Wow, what a great year. I can't really begin to express how blessed I feel with this past year. Everything from relationships to work, to life in general has simply been amazing. I have a kick-ass marriage, our company has done amazing this year netting a decent profit that is supplying some very generous bonuses this Christmas, Linds and I found a new home church, we have the most super-awesome friends, and life in general is just very relaxed. It really just hit me recently cuz Linds and I have a few friends who have not benefited from as great of a year. As they've shared with us their past year, it's made us realize and fully appreciate just how fortunate we've been. (Our entire hearts go out to you guys who have had numerous upsets this year, you guys know who y'all are, we trust that the next year holds better times.)
So having said all that, Linds and I are sooooo pumped for Christmas. It's been a very busy month, and it's been hard at times for me to feel in that Christmas spirit, but on the whole it's been a month of new traditions and experiences. This is our first Christmas as a married couple living together, and so with it comes new way's of doing Christmas and all that. It's been a tonne of fun together shopping, decorating, baking, and watching loads of those AWESOME CHRISTMAS SHOWS that we all remember watching as kids. Linds and I are saving "A Christmas Story" for this Saturday night.
Linds and I will be opening our gifts on Christmas Eve in what has officially become our new tradition for opening each others gifts. I would assume it will stay that way until we have kids, but in the mean time we're really excited to open our gifts from each other. I have to admit that I was seriously thinking that I might be getting an XBOX this year, as I'm craving video games and cash flow has been very good lately. However, that was really a pipe dream that I managed to dispel within myself last weekend when we were giving hints to each other about our gifts. It's good that I dispelled it early, otherwise I probably would have been a little like "umm, so, is there any other gifts hiding somewhere? :-)" on Christmas Eve. It was honestly an unreal expectation, but it's fun to hope :-). Sufficed to say, I'm VERY excited to see what I got for Christmas, even more so since now I haven't ANY idea what she got me. Goodtimes.
Christmas day will be our typical awesome family fun day where we start at my parents house - open gifts and have breakfast, then go to Lindsay's parents house - open gifts and stay the day until dinner is eaten, then we head BACK to my parents house for "Second Dinner"! Then we crash on boxing day from having overeaten! GOODTIMES!
I'm fairly pumped now, especially since it's so close to the day. Work has begun to wind down today, which is nice cuz it has been an INSANELY busy week with churches buying things last minute for Christmas Pageants or just trying to spend their yearly budget before the year is over. Good for business, crazy for us. I finished my last major quote for the year and updated my schedule, leaving me with absolutely no more loose ends, and also not a heck of alot more to do... hence the copious amount of blogging LOL... ahem... so. Tomorrow should be fairly lax, we'll do our year end stuff, backing up company files and what not. Then we'll open our company presents and likely get the afternoon off work. In the evening we'll be having our company Christmas dinner. It's fun cuz we go to StageWest every year and eat a crap load of food. BOOYA CRAP LOAD OF FOOD!
So in closing, I wish a very MERRY CHRISTMAS to y'all!
Final Confession of the Year: Recipe for my creation of a Chocolate Milkshake Martini.
1 1/2 ounces of Amarula
3/4 ounce of Vodka (your choice, but Iceberg Vodka is the schiznit)
A bunch of ice cubes and shaken in a Martini Shaker
Pour and enjoy.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Testing...
I've recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox, since the new update for Internet Explorer simply made browsing a real pain in the "literary edit". I avoided Firefox at first because when I access my blog with it, it makes my blog look funky - since it was designed with IE. Anyways, I've bit the bullet as it's a lot nicer to surf with, and I've actually found that it's AWESOME! You can download so many cool add-ons and themes for your browser.
One such add-on is a tool that allows me to post an entry into my blog without having to go through blogger. I simply open the blogging window, type whatever I want, and it publishes it directly to my blog. So this is my test blog to see if it posts and to see how it will look...
One such add-on is a tool that allows me to post an entry into my blog without having to go through blogger. I simply open the blogging window, type whatever I want, and it publishes it directly to my blog. So this is my test blog to see if it posts and to see how it will look...
Monday, December 11, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Yes, a Christmas Version!
CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hmmmm, Egg Nog for the most part, but some Hot Choco after coming in from snow sledding.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa has a well established Slave trade that does all his wrapping... duh...
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Well, our tree has a combo of blue and white, which looks really styling. Meanwhile, our house has coloured lights cuz plain white (despite their being considered "stylish") are so terribly boring on their own... TERRIBLY BORING! That's right, I said it.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Nah, I get plenty of smooches as it is, wink wink.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
As soon as I possibly can, I love Christmas decorations and what not, it brings up such great memories and atmosphere.
6. What is your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
I love good stuffing, in my books it completes the whole meal.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
When I was like 7 my parents go me and my brother a Sega game system, only it wasn't under the tree, and we thought we hadn't received one until after all our presents were opened, my Dad said he thought he heard Santa go downstairs. So we rushed downstairs to find one more present... the Sega!
8. When and how did you learn there was no Santa?
How else does every child learn the cruel horrible truths of our world... by reading the encyclopedia. It was great, cuz after we read it, we went and corner our parents and asked them if he existed, they said yes and we popped the encyclopedia on them and called them LIARS!
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Ever since I can remember, my brother and I were allowed to open one gift on Christmas eve. We loved that so much, but we would always save the big presents for Christmas day.
