!!^^
Sleep well, friend! xo

well i got through the pantry & the food cabinets. need lots more baking stuff than i originally thought. i found a crate in the pantry i have for crafty stuff & inside i found a kit for Santa ornaments. when i 1st got the kit i made 1 ornament. i think it's time to do another. there's all color sequins for his hat, face, beard & everything. if i ever figure out how to put pics up i'll show you. undrtakr helped me before but it's been so long i kind of forgot how. i am always in awe @ the pics y'all post on here.


good night. survivor is on!

Have fun w/ your santa ornaments, they sound really cute!!

Happy Pines Day, everybody! Hope you had a great day! Busy here, as usual. Got some great news today...we are getting an extra day off for Thanksgiving! AWESOME!!!! I really enjoy the days around Thanksgiving and will love to have an extra day to celebrate!

Woohoo!! Now that's something to celebrate, ballcoach!!

Raining here....I love it! Hope it's still raining when I go to sleep. My wife and I have been married for five years and we take turns rubbing each others back at night...I'm a big ol' bum and I usually fall asleep on my nights after about 10 minutes...but when it's raining I bet it doesn't even take 5 minutes!

Anybody got big plans this weekend? We are going to go out Saturday to see what Christmas stuff is out....should have some pictures for the Blossoms page...

I am doing a scary movie night on Friday w/ my friend- it's tradition @ Halloween time! And on Sunday, I'm going Christmas shopping/window shopping & having lunch w/ another friend.

Hope you & the Mrs. have a great time this weekend, too!!

I'm out! Gotta type a letter for school. See everyone in the morning!

Hi Everyone! Half the week is over--YAY!! I hope this finds you all doing well.

Hey Kimothy =] Hope you're doing well, too. How's Missy?

 

[xmas365]

the amount of mail i had to deliver was alright...the problem was....there were lots of catalogues....which make the bike very happy to drive.....so my legs are horribly tired

My mail person will probably be mad at me, I just ordered a bunch of catalogs the last few days. cheesy

I hope you get some rest.

 

[xmas365]

♥ Oh, I love that! Hope you are feeling better after listening
to the healing Christmas music =] Take care my friend!

I got home from work and right back to burning more Christmas CD's, I have a lot more to do. I am feeling better, just tired. Thank you.

 

[xmas365]

Good evening,

It was a long night at work tonight, It felt like my watch was running backwards at some points. Winding down now, I am beat, but I have to go back for 7am. So I must get to sleep soon.


Good night all!

 

[Seawaters]

I am going to be behind for the next 6 1/2 weeks because of radiation, but I will try to get caught upon the weekends. We get back so late, and then it is time for dinner and chores. I will try to check in in the mornings as many times as I can. We were able to get into the doctor's early (4:50 p.m.), but we stopped for dinner on our way home to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary. I think of y'all often. TTYL

 

[vsuclaribnl]

I'm so sorry that all of this happened, v. What an incompetent unprofessional photographer. I hope that your friends & family get plenty of pictures to you & your husband, so you can finish your album. xo

Glad you had a great weekend, regardless!!

Hope to see you at The Pines =]

We have had a few of our friends send us pictures, but most stuff is on phones and when you blow that up into picture size, some of it is grainy. But I have a friend who is very good with photoshop and we're hoping he can work some magic on a lot of our pictures. Thank you!! =)

Vsuclaribnl, sorry about the ordeal with the photographer!!! That's terrible. =(

I am glad to hear the good news with you and your mother! =)

Thank you, CAH. We are working through it and I am less mad (although marginally) every day.

I agree with CAH!
Hope you get photos from the guest to make a album!!

Thanks Solice!!

I sure hope you find enough good pictures for your album, that just sucks....
found a picture of you on line

However did you find this picture of me?? I actually laughed out loud when I saw this because I literally could've done this exact thing this past weekend!!!!

Oh MY !!! I didn't realize I typed that......Well, you know what I mean I am irate ALONG with you !!! not at you......That would be silly !! xxoox

I figured, I just wanted to make sure!! =)

I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this. I am glad though you at least did get ahold of her and you were at least able to salvage some of your pictures.

We are trying, thanks sugar!!!

