Christmas Eve

Its Christmas Eve and I'm finally done shopping. I had to take back the Easy Bake Oven I got for my daughter because someone else got her one, and of course I ended up spending way more on the stuff to replace it than I originally spent on it. (Damn Wal-mart, it has mind controlling powers I swear!). So now I am back in the floor wrapping presents...which I don't mind :). But then I need to clean my house...which unfortunately isn't on my list of joyful events. Balance...life is all about balance I guess.

Thankfully to get all of this done I have the day to myself. My daughter is with her dad today doing their Christmas rounds, so I have time to finish up everything around here.

Ho!Ho!Ho! Merry Christmas!!!!

Christmas fun :)

Can you dunk Santa?

Time to wrap...

Ok, I found a really great deal on ribbon at Krogers today, so I can now do all my Christmas present wrapping :). My favorite part of the holiday is picking out presents for people and then wrapping them. Since I love to do it, and am fairly good at it, my mom use to have me wrap my own presents...she would put them in a box so i couldn't tell what they were and hand it all over to me. I've noticed since I'm not there to do it any longer, she relies more and more on gift bags. Hmmm....coincidence?

I got the last one!!!!!

So today, I went to get my Christmas tree. My daughter was dying to have a real one this year, so I put it off til the week before Christmas so as not to run the risk of it drying out and all that good stuff. So first, I live in a small town so the only place that had Christmas trees left was Kroger. Ok, fine, no big deal. That wasn't the hard part...the hard part was finding a stand to put it in. The following places did not have Christmas tree stands:

1. Kroger
2. Walmart (yes walmart - how hard to believe is that)
3. Freds
4. 2 different dollar general stores
5. TSC

Finally we found one (the last one) at Walgreens. 2 hours to locate a tree and stand!

So now we get to do the fun part...decorating the tree - yeah!!!! After I take a nap to recover from 2 hours of driving all over town to locate the last Christmas tree stand.

Come back to see a picture of the finished product.

My song :)

Artist/Band: Rascal Flatts
Lyrics for Song: Stand

You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless like you’ve lost your fight
But you’ll be alright, you’ll be alright

Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you’re made of
You might bend ‘til you break
Cause it’s all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand

Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out
The edge of canyon with only one way down
Take what you’re given before it’s gone
And start holdin’ on, keep holdin’ on
Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you’re made of
You might bend ‘til you break
Cause it’s all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand

Every time you get up and get back in the race
One more small piece of you starts to fall into place – yeah

Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you’re made of
You might bend ‘til you break
Cause it’s all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand

Women are honest, I swear!

One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her
thimble fell into the river.

When she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, "My dear child, why are you
crying?"

The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and that
she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family..

The Lord dipped His hand into the water and pulled up a golden thimble set
with pearls. "Is this you thimble?" the Lord asked.

The seamstress replied, "No".

The Lord again dipped into the river. He held out a silver thimble ringed
with sapphires. "Is this your thimble?" the Lord asked again, the
seamstress replied, "No.".

The Lord reached down again and came up with a leather thimble.

"Is this your thimble?" the Lord asked.

The seamstress replied, "Yes".

The Lord was please d with the woman's honesty and gave her all three
thimbles to keep, and the seamstress went home happy.

Some years later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along the
riverbank, and her husband fell into the river and disappeared under the
water.

When she cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked her, "Why are you
crying?".

"Oh Lord, my husband has fallen into the river!"

The Lord went down into the water and came up with George Clooney.

"Is this you husband?" the Lord asked.

"Yes", cried the seamstress.

The Lord was furious. "You lied! That is an untruth!"

The seamstress replied, "Oh, forgive me, my Lord. It is a misunderstanding.
You see, if I had said "No" to George Clooney, you would have come up with
Brad Pitt. Then if I said "No" to him, you would have come up with my
husband.

Had I then said "Yes", you would have given me all three. Lord, I'm not in
the best of health and would not be able to take care of all three husbands,
so that's why I said "Yes", to George Clooney."

The moral of this story is: Whenever a woman lies, it's for a good and
honorable reason, and in the best interest of others.

That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Water and Wine Education

It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter of water each
day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of
Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we
are consuming 1 kilo of Poo.

However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey,
beer or other liquors) because alcohol has to go through a distillation
process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.

WATER = POO

WINE = HEALTH

Free yourself of Poo, drink WINE!!! It is better to drink wine and talk
shit than to drink water and be full of shit. There is no need to thank
me for this valuable information; I am doing it as a public service.

Have a nice day...