10.How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
As mentioned above, with blue and white led lights and blue/white tinselly garland, a smack load of ornaments and a coooooool star on top that had been on top of my family Christmas tree for practically all my life.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Absolutely LOVE IT! I love the way snow makes everything look after a fresh fall, and pulling donuts in parking lots, and making snow men and sledding and ... man, I just like snow. HATE THE COLD, love the snow :-)
12. Can you ice skate?
Like, totally.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Hmmm, it's a toss up... I received the complete series of Monty Pythons Flying Circus on DVD from Lindsay a couple years ago, and if I receive what I hope I MIGHT be getting this Christmas, then it would likely replace the DVD's on the list of all time fav gift.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays?
Family, one hundred percent family. I love both my family and my in-laws, and we split Christmas day between both houses, it's great fun.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
That's a tough one, any desert will usually do, but I had a chocolate cream pie last year that tasted AMAZING.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Well, it's different now that I'm married, before it was waking up early Christmas morning and going downstairs with my bro and opening the little gifts and candy that were in our stockings... then my parents would come down and we'd open the real gifts together. I guess now it's the traditional Egg's benedict with hollandaise sauce breakfast that my Dad makes every Christmas morning after we open gifts.
17. What tops your tree?
As mentioned above, a star with blinking lights that used to be on my family tree.
18. Which do you prefer: Giving or Receiving?
Yeah, I could lie and say giving, but really, honestly, the receiving is WAY more fun :-) To be fair though, as much as I like getting, I like giving ALMOST as much... like getting is a "10" while giving is a "9.2".
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
A snazzed up version of "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", that song can really rock it out.
20. Candy Canes! Yucky or yummy?
Yummy, except for three year old ones that are starting to mold... quite yuck at that point, wouldn't you say?
21. Favourite Christmas Movie?
"White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and Danny Kay... such a good movie, the next one would have to be "A Christmas Story"... did you know that some guy in the states bought the house that the movie was filmed in and restored it to exactly how it looked in the movie and now has it opened as tourist attraction... pretty funny.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hmmmm, Egg Nog for the most part, but some Hot Choco after coming in from snow sledding.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa has a well established Slave trade that does all his wrapping... duh...
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Well, our tree has a combo of blue and white, which looks really styling. Meanwhile, our house has coloured lights cuz plain white (despite their being considered "stylish") are so terribly boring on their own... TERRIBLY BORING! That's right, I said it.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Nah, I get plenty of smooches as it is, wink wink.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
As soon as I possibly can, I love Christmas decorations and what not, it brings up such great memories and atmosphere.
6. What is your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
I love good stuffing, in my books it completes the whole meal.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
When I was like 7 my parents go me and my brother a Sega game system, only it wasn't under the tree, and we thought we hadn't received one until after all our presents were opened, my Dad said he thought he heard Santa go downstairs. So we rushed downstairs to find one more present... the Sega!
8. When and how did you learn there was no Santa?
How else does every child learn the cruel horrible truths of our world... by reading the encyclopedia. It was great, cuz after we read it, we went and corner our parents and asked them if he existed, they said yes and we popped the encyclopedia on them and called them LIARS!
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Ever since I can remember, my brother and I were allowed to open one gift on Christmas eve. We loved that so much, but we would always save the big presents for Christmas day.
10.How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
As mentioned above, with blue and white led lights and blue/white tinselly garland, a smack load of ornaments and a coooooool star on top that had been on top of my family Christmas tree for practically all my life.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Absolutely LOVE IT! I love the way snow makes everything look after a fresh fall, and pulling donuts in parking lots, and making snow men and sledding and ... man, I just like snow. HATE THE COLD, love the snow :-)
12. Can you ice skate?
Like, totally.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Hmmm, it's a toss up... I received the complete series of Monty Pythons Flying Circus on DVD from Lindsay a couple years ago, and if I receive what I hope I MIGHT be getting this Christmas, then it would likely replace the DVD's on the list of all time fav gift.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays?
Family, one hundred percent family. I love both my family and my in-laws, and we split Christmas day between both houses, it's great fun.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
That's a tough one, any desert will usually do, but I had a chocolate cream pie last year that tasted AMAZING.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Well, it's different now that I'm married, before it was waking up early Christmas morning and going downstairs with my bro and opening the little gifts and candy that were in our stockings... then my parents would come down and we'd open the real gifts together. I guess now it's the traditional Egg's benedict with hollandaise sauce breakfast that my Dad makes every Christmas morning after we open gifts.
17. What tops your tree?
As mentioned above, a star with blinking lights that used to be on my family tree.
18. Which do you prefer: Giving or Receiving?
Yeah, I could lie and say giving, but really, honestly, the receiving is WAY more fun :-) To be fair though, as much as I like getting, I like giving ALMOST as much... like getting is a "10" while giving is a "9.2".
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
A snazzed up version of "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", that song can really rock it out.
20. Candy Canes! Yucky or yummy?
Yummy, except for three year old ones that are starting to mold... quite yuck at that point, wouldn't you say?
21. Favourite Christmas Movie?
"White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and Danny Kay... such a good movie, the next one would have to be "A Christmas Story"... did you know that some guy in the states bought the house that the movie was filmed in and restored it to exactly how it looked in the movie and now has it opened as tourist attraction... pretty funny.
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