I'm taking a break...

I will return on January 1st. Until then, you must wait for the long awaited NYC story, my Christmas update, and many other things you cannot live without. I had the flu up until Christmas Eve, so I didn't feel like blogging. And on vacation, I really don't feel like blogging. So I'm taking a break.

See you in a week.

I'm Very, Very Late

But, I've had the flu, and there have been no decorations until yesterday, so it's all good (I think)
Also, because I have been Typhoid Mary, I ordered in refreshments from Flickr. You can thank me later.

As for me, personally, my own decorations were up the week before Thanksgiving. Here's some video of Michael and Gabri on that evening.



There's a brief mention of my lights, and other random stuff.

ROFL

I found the most awesome website today. This lady asks people to send in pictures of their neighbors extreme Christmas decorations. She has a list of violation categories. It's too funny.

Still working on the NYC post. I have had the flu (again) for the past few days.

For My Smurf-Boogery Cousin

Day in New York City

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The Husband Store

The store that sells husbands has just opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

WELCOME TO THE HUSBAND STORE!! !
You may visit the store ONLY ONCE! There are six
floors and the attributes of the men increase as the
shopper ascends the flights. There is, however, a
catch... you may choose any man from a particular
floor, or you may choose to go up one more floor, but
you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
Happy Shopping!!!!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband...
On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1: These men have jobs and love the Lord.

The second floor sign reads:

Floor 2: These men have jobs, love the Lord, and like
kids.

The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3: These men have jobs, love the Lord, love
kids and are extremely good looking.

"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads:

Floor 4: These men have jobs, love the Lord, love
kids, are drop-dead good looking and help
with the housework.

"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!" Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads:

Floor 5: These men have jobs, love the Lord, love
kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help with the
housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign
reads:

Floor 6: You are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor. There
are no men on this floor. This floor exists
solely as proof that women are impossible to
please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband
Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a nice day!

Just In Case....

Hear ye, hear ye, listen to the voice of experience!

If you feel like hurling at anytime during a given day- let's use a Cantata, just for kicks, DO NOT CONTINUE TO SAID EVENT!

If however, you MUST go, should you have to excuse yourself directly before your part for such reasons as, say, that slight rising feeling in your throat making you feel like oh-my-meatballs-I'm-gonna-spew, in said event, do not continue on to said part.

If you have still not got the picture, you should exit quickly out the side door from the church platform at a strategic break in the song in said part. This will prevent you from spewing on the pretty Memorial Poinsettias in the front of the church. I doubt that those commemorating lost loved ones would appreciate such defamation.

After you exit, it is likely that several people will follow you, and then your cousin will take you home.

Anyway....that was my eventful evening. I think the church has the online video of the Cantata up. I am not strategically exiting. This was not planned. I was going to be sick. Oh happy day.

A cause that we all should support...

Elfs!

I made an Elf-Yourself video of me and Mistie, Rachel, and Deana (3 of my best friends).

It is amazing.

Also, look at the white death!

Merry Christmas, Muffinites

This is my gift to all of you. Enjoy.

The Transitive Property of Her Muffiness

If Muffin (M) = on Cast List (L) then M=Happy(H)
H=Grand Celebration (G)

Solve for M.

M < H

(M is less than H, for those of you who, like me, have D's in Algebra)

That, my friends, is the first and last time I will compose an Algebraic blog post. It pained me to write. For more reasons than one.

Look at me!

Click here!

I'm on the news!
I'm the one in the back with the black shirt on and my hair down.

Kabloosh!

That is what my ear is saying right now, as it explodes. Owie, owie, owie. Serious sinus issues. I hate them. I could not sleep last night for the screaming pain in my ear. I repeat. Owie. Owie. OWWWWWIE!!!

Which is why I am taking a wonderful sudafed, and I already took some Ibuprofen, and am going to bed.