I am going to be behind for the next 6 1/2 weeks because of radiation, but I will try to get caught upon the weekends. We get back so late, and then it is time for dinner and chores. I will try to check in in the mornings as many times as I can. We were able to get into the doctor's early (4:50 p.m.), but we stopped for dinner on our way home to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary. I think of y'all often. TTYL

We think of you too, seawaters!! Best of luck to you and please - rest up!! Happy Anniversary to you as well!! <3

 

[vsuclaribnl]

Hello all!

Another day come and gone...they seem to all go by so quickly now! Is this what married life does to you?? =)

Had a semi-busy day...I went down to the DMV and got my new license card with my new last name! It is still so weird to see it printed on documents, mail and cards now...I have to keep reminding myself that *I* am that person now!! So weird. I then went to Target to buy cards and a gift for my "nephew"'s baptism Sunday, a card for a friend's wedding Saturday, and another for some close friends' anniversary. After that, hubs and I went to his parents' for dinner and to show them the wedding pictures. His mom didn't think they were bad but understands our frustrations over all the pictures not taken and the blurriness of the ones we really liked. We are still getting pictures in from friends' phones and others are coming forward and saying they have some from actual cameras, so hopefully we'll have everyone's soon. This whole process is just...so...frustrating.

I am also thinking about doing my first 5K on Thanksgiving morning! I have been wanting to do one for so so long and I figured...why not now? Sure it will probably be horribly cold but if I can do one in the cold, there's no reason why I won't be able to do ones in the spring, summer, and (earlier) fall!

Anyway, Sangria just jumped up on my lap and is impeding my ability to type comfortably, so I suppose that means I should go to bed for the night. The Pines was a blast tonight, I must say! =)

Goodnight, Christmas family! <3

 

[shellie12]

I am going to be behind for the next 6 1/2 weeks because of radiation, but I will try to get caught upon the weekends. We get back so late, and then it is time for dinner and chores. I will try to check in in the mornings as many times as I can. We were able to get into the doctor's early (4:50 p.m.), but we stopped for dinner on our way home to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary. I think of y'all often. TTYL

Not for 1 minute do you worry about getting behind.
You have to put yourself 1st and get though it and get better
Just pop in with a wee update on how your doing when you have time
We all will be thinking about you
So until the next time take care of yourself

And happy wedding anniversary

 

[ClaireLovesChristmas]

Morning all!!!:???:

 

[Cetacea]

Good Morning to all of you

For me it is the last work day of this week, I have tomorrow off! Yippie!! :???:

Tomorrow I will go clothes shopping, I need some new pullovers and other winter clothes. On saturday the plan is to do grocery shopping and house cleaning. Sunday morning I'll teach my sunday school class and the rest of the day I will relax.

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

I don't know the movie but we tried to play the Pingu christmas story. I guess the Pingu series didn't run outside German speaking part of europe. Pingu is a children series around a penguin named Pingu and his family and friends. The whole series was made of Plasticine and was filmed like a cartoon. Pingu is still very famous around here.

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!!!

It sounds like you had a blast! Your granddaughter is so smart! I wouldn't go into such a ride even if I would get a million swiss francs for it!

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!

Wow you can go to see Bruce Springsteen live? I envy you! Enjoy the concert and the time with your mother. Take good care of your health and take the medication. I wish you a speedy recovery.

hey y'all! nice 1/2 day @ work. we are gonna start tomorrow on some of the trees in the shop. we discussed themes & color schemes.


think i'm gonna get my lists together this afternoon for all my holiday baking. find what i have & make note of what i need.


y'all have a wonderful afternoon, see ya' later @ the Pines!



:-x

Those christmas trees are not real ones, right? I would like to have a change to do some christmas backing but most likely I won't have time for it.

saw the first christmas commercial....for Lindt Chocolate.....no need to say I was ecstatic

This is one of my favourite christmas commercial. Of course it is also one of the best chocolate!

the amount of mail i had to deliver was alright...the problem was....there were lots of catalogues....which make the bike very happy to drive.....so my legs are horribly tired

Oh, I am sorry for that. I guess it won't get better until after christmas.

You know Christmas is a'comin when Coca Cola has their polar bear cans!!!!! Woo hoo! What a nice surprise to find when I opened up my case!

They don't sell the polar bear cans here! I know christmas is coming when the coca cola truck commercial is running.

Good afternoon everyone. The wife and son came back from the church youth trip Monday night. (wife was one of the chaperones). They had a great time and grew closer to each other and Jesus Christ in the process. I missed them but it was nice to have some alone time.

