Friday, December 31, 2010

it's a wrap

My house is a freaking mess. There are two empty cases of wine bottles in the kitchen, Way too much candy hanging around. And I should be at a new year's eve party.

This Christmas was a blast. The kids were home. I got some fine gifts including this iPad keyboard dock so I can blog mo better. And a beautiful silver bracelet from China.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Jing jing-a-ling

As usual, the spirit strikes me with only days left to go. So yesterday I went to Bass Pro and Kohl's. At Kohl's I decided to get all 5 of my Christmas Eve guests the same present. I spent $88 and saved $226! Also had to get myself a holiday necklace. Tried to assemble my old fake tree but alas it somehow would not connect together so I stopped at Lowe's and got a new one for $14!! That's right -- fourteen dollah. Assembled and lights on just a couple hours later.

Did a radio show yesterday that was heavily holiday tuneage. Next weekend, on the day itself, Connie and I are doing six hours of holiday music. Tune in! 88.1 or at www.wbgufm.com.

Last night, we went to hear Richard Barone at GFT. He kept saying how the songs he writes have such hard guitar chords. I could feel Joe Baker, just 2 seats away, rolling his eyes. Plus they weren't hard chords. He was certainly no Will Kimbrough, just let me say.

Friday night, Amy had a holiday party which turned into hard rockin' casino, with 3 separate tables of gaming. She prepared a meat buffet and many other snacks and cookies, all of which were delish. Around 11, her furnace ceased to function. She called Gearharts Sat. AM and they sent a boy who was unsuccessful at fixing it so Amy opted to wait for the big dog Gearhart on Mon. AM. Hope that works out OK. Not a good weekend to be trying to heat your house with space heaters.

Yesterday, I had bought Miss Jenks this Christmas ornament that I wish I had taken a picture of it, it was so bizarre. A rat/chihuahua/Yoda thing, holding a guitar emblazoned with the word Mexico, with a sombrero hanging down its back. Oh wait, I found a picture of it. You can see more views on eBay.



You can see how I would not notice the nose was chipped. Today I take it back to exchange it, but alas none remained so I sent it to her regardless, hopefully sufficiently packed to avoid further breakage. I had to send it, even chipped, as it was truly odd. Sent her some other stuff too. Hope it gets there by Thursday. SO I had bought it at Kohl's where they were having the sale of the season and I had a 30% off coupon so I get myself a couple long sleeved black tops and then decide to get my 5 Christmas Eve guests all another little something.

Wrapped all that stuff this afternoon, after having put all the hanging baubles on my tree earlier in the day. Way earlier, apparently, as I had done that AND gone to Kohl's and back before noon. Then went to Meijer for avocados for the guac for the work potluck tomorrow and ALAS they had a ton of them but all hard as rocks. So I got BOGO fresh salsa there and a gift card for my full-timer at work, then went to Kroger where they amazingly HAD good avocados and fancy chocolate bars were on sale.

Then I stopped into Barney's for the annual holiday scratch-offs. So I think I have all the stocking stuffers.

I was going to do some cooking and baking today but I did not. Don't have a lot to do this week at night so I should be able to fit that in.

Anne has been texting me, at my request, various foodstuffs I could lay in. Had them all covered, even Splenda and Brie.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Amy's holiday casino



Sherry and I smoked all others at euchre. I think her reindeer antennae were our secret weapon.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Holidays are upon us

Hmm, those first two weeks of December went right by.

Trying to move stuff around here to make room for that blow-up bed in the green room. Moved a small green chair to the bedroom to make room for the bookcase out of the green room. Moving that now-emptied CD cabinet thing to the basement. Ack, there's just stuff everywhere.

Snowing like crazy outside. Apparently the wind is supposed to pick up and make stuff a mess, plus be below zero wind chill. Went out and put my car in the garage.

I hosted poker Friday night. It was well attended and Amy lost some cash and Kim and Stubbs won it. I also had GNO on Dec. 1 which was very well attended. Plenty o snax (pic on Facebook). See, that's why I don't blog-- damn Facebook.

Holiday tips: Start making ice cubes now and bag them in the freezer. Also start buying odd ingredients-- maraschino cherries, powdered sugar, various cheeses, crescent rolls in the tube, Haagen-Dasz ice cream (some great flavors: banana split, butter pecan, white truffle raspberry). You never know what you might want to make suddenly.

Have no presents for anybody however. DO have however, tickets to Band of Heathens, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, and the Wailers over the next 3 months in Ann Arbor. It's all about meeeee!!!!
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