Christmas so far....

This is my checklist and as you can see things are still left undone as of today.

1. Put up tree= done
2. Put up outdoor lights (make spouse put up outdoor lights as you would set house on fire)=done
3. Put up mantel decorations=done
4. Bake cookies=not even started
5. Presents=all done but 3 people
6. Watch my favorite Christmas movies=watched 2 out of 4
7. Wrap all packages in boxes=resorted to half boxes half bags, I guess I'm lazy!
8. Send out Christmas cards with cute photo of animals or house or something representative of us=had to send out boxed cards as ran out of time to take photo and accomplish my cute photo cards.
9. Wear pretty red sweater with black floral design=done but I think its time to get a new Christmas look...
10. Give spouse a hard time about his dislike of 3 very prominent Christmas songs=done (I enjoyed this part a little too much and play these 3 songs in car with him as much as possible, oh what are the songs you ask, here they are in list of dislike:
-Little Drummerboy
-12 days of Christmas
-Mary did you know (he says yes she knew...J/K!!)
11. Plan super cool New Years Eve events=so not even thought about it yet!!

So anyways I have a long way to go but I'm getting there!!

THANKSGIVING BY MY NUMBERS...

-number of fried turkeys fried:2
-number of pieces of turkey that the kittens managed to get to: 1
-number of times I said I didn't want to go to my Grandad's house:10,000
-number of hours to get to Virginia:3
-number of times I sang "Happy Holidays" to my husband: 23
-number of aunts and uncles consuming lots of alcohol to drown out family drama:4
-number of cousins who went to Wal-mart in the mountains at midnight:4
-number of stained glass windows looted from my grandparents house:4
-number of times my husband went out on the roof to get one of the stain glassed windows down because the window was locked:1
-number of quilts looted from my grandparents house:10
-number of trips to ABC store:1
-number of times Grandaddy called us to tell us he would be late to Thanksgiving dinner:2
-number of times Grandaddy's fiance looked mean and hateful:20,000

**There that sums it up, and in case you didn't know my Grandaddy's getting re-married to a new lady he's only known for 2 months and we don't know anything about her so yes we were all looting my Grandmother's things......GREAT TIMES!! And yes I'm working through the whole being angry thing as you can tell.....

"O.J. Simpson book, TV special canceled"

I am proud to be an American today!!!

I'm begging every American....

Please do not watch the OJ Simpson interview on tv and please do not buy his stupid book. Please spend the precious hours and minutes contributing something useful and good to your life or society. I am making the promise to myself that I will not spend another second even listening to radio talking about it, I know kind of ironic that I'm blogging about it but it ends here, no more OJ!!

My gripe of the day...

While in the office today, while having a purely crappy day from you know where, the radio has the audacity to play "What a wonderful world." Now usually I love this song but today I wanted to pull the phone up and call it a big fat liar, its not a wonderful world, I'm stuck at work and I HATE it today....anyways I got over it. I find it very humorous at times what I'm dealing with at work and what they choose to play on the radio at that very moment in time. If you have a crappy radio station on at work you see how this applies!!

Falling back...

Fall is by far my most favorite time of year. I love the smell of the air, wearing sweaters and jeans and all the fall decorations. And I would never think I would say this but I love football season! But we'll get back to that. Yesterday I was in a cooking mood and because my great in-laws grew a pumpkin patch this year, I have an abundant supply of cooking pumpkins. So I cooked them, scooped out all the wonderful pumpkin filling and made my friend's recipe for some delicious cookies. (thanks Kari!) I still have to make my pies but I think the cookies will do for this week!!
So lately our Sunday routine has revolved around eating lunch while watching the Panthers football game, well yesterday they played late so our whole afternoon was a little off. That is so funny to me to think that my Sunday afternoon was weird because of a football game but the truth is I have actually grown really fond of coming home from church and putting on some sweats and eating lunch and watching the game. There's something very conforting about it all, I actually look forward to it!! So that is why yesterday I decided to bake.....

What is the deal??

I haven't been on this earth relatively long and I count myself to be very blessed that in the time I have been alive that I haven't had much family drama. I mean no family is perfect and you are going to have an uncle here or there who is just plain weird and you're going to have a bitter old grandma who every once in a while is going to tell you that you're getting fat. But thank God I've never had situtations that are just jaw-dropping....until last weekend. And what is funny about it all is that the person who is acting like a complete child is none other than my grandfather.
I am not going to go into details but lets just say that when your Grandad makes it a huge deal for everyone in the family to meet his girlfriends then one day out of the blue you find out he's engaged to be married to someone NONE of us have met and that he has only dated for 3 weeks you might be a little suprised. My mom and my aunts are pretty much handling the drama of it all because believe me the whole thing could be a made for tv movie but as far as I'm concerned its like seeing one of your heroes doing something incredibly stupid and not caring anymore what you think. To be honest, I'm kind of hurt. Not because he's getting married again but the way he did it and kept it such a secret and other things that I will not go into. So I'm just praying that things will work themselves out and that this drama ends very soon.
On a sillier note, who ever knew that the yellow rice that comes in those great gold packages at the grocery store might as well be yellow paint. I spilled some on one of my t-shirts last night and did everything I could do to get it off with no results. I am starting to think that something that leaves a stain that bad on my shirt may not be so good for my stomach.....anyways just my lesson for the day...

What is the deal??

I haven't been on this earth relatively long and I count myself to be very blessed that in the time I have been alive that I haven't had much family drama. I mean no family is perfect and you are going to have an uncle here or there who is just plain weird and you're going to have a bitter old grandma who every once in a while is going to tell you that you're getting fat. But thank God I've never had situtations that are just jaw-dropping....until last weekend. And what is funny about it all is that the person who is acting like a complete child is none other than my grandfather.
I am not going to go into details but lets just say that when your Grandad makes it a huge deal for everyone in the family to meet his girlfriends then one day out of the blue you find out he's engaged to be married to someone NONE of us have met and that he has only dated for 3 weeks you might be a little suprised. My mom and my aunts are pretty much handling the drama of it all because believe me the whole thing could be a made for tv movie but as far as I'm concerned its like seeing one of your heroes doing something incredibly stupid and not caring anymore what you think. To be honest, I'm kind of hurt. Not because he's getting married again but the way he did it and kept it such a secret and other things that I will not go into. So I'm just praying that things will work themselves out and that this drama ends very soon.
On a sillier note, who ever knew that the yellow rice that comes in those great gold packages at the grocery store might as well be yellow paint. I spilled some on one of my t-shirts last night and did everything I could do to get it off with no results. I am starting to think that something that leaves a stain that bad on my shirt may not be so good for my stomach.....anyways just my lesson for the day...