As for those of you wondering about the picture at left, that is my buddy, Elisha. He loves me, however, does not love having his picture taken. It took mom about 20 tries to get him to not be covering his eyes in the picture. But anyway, I love him to pieces. Even when he crawls through the seats in the middle of a Christmas program and makes me drop Aunt Sandy's camera (shhhhh...don't tell her! No harm was done!)

If you are mean to people....

2 things may happen...

This
Or this...(which is probably much worse)

Those things just struck me as funny today. I don't know why. My exploding ear is messing with my judgement.

Christmas Radio

I've been working on my English essay all morning (I FINISHED IT!) and listening to Christmas music. So here's a break down of a few Christmas songs that I just really don't get.

"Do They Know It's Christmas?"- Ok. A band called Band-Aid did this song. It's really stupid and rather illogical, honestly. They're talking about how there will be no snow in Africa this Christmas and Do they know it's Christmas at all? Actually, no, they probably don't because a majority of Africa is Muslim and if there WERE snow in Africa, they would probably flip out.

"Christmas Shoes"- De. Press. Ing. Ugh. This little boy is buying shoes for his mom who is dying. Ruins the Christmas mood. However, if you need to watch a great movie that will make you bawl like a baby, watch the movie version of it. Really great movie, with Kimberly Willaims-Paisley and Rob Lowe in it. I watched it this week. Cried like a baby.

"Santa Baby"- If you aren't Eartha Kitt, please don't remake this song. I really hate remakes in general, but there really aren't many who can pull this song off without making it sound really..err...yeah, we won't go there.

Bleh

Did I mention that I have felt like poo all week? I have been exhausted, my head has felt like Hiroshima and Nagasaki just recreated themselves with in my cranial structure, and multiple times I have felt like I am going to lose my extremely-high-quality-school lunch. Isn't that great? I came home from school yesterday and crashed at about 4, and didn't wake up until 8:45. I couldn't fall asleep until about 11:30ish and then I woke up at the normal 6 AM and wanted to crawl back into bed and die. Lucky for me, the school district put us on a two-hour delay along with the rest of the county. Unfortunately, while the rest of the county transitioned smoothly from two hour delay to closings, our school still made us go despite the (I tell no lies here) 1/2 inch layer of ice that was on my road. Not kidding. We dug it up at the bus stop and measured it. Granted, it was in the gutterish area of the road, but that's not the point. A couple of kids in my class ended up in a ditch, apparently. Oh happy day.

We did, as Carolyn pointed out, have a snow day on Wednesday. For a nothingness of snow. I mean, there were 3 inches on the ground, but no ice. The system is definitely corrupt. As is the computer in the living room. I know this because I tried to watch Grey's Anatomy this morning on ABC.com and the computer kept freezing up every 5 seconds. Thus, I have to wait until I get home to find out what happens to carotid artery dude (played by the wonderful Seth Green) until after school. Which, granted, isn't that long because of the fab-uh-luss two-hour delay schedule. But still.

Gabri

Gabrielle has become a fan of the popular Numa Numa dance. So much so, that she recreated it.

Kudos

I am the ultimate skeptic of long-term relationships. This is probably because I am bitter, because the only one I was in didn't work out. But I digress.

My best guy friend (read as- I only really have 3 guy friends and this is who I get along best with) asked a girl out this weekend. They've been batting it around and this weekend he finally did it. Her name is Kathy and she lives in Australia. Yes, people. The Land Down Under. That Australia. Talk about long-distance relationships.

But anyway, I must offer kudos to James because the way he asked her was, like, amazing. He sent her a video. (James is a media freak. James + Media = Me +Computers. He's that obsessed. Computers aren't all bad in his book either.) Which she said was beautiful.

She's coming to the US next year (she lived here for a few years back and forth in Middle School. Unfortunately, we kind of made fun of her. She's a vegan and got really upset when a teacher used a hamburger model for persuasive writing. So upset that she ran home.) She used to ride the bus with me. She's really nice.

So, kudos to James and Kathy. I really, really, really hope this works out.