Fall break starts at the college tomorrow so I have a 4 day weekend. I worked in private industry for 25 years and now with the college for 5. It is a nice place to wind down a working career. My wife and son still have work/school tomorrow and Friday so I will have the house to myself during the day.

Hope to enjoy some time outside. Weather forecast is nice with highs in upper 50's/low 60's and lows in upper 30's. In between raking leaves, I may even watch a Christmas movie.

Have a great afternoon everyone.

How great that your wife and son had a good time at the camp. Those time are to be cherished.

feeling so festive and also really looking forward to halloween! so many christmassy days out planned, shame they cost so much money, but what can you do? i'm going to try not to stress about it. i can still have a wonderful christmas on a careful budget.

going to cook a lovely roast pork dinner this sunday and stay in all day watching christmas films. i just LOVE this time of year.

I am sure you will be able to have a fantastic christmas season! It is the reason for this season to show your love and compassion to your family and friends. Your thoughts and intentions on the gifts you choose or the things you planed means more than the money you can spend on it.

This sounds like a wonderful tradition !!! And a wonderful memory xo

Yes it is. Sometimes I miss those times. My sister and I weren't always friendly with each other (I guess that is normal as kids) but for those play we were one heart and soul.

Good evening! How are you all? All is well here. Just sitting by myself and relaxing. The kids are with DH at his parents for the evening - he's going out to Notre Dame two weekends from now, for the Pitt vs. Notre Dame game for 4 days, so they are talking about the trip. I couldn't go up since I work tonight.

How was everyone's day? Mine was good - I had a busy night at work last night. I work tonight yet, then I am off tomorrow - looking forward to it as I always do. I think I am going to wrap some of the kids gifts. I know it's kind of earlier to do it, but the gifts are really pilling up and I need to stack them somewhere, so I think it will be better if they're wrapped.

I'm excited the new podcast is out. I am going to listen to it here shortly and catch up on some posts.

Happy Pines Day! Hope all of you are well and enjoying your evening! God Bless and keeping smiling! Give hugs to your furbabies! Talk soon!

Wrapping the gifts up seems to be a smart idea. I whish you a good work day.

Good evening, Christmas family

Getting ready to finally get a bite of supper......I am WHIPPED....I couldn't sleep last night probably because my body is adjusting to the new medication. I am planning on having a light supper and hitting the hay SUPER early !!

Thanks everyone, for your kind words and encouragement about my pain and also about my weight loss - You are THE BEST !! xo

Take care and big (((HUGS))) to EVERYONE but 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


Have a magical Christmassy evening !! xoxo

Take it easy until your body is used to it. I pray that the adjustment will go fast and smoothly.

Happy Pines Day, everybody! Hope you had a great day! Busy here, as usual. Got some great news today...we are getting an extra day off for Thanksgiving! AWESOME!!!! I really enjoy the days around Thanksgiving and will love to have an extra day to celebrate!

Raining here....I love it! Hope it's still raining when I go to sleep. My wife and I have been married for five years and we take turns rubbing each others back at night...I'm a big ol' bum and I usually fall asleep on my nights after about 10 minutes...but when it's raining I bet it doesn't even take 5 minutes!

Anybody got big plans this weekend? We are going to go out Saturday to see what Christmas stuff is out....should have some pictures for the Blossoms page...

I'm out! Gotta type a letter for school. See everyone in the morning!

Congratulation on getting a extra day off! Hope you have a great thanksgiving time!

I am going to be behind for the next 6 1/2 weeks because of radiation, but I will try to get caught upon the weekends. We get back so late, and then it is time for dinner and chores. I will try to check in in the mornings as many times as I can. We were able to get into the doctor's early (4:50 p.m.), but we stopped for dinner on our way home to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary. I think of y'all often. TTYL

Dear Seawaters, I wish you a succsessful radion therapy and a lot of strength to endure it. Know that you are in my thoughts. Don't worry about getting behind, your health is way more important.

Morning all!!!

Have a good morning as well.

