Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!


I want to wish everyone out there a Happy Thanksgiving! This year will mark my 29th one! YIKES! Its probably not as memorable as my 1st Christmas was for my parents. But still, enjoy stuffing your face with turkey and all the trimmings!


The holidays have already began for me. I love this time of the year, but I also hate it. The 20th marked 11 years since I lost my grandpa and he died the week before Thanksgiving and it was a tough first holiday without him there. His funeral was on Monday and Thanksgiving was 3 days later.


I hate it in the sense that my parents go over-board with everything. I looked at what they have bought for my niece and its RIDICOLOUS! I think yesterday my mom got her 2 or 3 DS Nintendo games alone, I think she has 4 in total now. I am SO against her having a DS because I don't believe her reading has improved and it was a requirement. This is exactly why Gaia knows she asks for something she'll get it and then some.


I did get my brother's present yesterday. :) I know he'll like it. hehehe All I can say. ;)

As for my parents, right now they won't get a thing. I am sick of them using and abusing me (as I put it) and get nothing in return except for being yelled at and such. I am tired of it and it either has to change or......

So thats it. Have a great holiday tomorrow. :)

Monday, November 23, 2009

How many more shopping days?!


Little Caroline dressed up for the winter days and nights. ;)

33 days left until Christmas! Yikes! I dunno how many more I have to get Marci's Hanukkah gift to her. Hum....I know I hope to get the shopping done tomorrow. :)

So Thanksgiving is on Thursday and so what is going on other than stuffing my face, I dunno. :) I do know I am probably going to stay the night on Wednesday so I don't have to get up at the butt crack of dawn on Thursday to go back to Charlotte. Arg! When the hell will we ever eat at home?


Friday I am planning to go paint pottery and take full advantage of the 15-40% off they are offering on each thing you do. I already have a 15% thingy to use, but I plan to do something for some one for Christmas. I dunno yet. :) I can't find anyone to go with me, so it looks like it will be a trip alone sort of deal. :(


So that's it. I am off here. Congrats Marci on completing your marathon!

Monday, November 16, 2009

MIA....Sorry!


Its November and pretty soon all of us who celebrate Christmas will be putting up these things.

I love but hate this time of the year. I hate how still in North Carolina the weather is 60's and sometimes 70's, when it should be getting colder. We did have a cold spell last week, but it was raining and we had a HURRICANE along with the back end of a NOREASTER! Ok! This would've been great if it had snowed, cause we got 6 inches of rain, that equals how much snow????? I WOULD HAVE LOVED IT!!!!!!!

I have started the process of getting stuff together for gifts for people. I made 2 blankets for 2 people. I swear at the moment, the animals will be the easiest ones to shop for and even that list has grown....Sadie, Ko-Ko, Angel, Tilly, Violet....etc! Cats and dogs!

So this year I have made the little gift tags for my mom and some other people. I was planning to make them anyway, but at Project Linus 2 weeks ago, we were making them and I was shown how to do them and cut the paper myself. :) I was excited when I got home and started working on it. I have probably made about 100, and now making the ones for my gifts.


As for my Christmas cards, they are still in boxes still waiting to be completed. Ugh! I do a card exchange on a message board and never know how many I will need to do and its just MAKING them that becomes a chore this time of the year. Especially when I bought them back last month! LOL


So anyways thats it for now. Marci I found the perfect Hanukkah card for you! :) So thats it. Looking forward to Thanksgiving next week. Yum! TURKEY! GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Groundbreaking Ceremony in Shanksville....


The official groundbreaking ceremony was held today in Shanksville for the Flight 93 National Memorial. This is for the permanent memorial this is set to be opened by September 11, 2011.

These 40 passengers and crew took their destiny's into their own hands and decided to stand up and fight back against the 4 men who had plans to fly the plane into the US Capitol. Unlike the other flights, they had enough time to do something, and they were aware of what was going on and knew what fate what coming. They tempted fate with their actions and they knew chances were they wouldn't survived, but they fought until the end when their plane crashed into a field outside of Pittsburgh. 20 minutes flying time from Washington DC.

All our lives were changed by the attacks of 9/11. For me, it didn't help with my fear of flying. But if I didn't get back on an airplane after the attacks, I know the hijacker's would've won. But God forbid if anyone (including me) is in this situation again, I would hope I would have the same courage they had on 9/11.

Thank you, Jason, LeeRoy, Lorraine, Sandy, Wanda, CeeCee, Debbie, Christian, Todd, Alan, Mark, Deora, Marion, Tom, William, Georgine, Patricia, Joseph, Patrick, Ed, Jane, Colleen, Andy, Jeremy, Lauren, Donald, Linda, Richard, Toshiya, Hilda, Waleska, Nicole, Louis, Donald, Jane, Mark, Christine, John, Honor Elizabeth & Kristin.