It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas?

(I will do a Halloween post soon, I promise!)




I know that these are somewhat dismal times in a lot of ways considering the economy and the war and people like the thought of the most wonderful time of the year. ESPECIALLY for retailers, and boy do they have to get going early. I shouldn't be stressing about Christmas presents before Thanksgiving, but I am! And advertisements are telling me I ought to be!

I mean, I love Christmas as much as the next guy and have been known to watch a Christmas movie in July. But that is my choice. But with some radio stations playing Christmas music and the bombardment of advertisers, it is hard to avoid, even for me, who barely watches TV and hardly listens to the radio.

And then we wonder why we feel such a letdown come January. So much build up for just a day. (Hmm, sort of reminds me of our election!) If only it were just a little less stressful a more enjoyable. Simple and special. It makes Thanksgiving feel like just a warm up to Christmas.

One of my favorite movies is "About A Boy" and there is a moment where Will is at the market and he hears the Christmas song his father wrote. "November the sodding nineteenth they were playing it..." Of course, I love that because that is my birthday! Growing up, I never thought about Christmas until it was actually December. We had a little tradition of putting up some decorations on the first. Three or four weeks of Christmas is plenty. Enough to enjoy, not so much that you are exhausted with the idea by the time December 25th comes around.

So, that will be my mantra. No Christmas until December. Yes, I will be shopping, but there will be no carols and no decorations until then

Viva la revolucion de Navidad!

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He Won!

Well, I am excited and happy! Obama won! Woohoo! I am so thrilled by all of the people who went out to make their voice heard.

Plus, just about every other thing on the ballot went the way I voted. It is awesome!

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One day more!

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Ron Howard has a message for you...

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

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Bun In The Oven...

Guess What?













I am not pregnant!

That's not exactly surprising but the thought does make me happy. But, there are pregnant women everywhere. Three women who frequent playgroup all happen to be pregnant and due in the spring. This is a little scary for me, because pregnancy always seems to be contagious. Thankfully, non of my sisters or sisters in law happen to be pregnant. That would certainly be the kiss of death for my pregnancy free desires. I just can't seem to be pregnant on my own. So, I'll cross my fingers and keep my distance. Perhaps I'll take the pregnancy wave after next. Or the one after that. Maybe 12-18 months from now. Having two in close succession and one as attached as can be has taught me that there is only so much I can handle. Me being Fertile Myrtle, I guess we'll see how well that plan goes!

Maybe I'll have to wear that costume when the time comes, or have Nate wear this:


How ridiculous can these costumes be?

To all those pregger ladies, have a wonderful next several months. I will happily and gratefully watch from the side!

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I have a confession....

I know, it's ben almost a month since I have done a blog post! I very nearly did several times! Haha...





My confession is: I love The Wiggles!

My sister's kids used to watch the videos and I didn't mind them too much. But, a couple weeks ago, my mom bought a couple DVDs for the girls and we have watched them and watched them and watched them. One is of a live show that the did and they are so funny teasing each other and just being silly.

Here's a video of my favorite song:


I even googled them and read about them on Wikipedia. Three of the original four met in school while studying early childhood education and for a project, they thought they could make a rock band for kids. They enlisted a friend of Anthony's (the blue guy) that was in a band with him in the 80s and together they became The Wiggles. That guy, Jeff (in purple) is Cecily's favorite. She says he is a "silly boy." Their songs are super catchy and it is not mind numbing to watch like some other kid stuff.

I am really into it, I guess! It doesn't hurt that I have had a longtime crush on Anthony. Who says you can't get eye candy watching kids programming?

The kids like it too, it's not just me, really!



There's my dignity, enjoy it!

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Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Well, maybe just bears, or rather just one bear really. I was meaning to post about this earlier, but me being me, I forgot. Anywho, last weekend, the dogs were just going nuts and barking all night long. Come to find out, there was a BEAR in the neighbor's yard. I have never even heard of a bar coming all the way down here. It is likely that the poor thing was looking for water because it has been so dry lately. It hung out for a couple days under the neighbor's deck and even went into the crawlspace under their house. You'll have to excuse the lack of clarity, I did take the picture through a knothole through the fence. Yes, I am a nerd.

You check out some more pictures here.

It's been kind of a crazy year for bears here.

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