Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Friday, January 02, 2015

A New Year begins.........

Seems the year goes by so fast....and before we have had time to even think back on all that has occurred ...the present year becomes the past. Before I get too busy with just every day activities again I really want to take a few moments to think back on 2014 and everything that has happened before moving headlong into 2015.

But here it is January 2, 2015 already. Things continue on each day regardless of whether we want more time to "reflect." Work for me is quite slow right now and so many changes will be coming for me in the next few years...I have MUCH to think about.

Christmas for me this year almost did not seem like Christmas. I had snippets of moments where it did..but they unfortunately seemed fleeting. While I am  not entirely clear on all the reasons "why" this was the case....it is how it was. Part of me does not want to take down the trees because I almost feel like I have not yet even had a Christmas...even though I know I have. It too has come and passed.

So......I will try this coming weekend on my days off to take down the Christmas decorations and put up the Valentine's Day lights and clings on my windows while still leaving up all my snowman and snowflakes and other winter-themed items.

Sometimes my head is so filled with things it really seems like someone holding a sloshing fishbowl.

I have tried to remain somewhat creative during this time...and have continued working on my Advent Journal, which I will end up actually using then this coming Christmas 2015. Here are just a few pages....and they are not yet finished. I took an old photo album and removed all those sticky clear sheets from the pages and then added my own papers and trimmings.I have not yet added any page numbers or tabs or all the embellishments I want to....but...here are a few pages so far.


























 

















































Thursday, December 20, 2012

another Silent Night that is also beautiful...




this reminds me at the very end...of the spirits and souls of all those children killed in Connecticut..being swept up into Heaven...such a beatiful song

Friday, February 03, 2012

Sunday, December 16, 2007

We have had a lot of snow this weekend.....

It started early Saturday morning....and did not let up till Sunday afternoon.....here are a few shots out my front door and window to the backyard.

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I have been fighting a half migraine all day. This weather made me want to roast a turkey so I did. I thawed it out last night and enjoyed it today! WOW was it so good and juicy!

Tomorrow Noah's school is on at least a 2-hour delay and they may end up canceling. It is to only be about 14 degrees and windy tonight so that means drifting snow out on the roads in the country where the buses have to drive...so he may get a day off yet.

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Are you ready for Christmas yet?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

I can't get this song out of my brain!


I was listening to Christmas music on the radio last night and this song came on "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" and now I cannot get that crappy song out of my head!!!!!!

Have you heard it? By Gayla Peevey........holy crap......I cannot stand it....it freaks me out!! It has the creepiest sounding voice on the song......reminds me of a Munchkin singing it....it is just creepy.

AND once you have heard it.......it is near impossible to remove it from the soundtracks in your brain.....

I have been listening to "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" marathon since I heard it last night.

It is very much like Chinese water torture.....slow.......relentless........persistent......inescapable.

AND NOW ......to SHARE the insanity........go ahead......I triple dog dare you to give it a listen!

CLICK THE ATTACHMENT BELOW IF YOU DARE!

Song Lyrics: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas(1953)
Words and music by John Rox
performed by Gayla Peevey

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!

Click here to listen 'I-Want-A-Hippopotamus-For-Christmas---Gayle-Peevey'