I can hardly believe that this year is coming so quickly to a close.
Really it is not a big deal at all.
But.... This is also nearing the end of my year of being 29.

I look forward to the challenges awaiting me on my thirtyith bday. (That looks AND sounds strange)

New Years Resolution?
Hmmm

1. Learn to return phone calls.
2. Travel more
3. Take up spinning. (One class already under my bel, thanks seestor)

Not terribly exciting are they.

Will have to do for today.

So, have just sent out an xmas greeting, and then realized that I had better update this page.
So, will do the tech thing and cut and paste what has been sent to all. Much faster, I would presume.


Dear Family living in warmth.
We certainly are not. Mum’s house according to Sarah is a true British home. We are all wrapped up in blankets and are sitting in one room. The weather is not white, which is fine with me. I am all about Global Warming.
The loot has all been ripped into and this Christmas is another roaring success.
Lorne confirmed to me that the fifty dollar bill that one of my monsters passed to me, is defiantly counterfeit, and I am anxiously awaiting reporting it to the community officer when we return to school.
Sarah has been busy making fun of me as I have been sick, and she is now wrapped in a blanket having a morning nap, my cough is now her cough.
Grandpa was delighted as he received a gorgeous head lamp and by the time I got up this morning he had the batteries attached and had given it a test run. He also is surrounded by lovely chocolates that were brought back from London.
Grandma got lots of lovely things. Her favorite being her new printer and mouse. She is now really established as modern woman. You should have seen her. She picked up the box and without opening it she knew what it was. Then she confidently said that the next thing must be a mouse. I tell you. Our next project is to redecorate the tv room at her house with a work station for her. She wants to wait for after xmas as there is too much going on here at the moment.
I have taken to not bringing all the presents out at once. I have a lovely pair of PJ’s for grandma at my house. She might just have to wait until her birthday. I also bought Mum a lovely serving bowl that is impossible to wrap. We all have visions of a small bird served on it, or a large salmon. Maybe a suckling pig, although we don’t eat those kind of things.
The Thompson’s were all over last night. They are all so tall that I felt that I was in my element. We all went to church and Grandpa and Lorne stayed at the house to sleep, I mean make sure that all the presents were safe. All the ladies wore black bottoms and red tops, we were quite spectacular. I watched with horror as one girl in her 20s had her feet resting on the top of the pew in front of her. Keith was shocked that someone was sitting worse than he was. Hmmmm!!!!
Dawn gave me a Region of York Firefighter calendar which I think she really wanted to keep herself. She even had some of the men sign the calendar.
Mum has taken to knitting and no more of those obsessive little squares that you showed her how to make. We are all getting new scarves and they are very lovely. Mark had mine wrapped around his neck last night and has requested a blanket be made for him as he does not want a scarf.
We are off to Ingersol this afternoon for more mayhem with the Weekes. We have the annual bid to see what time we will eat dinner at. AC is much better than she used to be. One year we arrived around 4pm and the turkey had not yet been put in the oven. The call came this morning that the bird went in around 10:30am. We shall see. I once waq in the States for turkey day and the fuse blew on the oven. There was no turkey that day.
Rang Barbara and Steele and they are all well. They were just sitting down to a quiet dinner. That is not what xmas is all about. It is about large amounts of people, and arguments, and picture taking. FUN FUN FUN.

Hope santa finds you well, and take care

Love to all from all.

KJ

Buttons and Snotty Kleenex.

So everything that I put on today that had a button... is now sans one button. How bizarre.

Saw the craziest thing today in Black's Photography.
This kid was wailing away, arms and legs flying, snotty kleenex in hand....

And then he whipped it at the lady standing behind him in line.
It bounced right off her face. Who knew that kleenex could fly so far?

The women's face that it hit... priceless. The funniest look of revolt I have ever seen.
She even tried to duck and took it deeper on the face.

Not right to laugh as I still am snickering 8 hours later.

Je me demande des fois comment le coeur functionne. Chaque fois que notre coeur est brise, on insiste qu'on ne tombera jamias encore en amour. On ne l'ouvre plus. On ne donnera jamais l'access a notre esprit. On insiste avec notre ame que la prochaine fois on ne tombera jamais si profonde, si vite. Il est inevitable quand meme. Il n'est pas un choix qu'on peut faire. Au moins, je ne suis pas capable de controler. Je crois que c'est mon desire de donner et se sentir voulu.

K

So how do you deal with a person that says something that they mean to come out as a compliment and it just comes out like an insult.

Turn and walk away. I guess.

I am officially finished my xmas shopping, and someone is getting something spectacular. Have put up my baby tree up and started to pile up the little tidbits that I have collected here and there.
Let me repeat, someone is getting the coolest present ever.

And to those devious enough to open their presents before Christmas...

If anyone is interested in getting me anything... a nice man would be the only request.

Have Leaf Tickets for sat night. I am a great date....

Ever do something and not realize that you are doing it?
I was driving home from work on friday and was trying to convince myself to not go shopping.
I saw this water delivery truck driving down the road. It was a Pure Tap Truck that delivers bottled water to homes and business. It was a company that my dad started years ago and sold. So the next thing I know I am following this truck to the outskirts of the big bad city. And I didn't even realize that I had followed it so far. And for what reason?
Very strange.

On another tangent, had some gum last night. It was the strangest sensation. It tasted like gum. Not like a flavored one, but an original flavoured gum. It was bizarre. ORIGINAL? Hmmmm

So I have been watching “The Simple Life” with the Hilton and Ritchie girls.
I know! More reality television. It is so wrong. But why is something so wrong so funny.
So in the first episode, the girls are sitting around the table and Nicole (who I think is the more intelligent of the two) asks if the kids hang out at Walmart. Paris, the future scholar asks what Walmart is. Now, bless her cultured soul. The rich thing (I was about to say poor thing… as if) would never have come into contact with common world things like a crazy superstore. The fact that she has the ability to laugh at herself to me is just priceless. When they go to the grocery store and spend more money than they have, they ask if they can have the over purchased items for free. The man laughs at them and tells them that his store is not a soup kitchen. As they tear away in their beater truck, the laugh as they ask each other what a soup kitchen is.
So here I am in my classroom and the kids are writing a unit test on The Chrysalids. One of my little angels comes up to me and asks me what “hired help” is. A collision of two worlds I tell you. He must not be from the Hilton, Ritchie clan.