Thursday, December 11, 2008
What I would give to go HERE!!
http://www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/index.php?pfid=2&cid=10&eid=7
Yep, just me. Just a roundtrip for me, just for a week. *sigh* Someday...
Yep, just me. Just a roundtrip for me, just for a week. *sigh* Someday...
Subject: Merger Bulletin From The Wailing Wall Street Daily
Continuing the current trend of large-scale mergers and acquisitions, it was announced today at a press conference that Christmas and Hanukkah will merge. An industry source said that the deal had been in the works about 1300 years.
While details were not available at press time, it is believed that the overhead cost of having twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Hanukkah was becoming prohibitive for both sides. By combining forces, we're told, the world will be able to enjoy consistently high-quality service during the Fifteen Days of Chrismukah, as the new holiday is being called.
Massive layoffs are expected, with lords a-leaping and maids a-milking being the hardest hit.
As part of the conditions of the agreement, the letters on the dreydl, currently in Hebrew, will be replaced by Latin, thus becoming unintelligible to a wider audience.
Also, instead of translating to "A great miracle happened there," the message on the dreydl will be the more generic "Miraculous stuff happens."
In exchange, it is believed that Jews will be allowed to use Santa Claus and his vast merchandising resources for buying and delivering their gifts.
One of the sticking points holding up the agreement for at least three hundred years was the question of whether Jewish children could leave milk and cookies for Santa even after having eaten meat for dinner.
A breakthrough came last year, when Oreos were finally declared to be Kosher. All sides appeared happy about this.
A spokesman for Christmas, Inc., declined to say whether a takeover of Kwanzaa might not be in the works as well. He merely pointed out that, were it not for the independent existence of Kwanzaa, the merger between Christmas and Chanukah might indeed be seen as an unfair cornering of the holiday market.
Fortunately for all concerned, he said, Kwanzaa will help to maintain the competitive balance. He then closed the press conference by leading all present in a rousing rendition of
"Oy Vey, All Ye Faithful."
While details were not available at press time, it is believed that the overhead cost of having twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Hanukkah was becoming prohibitive for both sides. By combining forces, we're told, the world will be able to enjoy consistently high-quality service during the Fifteen Days of Chrismukah, as the new holiday is being called.
Massive layoffs are expected, with lords a-leaping and maids a-milking being the hardest hit.
As part of the conditions of the agreement, the letters on the dreydl, currently in Hebrew, will be replaced by Latin, thus becoming unintelligible to a wider audience.
Also, instead of translating to "A great miracle happened there," the message on the dreydl will be the more generic "Miraculous stuff happens."
In exchange, it is believed that Jews will be allowed to use Santa Claus and his vast merchandising resources for buying and delivering their gifts.
One of the sticking points holding up the agreement for at least three hundred years was the question of whether Jewish children could leave milk and cookies for Santa even after having eaten meat for dinner.
A breakthrough came last year, when Oreos were finally declared to be Kosher. All sides appeared happy about this.
A spokesman for Christmas, Inc., declined to say whether a takeover of Kwanzaa might not be in the works as well. He merely pointed out that, were it not for the independent existence of Kwanzaa, the merger between Christmas and Chanukah might indeed be seen as an unfair cornering of the holiday market.
Fortunately for all concerned, he said, Kwanzaa will help to maintain the competitive balance. He then closed the press conference by leading all present in a rousing rendition of
"Oy Vey, All Ye Faithful."
Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Another tradition down...
So we finished the gingerbread house today. Well, I finished mine and the boys finished theirs. Huh, I haven't taken any pics of theirs yet... will have to do that... I'll call it the shrieking outhouse... you'll see...
So yes, this year, I decided to make the shrieking shack. Funny how you measure something to come out crooked and it comes out straight... isn't it usually the other way around? Hm.
Yeah, the little black thing in the back is Snape crawling through the tunnel outside the whomping willow.... :D Hee hee!!
Yeah, and my dough was screwy!! I made two batches of the same dough and one batch came out great and the other one... spread or something. And I followed them both the same. Weird. And a pain in the butt when trying to fit the pieces...
So yes, this year, I decided to make the shrieking shack. Funny how you measure something to come out crooked and it comes out straight... isn't it usually the other way around? Hm.
Yeah, the little black thing in the back is Snape crawling through the tunnel outside the whomping willow.... :D Hee hee!!
Yeah, and my dough was screwy!! I made two batches of the same dough and one batch came out great and the other one... spread or something. And I followed them both the same. Weird. And a pain in the butt when trying to fit the pieces...
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Home again, Home again...
So I'm home. I left yesterday, after much running around, about 10:30 and got home about 9:30-10 last night. Looooooong drive. I've taken longer drives that haven't felt as long as this. Fussy kids, etc. The nice thing was gas was cheap. (Man... something in my office stinks....)
Anyhow, I was surprised I got as much into the car as I did. And I came home to a house that had been lived in for almost 4 weeks by a ... father and his 6 year old son... yippee for me!
So I sent today doing laundry and cleaning, then tonight we went to the on-post tree lighting, where David's cub scouts handed out programs, then we came home and did our own tree and decorations...
Here's a few pics of before I left. Monday Isaac said we should go to the zoo, and since we didn't have too much else to be done, we did!
Sammy spent the whole time at the zoo leaning forward in the stroller like, "Dude, what is That!?!"
