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Post by Phalon on Nov 25, 2013 7:34:07 GMT -6
And so it begins. Unless you're one of those odd people that began shopping for Christmas in July (Yes, Stepper, I'm talking about you).
The lines in the stores, the lines at the post office. Those hard-sought/hard-fought for gifts that seem perfect until you actually try to find them and discover they're nowhere to be found. Wading through the Black Friday crowds, wading through catalogs, on-line shopping, home-made crafting and cooking. The scores and let-downs.
What lengths will you go to in order to get that perfect gift? And what is that perfect gift?
There have posts on this board in Christmases past of you all going all out to find very meaningful gifts for family and friends, and the thoughtful creativity that goes into getting or making them.
What's on tap for this year?
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 25, 2013 9:01:09 GMT -6
I'm saving to get my mom this: click hereThank god I don't have to go anywhere to get it. One click and my credit card and wahlah.
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Post by Spock on Nov 25, 2013 10:31:17 GMT -6
Christmas? Is that one of your Earth holidays supported by your Commercial Purchase franchise? Sorry, I don't subscribe. I would rather spend time with those I care about than trust my (or their) health and sanity to crowds of frenzied shoppers, all looking for the last two "special" items available on the entire planet.
I'm so far out of touch that, if a gift is expected, I give a gift certificate, pre-paid gift card, or, in extremis, a check to be used for what they really want, rather than what I think they want.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 26, 2013 7:54:38 GMT -6
OMG, Scrappy! How cool is that?! I've never heard of such a thing. The entire project is extremely interesting. You gotta let me know what you find out, and if your Mom decides to submit the results to the project. It sounds right up your Mom's alley, and in a way reminds me of our trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. Not being a "science person", I probably would not have chosen to spend the day there if not for your Mom wanting to go, but dang, I'm glad we went. The museum was fascinating, and actually part of what got me thinking about this thread.
Ever since we went, I've wanted to take Hubs there; I know he'd absolutely love it! Just this weekend, thinking about what to give him for Christmas, I pondered a museum trip for the both of us. Taking the train to Chicago in the winter is a b!tch though, I think personally. Standing out on those train platforms with the winter wind slapping you in the face is no fun at all. A better time would be for his birthday; I only hope I can remember next year.
Scrapping the museum idea for Christmas, I started thinking about other weekend or day trips I could give him as a gift. One thing he always mentions wanting to do when we retire is take a long road-trip, hitting as many of the restaurants featured on the Food Network's show "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives". Watching the show always makes us hungry; I've read it described as "edible porn". A cross-country road-trip at this stage in our lives is not feasible though, so I thought maybe just a weekend trip, and drilled to see Michigan restaurants featured on the show.
OMG! "Krazy Jim's Blimpy Burger" is in Ann Arbor! Right across from Michigan Stadium!!!! The Big House!!! The Home of the Michigan Wolverines! The largest football stadium in the country (third largest in the world), with a capacity of 109,901, though stadium crowds often reach in excess of 115,000.
Hubs is a die-hard Wolverine fan, even this year, though they're having a sh!tty season. We've been to a few home games over the years. Sitting in the stands is unbelievable. But we've never been on the field, and never behind the scenes. There's got to be tours of the place, right? I drilled, and though they're not scheduled, you can arrange a personal tour. Coincidently, I had already purchased a neat book for him at the used book store: "The University of Michigan Football Vault: History of the Wolverines".
The book, the tour, and lunch at Blimpy Burger is the perfect gift for Hubs. Sadly though, the iconic restaurant (which along with being on "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives", was also featured on the Travel Channel as one of the best burger joints in America, and "Man vs. Food") closed its doors this past August. Ironically, the reason for its demise is the property owner sold nearly a block of land to the University; Blimpy Burger's owner is still looking for another site.
There's a nearby deli that's supposed to be excellent, and sounds like a great place for lunch. Still gotta make the tour reservations but Hubs' gift is set.
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Post by stepper on Nov 28, 2013 21:24:25 GMT -6
Scrappy - that's a neat idea. I've been thinking about doing mine with Ancestry.com for some time, but haven't had the spare $$. How much analysis can she expect and will they keep it private?
And I like the wintry pictures. Good choice!
