When I was little, I would attend Halloween parties with my family and go trick-or-treating with my brothers.  We also had school parties, and sometimes costume parades.  To me, Halloween was about costumes, trick-or-treating, candies, and haunted things.  As I grew older, I also carved jack-o-lanterns, and my family started putting up Halloween ( Read more... )

I recently found some Prince of Tennis Chinese zodiac cards on the internet.  Unfortunately, in the images, the cards were crooked, and had parts of their borders cut off.  I have edited them to straighten them out and give them better borders.  Since it's almost Chinese New Year, I decided to share them, and you are free to download.

( The Chinese zodiac cards )

I helped decorate the 2010 rose parade float for the City of Anaheim at the Rose Pavillion on Saturday, December 19, 2009.  For that day and the previous weeks, they were working on the dry decorations.  The flowers will have to wait until after Christmas, when I will be unable to go help.  In the morning and early afternoon, I was cutting straw ( Read more... )

Since the holiday season of 2003, I've been hearing The Christmas Shoes by NewSong playing on the radio at times every year. Due to the song being slow and not bangy, most of the lyrics are easy to make out.

( The song and story )

For the past few years, I haven't really been hoping to find anything for me under my tree, because one of my quotes is, "What I really want, money can't buy."  Whenever friends and family ask me, "What do you want for your birthday?" or "What do you want for Christmas?" I that would usually be my answer.

Dollars and coins can provide almost only ( Read more... )