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Lissa tell the bride that in order to make sure she has a dress you are buying a big ol’ piece of white canvas and cutting a hole in the middle of it for her head. Then you’ll slip it over her head and gather it all up so it looks like a dress. Tell her you decided “tent” was the size that fits her best. I mean if she’s gonna wait til the last minute she gets what she deserves, right? Or is that just mean.

donkeybear go tell Santa that you want an iron for Christmas.

Ok, I’m off in just a bit to go sell some “Official City of Albany” Christmas ornaments. Let’s see if anybody will buy the butt ugly things. Also, one of the local high schools is playing for the state championship tonight and there’s a Christmas parade in downtown Albeeny. All in all it should make it hell to get to the civic center to hawk the ornaments (at the “Mistletoe Market”) and hell getting out of there to come back home.

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Thirteen pieces glazed. Go me! I managed to find all of my fired pieces, which pleased me greatly. I tried to make good color choices, but it’s not my strong suit. The last 2 pieces - a bowl and a squatty cylinder thing - went into the licorice glaze. We didn’t have that option last time, so I’m looking forward to what black glaze will look like.

I was talking to one of my classmates who just had a studio built in a shed in her yard. She may be selling her old kiln, so I may be buying it. Then my sweetie can make me a wheel and I can buy clay and glaze and whatever other stuff I’ll need to have my own studio. How cool is that?

I also loaded the dishwasher this morning and ran it, and I’ve got a load of jeans in the washer right now. Before the day is over, we’ll get our tree and ornaments out of the attic - I’ll do some decorating tomorrow while **FCD ** is headed to Vandenburg AFB for a few days. I may even get inspired and dust! :eek:

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The butt ugly Christmas ornament. Just thought I’d share.

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Well, it’s for a good cause. But damn, that’s ugly…

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79° here in sunny Houston. I just threw a rack of babybacks on the grill and started the taters (not our taters) boiling for tater salad. Sweet corn is ready to go, too.

Just another December day. :smiley:

(I truly am sorry for you guys freezin’ your hinies off.)

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But on the debit side of that, you live in TEXAS! :stuck_out_tongue:

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** Lissla**, what you need for your bride is duct tape, you can either make her dress out of duct tape, or place a strip of it across her mouth so she stops eating for a few days. It’s just nerves anyway you know.

FCM, tell FCD he should go visit Solvang while he’s at Vandenberg. He’d probably ge a kick out of it.
And a kiln would be way cool. Go you!

That’s very nice of you to sell those ornaments Swampy, and they ain’t that ugly iffen they’re for Easter Seals.

Yay! Welby’s back. Now if Ex would just come back…

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The snow is just starting to melt off, but it’s still damn cold out there.

I got up this morning, had some coffee, read the paper, and then Mr. Taters and I took off with a friend to go get our Christmas tree. A friend of our friend owns a Christmas tree farm, so we went out there and picked a tree out. We even got a bit of a discount from the owner because we’re friends of his friends.

We didn’t just buy the tree though. We also bought a tree ornament and a decoration. The decoration is one of those little old-fashiony village buildings, but it’s all lit up on the inside when you plug it in. It’s a village inn. I’ve got the little building sitting in my fireplace niche and now I’ll have to pull out the rest of the decorations to put up there. We picked out an eight foot Grand Fir for our Christmas tree. I just love the way those trees smell and the needles are a nice, deep glossy green.

On the way home from the tree farm, we stopped at a little BBQ place for lunch. I had the brisket, some awesome baked beans, and fries. The hubby had a platter with chicken and pulled pork, along with the beans and fries. Our friend had the pulled pork BBQ sammich. To keep in the spirit of things I drank some sweet iced tea. It was okay, but it wasn’t nearly as good as the sweet tea I had when I went to a BBQ place in San Antonio.

Tomorrow I need to buy some of that fluffy fake snow stuff from the craft shop. I think I’ll also head to another store to pick up some more tree ornaments. I like to buy ornaments. I buy a few every year, but never get a boxed set. I pick out individual ornaments. I also like to buy old-fashioned Santa Clauses. No, that’s not quite right, more like St. Nicholas style. My nephew threatens to steal them every year. I don’t really have many, just three or four, but two are pretty big. I have some St. Nick ornaments for the tree as well. I actually have quite a mish-mash of ornaments; everything from birdhouses and real-looking birds, little snow globes glitter in them, little wooden ornaments, victorian looking ornaments, pinecones, ceramic ornaments, angels, just a little of everything. Somehow it all comes together and looks like it belongs together. I don’t do tree tinsel though. Just the lights and the ornaments.

Goodness, I’ve blathered on and on. I guess I better start pulling the rest of my Christmas decorations out.

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It’s been a decent day here. Went out in the afternoon to get some stuff at the craft shop (A.C. Moore). Mad. House. Unbelievable…there was barely room to move! I got supervenusfreak’s mom some beading elastic and a few bags of beads (including Christmasy stuff…red and green and silver and gold) and got myself five skeins of Patons Classic Merino in the dark grey to knit myself a good hat and scarf this year.

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I’m finishing up laundry so FCD can pack for his trip tomorrow. We got the tree and ornaments out of the attic, so tomorrow I’ll spend some quality time decorating. Just me and my doggie. I also plan to make a big pot of veggie-beef soup. And I’ll probably dust and run the vacuum. Oh yeah, when the spousal unit leaves town, I go crazy, I tell ya!