Went out to the gravesite Wednesday morning before I left. I was thrilled to see that the flowers we had stuck in the ground were still poking up. The heads of the roses were dropping though so I pulled the petals off and sprinkled them around. AND I was super thrilled to see that her wildflowers seed had already sprouted!!!! :D
The tree lighting... the one is of Nathan and the boys in line for Santa... I love what Sammy is doing. It sums him up so perfectly... little stinker. He ran around the place like a nut job the whole time we were there...
Anyhow, I was surprised I got as much into the car as I did. And I came home to a house that had been lived in for almost 4 weeks by a ... father and his 6 year old son... yippee for me!
So I sent today doing laundry and cleaning, then tonight we went to the on-post tree lighting, where David's cub scouts handed out programs, then we came home and did our own tree and decorations...
Here's a few pics of before I left. Monday Isaac said we should go to the zoo, and since we didn't have too much else to be done, we did!
Sammy spent the whole time at the zoo leaning forward in the stroller like, "Dude, what is That!?!"
Went out to the gravesite Wednesday morning before I left. I was thrilled to see that the flowers we had stuck in the ground were still poking up. The heads of the roses were dropping though so I pulled the petals off and sprinkled them around. AND I was super thrilled to see that her wildflowers seed had already sprouted!!!! :D
The tree lighting... the one is of Nathan and the boys in line for Santa... I love what Sammy is doing. It sums him up so perfectly... little stinker. He ran around the place like a nut job the whole time we were there...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Have I mentioned that this week has SUCKED????
Oh, wait... I'm sure I have.
Yeah, so today I finished packing almost everything into the car, ready to go as soon as I can. I don't know. I am just anxious to get home. I am anxious to be at my house, with my family, with my own bed, and my kids' own beds, and get ready for christmas, and get out of this apartment, and get things done. I'm not a patient person. I've never claimed to be one.
But I've had two EXTREMELY frustrating events happen in the last 2 weeks (one of course doesn't even come CLOSE to the other, but it's still very heartbreaking nonetheless). Mom, and my silly ring. I am so frustrated about the ring!!!! I have no CLUE where it could be, I've scoured everything. Looked everywhere. And I'm going back over to my friends' house tomorrow to look again. And today I tried to order minutes for my phone online. I did, they took my money just fine, but the dang minutes wouldn't show up on my phone so I called and of course the guy's an IDIOT and my minutes run out cause he's screwing around and then I have no way of taking care of it cause my phone is DEAD!!!! So I call Nathan from a payphone and tell him to take care of it and he can't till I can talk to him but I can't freakin talk to him cause I have no phone!!! So I get on I-chat (thank goodness for I-chat) and he calls the idiots and we finally get that taken care of, but I was waiting for the stupid laser engraver to tell me the headstone was done, but he never called, so I called him and he said THURSDAY!!!!! WTH happened to Tuesday?!?!?!?!?! So now do I stay or do I go!?!?!? I want to go home so bad. I want to go home!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not that I don't have friends here or that I want to put this behind me that quickly... I just need to go home. *cries* I want to go home! *stomps foot and pouts* Damn them for making me miss out on seeing her headstone, oh I know, if I wanted to bad enough I'd stick around... right? Guilt guilt guilt...
And I know there's still things I need to do. I hate leaving things undone, but some I can't even do till I get teh death cert in the mail, and it goes to AL. UUURGH. I still have several things I have to go do in the a.m. before I can leave. I'm just ... I really wanted to have the headstone done before I left.
Am I a bad daughter for not sticking around to see it done?
Probably.
Yeah, so today I finished packing almost everything into the car, ready to go as soon as I can. I don't know. I am just anxious to get home. I am anxious to be at my house, with my family, with my own bed, and my kids' own beds, and get ready for christmas, and get out of this apartment, and get things done. I'm not a patient person. I've never claimed to be one.
But I've had two EXTREMELY frustrating events happen in the last 2 weeks (one of course doesn't even come CLOSE to the other, but it's still very heartbreaking nonetheless). Mom, and my silly ring. I am so frustrated about the ring!!!! I have no CLUE where it could be, I've scoured everything. Looked everywhere. And I'm going back over to my friends' house tomorrow to look again. And today I tried to order minutes for my phone online. I did, they took my money just fine, but the dang minutes wouldn't show up on my phone so I called and of course the guy's an IDIOT and my minutes run out cause he's screwing around and then I have no way of taking care of it cause my phone is DEAD!!!! So I call Nathan from a payphone and tell him to take care of it and he can't till I can talk to him but I can't freakin talk to him cause I have no phone!!! So I get on I-chat (thank goodness for I-chat) and he calls the idiots and we finally get that taken care of, but I was waiting for the stupid laser engraver to tell me the headstone was done, but he never called, so I called him and he said THURSDAY!!!!! WTH happened to Tuesday?!?!?!?!?! So now do I stay or do I go!?!?!? I want to go home so bad. I want to go home!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not that I don't have friends here or that I want to put this behind me that quickly... I just need to go home. *cries* I want to go home! *stomps foot and pouts* Damn them for making me miss out on seeing her headstone, oh I know, if I wanted to bad enough I'd stick around... right? Guilt guilt guilt...
And I know there's still things I need to do. I hate leaving things undone, but some I can't even do till I get teh death cert in the mail, and it goes to AL. UUURGH. I still have several things I have to go do in the a.m. before I can leave. I'm just ... I really wanted to have the headstone done before I left.
Am I a bad daughter for not sticking around to see it done?
Probably.
Monday, December 1, 2008
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