What I really want this Christmas...Weekend Assignment #89

Weekend Assignment #89: Money is no object: What do you really want for Christmas/Hanukkah/The Seasonal Celebration of Your Choice? Shoot for the moon, here folks. Share the thing you'd want to get if everyone you knew was a billionaire and wanted to spend money on you. One caveat: Don't ask to get celebrities of other people for the purposes of, well, you know. We're trying to keep things PG around here. Also: wishing for world peace is all very nice, but come on. Treat yourself.

I don't know what it is, but I would really like to own a jaguar.  Each time I see one on the road, I just breathe a heavy sigh and smile.  I know it is really an unpratical gift for someone like myself---I mean, where would I put the kids?  I would have to drive it like ALONE!  Hmm....it's getting to sound better and better already... ha ha ha..

Extra Credit: Seriously, what would you do if someone got you that thing?

Seriously, I'd probably pee my pants.  After driving it for a few days, the pratical person inside of me would probably have it driven to the nearest luxury car dealership and trade it in, and use the money to buy a pool with a hot tub, diapers, and money for college.  Damn, I could even quit my job...

Card Givin'/Package Shippin'

Well, I did it!  I finally made a dent in my gift giving and card sending! 

I have mailed all my cards!  I've even sent my cards to my ex-inlaws, and relatives in Portugal.  This is a grand feat.  You see, I don't simply just sign my cards, I actually WRITE a small message in all of my cards.  True, I didn't go to bed until way past 12:30 am, but it had to be done!  I ususally don't get as many cards as I send out--but that is okay.  Christmas isn't Christmas for me if I don't send cards; and I know it's appreciated.  Apparently, everyone is just so busy, and personally written cards are a thing of the past, so I make it a point to do it.  When I get a card, I don't throw them away.  Nope--never do.  I save them.  They come in handy, and it's a cheap and easy way to decorate the house..  Relatives come over and point to them, and they say, didn't I send you that card, like 10 years ago?!   

This year I've also decided to send a few packages to cousins overseas.  I usually don't do this, but the idea was sparked by my cousin, the fireman--"Coelho".  During one of our phone conversations, he mentioned how he shops at EBay quite often, and that he was in desperate search for his favorite candy, Sugar Daddy's.  I know, Sugar Daddy's--who on Earth still eats those?  The last time I had a Sugar Daddy, I was like, 11 and I was at the drive-in.  I'll never forget it because  I lost one of my back molars from eating that darn thing.  Well, I see those darn things almost everyday when I go to Longs, so I told him I'd buy him a box.  I couldn't deprive my cousin from his Sugar Daddys.  It just snow balled after that...  I went a little crazy--and bought a few things for his daughter, some clothes I never wear for his wife, a few more things for his two nieces...., and then I remembered my other cousin and how I wanted to send her kids a few things...etc...  Eeek..  I know, but I haven't seen them for a long time, and I usually never do this, so what the hey, it's Christmas!!!

I have another package to send to my ex-husband (how thrilling for me) from the kids, and then I'm done with the post office department at Longs.  These people over there must think I own stock at the place.  It's almost embarrassing how many times I go into thatstore each week. 

NOW, I have to start decorating the house, and finishing the shopping for my kids, hubby and mom.  My youngest is done because he is only 2 and he likes whatever I buy.  The other three on the other hand is so hard--it's like pulling teeth...they don't know what they want.  Kids when they get older are so hard to shop for.  It's kind of sad.  Yesterday I bought a blender for my nephew.  He just moved out, and he wants one.  A blender?!  It seems like yesterday he wanted toys..this is really depressing.  Maybe that is why I went a little overboard with my cousins' kids---I have a need to shop for toys!  Can everyone please just stop growing up!!!???!!!

 

My So. Park Family

 What have I been doing for the last two hours?! 

Check out http://spstudio.elena.hosting-friends.de/spstudio.html and create your own South Park family!! 

I don't watch South Park, and I turn the T.V. off whenever my kids happen to watch it, but this was pretty fun!

'Tis the Season...

'Tis the season to find oneself in aisles and aisles of different department stores, scurring about and wondering what to buy...  Am I the only person out there that is going crazy? 

I have so many things to do.  I have cards to send, I have presents to wrap, I have a tree to decorate, and halls to deck, and a Christmas Eve dinner to plan..  Costco, here I come!!! 

Challenge:  How to do this with a 2 year old, 3 other children and a sometimes grumpy hubby who is trying to quit smoking...  Eeek.... Poor guy.  Smoking is BAD---please don't even think about starting.   Bah Humbug....  :)  Well, at least we are recovering from our very bad colds we got hit with last week. 

Christmas isn't suppossed to be so stressful.  As I look at the yards of many of my neighbors who have already decked out their front lawns and homes (yes, I am a little envious that these people have NO LIVES) with Christmas lights, and plastic snowmen, santas, reindeer, oversized Christmas snowing globes....etc... Did Santa just throw up? 

 I'm wondering to myself--what is this anyway?  Have we all went a little over-board with this?  It doesn't snow in San Jose, California!  What is this with the artificial snowmen?!  Did it even snow in Jerusalem?  I don't think so.  Is there room at the inn for someone whom we may have forgotten AGAIN this year?  Just a thought. 

I'm looking forward in decorating for this holiday, but, God please don't let me get caught in the Christmas vaccuum of overboard shopping and useless tinsel! 

 

 

Decorate To Donate

                                             

Hey, I'm decorating so I can get Teresa out there to donate more of her money to Toys for Tots!  Every quarter counts, so go out and decorate for a good cause!!  I haven't even started decorating my home yet.  Thanks Teresa for getting me started!!  This is a very cute idea by the way. 

To be part of the cause, decorate and leave your link at Teeisme57's blog: 

                 http://journals.aol.com/teeisme57/OhMyWord/entries/1632

 

 

Politically Correct Stupidness

Okay, I just read on AOL, that our government is contemplating on re-naming the Christmas tree, the holiday tree?!  What the crap does that mean?! 

Okay, this is gone too far.  It's a Christmas tree, okay?  If you don't like it, don't get one! 

Good New Days

The Blogfather, John Scalzi writes:  "Taking a page off my long ramble about technology yesterday, a Weekend Assignment to make you glad you're alive right this moment:

Weekend Assignment #88: Talk about something people have today that you wished you had when you were a kid.  

Julie answers:    Gee..  There are just so MANY things my kids have now, that I would have LOVED to have when I was their age.  I would have to say however that I would have KILLED for my own computer!    When I was a kid, I had very sore fingers, mainly because I wrote a lot.  Writing was my escape from the every day, boring school days of my childhood.  I would write stories and distribute them to my friends.  I also even had a Potato Man Newsletter I used to write.  (Okay, you can say I was the geeky girl at school.  Think of that old show "Square Pegs"...that was me--I LOVED that show.)            

                                                             

 I would usually use ink and binder paper to write my stories, and sometimes I even used to use my brother's ole' manual (yes, manual) typewriter.  Ironically enough, it was a Brother Typewriter.  I cannot tell you how many times I would have to go to the library or the copy shop to make copies of what I typed.  Imagine how easy it would have been to have been able to type my little stories, and print them all at home!  Aww..those were those lovely awkard nerdy days of my youth... I can only dream of all the creative things I could have done back then with a computer and Google!   

                                 

 Extra Credit: Rocket or Robot Butler?   Robot Butler of course!!!  I have a house full of kids-including a 2 year old!!  Although it is very tempting to escape and take off on a rocket to the moon, I really prefer living with the humans.  I'll let Tom Cruise and George Bush deal with the aliens.