 

[Solice]

Good morning/soon afternoon =]

I just have to share this, even though you might have seen this before

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Fantastic!
Goosebumps and tears in my eyes :-D

 

[dancer_90]

Hope you are all well, I have a day off work so internet Christmas shopping it is. Also hotel searching for my annual Christmas trip to London, got tickets booked for ice skating at Winter Wonderland which should be good fun :???:

 

[Solice]

Good Morning to all of you

For me it is the last work day of this week, I have tomorrow off! Yippie!!:???:
Tomorrow I will go clothes shopping, I need some new pullovers and other winter clothes. On saturday the plan is to do grocery shopping and house cleaning. Sunday morning I'll teach my sunday school class and the rest of the day I will relax

Good morning Cetacea cheesy
Enjoy your last work day this week and your day off tomorrow!!! =]
I should have been clothes shopping too, but I hate it...

Everytime I go shopping for myself, I end up buying clothes to my kids instead.
That is so much more fun!! =]

Have a GREAT day!

 

[Solice]

Hope you are all well, I have a day off work so internet Christmas shopping it is. Also hotel searching for my annual Christmas trip to London, got tickets booked for ice skating at Winter Wonderland which should be good fun :???:

Ice skating sounds fun. London IS fun!!!
So, where do you do your Christmas shopping today? =]

 

[Solice]

Morning all!!!:???:

:???:Good morning to you! =]

 

[Solice]

Happy Pines Day, everybody! Hope you had a great day! Busy here, as usual. Got some great news today...we are getting an extra day off for Thanksgiving! AWESOME!!!! I really enjoy the days around Thanksgiving and will love to have an extra day to celebrate!

Raining here....I love it! Hope it's still raining when I go to sleep. My wife and I have been married for five years and we take turns rubbing each others back at night...I'm a big ol' bum and I usually fall asleep on my nights after about 10 minutes...but when it's raining I bet it doesn't even take 5 minutes!

Anybody got big plans this weekend? We are going to go out Saturday to see what Christmas stuff is out....should have some pictures for the Blossoms page...

I'm out! Gotta type a letter for school. See everyone in the morning!

Getting one extra day off for Thanksgiving IS awesome!
So happy for you =]

Hi Everyone! Half the week is over--YAY!! I hope this finds you all doing well

Thanks, same to you! =]

had some time to read through some of the posts here, it was nice to have a quick visit.
For my turkey cake I now have cauliflower and carrots formed, just waiting for them to dry so I can add the color touch ups.
Still have not found the stand I want for the wedding cake. Might have to change what I want for that. Will give it another week and see what turns up.
Now I have to go and pick up my future pilot.

I hope you post pictures of that cake when it's done?

Good evening,

It was a long night at work tonight, It felt like my watch was running backwards at some points. Winding down now, I am beat, but I have to go back for 7am. So I must get to sleep soon.


Good night all!

Hope you got (get) a very good night sleep!!!!!

I am going to be behind for the next 6 1/2 weeks because of radiation, but I will try to get caught upon the weekends. We get back so late, and then it is time for dinner and chores. I will try to check in in the mornings as many times as I can. We were able to get into the doctor's early (4:50 p.m.), but we stopped for dinner on our way home to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary. I think of y'all often. TTYL

Good luck with the radiation. You are in my thoughts and prayers!
And Happy Anniversary to you two ♥

Hello all!

Another day come and gone...they seem to all go by so quickly now! Is this what married life does to you?? =)

Had a semi-busy day...I went down to the DMV and got my new license card with my new last name! It is still so weird to see it printed on documents, mail and cards now...I have to keep reminding myself that *I* am that person now!! So weird. I then went to Target to buy cards and a gift for my "nephew"'s baptism Sunday, a card for a friend's wedding Saturday, and another for some close friends' anniversary. After that, hubs and I went to his parents' for dinner and to show them the wedding pictures. His mom didn't think they were bad but understands our frustrations over all the pictures not taken and the blurriness of the ones we really liked. We are still getting pictures in from friends' phones and others are coming forward and saying they have some from actual cameras, so hopefully we'll have everyone's soon. This whole process is just...so...frustrating.

I am also thinking about doing my first 5K on Thanksgiving morning! I have been wanting to do one for so so long and I figured...why not now? Sure it will probably be horribly cold but if I can do one in the cold, there's no reason why I won't be able to do ones in the spring, summer, and (earlier) fall!

Anyway, Sangria just jumped up on my lap and is impeding my ability to type comfortably, so I suppose that means I should go to bed for the night. The Pines was a blast tonight, I must say! =)

Goodnight, Christmas family! <3

The days they go by so quickly even if your not married! =]
Maybe a silly question but what is the 5K?