1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate, extra chocolate please.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? When i was young it was both. Santa hasn't come to my house for years 8-(

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Tree is colored lights. I don't do house lights since we live way back in the trees where no one would see them anyway

4. Do you hang mistletoe? Nah, I don't need that stuff to get kissed 8-)

5. When do you put your decorations up? Weekend of Thanksgiving.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Spritz Cookies. I remember Mormor (Swedish for maternal grandmother) making them and eating them dipped in chocolate pudding... mmmmmmmmmm Ja sure Jag betcha!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  Any Christmas at Grandma Ruth's house. She always had a droopy Christmas tree on this on table (which I now cherish at my house) with big glass balls and C4 lights on it with a big sparkly star on top.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? About 10 when I finally realized that Santa's handwriting was the same as my dad's.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, one on Christmas eve and the rest on Christmas afternoon after daddy got home from work at noon.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? A menagerie of collected ornaments since I was a baby. the oldest surviving one is from 1974. Mom made ornaments every year for everybody and also got us kids a new store-bought one each year. Matt and I have been buying one for ourselves ever year since we were married.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Both.  As long as I don't have to go out in it.

12. Can you ice skate? No. A broken ankle and 2 knee surgeries are definitely prohibitive.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? An old wooden desk that I still have. I'll be passing it on to my niece next Christmas, as she will be old enough to appreciate it.

14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family and Church

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cherry Crumble. I just eat the Crumble part.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Christmas Eve service at church

17. What tops your tree? Our topper is a silver wire-art star with a big crystal hanging in the middle.

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving!

19. Candy Canes: *Takes candy cane out of her mouth* What?

20. Favorite Christmas show? Muppet Christmas Carol

21. Saddest Christmas Song? There's a SAD Christmas Song?

22. What is your favorite Christmas song? "What Child is This"

it's about PUPPY!!



meet Freya, anneebrat's German Shepherd puppy.

http://fragbert.livejournal.com/442522.html

says it all... blessings on my f-list!

fast and furious celtic.

A bit of news I have today
A bakeless bake sale is on the way
These busy times, now who could bake
Pies or cookies or even a cake?

You'd be surprised if you counted the cost
Of materials, heat and time you've lost
Cooking for a sale is extra work
Yet nobody really wishes to shirk.

So I've thought of a plan that grand
And felt quite a few of you would understand
Click this link and donate the price
Of a pie or a cake or something nice.

Without fuss or bother, you've done your part
I'm sure you'll give with a willing heart
This is the end of my little tale
Wishing success for a Relay bakeless bake sale!

life is cruising along at the mediocre setting, so no reason to post about boring stuff. until today.

today, i turned forty. what is the big flipping deal? i still feel the same. i still refuse to act my age. and thankfully, i still don't look it.

anyway. we had a little birthday party at the local mexican restaurant . i have been mildy suspicious, because hubby has been all sneaky about something for the last week. (i was hoping for new kitchen cabinets) but daddy comes walking in with this box that definately was not cabinets (well, like we could wrap those anyway) and when i saw it, i realized how utterly cool my hubby is, either that, or he's been watching ace of cakes a wee bit much.

here is my birthday cake:




this is the HAVOC vehicle from gi joe (for those who are not well versed in 80's cartoons) & cross-country is the driver. i LOVE cross-country... matt refers to him as his "competition"

if you want to see more pics and the construction thereof, go here : s33.photobucket.com/albums/d88/Serpymatt/HAVOC%20Cake/

this, plus the raphael (YES. the teenage muntant turtle) cake that i knew about- who could ask for anything more. (well, i did get the ultimate star wars trivia book too)

Would all of my lovely friends on the list in the midwest and east coast PLEASE TAKE YOUR SNOW BACK!!!!

Thank you.

not this month.

i've been on a freaking roller coaster. yesterday was rock bottom after losing bert kitty- today sky high when i went to the dr's for a check to make sure i ovulated.

uh, hell yeah. dr. m (who reminds me a lot of mr. bean, btw)found that not only did the dominate egg pop from the left, but 1 possibly 2 others from the right side went as well. which means, no matter which way they go, matt's troops should hit *something* (and if 20 million troopers can't hit a target, then how on earth does this human species keep having babies?!?!?)

so. what does that mean? i could end up with triplets. or not.

have a blood test friday, and then the preggers test on 11/15/08. the official one. you think i'm not going to be peeing on a stick next week?? psh.

we lost bert this morning. he had a embolism, nobody saw it coming... daddy said he was sleeping on his lap, got up, and went to the porch to do his business or a get a bite of food. he heard a thud and when he got out to the porch, bert was dragging himself towards the door. mom scooped him up and ran for the vet's but there was nothing we could do and mom had to put him down.

i couldn't get there fast enough.

i managed to stay at work a few more hours and get critical stuff done, then went to pick his body so we could bury him out back. i buried him up under the pine tree, near abbigale. there's lots of ferns and wildflowers that grow back there.

this, in a word, sucks.