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Post by stepper on Nov 28, 2013 21:35:26 GMT -6
It just makes it so much easier if you start early. We're already getting boxes for 'odd' stuff. I know a few people who are fans of caramel pop-corn and there's a specialty store near here which makes bags of the stuff that different groups use in fund raisers. My sister LOVES stuff that makes noise and I found the perfect box in the BX - just big enough for the bag but it leaves space so it makes noise when you shake it. She'll go nuts. And to make it better I'll send it to my step mother instead of her, but I'll tell her where it is. She's been known to pick stuff up and then stop on the way home and open things up for a peek - she doesn't seem to have a patience gene when it comes to presents. It's one of the reasons I like her so much - she still has all that Christmas enthusiasm most people lose when they 'grow up'.
I'm not done though. The 'Egg Lady' doesn't show up until a week or two into December. The Egg Lady makes those fancy colored eggs with designs and glitter on them. My SIL is a Precious Moments fan, and her birthday is early in the year, so when I send out Christmas presents I also send out birthday presents. The Egg Lady has been making a special Precious Moments egg for me for years so that box won't be ready until mid December.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 21, 2013 10:36:14 GMT -6
Very cool that you go out of your way like that, Stepper, just to make opening the gift that much more fun for her. BP is like that - she cannot resist shaking, feeling, even smelling a wrapped package under the tree. I've wrapped gifts everyday this week while she's been at school, and when she gets home, she's got to examine each new one that's been place under the tree. It doesn't matter if it's for her or not, she's got to try and guess what's inside. Xena Sis does a similar thing with nutcrackers. Every Christmas since her son was little (he's almost 20 now), she's gotten him and her Hubs a nutcracker. There's a lady that makes them a few towns over, and Xena Sis and Nutcracker Lady will meet in the middle at some prearranged location to make the exchange. I always picture some kind of clandestine meeting under the cover of darkness in which Nutcracker Lady opens the trunk of her car for Xena Sis to examine the goods before paying for them. I'm finally done; everything is wrapped, and what needed to be mailed as been sent - except for the Christmas cards which...uhm...I haven't even started yet. The stadium tour for Hubs has been booked. I was talking about it with Xena Sis, and since her Hubs is Hubs' football buddy, we decided it'd be more exciting for the both of them if we did it together. The man in the athletic department was so extremely nice and helpful, I asked if he could close out the tour. He did, and it'll just be us two couples, which will make the guys even more geeked. Speaking of stadium tours... And we danced all night Cuz she's the best Mom ever! Ok, so that's not the exact lyrics, but I scored big for the girls - concert tickets to One Direction in Chicago!!!! FLOOR SEATS!!!!! For those of you who aren't or don't have preteen through early twenties girls, One Direction is the biggest boy band ever. Their worldwide cult-like following has been compared to surpassing Beatlemania. Sappy love songs sung by exceedingly cute teens who have grown in the last few years into exceedingly hot twenty-somethings. The girls have been planning this for the last two years; the next time the band was on tour, "LX was taking BP, no matter when, no matter where". When the tour was announced in early December, that was all they wanted for Christmas, and it seemed to me to be an impossibility; their last 10-month long world tour sold out in 12 minutes. I actually ended up with two sets of tickets - near-nosebleeds purchased with a super-secret code during a presale, and thinking I could do better, the floor seats (next to the catwalk, mind you), purchased the morning ticket sales went public by just hitting the search again button over and over until something better than what I already had came up. I only wish it could have been a surprise, but because LX was texting me with the presale info, and because BP had three friends sleepover who were all crowded around the computer while I was trying for the floor seats, it was impossible to keep it secret. One of her other friends though, will be surprised; her Mom bought the first set of tickets from me. Hopefully, it'll be a surprise - although she's been sworn to secrecy, BP knows about it.... And she's the worst secret-keeper ever.
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Post by stepper on Dec 21, 2013 23:06:39 GMT -6
BP and my sis are kindred spirits. But the thing is, she makes Christmas more fun for everyone else just because she is so excited herself. She gets overly exuberant - and it is infectious. You have to work at not having a good time when she gets going and who'd want to do that?
Well, it's not do clandestine in my case. She books a week in the BX hallway, sets up two tables with various eggs, and people like me come looking for her. I don't get the really expensive ones though. Some of the fancy cut ones where she has a sort of display inside the egg and the shell cut enhances the effect - those can get expensive. One of the eggs she sold right after my purchases (I got two this year) was over $150. The second egg was for a friend who moved to Iowa - she got a nice looking Cardinal.
