Christmas Countdown - 2012

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merrybob said:
I helped my mother-in-law put up her Christmas tree yesterday while she and my wife wrapped presents. Only 23 days left!
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My Christmas Shopping is done!!!!!!
 
Horrible day today. I put all the ingredients into the crockpot. I was ready to add the barley when I notice a crawly thingy. So, off I go to Wal-Mart. I checked the aisles (twice) and could not find barley. I went to the service desk and THREE people cut in front of me!!! So, I then went to a cashier who could not help me. She called over another cashier. Those two and one other person did not even know what barley was!!! One of them finally took me to someone who told me the barley was on the same aisle as the rice. I told her that I must be blind. She took me over there and at first she could not find it. She then looked on the top shelf and found a BOX of barley. I said, "When did barley start coming in a box?" I got it home and went to put it in the crockpot. It looked like OATMEAL!!! I was furious. Then I went down to another mom and pop place and found the bag of barley that I normally get. When I get home, I measured out what I needed and proceeded to stir it into the beef soup mixture in the crockpot. Lo and behold!!! I had turned on the crockpot, BUT I forgot to plug it in; so it had NOT COOKED for three hours!!! I am so mad at myself and Wal-Mart. The only good thing that came out of this was I found M&Ms orange flavored!!! Now I have a BAD headache. I am sure dinner will not be ready on time!
 
Seawaters said:
Horrible day today. I put all the ingredients into the crockpot. I was ready to add the barley when I notice a crawly thingy. So, off I go to Wal-Mart. I checked the aisles (twice) and could not find barley. I went to the service desk and THREE people cut in front of me!!! So, I then went to a cashier who could not help me. She called over another cashier. Those two and one other person did not even know what barley was!!! One of them finally took me to someone who told me the barley was on the same aisle as the rice. I told her that I must be blind. She took me over there and at first she could not find it. She then looked on the top shelf and found a BOX of barley. I said, "When did barley start coming in a box?" I got it home and went to put it in the crockpot. It looked like OATMEAL!!! I was furious. Then I went down to another mom and pop place and found the bag of barley that I normally get. When I get home, I measured out what I needed and proceeded to stir it into the beef soup mixture in the crockpot. Lo and behold!!! I had turned on the crockpot, BUT I forgot to plug it in; so it had NOT COOKED for three hours!!! I am so mad at myself and Wal-Mart. The only good thing that came out of this was I found M&Ms orange flavored!!! Now I have a BAD headache. I am sure dinner will not be ready on time!
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I hope your evening will be better.
 
The leg lamp in the front window with my daughter supervising the correct placement. And of course the dogs looking on!
 

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Oh, yeah. I forgot to tell you that I also cut my thumb when I was cutting up the onions. It just has not been my day!!!


Seawaters said:
Horrible day today. I put all the ingredients into the crockpot. I was ready to add the barley when I notice a crawly thingy. So, off I go to Wal-Mart. I checked the aisles (twice) and could not find barley. I went to the service desk and THREE people cut in front of me!!! So, I then went to a cashier who could not help me. She called over another cashier. Those two and one other person did not even know what barley was!!! One of them finally took me to someone who told me the barley was on the same aisle as the rice. I told her that I must be blind. She took me over there and at first she could not find it. She then looked on the top shelf and found a BOX of barley. I said, "When did barley start coming in a box?" I got it home and went to put it in the crockpot. It looked like OATMEAL!!! I was furious. Then I went down to another mom and pop place and found the bag of barley that I normally get. When I get home, I measured out what I needed and proceeded to stir it into the beef soup mixture in the crockpot. Lo and behold!!! I had turned on the crockpot, BUT I forgot to plug it in; so it had NOT COOKED for three hours!!! I am so mad at myself and Wal-Mart. The only good thing that came out of this was I found M&Ms orange flavored!!! Now I have a BAD headache. I am sure dinner will not be ready on time!
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Seawaters said:
Horrible day today. I put all the ingredients into the crockpot. I was ready to add the barley when I notice a crawly thingy. So, off I go to Wal-Mart. I checked the aisles (twice) and could not find barley. I went to the service desk and THREE people cut in front of me!!! So, I then went to a cashier who could not help me. She called over another cashier. Those two and one other person did not even know what barley was!!! One of them finally took me to someone who told me the barley was on the same aisle as the rice. I told her that I must be blind. She took me over there and at first she could not find it. She then looked on the top shelf and found a BOX of barley. I said, "When did barley start coming in a box?" I got it home and went to put it in the crockpot. It looked like OATMEAL!!! I was furious. Then I went down to another mom and pop place and found the bag of barley that I normally get. When I get home, I measured out what I needed and proceeded to stir it into the beef soup mixture in the crockpot. Lo and behold!!! I had turned on the crockpot, BUT I forgot to plug it in; so it had NOT COOKED for three hours!!! I am so mad at myself and Wal-Mart. The only good thing that came out of this was I found M&Ms orange flavored!!! Now I have a BAD headache. I am sure dinner will not be ready on time!
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Oh Seawaters ! I hope your afternoon improves...awwww xo
 
MerryCarey said:
A Christmassy weekend to you all. I hope the bugs go away soon so everyone is feeling better.

