Why is it that whenever a "picture worthy event" is about to take place, my body revolts ( Read more... )

I am SOOOOO glad the stupid Christmas season & new years is done and behind us. This weekend I will be packing up the same stupid decorations that I painstakingly put out only weeks ago. I really need to get a better handle on the holiday thing and get things put up at the end of November so I don't feel like I am throwing them up and pulling them ( Read more... )

Growing up this Holiday was one of my favorites. As a wee one, I had no concept of time so I relied on what was going on around me to know what season was coming. Summer break from school FELT like it was a whole year long and I Loved it. Pops would put together the "above ground" pool and clean off the grill (if you are picturing him smiling and ( Read more... )

(I was writing my friend, who is Jewish, a quick note- like I always do for the holidays- and....you know what, It would just be easier for me to cut and paste the email here rather than explaining the whole thing.)
(PS I hope I don't offend anyone, if I do, I'm sorry. Just know this is all said in good fun).
Hello There Ric "Licky ( Read more... )

To everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday yesterday....
THANK YOU!!!!You have no idea how much that cheered me up and made me feel loved! I have been feeling rather poopie lately and moping around at my empty email box thinking I had no friends. I expected to have a day off work where no one would remember I had a birthday or even notice I was ( Read more... )

Easter has never been one of my favorite holidays. As children it was always the holiday that my mum felt the need to dress us in the most frilliest and froo froo of dresses. They always made me twitch and itch at the layers of netting that protruded out of every hole. I was the type of little girl who refused to wear dresses unless I could wear ( Read more... )

I don't know if I ever told you this but one of my first jobs when I moved back home from living with "the abuser" was as one of those holiday Mall photographers. I did the first year dressed as an elf, placing screaming and pants peeing kids, on Santa's lap for a quick photo op and I did so well at it that I was invited back for Easter time. At ( Read more... )

As a kid you depend on the world to tell you what holidays were coming as you had no use for real calendars. For me the smell of Vinegar at night signafied Easter. The only time you would smell vinegar at our house was either when my mum was cleaning out the coffee pot (which would be during the day time) or when it had been warmed and poured  into ( Read more... )

We have been working feverishly trying to get our set together for Halloween (which is only 3 days away now). We got up 2 of the 3 walls and the overhead lighting, the half body on the table strapped to a chain on the ceiling, table clothes and chair coverings... it is coming together WONDERFULLY. It is bound to scare the crap out of people or at ( Read more... )

I tried to teach our cat Pike to walk today while holding her little paws up like baby arms.... she didn't like it. Go figure.

I'm a scrooge when it comes to Christmas time. On any given Christmas year I am muddling under my breath and kicking small Children. And then last year my husband gave me my "ornament" in a carved wooden box and I LOVED IT. ( Read more... )