I want a present - you!!!! Can I have you?

So I'm sitting here online bored out of my mind. Don't really have anything to blog about because I'm kinda tired of the memes & Christmas questions - I mean seriously how many times can you answer "Whats your favorite Christmas song?".

I've mentioned it a few times here that, along with this blog, I also own a forum called InsanityCafe.Have you been there? Have you joined? Why the hell not? I think you should... it's kinda dead in there of late with the holiday season going on and everything... we need some new blood to liven the place up!

And there's even an arcade that you can play! I seem to have this addiction with adding new games, so there's almost 300 games to choose from. Yeah, 300. It's sort of pathetic.

So come on... join. Talk to me. I'm bored.

You can even put a link to your blog in your signature and get a bunch of new readers !

Have you joined yet?

it's a little chilly out there....

Manic Monday - the Dec 15th version

Have you ever returned an item to a store for a refund after having used it? I know I have, but I can't think of what it was. I remember arguing that I only used it once and it broke... but for the life of me I can't think of what it was.

You are going out for the evening. If your partner objects to what you are wearing, would you change your clothing? Yeah, I would. Actually it's kinda funny - we were married outside and I hate wearing shoes in the summer so I wasn't going to wear any and the husband told me he wouldn't marry me if I didn't have shoes on. So I wore the stupid things for the ceremony and then kicked them off when we were done. Didn't understand his thinking, but whatever it took to get him to marry me.
And another story - the other day I had put on a turtleneck and a denim shirt over the top. Something I don't normally wear, but my flannel shirts were in the laundry. When he got hom from work he said "why are you all dressed up?". I told him he must think I dress like a slob if that was considered dressing up to him.

What item that you don’t currently possess would you most like to have in your home? A new tv and new kitchen cabinets.

Holiday Season

I went a little nuts today with the camera....

More Snowstorm

Won't you come out and play with me?

Hey whats that?

Lemme see if I can dig it out....

oh yeah! My stick!

Snowstorm

Come on, Chico, come play with me in the snow!

No, Saki, I don't wanna play in the snow. Go away before I bite your nose.

Fine, I'll go play by myself with this human.

Sunday Stealing: The Christmas Meme

Cheers to all us thieves!

Sunday Stealing: The Christmas Meme
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? wrapping paper. What fun is gift bags? Ripping the paper is the whole fun of it!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial. I have my parent's old tree. I'm cheap. I can't see spending $100 on a tree you only use once a year. But after Christmas I wanna try to find a white tree on clearance just to use every now and then.
3. When do you put up the tree? When I feel like it. We put the tree up last weekend. I get sick of it really quick.
4. When do you take the tree down? Usually the weekend after Christmas.... like I said, I get sick of it quick.

5. Do you like eggnog? No. The husband does though.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Any of the My Little Pony sets. I loved them! I know they are back out again, but they just aren't the same as the 80's ones.

7. Hardest person to buy for? My parents. They have everything.... well, they have everything they want because if they want it, they buy it.

8. Easiest person to buy for? Demon #2. She makes it very clear what she wants for gifts.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, but it offends some people because it's the Bearfoots nativity scene. The husband even made me a rustic looking barn thing to go with it.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail. Email is so last year.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't know if there has been a worst. Probably some sweater my parents bought me when I was a teen or something.

12. Favorite for Christmas dinner? The only one we ever have - ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, corn.....

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? November

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? We do this gift exchange at my parents we call "White Elephant". You put your gift in a brown paper bag and we put all the bags in the middle of the room and draw numbers... you pick a bag and you can keep your gift or exchange it for someone else's that's already been opened (only once). You see a lot of recycling going on there but it's always fun.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Trees.

16. Lights on the tree? Do I put lights on the tree? Yes. I use different colors every year. I hate multi-colored lights though. This year I have a white string, red string & blue string LOL

17. Favorite Christmas song? Haven't I answered this 100 times in the past couple weeks? Gene Autry's Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Christmas Day we stay home, but Christmas Eve we go to my parents (a block away) and the Saturday before Christmas this year we are going to Jason's sisters for his side of the familys' Christmas. She lives about 5 miles away. Nobody really strayed far from home in our families.

19. Angel on the tree top or a star? Now thats one thing I'm goofy about - it's gotta be an angel. And it's a real angel, not a bear or anything.

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? We've always done Christmas morning with the demons. Thats one thing I will miss most of all when they grow up. There is a rule that no matter what time they wake up, they wake us up and we go open presents. (the earliest so far has been 4:30) I used to get up early and turn the tree lights on so everything would be ready... because Santa came overnight. I miss hearing one of them get up, sneak downstairs to see what was there and then go back upstairs and wake the other one up with whispered surprise "Oh my God! You gotta come down...." or whatever the words were that year. Now that Santa is "done" they are only surprised by their stockings and they still have to wake us up. It's stilll magical though. It's probably my favorite morning of the entire year.

I think the husband wants me dead

I swear either he wants me dead or he loves to see me in pain... or I've just had a very bad weekend.

Yesterday we went to the store to get a new thermostat for our furnace. While we were there we picked up a few other items. Let's start with the thermostat, pretty normal routine of picking that out and placing it in the bottom of the cart.

Now we're on our way to the pet section to grab some dog food. Pit stop in the windshield washer fluid section. We buy this crap by the case because I have this obsession with a clean windshield. The husband tells me to grab the thermostat out of the bottom of the cart so we don't squish it with the case of fluid. I reach my hand down in the cart and instead of waiting for me to actually have the thermostat out of the fricken cart, he starts to put the fluid box in the cart. My hand isn't free of the box and the fricken box top rips and he drops the box... right onto my hand. Dammit. Ouch. It's just one finger after the pain subsides... but a throbbing finger. Don't want to cry in the store so I suck it up and deal with it. But it hurts.

