26th December 2009

Merry Christmas

We went to my sister’s house yesterday for the big family gift exchange and dinner. We like to rotate from house to house to have the big family holiday parties. I can remember when I was younger I really dreaded going to the family parties, but now that I’m older I cherish them. Those folks who have musical instruments play them for our enjoyment and the younger kids dance to the music. We play games and fill up on a lot of great food. This year my sister went above and beyond and had a friend dress up as Santa to pass out the gifts! The kids were thrilled!

I hope everyone out there had a nice and peaceful day and had lots of good food!

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13th December 2009

Redecorating the bathroom

My wife has been talking about redecorating the guest bathroom in a fishpond theme.  She has found a nice looking Glass Vessel Sink that is a translucent crystal that she wants to buy and do her decorative painting technique on it to make it look like water lilies and goldfish in the sink.  She plans on doing a reverse painting technique on the backside of the sink.  We were looking online for prices on that kind of sink and found some very reasonably priced on the mrdirectint.com website.  I was really surprised to see so many different styles and colors and sizes of bathroom sinks!

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13th December 2009

Albino deer

Today we were driving home from Bob’s house and an albino deer ran across the road in front of my car.  I’ve seen photos of albino deer, but this is the first time I’ve seen one with my own eyes!  I was glad I was paying attention and didn’t hit her; my wife would have been really upset with me!   My wife gasped when she saw the deer!  The deer was running with a small herd of about three or four other deer.  I’m surprised that the albino deer survived hunting season.  I wonder if any hunters saw her and decided to not shoot out of respect for her uniqueness.

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13th December 2009

Sparkle and shine

My wife really loves to wear bling bling jewelry.  Anything that sparkles and shines she simply adores it!  That makes it fairly easy to shop for her as long as I don’t have to worry about a ring size.  Some pretty earrings, a necklace or other fashion accessory like a watch and she is all smiles!

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13th December 2009

Favorite flavors

Do you have a favorite flavor of ice cream?  I’m not sure that I do.  I really like a variety of flavors.  Lately my favorite is a pecan caramel praline flavor by Bryers.  The grocery store that I shop at doesn’t always carry that flavor, so when I find it I often buy several cartons of it.  I have never quite figured out why the price of ice cream fluctuates so much – it is almost as volatile as gasoline!  One week it will be almost $6 for the carton, then a few weeks later it will be less than half that price!  I find it very aggravating – when it is really expensive I won’t buy it.  I wonder if everyone shops that way and that is perhaps the reason why every couple of weeks the price drops!

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