Good job on the surprise for hubs! I'm sure he'll like it.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 22, 2013 9:58:38 GMT -6
I agree! One of BP's favorite things to do is to pass out the presents; she's done it every year since I can remember, and has probably asked me three times in the last week if she gets to do it again this year. And of course, she has to shake and rattle each one as she's passing it out, as if she hasn't already shook and rattled them 10 times previously.
I've seen those things, and never in a million years would I have the patience to even consider wanting to make one.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 22, 2013 15:02:56 GMT -6
Scrappy - that's a neat idea. I've been thinking about doing mine with Ancestry.com for some time, but haven't had the spare $$. How much analysis can she expect and will they keep it private? And I like the wintry pictures. Good choice! The box has a code she can use to go online and see her results. The website says it tracks the DNA sample from beginning (meaning where her ancestors started) through their migratory patterns to where she's at now. It also includes the possibility of having neanderthal and that new species DNA listed. She has the option of creating an online profile which will be listed at the site and accessible by other participants. I'm kinda excited. Mostly because she's been fascinated for years since the first project was launched and has wanted to participate forever. She already does that Ancestry thing. In fact I have caught her many times staying up all night searching possible familial lines on that site. At this point $25 bucks a month is not that big a deal.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 22, 2013 15:06:24 GMT -6
OMG, Scrappy! How cool is that?! I've never heard of such a thing. The entire project is extremely interesting. You gotta let me know what you find out, and if your Mom decides to submit the results to the project. It sounds right up your Mom's alley, and in a way reminds me of our trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. Not being a "science person", I probably would not have chosen to spend the day there if not for your Mom wanting to go, but dang, I'm glad we went. The museum was fascinating, and actually part of what got me thinking about this thread. I will keep you all posted on the results if you're interested. She loved that museum trip. It was something she had been wanting to do since she was a small child. She had been there once on a school trip and remembered it as one of the best times ever. It was made better by sharing with a friend. Too bad I was so sick. I had a good time but dang I was worn out.
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Post by stepper on Dec 26, 2013 23:31:25 GMT -6
And so it begins. Unless you're one of those odd people that began shopping for Christmas in July (Yes, Stepper, I'm talking about you). ... What lengths will you go to in order to get that perfect gift? And what is that perfect gift? There have posts on this board in Christmases past of you all going all out to find very meaningful gifts for family and friends, and the thoughtful creativity that goes into getting or making them. What's on tap for this year? It's never "after Christmas" - only the number of days until Christmas changes. So here we are, only 364 days until Christmas. And I've already started. We have to mail everything - it's only the two of us here. While picking up a couple of normal necessaries - and a few last minute things (extra stuff to open) - I came across something I haven't seen in years. Many years ago I got a candy cane from mom. (She died in 1991 so yes, it was a really long time ago.) It had green pipe cleaner "antlers", and two button 'wiggle' eyes, and a fuzzy red dot for a nose. It was essentially a Rudolph candy cane. On that late date it was impossible to do anything with the canes for this Christmas, but I purchased two boxes of the kits anyway. I have about 300 days to make 24 Rudolph canes when each will find itself in a box of some sort and off they'll go to everyone. Mine stayed a Rudolph cane and adorned our tree until somehow the cane broke and the plastic that seals the candy cane part split. It won't be the original, but I'll have one of those canes on the tree this coming Christmas and maybe some recipient will think more of the gift than the candy and it'll become a favored decoration for them too. So yes Phalon, the odd people start early and strike while the iron is hot - or purchase while the supply lasts, especially when it may not be avaliable in the months to come. Is this the perfect gift? That's hard to say. While most may not view it as the perfect gift to receive, I view it as the perfect gift to give. One more thing - I mailed the whumpy sounding box to step mom who didn't let my sister have it until Christmas day. The fact that the box was tightly wrapped, and under the wrapping was more tape, slowed sis down a bit and no, she didn't figure it out. It was the first thing she opened again this year. It was the whumpy sound...gets her every time.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 29, 2013 9:19:05 GMT -6
LX made one of those for me in preschool, and like yours, it was brought out and placed on the tree every Christmas until it was so cracked it couldn't be hung anymore.
