Don't Roll Those Eyes At Me

So I had met this person for the first time. I was engrossed in reading a pamphlet and all of a sudden she tossed something down in front of me that SHE wanted me to read and out of the corner of my eye I saw her rolling her eyes at me when I did not grab it immediately and start to read it right away as she seemed to want me to.

I know it's not nice, but I'm hoping Santa won't show up at her house this year, in fact I think I'll steal one of the wheels off his sleigh when he gets to my house so he can't go any further. What? Whadaya mean no wheels?

The thought of Christmas this year just is not appealing to me. Oh, don't get me wrong, I want to get gifts, I just don't want to go shopping for gifts. I've attempted to twice and do nothing but walk around in circles at the mall and have NO CLUE what to get anyone. Serious here.... I'm having a real problem with the entire process this year and it's making me grumpy. I've about decided just to send everyone a gift certificate and I'm not kidding.



Generally speaking I'm done and have it all wrapped by this time of the year but me not feeling the joy or the ho ho ho of it this time around.

Guess I should just stop monkeying around.

Who invented this holiday anyway?

Imagine

So it's been 14 months since starting this blog and today I ran out of storage space on the darn thing. Guess what that means. It means I'll be back in a couple of days after I purchase more photo storage space on Picasa. (Notice this posting has NO photo) Imagine a stream... no, a babbling brook with wild flowers on each side and stepping stones across and the sun is gleaming down on the face of the most handsome man you have ever seen and his short loin cloth has slipped... heh heh... never mind cuz you really WILL have to imagine since I CAN'T UPLOAD HIS PHOTO!!

LOL

See ya in a few days.

Light Music For The Holiday

The Best Of Candlelight Classics Collection by John Livingston is a CD I came across this week in a small specialty gift shop at the mall. It's not Thanksgiving music but great for filling in. I enjoy good music during family get togethers rather than the noisy TV in the background, but Hubby usually wins and gets the TV blah blah blah noise.

If your family enjoys music rather than noise you may want to give this CD a try. Great songs like Canon in D, The Homecoming, Beauty and the Beast, My Heart Will Go On, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Just a really nice sound. Just a thought.

Snuggle Up, Buttercup

Last year I mentioned a gift idea to you..... an Ibena blanket. No, I have no affiliation with anyone who sells these blanket and no on has ever given me one other than my sista. But I wanted to run these wonderful blankets past you again so here goes.

I always keep at least two of these blankets tucked away inside a hassock in our family room and we as well as house guests have always loved and used them. Yep, even during the summer months when the A/C kicks on and a chill hits your naked legs or just sun burned shoulders it can be a bit much.... especially for those of us with thin blood which has haunted me all my life. If not in the middle of a stellar, mid-life hot flash there's a pretty good chance I'm cold.


This past week-end Hubby spent an inordinate amount of time on the sofa suffering with hives and in a Benadryl induced stupor sliding in and out of a state of napsville. He grabbed a blankie and there he lay beneath it for hours and hours and.... well, you get the picture. BTW, he's feeling much better today and even zipped off to the office this morning.. YAY!!


The weather in 2009 has held nothing but rain and cold for us since last April... yes, it still continues and for this reason I'm betting it will be a VERY cold winter nuttin' but bucket load after bucket load of snow dumped upon us. I'm thinking I'm very happy to have lots of these blankets around the house for when the power goes out during one of our infamous ice storms.

They make great gifts so here's a linky poo for yooo!

Just an FYI..... these blankets, the affordable ones are becoming more difficult to find each year and the Ibena prices on the new patterns have sky-rocketed in price so if you are interested you may want to get one or two this year before all patterns are very expensive.

Oops I Missed Her

Okay, so I'm sure you all remember when Sarah visited me this summer. I was ecstatic when she shared with me her exercise routine which I picked up easily and have since gained five pounds.

Oh, I was supposed to LOSE pounds... (blushes)

You all know how I adore Sarah. (pffttt)


Anyhoo, the gorgeous Mrs. Palin, I will give her that... she IS gorgeous, well, she was in our fair city today at a book signing kick-off here in the Commonwealth of Virginia at our Barnes and Noble bookstore.

I'm really not a fan of Mrs. Palin, but I would have liked a photo of her only because her name will appear in history books as McCain's running mate, but I arrived an hour after she left. Hopefully she'll make an ass of herself run in 2012 and I'll have another photo op of her as she passes through our area.