Putting Up The Tree

Christmas Ornaments

Decorating For Xmas

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I guess the makers of Prilosec OTC (heartburn medicine) wanted to make opening their product similar to opening lots of presents on Christmas morning. I got this 28 count box of Prilosec over this weekend and could only shake my head at the idiocy of putting boxes, inside of boxes, inside of boxes. Maybe this stuff wouldn't cost so much if they would eliminate all the redundant packaging. There's at least 3 unnecessary boxes here.     

Box #1 From The Store	Inside Box #1,  Another Box
Inside Box #2, Two more boxes	Finally, the product....kinda!
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The owners of this house have done another song/lightshow which is pretty cool. It's not as good as the original one they did but still pretty sweet. Clark Griswald would be proud and whenever I get my first house....you better believe I'm gonna be doing this kind of stuff. :-) Check 'em both out!
     

• http://www.break.com/articles/houselights2.html (NEW)

• http://gorillamask.net/xmasinsanity.shtml (Original & Best So Far)

I was almost at a loss for words when I ran across this...The Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club. This guy is not only a member...he's the president. And judging from this photo....probably very lonely! The have a whole website for people who collect vacuum cleaners, a quarterly newsletter and even have an annual convention. Their news page is pretty cool too! I'm joining today!.........NOT!

http://www.vaccc.com/home.html

• Go to Amazon.com and do a search for laserdisc. (just plain wrong)

• Oral Sex Advice from your grandmother (not cool)

Not disturbing....just funny!

• http://www.gkko.com/flash/444/the-g-spot/ (Adult)

Note: This post will mean nothing to most of you but some of my fellow tech geeks will appreciate it.

I've been learning a new programming language as of late and wrote my first PHP script last nite. I'm working on website for a restaurant and they wanted to rotate their daily special on their homepage. I had already built the rest of the site using PHP includes and decided to try writing a PHP script to rotate the daily special.

It took me several hours to get it write because I was actually putting too many commands in it (echo & print) but once I simplified it, it started working like a charm. I guess less is more! Here's the script for anyone that ever wants to rotate html content on a daily basis. Enjoy Nerds!

Well I guess being around the "infected" holiday crowds over the weekend has caused me to come down with something. I'm not sure if it's just a really bad cold or the flu yet but either way...I'm sick. That's what I get for going around actual people...ha-ha! 

That's another advantage I've enjoyed by working from home. I rarely come into contact with the general public and all their germs and as such, I haven't been sick in years. I wonder if I'm going to turn into one of those old guys whose obsessed with germs? I already wash my hands like 20 times a day. LOL!

Anyway...I'm not bed ridden yet and will be at my post (the pc) tomorrow. 

I'm a HUGE fan of Family Guy and this next video is a fine example of the kind of low brow humor that is so funny. It's Peter Griffin singing some holiday songs that he clearly doesn't know the words to.

Very funny...I only wish it was longer.
    

• http://www.gkko.com/funny-videos/558/family-guy:-a-peter-griffin-christmas/

Everyone knows how I feel about the stupidity of the Muslim religion but I need to give some equal time to delusions of "some" Catholics this week. For the life of me I can't figure out why people are always seeing The Virgin Mary in taco salads, grilled cheese sandwiches or in weirdly formed bark patterns like the picture below. IT'S NOT THE VIRGIN MARY! It's not a sign of anything. It doesn't have healing powers and it can't answer your prayers. It's just a tree.

• http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5375322/detail.html

Related Sightings:

• http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3923170/detail.html
• http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4389444/detail.html
• http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4294324/detail.html

As many of you may have seen over the weekend, I had some falling snow on my webpage, but it had to go...at least for the time being. The java script which made it work conflicted with my rotating pictures and made them stop rotating. I'll see if I can find another one when I get a chance.

After a loooooong weekend of holiday decorating and shopping, we finally crashed on the sofa Sunday night and watched one of our new holiday favorites Elf starring Will Ferrell. Kinda like the Rudolph special and Christmas Vacation, it's not really Christmas until you've seen your favorite holiday movies.