That's how I feel. I'm not a shopper; it was years living here before I even set foot in a mall, and probably never would have if if wasn't for the girls, (you can't have girls and not have malls enter your life). Shopping, I think, at Christmas is different though. It's fun, it's creative...it's an adventure! Without even so much as thinking about driving to a mall this year, I had such a great time deciding out what to give everyone, it makes all the rush worthwhile.
I know. I felt so bad you felt so bad. What a trooper you were though, pushing through until hot toddy time.
Definitely!
Your post reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for at least a month - one of Mom's relatives (I'm not even sure how they're related), sent me a note, asking if I knew were Mom's parents were buried. She was putting together a family history, which I think is really cool...I know so little about Mom's side of the family. She didn't have any siblings, and her cousins were spread out across the country, so we rarely saw them. The only relative I can remember visiting was her Aunt Rose - I was very young at the time, and I remember as an crotchety old lady with a very thick accent.
I never knew my grandparents; both of them died before I was born. It took some digging around (no pun intended), the name of a long defunct funeral home I found on a prayer card for my grandfather, and some heavy-duty drilling, but I found the information, and finally e-mailed it to her. What I found though, brings up a whole new family mystery - my grandmother's first name in cemetery records is different than the name everyone knew her by.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Dec 29, 2013 9:49:11 GMT -6
OOOOh.....I love the family mystery. I have to say the ancestry thing has brought up a whole lot of interesting stuff. Maybe you might try it for a month or two.
Apparently we have several members from the way back whose name were "Cinderella" with various spellings. Believe it or not.
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Post by stepper on Dec 30, 2013 1:26:22 GMT -6
There are several possibilities for that. You knew her by a nick-name but the person who commissioned the stone had it cut with her real name, or as in the case of some of the people I've researched, they went by their middle names instead of their first name. I had a William Burdell Cline who went by Burk - even on a couple of the census'. Depending on age and time frame, you could look for a birth and/or death certificate from the state where she was born/died, or look for christening records. But Scrappy is right - running a mystery to ground is part of the fun of looking in your ancestry.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 3, 2014 7:05:23 GMT -6
And so here we are again. Three days into December, and I'm thoroughly stumped.
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Post by stepper on Dec 3, 2014 18:20:56 GMT -6
I have a few ideas, but to be honest, I'm lagging way behind compared to previous years.
We got in our first card and present today. I'm WAAAAYYYYY behind.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 11, 2014 7:22:19 GMT -6
You? Mr. Christmas? I found a sort of camaraderie in that...like I wasn't the only one. But I'm guessing you're done, or almost done.
My triumph is that I started; the tragedy is that I'm far from done.
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Post by stepper on Dec 12, 2014 22:52:24 GMT -6
Yes, me. Work has been surprisingly busy - enough so that I'm still not really done. (That probably doesn't make sense without a little additional info: I head for home and crash - by the time I wake up it's too late to do much.) I found some camping "fillers" so the nephews would have more than just the annual standard. They look forward to it, but I want them to get a little more. And I still have not found the WTF thumpy something for my sister. Sigh. This whole year has been challenging so why would I expect Christmas to be any different.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 14, 2014 10:12:07 GMT -6
"WTF thumpy something" for your sister - that's cute; I think it's neat that you do that for her. Have you ever used decoys? Just stick something that thumps in the box in addition to a nonthumpy thing that is actually the gift?
I think I'm closing in on being done. My ex-sis-in-law were talking on the phone this week, and we decided on gift cards for the kids this year; my niece and nephew, except when they were little, have always been difficult to find the perfect something for, mostly because we don't get to visit often enough for me to know their tastes well. It used to feel to me that gift cards were an easy way out just because you don't have to put a lot of thought into them. Honestly though, they're all (our kids and my brother's) at the age where finding something they'd really like is difficult...unless it's something they pick out themselves. A Barnes and Noble gift card is perfect for my niece, and a sporting goods store card is exactly what my nephew would enjoy the most.
Hubs is always the most difficult. Still haven't a clue.
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Post by stepper on Dec 14, 2014 19:45:13 GMT -6
Well, I got desperate so I made a few phone calls. Turns out sis and her hubs both like chocolate. That evolved into a twelve can soda box cut down to a third and then reformed into a box. With a surprising amount of strapping tape. That got wrapped. Inside the box is a bag of Hershey's Kisses that leave copious thumping room - I'm told the fact there is only one bag may be a point of dissension.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 16, 2014 7:13:32 GMT -6
You say this as if it's a surprising thing. Who doesn't?