Here's what I was doing yesterday:

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Today it's warmer and foggy, so the snow is melting away. But yesterday and last night there was just enough snow to be festive, and not enough to make driving and walking difficult.
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oh your tree is just beautiful!


MerryCarey said:
I've put up an afghan for sale---the proceeds will go to Santa's Sleigh. It's only up for sale until December 10 ... that's to give it a chance of getting to its new home by Christmas Day. (Click the link for more info.)

Afghan Sale to Benefit Santa's Sleigh

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it's gorgeous MerryC!


ClaireLovesChristmas said:
No I havent moved hun, snowflake22 has been moving house though I believe? xx
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oops, sorry.
 
shellie12 said:
I have my lights all finished and lit up . i could cry ! i love christmas
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way to go shelliegirl!!!!


merrybob said:
I helped my mother-in-law put up her Christmas tree yesterday while she and my wife wrapped presents. Only 23 days left!
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wow you sound like the perfect son-in-law! Christmas will be here before we know it!


caninemom3 said:
Good afternoon Christmas family !!!

Yesterday was just a wonderful, wonderful day and evening. My sis and I went shopping, acted crazy (was it an act ??) and just really had a great time. After shopping we went back to her house, then my brother-in-law Wes took us all to dinner. I made SURE to tell the waiter it was my sister's birthday and at the end of the meal he brought her a free dessert !!!

Later after we got the tree all decorated my sister and I settled down and watched A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim..

It is always so wonderful to have this tradition xo

It is also nice to be back home with my furkids and husband....Hermione was so glad to see me this morning (I have never been away all night) that she sounded like she was screaming when she saw me !!!

Take care, Christmas family. I guess I missed It's A Wonderful Life then ?? Shucks........

I wanted to tell you.....I lost 2 more pounds....That is 16 pounds now...Just 6 more to go.......Woot woot !!!
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congrats on the weight loss! it's great to hear what a wonderful time you had w/ your sister!


RachRon said:
The leg lamp in the front window with my daughter supervising the correct placement. And of course the dogs looking on!
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this is so awesome! love it!
 
xmas365 said:
Good morning,

I got about 10 hours of sleep last night, still feeling yucky. I just finished watching that My Crazy Obsession Christmas show, I can safely say I am not as obsessed as those people on the show.
One woman had 168 Christmas trees in her 3 bedroom house, another has over 500 inflatables, and a husband and wife had to buy a bigger house for their dueling nutcracker/snowmen collection. My wife is happy to know I am not like that. Tell you the truth I love Christmas most for what the feeling brings to most people, I do love my trees and my lights, and of course my t-shirt collection but Christmas is about being with my family, and being here with my MMC friends.

I am resting the rest of today. Go Bengals!!!

Have a great day!!
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I saw part of that show last night, they truely are crazy! LOL
I agree, love my decorations but family is what is important
 
There should be a law against it being so darn warm this time of year!!! We are breaking records for high temps for this time of year, we have been in the 80s for the last couple of days.
 
Everything went very well for Sheila and I in our lighting the Advent candle today at church. She did an awesome job reading her part. It took a few tries to get the candle lighter to light, but other than that it went very well.
 
Snow-in-Texas said:
There should be a law against it being so darn warm this time of year!!! We are breaking records for high temps for this time of year, we have been in the 80s for the last couple of days.
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We are looking at 70 tomorrow.:-?
 
Seawaters said:
Horrible day today. I put all the ingredients into the crockpot. I was ready to add the barley when I notice a crawly thingy. So, off I go to Wal-Mart. I checked the aisles (twice) and could not find barley. I went to the service desk and THREE people cut in front of me!!! So, I then went to a cashier who could not help me. She called over another cashier. Those two and one other person did not even know what barley was!!! One of them finally took me to someone who told me the barley was on the same aisle as the rice. I told her that I must be blind. She took me over there and at first she could not find it. She then looked on the top shelf and found a BOX of barley. I said, "When did barley start coming in a box?" I got it home and went to put it in the crockpot. It looked like OATMEAL!!! I was furious. Then I went down to another mom and pop place and found the bag of barley that I normally get. When I get home, I measured out what I needed and proceeded to stir it into the beef soup mixture in the crockpot. Lo and behold!!! I had turned on the crockpot, BUT I forgot to plug it in; so it had NOT COOKED for three hours!!! I am so mad at myself and Wal-Mart. The only good thing that came out of this was I found M&Ms orange flavored!!! Now I have a BAD headache. I am sure dinner will not be ready on time!
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Asking for help at walmart is usually a bad idea. If I can't find it myself I just leave and go somewhere else.

It sounds like Santa needs to bring you one of the new Crockpots with an LED display so you know if it's plugged in or not.

Orange flavored M&M's??? I need to find some of those!!!!!
 
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