Wordless Wednesday - Aurora Borialis from Space

Big Plans Rearranged, As Usual

My silly hubby is having some MAJOR dental surgery tomorrow (they even have to cut a part of the jaw bone out). So I make all these arrangements for myself not to do my usual stuff tomorrow. My daughter is going to her friend's house and spending the night and so is my son at his friend's house. Plans have been made for a month. Hubby has been home for two weeks on vacation and we've talked about this many times.

So this afternoon I asked him what time he wanted to leave tomorrow morning. "What? My surgery is on Tuesday."

So who wants to hit him for me?!?

Meet Zoo Zoo - Lily's New Best Friend

My son begged and begged Santa for a Fancy Mouse for Christmas this year. As Santa is such a nice guy and usually doesn't have kids not get their Christmas wish, he left one under the tree for him.

Zoo Zoo is the mouse's name. Amazingly Lily pays no attention to the thing. That is until Zoo Zoo gets out. I'm sure Lily would think she's just a light snack since she's smaller than her large Milk Bones.

Good Ridance!

OMG! Remind me next year NOT to put that Christmas countdown widget on my blogs. They drove me absolutely nuts. I've never been so stressed out trying to get ready for Christmas cause I had how many days I had left to get ready staring at me constantly on the computer. I will leave the Christmas tree countdown up for one more day - my kids are so excited to see what it looks like tomorrow. Gee, I bet it says 365 days left til Christmas. Uhg!

Santa's Elves - The Big, The Bad, The Ugly

A friend of mine called in a rant today because Santa's Elves called mall security on her. I kid you not! I so wish I could have just posted a recording of her rant and rave about their visit with Santa today.

Turns out that she was taking her kids' Santa photo and moved off the RED X that you have to stand on in order to take a photo. That red x is marked 20 feet away from Santa. "All I was trying to do was get a decent shot cause they only let you take one!" As soon as she stepped off the red X to get a slightly closer picture she was whisked away to the mall security office. My goodness, the elves turned a childhood ritual into an almost criminal act. What? Were they afraid she was going to throw her shoes at Santa?

Leave it to my friend to demand where it states in their Santa Rules that they have to stay on the red X. Nowhere does it state it, per the manager of the store. So the manager let her go back with her kids to get the "right" photo taken. Me? I would have left. Not her though - she went back.

So the Big Elf saw her and said quite rudely "Oh, it's you again?". "Yep, it's me again, and I'm going to get my kids picture taken with Santa." The Bad Elf still made her stand on the red X! After she started protesting again - SANTA himself brought the kids right in front of the red x and posed with them for a beautiful picture. That rotten Elf couldn't tell Santa to go back and sit in his chair.

It's a shame that even going to see Santa is such a trying experience anymore. You have to wait for hours in line, the Elves are crabby, Santa is crabby, the kids end up crabby,and they don't even have the fun elaborate Santa displays anymore. The big, bad, ugly adults are just ruining everything for the kids anymore. Grownups need to remember what it was like when they were a kid.

The Gift of Lily

Why? Oh why, did my husband think we needed another dog? Lily has been so good lately. Unfortunately today she proved to be the most rotten dog ever! We went out to finish up all the Christmas shopping and when we got home Lily had opened up a bunch of presents! I just about died! For some reason she chose all of MY presents to open. She couldn't have picked her own could she have?

Beware of the Doghouse

JC Penney has a great ad for all you men who can't seem to get the right Christmas gift for the lady in your life:

http://adage.com/brightcove/single.php?bcpid=1370868150&bctid=3...
http://bewareofthedoghouse.com/default.aspx

OMG - the video is so frickin' funny. My hubby belongs in the doghouse. Every Christmas I get what HE REALLY wants. What fun is that?

Although one year he did get me the ever so sexy Push Up Bra from Victoria's Secret when they first came out. I put it on, modeled it for him and he laughed his head off! It was the most uncomfortable, silliest looking bra I have ever tried on! He took it back and came home with a red, plaid bra with a Micky Mouse on it. Huh? We were leaving for Disney the next day and he thought it'd be cute if I had a bra with Micky on it. I was 31 at the time, not 3.