Hubs by far the most difficult person on my Christmas list. For months, BP and I have kept a list of little things he might say he needs or wants. Problem is, we turn around, and he's gone out an bought whatever it was he said he needed.
I think I've got it though - Red Wings tickets!
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Post by stepper on Dec 16, 2014 19:01:43 GMT -6
The real surprise is how many are giving up chocolate candy. I know several people who are backing off soda's and sweets because of the sugars - including my nephew. He's going for his black belt this week - and one of things he did was give up sodas and, for the most part, candy including chocolate. When I was a high school junior, giving up chocolate wasn't on the menu. This morning I mailed all the stuff that has to go out of town. I still have things to wrap up for Steppet, and two that are staying local, but I'm done shopping and shipping.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 17, 2014 8:13:30 GMT -6
Yeah, I know people who don't like chocolate - LX is one of them, a sure indicator she was switched at birth - a child of mine who doesn't like chocolate? Pfft! She wouldn't even touch it until she was a teenager (except in chocolate chip cookies), and then only dark chocolate (ok, so maybe she is my child; dark chocolate is my preference by far. Way less coyingly sweet.) Actually, both girls can either take or leave chocolate! None of us drink soda - the kids can't stand it, and I'll only have it on the rare occasion that I use it as a mixer. Hubs rarely, rarely eats sweets...except gummy bears of all things; he's addicted to them, I think.
My latest chocolate fix are cocoa dusted almonds. Glluurk! (<----that is my oh-so-good, no-words-to-adequately-describe-the-yumminess-of-them sound)
Good luck to your nephew!
BP helped wrap presents yesterday; she's had the flu since Sunday (did you know they can test for the flu, with just a throat swab? I didn't, and she doesn't even seem like she has the flu, but tested positive). She was feeling much better yesterday, but doc said to keep her home through Wednesday (That's today? I seem to have lost track of the days lately). I got the package mailed yesterday to my niece and nephew, and am done with my mailings. Decided against Christmas cards this year; most people would call it an eye-rolling decision - I looked everywhere I happened to be that sold cards, and honestly couldn't find any that had both a picture and inside verse I liked. The verses all seemed gorpy and overdone. Hoping to send out notes for the new year instead.
Decided against Red Wings tickets for Hubs too, and instead went with tickets to a Michigan Wolverines hockey game. The scheduling is better - because of the game times, Detroit is an overnight trip; Ann Arbor we can do in a day. Should be a fun little getaway I know he'll enjoy.
No Christmas avatar this year, Stepper?
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Post by stepper on Dec 17, 2014 21:36:28 GMT -6
And she gets more for Christmas than a lump of coal?? You ARE a forgiving person.
Now you're just having me on.
I got addicted to soda while in Turkey. The water came out of the tap yellowish with small flakes in it. The base was always reminding people that it had been tested and was safe, but to quote a friend, bluck bluck bluck!!! What bottled water I purchased went to cooking - it was a rare commodity. Sodas were everywhere and since there were no taxes, it was cheap. There was a machine right outside my door at work, and what they had as a commissary was usually well stocked for sodas. Surprisingly enough, the Pepsi on the local economy was also good. Soda was the only thing I drank for 2.5 years. (I went TDY to Germany and no one understood my fondness for iced water.) When we came back in November '86 I was hooked, an addiction I did not resist. Eventually soda became too expensive and I forced myself to learn to drink coffee instead - at least at work - because of the $$. I prefer tea but it really wasn't that readily available. Finally I got my own coffee pot and had only hot water in it so I could make tea. It was also used by some people for hot water for those dry soup things where you just add water to the noodles. Now, when I go out to eat, I get iced tea with the meal instead of soda, but more than anything else, I drink sodas. And yes, I know it's a serious sugar thing. I don't frigging care.
Steppet is a certifiable choco-holic. Besides straight up Hershey's, Kisses, M&M's, etc., she's also been eating frozen fudge bars like a starving wolf on a fresh a steak bone. I like chocolate, but I'm not that bad.
There's a time saving idea! Of course, Hallmark won't celebrate that idea. I had mine done in just a couple hours - and I think I'm somewhat as choosey, but generally I prefer the card say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays. Aside from that, if I like the look it's good enough.
