Time To Open Gifts

Best Gift Ever!

Decorating For Xmas

Hello Jim & Kim fanatics...and welcome to JimmyPowell.com!
A fun & entertaining site where you can get a glimpse into our little world!

It's that time of the year again...time for our Christmas vacation on the east coast. We're flying into Richmond tonite/tomorrow (red eye) and spending a few days with Barry and Shannon and heading down to SoBo Thursday night but don't worry, we'll still be updating the site. We're making sure that there's a high-speed connection wherever we go so can keep everyone entertained via the web.

Try to catch us if you can....see you soon!

Jim & Kim

This was on Saturday Night Live this weekend and it is by far one of the funniest things I've seen on SNL in a long time. It's Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg doing a rap video about the Chronicles of Narnia except they call it the chronic (what!) cles of Narnia. You'll understand once you see it. Very funn!
    

• http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

Since we travel back to our Virginia roots each year for the holidays our Christmas gets spread out over a 2-3 week period. We kicked off the start of our gift giving Saturday night by opening a few gifts so here's a peek at just a few of the things we gave each other, I mean Santa gave us a week early somehow!

Merry Christmas Kim . . .

Christmas Martini	Let's Get Started	Cinderella DVD	Neeeext
A Cool Watch	This is Heavy	She Wanted This	A Cool Sculpture
You can never go	wrong with clothes!	Photo Software	Goodies

Merry Christmas Jimmy . . .

My turn	Wow!	A 2GB Jump Drive	Neeeext
Willy Wonka Shirt	The Mystery Box	What is this?	Oh hell yeah!
Always wanted one!	BEST	GIFT	EVER!

Instead of a normal street parade Redondo Beach holds a boat parade in the harbor featuring all the local boats decked out in Christmas lights. These Christmas floats really float. Always a neat little event but not the easiest thing to photograph.

Saying goodbye has almost become an art form for us. This time around we were saying goodbye to one of my favorite friends Julie who's moving to Florida just in time for Christmas. We hung out at Suzy's Bar & Grill in Hermosa to have a few last drinks and wish her well. Julie worked for the Redondo Chamber and has truly been a great friend of mine the past few years and I'm certainly gonna miss her. This just adds to the myth that everyone who we becomes friends with here moves away. Ha-ha!

OUR CHRISTMAS - Just 6 more days till we celebrate "our" little Christmas here in Redondo Beach. In light of our trip to the east coast for the holidays, we're going to be opening our gifts next Saturday night. Our gifts have started showing up under the tree including one that has me a little perplexed. It's a long, rectangular box in the back which Kim has demanded I not touch or shake in any way. Hmmmmm? She won't even give me any clues but I'll know in about 6 more days. 

THE EAST COAST - We fly out for the East coast next Monday night (19th) arriving in Richmond Tuesday morning. We'll be spending a few days in Richmond with Barry & Shannon before heading down to SloBo on Friday to visit with family and friends. We'll post our East coast itinerary on here next weekend so everyone will know when and where to catch us.

Sunday night we had dinner with Cassi & Dale and some of their friends in Hermosa Beach and watched the Manhattan Beach fireworks from their balcony. I guess since we don't get snow here, we get fireworks. It was a great fireworks show that last a good 10-15 minutes. I snapped a few shots which turned out good considering I free-handed it...i.e., sans tripod.

We went to the movies Saturday night to see The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe and it was nothing short of amazing. Every aspect of the movie was faithful to the book (by C.S. Lewis) and it was the first time I've been to a movie where the audience cheered and clapped a dozen times at key moments in the film. You could really tell that most everyone in the theatre had read the book and like myself, were very pleased with the movie adaptation.

The animation used to make the animals talk was spectacular and The White Witch Jadus was played by Tilda Swinton who one tough witch in this film. I'd read all the Chronicles of Narnia as a kid and loved them and recently started re-reading them. Even if you haven't read the books, you should like this film.

Correction: Tilda Swinton was not the Elvin witch Galadriel in Lord of Rings, that was Cate Blanchett. Thanks for the heads up Lori! (I hate when my internet sources are wrong)

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/