After getting the tree up Saturday night, we spent Sunday night decorating it and putting up some of our other Christmas decor. We decided to go for an eclectic look on our tree this year using every ornament of every style we have. The main thing we decided was not to use garland so we have to buy some more ornaments to fill out the tree some more.

Kim also set up our Rudolph scene...you know...from the Rudolph special that comes on every year. That was always my favorite Christmas show each year and we'll be watching it very soon on DVD.

This is our second year without our good friend Poochie and we put up a little tree in memory of him this year. There's not a day that goes by that we don't think about our old friend  and pulling out all of "his" ornaments certainly stirs up a lot of emotions.

We really miss him.

True to my word, I wasted no time in putting up the tree this year. The only part of Thanksgiving I was looking forward to was the day after so I could start decorating for my favorite holiday. Our tree is one of those pre-lit (and spinning) ones which takes like 10 minutes to put together and two hours to fluff out. My hands and arms were raw by the end of the night.

Someone was trying to be a Grinch this year and didn't even want to put up a tree but that "someone" came around in the end. I'm pretty sure she'll be in the Christmas spirit once she sees her presents piling up under the tree. :-)

Much to Kim's chagrin, I insisted on getting the Christmas tree out this weekend but some good became of it. Since it was such a nice day outside and we rarely dig through all our stuff in storage, we decided to do some "spring cleaning" while we were digging out the tree. We spent most of the daylight hours weeding out junk and who knows, we may even have a yard sale next weekend.

Five years ago during out first Christmas, we were freezing our tails off in twenty degree weather (in Virginia of course) picking out our first tree and here in California we were breaking a sweat in shorts and tees. I certainly don't miss the cold, that much is for sure.

The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reason; they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's capitol.

There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

Courtesy of Kim

I was watching TV this weekend and saw a Honda commercial where they had changed the words of "We wish you a Merry Christmas" to "We wish you a Happy Holiday". Another example of political correctness gone too far. How arrogant is it for a Japanese auto maker to advertise during a Christian based holiday but change the words of a Christmas carol so as not to offend anyone who's not a Christian? That makes about as much sense as Hugh Hefner throwing a Ramadan party at the Playboy mansion.

I found this rather amusing but also very sad. The Muslim world has apparently had enough of infidel Barbie and thus came up with Fulla, the Muslim alternative...shown here wearing her "outdoor" fashion. I'm actually surprised they allowed her face to be shown because in most hard-core Islamic nations, a woman showing her face in public "justifies" her being beaten in the street like a sub-human animal. If her husband Osama "Ken" Laden catches her disobeying Allah's commands, this Fulla doll is likely to have lots of bruises under all that clothing.

Muslims are so stupid!

Several of my east coast peeps told me about this last week and it just showed up on the web. During a live TV broadcast, some guy motions for this preacher to come forward and then punches him right in the face. I have no idea what his motive was at this point so don't bother asking me. He's not a Catholic priest so that pretty much rules out revenge for child molestation.

(If you don't wanna see a preacher get punched, then don't watch this)

• http://www.break.com/articles/preacherpunch.html

Yes, we looked at rings this past weekend but there won't be any "big news" until sometime in 2006. In other words, don't be expecting anything when we come home for Christmas this year. We just started looking and if there's one thing we never do, it's make major purchases in a hurry. We will be taking our time and finding the "perfect ring" so again, look for news on that front in 2006.

(We're already married in our hearts and have been for a loooooong time!)

For centuries, Hindu women have worn a red spot (known as a bindi) on their foreheads. We have always naively thought that it had something to do with their religion. The true story has recently been revealed by the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC.

When a Hindu woman gets married, she brings with her a dowry. On her wedding night, the husband scratches off the red spot to see if he has won either a convenience store, a gas station, a donut shop, or a motel in the United States.

Courtesy of Shannon Powell