I would have thought that was part of the selling point for the Detroit thing.
On the contrary, there is one. "Nothing" isn't an option which I mentioned to FBM. Bless her speedy heart, the next time I signed on I had been rewarded with my current avatar. It's a single, itty bitty pixel and serves quite well.
Here's an easy present - Steppet announced that she wanted me to stop shaving. I'm not a fan of the look, and since it's just starting I simply look like I'm stupid and forgot to shave, but at least until after New Years I'll let it go. At the rate I'm progressing I'll almost have a 5 o'clock shadow by the time she says it's okay to clean up.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 19, 2014 7:23:54 GMT -6
Nope. True beans. None of us drinks soda; here we call it pop. All there ever is to drink in our fridge is milk, a pitcher of water, beer, orange juice, and usually some other kind of juice - lately it's been cranberry/pomegranate, which is nice because it's 100% juice with no sugar added. Still...if you're speaking sugars, even though the juices don't have any extra sugar added, I think they're probably just as bad as soda. I'm really not that picky either, I don't think. I don't have a "Merry Christmas" preference; "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" is fine. A simple "Peace" and "Joy" theme is good too. A lot of the cards I looked at were strange though (maybe I was just shopping for them in the wrong places - the shops downtown instead of a box store type place). There was one with a pile of cats heaped into the shape of a Christmas tree; not a photo, but drawn cats, and they weren't cute either - they were mangy, scraggly looking things. The inside of the card said "Meowy Christmas". Why would anyone want to receive a Christmas card with flea-bitten junkyard-looking cats on it? It was either stuff like that, or cards with long, syrupy verses that said things I'd never say. You will be sooo in fashion! It's the latest hot new look! The Lumbersexual! I was teasing Hubs about this a few weeks ago, calling him 'my Lumbersexual', and saying that finally, after all these years, his look is finally in fashion. His best buddy, Xena Sis's Hubs, started laughing. "You shouldn't laugh", I said, "You're a metrojack" - a metrosexual/lumbersexual combo, and yes, these are actually trends. gawker.com/are-you-a-lumbersexual-1657844454
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Post by Phalon on Dec 19, 2014 7:30:12 GMT -6
Joxie, why is that paper-ripped-in-half symbol thing in place of the word X-e-n-a without the spaces in my post?
Never mind, I fixed it.
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Post by stepper on Dec 19, 2014 11:12:13 GMT -6
Not a milk fan any more, and I dislike beer to the point that I gag on it, but you’d have trouble with water, OJ, or Gatorade (lemon lime). I’ve heard people say that kissing a person who smokes when you don’t is like licking an ashtray. I get the same effect with beer.
Can’t say that I saw strange cards, but there were many that I’d never send for pretty much the reasons you cited. Either I didn’t like the picture or I didn’t like what it said, or both. I guess some people think “flea-bitten junkyard-looking cats” would be irreverently funny, but it wouldn’t be my choice.
Ya know, we need a made up word for people who are tired of those stupid made up words. (But having looked at the link, I was reminded that I miss the Gilmore Girls.) I bet we can get enough signatures to legalize a hunting season on the people who keep mashing up words like this or the last names of dating or married celebrities.
Kimye, Brangelina, Bennifer...it isn't cute. Neither is Lumbersexual.
Hmm. Me, a fashion icon. NOT!! I looked in the mirror - it ain't pretty. Some of us weren't meant to have blue eyes, blonde hair, or scraggly @ss beards. I have brown eyes and often there is a noticeable blue ring around the outside of the iris. (A present from mom.) I tell people the reason for the blue ring is that I’m a quart low.
We got another Christmas present – a 1099R for our taxes. And a couple dividend statements from the insurance companies. Looks like it isn’t only the Christmas season that got off to an early start this year.
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Post by stepper on Dec 19, 2014 11:18:55 GMT -6
Phaper? Steplon? Minilon? Phamia? Katmia? Kat-a-lon? Mini-kat? Miniper?
See what I mean?
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 19, 2014 20:03:19 GMT -6
Joxie, why is that paper-ripped-in-half symbol thing in place of the word X-e-n-a without the spaces in my post?
Never mind, I fixed it.
That may have to do with the smileys plugin. I have the names of each group of smileys listed, so it seems to switch Xena to Title which in turn switches it into a broken image. I love glitches. NOT!
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