I don't think my hubby would ever get out of that dog house.

So what's the greatest (and by that I mean worst) gift your "man" ever gave you?

George Bush is Just a Shoes Throw Away

Goodness gracious! Someone threw their shoes at George Bush. I know many don't like him, but come on. "You don't throw your shoes at someone unless it's a mean dog that is chasing you." according to my 10 year old son.

D Cagle kept twittering these George Bush Shoe Cartoons and I just had to share:

Do You Need A Good Christmas Tree Light Tester?

If you need your lights checked before you put them on your tree, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT hire my silly hubby to do it for you. He did that years ago for the lady next door who had just had brand new carpeting installed in her living room. Silly hubby laid out the lights all over her living room floor. He plugged them all into each other in one long string. Then he plugged them into the outlet! I know - you are shaking your head right now thinking "What a dummy!".

KAPOW!

There was a short and all the lights melted into the ladies brand new carpeting!

The Case of the Fallen Christmas Tree

This morning I was awakened at 4:00 AM by my husband saying as gently as he could, "Kris, the Christmas tree fell down." He said it as if he were telling me he was going to go to the bathroom.

I jump out of bed to go make sure "THE" ornament was safe. "THE" ornament is an ornament of my grandparents that is almost 100 year old! Whew! It was safe. My son has decided it needs to go on display instead of on the tree in case the tree ever falls again.

So as I picked up about 20 ornaments that were left on the floor after my hubby picked the tree up, I asked him, "How did it fall?" Immediately he blamed the cat. He said Ashley, the cat, was sitting by the door looking as guilty as she ever could.

Hm... well there was Lily, the lab, sitting there too. My theory is Lily, the lab, decided to chase the darn cat and the cat saw a perfectly good tree to climb to get away from the big evil Lily!

This is the cat's 6th Christmas tree in this house. It has never tried to climb it before. So who do you think is the culprit in the Case of the Fallen Christmas Tree? I'm taking votes to prove to my crazy hubby that it's HIS dog that is at fault.

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY LILY!

Lily turned ONE today! It's amazing she made it to this major mark in her life with all the nonsense she has caused in this house over the past 7 months. It's hard to believe she's been with us that long! She has melted our hearts and we love her so. Happy 1st Birthday Lily!

Don't Let My Silly Hubby Help You Prepare For Your New Washing Machine Delivery

I'm getting a new washing machine tomorrow. Yippee!! The one we have, God rest it's soul, just doesn't spout out much water any more. It spouts a small trickle and takes all day long to do a small load of wash.

So we finally broke down and got a new one. As the delivery guy is coming tomorrow dear, sweet, silly hubby of mine decided he'd go out and unhook the washer for the guy. Only problem is he didn't turn the water off before he unhooked the hoses!!

Which reminds me of one of the classic stories of my dear, sweet, silly hubby:

The same washing machine wasn't working quite right. No water was coming out at all. Hubby said, "You should call a washing machine fix-it guy to come out and fix it." So I did. The washing machine repair guy had an easy call. He said, "Ma'am, it helps if you have the water turned on."

I paid $70.00 for a guy to turn the water back on to the washing machine!! Turns out my silly hubby had turned the water to the washing machine off that weekend when he was fiddling around rearranging stuff in the garage!!

Serves him right tonight to get saturated in water for NOT turning the water off.

You Have To Fart Two More Times Before You Go To Bed

THAT is what my son told my daughter tonight! What!?!?! Turns out they are tying to fart Jingle Bells. My crazy son is trying to turn my dear sweet daughter into a farting machine. Why are boys/men so fascinated with farting?

How Have We Become THIS Lazy?

I was a domestic diva today and made the family fancy frozen pizza for dinner tonight. I didn't make just any kind of fancy frozen pizza, I made Pizza Amore' from Freschetta. Anyway, I take the pizza out to put on the baking rack to make it nice and crispy and the dang pizza is already pre-sliced! So we have become a society so lazy that now our frozen pizza is pre-sliced?

Of course my silly hubby thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread! My son, he claims it's just like when the pizza guy brings it! Only my dear, sweet daughter understands where mom is coming from on this one.