So we get the dog food and he decides he wants a new snow shovel. I head down to the clothes to see whats on sale and we meet up about 10 minutes later. We go to the checkout and start checking out. He says "watch out" and moves the shovel towards me... right into my head! A shovel upside the head... yeah that hurts. Now I'm just pissed. Hurt finger, hurt head. I want to just cry.

Then today. Yep, it carries on the whole weekend. We went with a friend to pick up a donkey for the church Christmas program tomorrow. No, not a real donkey... a fake real-life looking one. So this thing has felt/carpet fur that is covered in hay & dirt. (The donkey was in a barn, go figure.) We are vacuuming the donkey with the vacuum hose in church when the husband decides we'll put the floor attachment on so the rollers can "fluff" the fur. I'm cleaning one of the hooves and I hear him say "look out". Is he talking to me or our friend? I don't know, I'm knelt down on the ground minding my own business. Then I feel my hair being sucked up and twisted around the roller of the vacuum.

I've had a very bad weekend.

WTF is wrong with this country?

Willmar man fed up with vandals, takes matters into own hands

Imagine you live in a house surrounding by farmland and for one week every year your home is the target for 50 teenagers looking to trash it. Scott Wagar spends a week, every September, on high alert. He knows come nightfall on one night that week kids from the high school near his home in Willmar will come at his property armed with eggs, toilet paper and screwdrivers and try deface it. "There are usually 30-70 kids at one time, it's a little intimidating with 30 people coming at you," Wagar said today.
Every year, for the last 8 years, Wagar's house has been the target. He's called the sheriff's department and they have been able to chase the kids off a few times but this past September Wagar met the kids at his property line head on armed with a water-gun full of a little more than water. "I had one third fox urine, two thirds water in a super soaker just so they would stink bad and I just started spraying out there." The kids, Wagar said, threw eggs back at him. Wagar said the kids were about 10 feet from being on Wagar's property when Wagar says they jumped him. "One kid got behind me and put his arm around my neck choking me," Wagar said. Wagar broke free and nearly broke the kid's finger. The kids ran and dropped a cell phone along the way. The next day Wagar demanded money for damages from the cell phone's owner and when he didn't get it he said her turned the phone in to the police.
On Wednesday Wagar was charged with assault, theft and disorderly conduct. No one else, was so much as ticketed. "I thought we had law and order but it does make me question it." In eight years, no teenager, even when authorities have chased them away has been ticketed for trespassing. Kandiyohi County Sheriff Dan Hartog told me today he can't ticket anyone for trespass without seeing it happen, watching the homeowner order them away, and the person then refusing. Kandiyohi County prosecutor Boyd Beccue said he does not discuss ongoing files, to do so would be improper so he could not comment to KARE 11 on Wagar's charges. The case goes back to court on January 20th. Scott Wagar faces a 90-day jail sentence and 1,000 fine for each of the three crimes he is charged with. He has entered a plea of not guilty and will be representing himself in court.

What the hell kind of bullshit is this? When I read this story this morning, my blood boiled. The farmer is charged? For theft? Assault? What about that little dickweed that jumped him? And the dipshit that dropped his phone? Finders-keepers, I thought.

This is unbelievable. I hope this poor guy is backed up in court with hundreds of people demanding that something be done. Eight years he's gone through this... he knew it was coming, how can the law be so stupid?

I applaud this guy for being prepared. Fox urine? Priceless... now if the parents of these bozos would just turn their kids in. You can't tell me they didn't smell that one on them when they came home that night!

Happy Birthday To Me

Today is the day, the day the world was blessed with the birth of ME!

The husband tells me I'm 36 today, I guess I am. I always have to ask him. Once I hit 31, I didn't care anymore about how old I was so I always forget. I know about how old I am, but the actual number don't mean jack squat to me.

Only bad thing? For the next 2 months I'll hear about how I'm older than the husband. Snot that he is. He absolutely loves giving me crap about that. I just look at him and say "well, I still look better than you". It usually shuts him up.

So Happy Birthday to me... I'll accept any and all chocolate as a gift.

Waffles, touching, senses, skills, holidays, DUI's and other stuff

This week we will answer some crazy questions brought to you by Berleen, the color seafoam green and the number 0 (as in the number of days until my birthday - hey it's my birthday, I can announce it if I want!).

1. Do you like waffles? No. I think they are an overcooked pancake with holes in it and I don't even like pancakes.
2. Name 3 things that is within your reach right now, excluding anything to do with your computer/laptop. My coffee, a pepper shaker (not sure where the salt one is...) and a 10 pack of markers.
3. Do you hang laundry out on a line outside? In the summer I do, but then everyone bitches that their clothes are stiff. I use Downy for goodness sakes!
4. Loss of vision, ability to speak or hearing - which do you choose? (you have to choose one....) I'd have to go with speaking - not see a computer screen or hear when I get mail? How rude!
5. On a scale from 1 - 10, how are your computer skills? I'd say about an 8. The insides are what throw me off.
6. Do you volunteer or donate to anything around the holidays? I should, but I don't. I throw a few bucks in the red buckets if I see them, but thats about it.
7. If a person receives a DUI while in government office, should he lose his/her position? I think it proves their human. A stupid human, but a human. I don't think they should lose their position over that. Multiple ones? Absolutley.
8. Do you take vitamins? No.
9. Do you wear fingernail polish? All the time.. I get accused of having fake nails all the time because they grow like mad and they are really hard. I don't always want long nails, but it's hard to keep up with.
10. If every flower in the world only grew into one color, which color would you want? Yellow.

It's snow

Well, it ain't much but I think it's going to be enough to cause snowmobile tracks through it later today...