We’re staying up late tonight so he can get his boarding pass at midnight. They we’re getting up at 4:45 so he can get to the airport in time for his 9AM flight. We’re about 90 minutes from the airport and he’ll have to park and catch a shuttle, so he’ll be out of here before 5:30. I doubt that I’ll go back to sleep, so tomorrow’s gonna be a long day.

It’s supposed to be rainy and cold tonight, continuing into tomorrow, and chance of snow on Monday. Winter is not my favorite time of year. But I’ve got a nice pile of firewood and I’m not afraid to use it!

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Ellen, can you send me your e-mail addy?

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I like the tent idea.

Anyone want to volunteer to make the damn dress for me?

::crickets::

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It’s not yet 6 on Sunday morning. I’m up. My sweetie is on his way to BWI in the rain. Bernie and I are watching *Down Periscope * on HBO. Well, actually, Bernie is sleeping at my feet. I had intended on going back to bed - I even left the electric blanket on, but once I start walking, I’m done for. Except I may go back to bed anyway - I haven’t decided.

Weather channel says 2-4 inches of snow possible by tomorrow. Oh boy…

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FCD just called from the airport. Apparently he’s a security risk because he has metal in his body. The screeners insist the screws in his ankle and the plate and screws in his neck won’t set off the metal detector. But they did. And when they hand-scanned him, it alerted on his ankle and his neck. So they searched his luggage and confiscated his allen wrenches.

:confused:

I can see this turning into a huge pain in the neck (hah!) when he does a lot of flying. Poor baby.

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Everyone look at the time. cb lives in the Central Time Zone. He is awake.

Boo hiss Walmart.

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Good morning! Still warm and muggy here - but we’re getting a cold front finally. Only a high of 56 tomorrow. We’ve had breakfast, and Tom is prepping the remaining walls of the living room for painting. I’m doing laundry.

Yesterday I felt guilty for not helping him more and told Tom, and he said for me not to feel guilty. That he feels guilty when I’m cooking dinner and he’s relaxing! It all evens out, I guess.

I’m not feeling Christmas-y at all. We’re just gonna get a small tabletop tree like we did last year. Much less hassle. But we’ll put a wreath over the mantle. I guess next week. Then maybe I’ll feel more in the mood.

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My day so far:

  1. I’ve showered and donned real clothes. I just couldn’t spend the day in my robe.

  2. I’ve got a big pot of veggie-beef soup simmering on the stove. I smells yummy in here!

  3. Ummmmmmm Does chatting on line count as doing something?

  4. I thought about dusting. I almost walked over to the closet to get the duster. I made the soup instead.

Oh yeah - I had breakfast in there somewhere. Guess I should vacuum the living room and move the furniture so I can start setting up the tree. Ya think?

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I woke up the first time at 5:00 a.m and stayed up for 45 minutes. Then I thought, “Self, what are you doing? You can sleep a little more.” So, I did.

I’m going to drink some coffee and then get cleaned up. I need to go to Costco and then to the craft store.

When I get home I need to decorate the tree and put out the the rest of my Christmas decorations. I also need to take my chair and a half and the ottoman upstair. We had to move that to get the tree in the great room. Since the hubby bought the big TV and it now sits on a stand on the floor I lost Christmas tree real estate. The tree is big and rather full. It smells really nice in the house, though.

Decorating the tree is going to take me hours, it always does. I’m so picky about where the decorations hang. Before I can even hang the decorations, though, I need to put the lights up. Because the tree is so tall, I’m going to need to use our three step stool to hang them.

The snow still hasn’t melted completely, plus it’s frosty and icy out. It’s past nine and my newspaper still isn’t here. I just doesn’t feel like a Sunday morning w/out getting to read my paper and drink my coffee.

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I’ve been less dedicated than I’d hoped (this is different exactly how?), but I have accomplished a couple of things:
Saw some borrowed movies:
Raising Helen - I’ve seen this before; used it as background noise while putting a few things away.
A&E’s Clarissa - depressing and long (4-part miniseries); don’t bother.
The Terminal - OK, but it felt like an American re-make of a European movie
Seducing Dr. Lewis - French-Canadian film about a run-down town that needs to have a doctor in order to attract a factory - I liked this one a lot.
And this morning I’ve already been to church and gone to the grocery.

I’m about to go out and buy my last gifts for my mom and go take some pictures so that I can get some prints made up for her. That way I can try to send her Christmas package early next week, after the cookie party I’m going to next weekend.

I’ve got a whole long list of things I’d like to do this afternoon, including laundry and further housecleaning, getting a replacement for the page-up key on my iBook - it keeps coming off and appears to have one little broken piece that keeps it from sticking right - I’m hoping I can get it replaced where I bought it since it’s less than a month old and they repair stuff.

I suppose that’s enough goofing off for now…

I’m going to get stuff done today. Really. I’m serious. (Why am I hearing guffaws in the background???)

GT

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You’re hearing guffaws (at least from me) because I alway have these grand plans for getting stuff done, and I rarely get EVERYTHING done on the list.

For instance, besides all the stuff I mentioned in my post above, I really need to vacuum, dust and wash the floor. Of those three, the vacuuming will probably get done because of the fir needles that were dragged in with the Christmas tree.

Also, it’s just past 9:30 here and I have yet to get ready to head out to do the errands mentioned in my earlier post. Traffic is going to suck when I finally get out at say, oh, noonish. I should be ready to go now, but I let myself sleep too long.