Kyle got a deer!

Kyle got a deer 2 days ago! Yee ha   deer meat!

Job

Well, I reckon most of y'all know or soon will that I lost my job the Friday before Christmas. I was 'adminstratively removed' for having to be off longer than 14 days for the back injury, which they said is their policy since I'd been there under six months.Whatever.

I'm trying to look on this as a blessing in disguise in the long run.

Dec.26,2005

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

We had a nice one, I guess the funniest gift I've seen so far is Kyle got a shirt from his stepsister that had a picture of a tricycle, and it said "Chicks dig my ride". We just fell down laughing when he showed it to us last night.

I got a VCR/DVD combo player, and the first three Harry Potter movies. Since Tony had never read the books(read?what's that?lol)I convinced him to watch the first movie, and we ended up through the rest of Christmas watching the other two after that,so he's hooked now(on the movies, not the books:)

Am currently having car trouble, Tony is in the process of trying to fix that. Lynn let me borrow her car the day before Christmas Eve and the morning of Christmas Eve. The most fun I had this Christmas (besides Christmas day) was picking up April Friday night from her 'progressive dinner' and she and Kyle and I went shopping at WalMart at midnight together to finish up buying Christmas.No crowds:) and it was nice hanging out with two of my kids.

Of course, since it was after midnight when we finished.....as soon as we got in the car to come home they both started arguing their case that because it was technically Christmas eve, they wanted to open one gift as soon as we got home!(we have a tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve.)So yes, Mom gave in and said it was OK:)

One of the best gifts I got was a phone call from my brother in Hong Kong, we talked quite awhile. also talked to Mom and Tracy. Dustin stopped by for several hours on Christmas day, which was a nice surprise.

Now as we head into the New Year, we are all hanging in there with Tracy and Adam as they await the word to receive their daughter from China....can't wait to see the newest family member! You can keep up by visiting A Red Thread to China.

Pictures

Sorry   got rid of the pics....didn't realize they weren't private on here,but were creating a 'journal album'....some of those soldier pics were not mine to post, on the yahoo 360 blog the pics only post to the blog and they can only be viewed by the family and friends I give access to the blog.

Dec.21,2005

This is one of my epals, getting a meritorious promotion.

My back is slowly getting better. I hate being less than 100%!

Am waiting on one last gift to be delivered from my online shopping...of course, it's the one I'm most excited about giving! As for the calendars....WalMart told me last Saturday (17)that Fuji was just starting to process calendar orders from Dec.FIRST....yee ha, this might end up being a 2007 calendar!!

April has an assignment to film a movie over the holidays...she adapted that short story I wrote 100 years ago when I was 15, it's for her movie class....I think she did not realize when she took the class she'd have to end up directing and filming a movie! Because of the snowdays, I'm just irked that it got delayed till something to do over the holidays.

Christmas is coming! Besides the 'goose getting fat', I'm not getting any thinner,lol.

Tonight is the Christmas play for Sunday school....Ken and Bryan are in it, and April is singing with the other middle schoolers. Guess we're taking Britney with us, Teresa is at her second job this evening and had asked me to keep Brit till she got back. Monday night was the handbell/choral concert...Britney ended up going to that with us also, and Kyle and Morgan went. It was VERY pretty, I just love listening to the handbells!

Am impressed with how dedicated April is to handbells...she's also joined the handbell choir at church. Kyle gave her his old guitar for Christmas, am thinking after watching her Monday that lessons will be a possible birthday gift...am sure she would practice.

Well, I need to go start supper, as people will be coming and going and eating in shifts.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Nugget Washer

Ok my new name will have to be 'nugget washer'....yesterday I was making homemade chicken nuggets to fry up in the deep fryer, and as I went to put the basket with the uncooked nuggets into the hot oil.....the handle came off and dumped them all in my soapy dishwater!

It was one of those things that I said 'this will probably be more funny TOMORROW than it is right now!"

After which I rinsed all the darn pieces of chicken off & started back over with rolling them in flour,etc. for cooking.I think I might need to join that Dorks R Us group after all:)

Dec.15,2005

Playing with pictures again. I have been up since 2:30.....this back thing stinks. between the muscle relaxant and pain meds, I am finally feeling a little better and it is almost 7:30. April is happy,school was cancelled due to an ice storm supposed to be coming. I don't see it doing anything yet.

Tony came in here last night, closer to work for if it had started...he is gone to work since nothing had started, but said his boss had told them if the sleet/rain starts they will pack it in and head back home.

Kyle cracked me up yesterday, he was watching the tree rotate and asked 'is there any way we can speed that thing up?' I guess we both got a mental image of it whirling furiously and flinging ornaments off, coz we both fell down laughing.