Wednesday, December 31, 2008

~ Home Sick ~




Yucky. That is how I feel. My head hurts, my ears hurt, my eyes hurt, my face hurts, my throat is sore, I am coughing, sneezing, can't breath out of my nose, my nose feels like someone has poured acid on it from blowing it so many times. Yucky.

HAPPY NEW YEARS! FROM YUCKY OLE ME!

Friday, December 26, 2008

~ The busy-ness of Christmas ~

Tree dressed
Groceries bought
Presents bought
Food prepared
Tables set
Present stress ...
Presents wrapped
Presents opened
Living room trashed
Living room cleaned
Travel here
Travel there
Visitors yesterday
Visitors today
Visistors tomorrow
Clean the house
Clean the house
Clean the house
Prepare more food
Another get-together
Grocercies bought
Food prepared .... and it's still going on


Enough!!!!


This sure was easier when I was a kid!


A Christmas Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus,
that we may share in the song of the angels,
the gladness of the shepherds,
and worship of the wise men.

Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world. Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting. Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.

May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

~ Father Christmas ??? ~

My husband dressed up for his office Christmas party ...

Father Christmas ....


Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Sharing Christmas

I thought I would share a few of my favorite Christmas decorations and ornaments ...



















I would have shared more, but it was taking so long to upload the photos and I am so tired... going to bed now.

Happy Holidays!

Blogging Advantages

My husband has recently started reading my blog and I have found that having your husband read your blog can have good benefits ...
He started reading it about a week before Thanksgiving. I was in the kitchen and I heard the KennyG song which is the first to play on my play list, so I took a peak into the living room and sure enough there G was bent over his laptop breezing through my blog, old post and all. I thought, wow, he finally got curious and I was flattered. The next morning I am working about the house and Gary has been outside working and I finally go out looking for him and he has got his bush trimming tools out and has trimmed our wisteria waaayyy back. Suddenly it dawned on me, he had read my blog entry of October 4 where I showed our overgrown wisteria ... I had to laugh and when he asked what I was laughing about and I told him I guess you read my blog huh? He laughed too, he said I had to go get my camera so I could prove that my husband wasn't totally worthless ... we had a good laugh, but now I know how to get things done ... hmmmm this blogging has it advantages!


FROM OCTOBER:



AFTER G READ BLOG:



Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Buyers Remorse ...

So, I had decided I needed a new camera and after research, I had made the decision I wanted the Nikon D60 and I knew there would be specials offered during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Sure enough, Circuit City did not let me down. They had a great offer going, so off we went - just to look this time - just to play with the store model and to think about it again ... best laid plans and all of that! How did I wind up coming home with a Sony a350 plus the 75-300 mm zoom lens? I kept it in the bag and untouched until tonight (Wed) just letting it sit there and fester ... I could have taken it back, but I thought what the heck, I needed a new camera, I have now read the reviews for this camera; something I should have done prior to what I consider a major purchase ... but the reviews were good. So, I guess it's a keeper. So, why am I still feeling the buyers remorse??????

Speaking of major purchases, my husband finally let go of his Mitsubishi Eclipse and traded it in for a mid-size SUV - it looks and drives great. I always teased him that the Eclipse was his mid-life crises, however, he has finally gotten tired of having to hoist himself out of that low sitting vehicle and is now going to be sporting around in his new SUV. As far as mid-life crises goes, I did not mind the Eclipse at all, better a car than a woman ...

Hopefully, I will have some snappy shots to post from my new camera soon.