Warning!!! Funny but has a few bad words.

Getting to Know the Christmas Me

I got this by email today. It's one of those things where you fill in the blanks about yourself only it's Christmas questions. I thought I might as well share these with the entire world.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Paper of course, I love love love to wrap presents. Bags are like the easy way out.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Well we have an artificial tree but I miss real ones especially the big bushy ones we had growing up. But you don’t have to water the artificial kind.
3. When do you put up the tree? This year it was November 18th. I like it up early so I can look at it all month long
4. When do you take the tree down? After New Years but this year it may have to come down earlier to make more room, it’s a really big tree.
5. Do you like egg nog? There is something morally wrong with drinking eggs
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My Monchichi and many Barbies
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes that I painted with my own two hands
8. Hardest person to buy for? Hands down my dad
9. Easiest person to buy for? Kent, I start listening for hints months ahead of time
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, who emails a Christmas card?
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I can’t think of the worst, maybe something my grandma gave me
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Story of course! You’ll shoot your eye out kid!
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not that I can think of.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Santa Claus cookies, fudge and peanut butter candy
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored, clear lacks creativity
17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh Holy Night by Josh Groban
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel, don’t even get me started on this one, I’m hoping for a snow storm
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Heck ya want to hear me? Ok, maybe later
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning and it kills me to wait that long
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Traffic!
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Theme? Huh? What kind of question is this?
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham and funeral potatoes
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? World Peace and a diamond as big as my head!

Merry Christmas, Here's Your Infection

It's that time of year. Time for caroling? No. Time for egg nog? No. Time for mistletoe? No. Time for the viral infection! As if the ear infection wasn't bad enough, Kent got a cold. Then, just as I was about to take my last antibiotic I catch Kent's cold. This morning at 5:30 I was awakened by the lovely sound of Kent throwing up in the bathroom. He seems to have caught the flu. Neither of us ever found the time to get our flu shot this year. In years past we have been able to get them at work but this year neither place was able to offer them because the health department made this rule that you have to have at least 100 people getting the shot. So this year we went without and I am really hoping I am not next. Poor Kent. He was really in bad shape. I hope this is a fast mover and he is better soon.

On the plus side, today Kent told me it is really starting to feel like Christmas! I am such a kid at Christmas. I can't wait. Last year I woke up at 6:00am and made Kent go open presents. The only difference between me then and now is that I am more excited to give the presents and see the look on other people's faces when they open what I have picked out for them. I have gotten Kent two presents that I hope will really surpise him. His mom also said she has a really good one for him too. I am so excited! I hope I make it until Christmas without caving in and making him open one.

A Great Friday Night Date

This Friday night we decided that a good date would be to go to Instacare! You see, after 2 weeks of constant headaches I couldn't take it anymore so I made Kent take me in to Instacare. I was a little afraid because I have only heard horror stories of the place, about the long long waits, and all of the strange people that go there. It really wasn't all that bad. Apparently not a lot of people have caught on to this hip date spot. There was only one person in line before me. We were in and out of there in no time at all. Turns out I had an ear infection and some really messed up sinus'. So I was given antibiotics and told to take my Flonaise and decongestants. Today I am finally starting to feel better. My head doesn't buzz anymore. Next time I don't think I will wait quite so long before giving in and going to the doctor.

A Rose By Any Other Name

So I'm sitting on the phone at work on Friday morning around 10:30 and I look up and there stands my husband with a rose. Is it my birthday? Our anniversary? No, there was absolutely no reason for him to be there. He earned some serious love points for this I tell you!


I know that all of you are sitting on pins and needles waiting to see how my Christmas Tree turned out. Well wait no more! I give you the Campbell Family Tree 2007 in all of it's 9 foot glory!



"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

Snow!

So it's here, the first snow of winter. I usually hate snow but it was a little pretty and as I sat in my office looking out the window I wondered what my house looked like in the snow and I was a little sad I wasn't there to see it.

So for those who are anxiously awaiting my Black Friday report I have some very sad news. It was a total bust! There was not one thing in all those ads that could drag my sorry butt out of bed at 3:00am (yes 3:00 because stores have decided that 4:00am is an acceptable time to start a sale). I woke up at about 7:00 and was out of the house at 7:30. I went to Michael's because they had 25% off of everything. I picked up a couple of things and moved on to other stores but didn't find one thing to spend my money on. So I missed out on all of the pushing and shoving and the heart pounding excitement as you race to find that one thing you're there for. A very sad year.

I am a huge fan of the Muppets and I just came across this on youtube and it totally cracked me up. I hadn't seen it before. So I had to share. You'll have to pause the music down at the bottom.