Monday, January 31, 2005
I'm pretty darn proud of myself!
I went out on the first run of the season this evening. More like the first run in, well, months. I know - shame on me but it wasn't entirely my fault. The weather has been kinda shitty. If it wasn't snowy, rainy, or wet, it was just too damn cold. It wasn't exactly warm today but it was warmer than it has been and the wet was at a minimum. Besides, after the communte I had this evening, I needed to burn off some steam. Some woman pulled out in front of me and I mean RIGHT in front of me. It was enough to make my life to flash before my eyes. You can bet your booty I was laying on the horn and calling her every naughty word in the book. LOL This little episode is what started the newest section in my sidebar. I've decided to post the license plates of the worst drivers I come across in my area so you know who to avoid should you visit. :P
Anyway, back to the run and the main reason behind this post......
I was really surprised because even though it had been months since I last went out, I had only lost half a minute per mile on my time. When I was running all the time, I usually averaged about eight minutes for every mile and probably could have shaved that down to seven and a half if I only ran one rather than multiples. At least I now know all my hard work hasn't totally gone down the drain during my time off. :)
Otay, I's be off now chil'en. Til next time....
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Sunday, January 30, 2005
Pure Romance is a barrel of ha has
One of Ant's co-workers had a Pure Romance party yesterday. For those of you who don't already know, these are parties given by women for women much like Tupperware gigs but rather than selling kitchen products, sex toys, lubes, fragrances, etc. are talked about and sold. I must confess when I first got the invite, I had mixed thoughts about going. Most of the stuff I knew would be discussed just isn't my bag and that along with not knowing what kind of activities might take place especially with people I don't know that well was enough to make me not want to go. I decided, however, to go anyway. As the old saying goes, "Don't knock it before you try it." To make a long story short - I was glad that I went. I had a really good time even though a lot of the stuff that was shown wasn't anything I cared for (expensive as hell too), it was nothing but laughs and I think that even someone who isn't comfortable around those sorts of things would enjoy it.
Well, that's all for me for now kiddies. Til next time.....
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Weird, Wild Stuff
I rushed out to the store after I got home from work because I wanted to be back in time for American Idol. I don't watch a lot of tv but I do enjoy seeing this show along with a couple of others. Needless to say I was rather cheesed off when I returned home only to find out they put a fuckin ball game on instead. ESPN Plus sucks big ass donkey balls! I raise my middle finger to the Fox network.
Well, since Fox decided to screw me over, I thought I would check out and see what else was on - Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Cool. It's not quite the same as when I was little and Jack Palance hosted it but I figured what the hell. Let me tell you, then come up with some really wacky shit for this show. It's the kind of stuff that makes me think of The Weekly World News except this stuff isn't made up.
This is a list of the people they featured:
- Two daredevil types who get a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of helium party balloons and "fly" them. They actually attached themselves to the mound and went up to something like 18000 feet. Far enough that the air was so thin they had to use oxygen and the camera they had with them malfunctioned.
- A woman from Thailand who had coiling done removed them. It turned out that her neck muscles were so weak that she decided to have them put back on. It has been discovered that although coiling appears to stretch your neck, what it actually does is compress your collar bone, rib cage, etc. Where do people come up with the ideas that things like this are a sign of beauty anyway? YIKES!
- A guy who had cancer of the penis and had to have it removed. He decided to have his middle finger amputated and used as a replacement. From what was said, when it was all said and done, everything was fully functional.
- This one was really gross and just the thought of it makes me want to gag. There is guy who swallows snakes, let them swim in his stomach for a brief period and then harfs them back up alive and well. MOST DISGUSTING!
- Next up, the tiger man. This guy is a total freak. He was supposedly of Native American decent and was given a name meaning "stalking cat" so what does he do, decides that he needs to turn himself into an actual cat. He had facial tattoos done in the design of a tiger face. He also had silicon implants to shape his face like a cat and a clef put in his upper lip. Oh yes, let's not forget the custom shaping of his teeth and the surgical alteration to his ears to make them pointed. He hasn't stopped there though. In this episode, we was fitted with metal studs in his cheeks in order to attach whiskers. During the follow-up dialog, it was mentioned that this guy is planning to even go as far as having an animatronic tail connected to his tailbone. WEEEEIIIIIIIRRRRRDDDDDD!
- Last up - balloon bikinis. Seems some guy in France decided to take the idea of making animals out of balloons to the next level. Although the garments were quite unique, they weren't the best for swimming because of the float factor. They also weren't the best for dry land either as they could be easily popped. Just the thought of one of those snapping on one of my sensitive areas was enough to make me cringe. LOL
Ok kiddies, time for me to move on. Project Runway is on and it will be a cold day in hell before I miss it. LOL
Until next time......
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Yay! The snow is going away!
Today we got close to 50F if we didn't actually hit it (last I knew we were sitting at 46F). That big evil snow pile sitting out in our side yard making things a total bitch to exit the drive has started to noticeably shrink - FINALLY!!! Of course the downside is all the water it leaves in it's wake. Normally, I don't hate water so much (I am a swimmer afterall) but I do when it messes up my clean black car (any of you who own a car this color can understand the issues here) and keeps me from doing the things I really want to do like street skating and running.
Before the weather went to total shit around this dump, I had been spending my evenings out on my rollerblades "terrorizing the town" on my "off" nights from running. I used to go to the rink for adult night on Thursdays but the music there just started to wear on me. I swear the kid playing it thought we were half dead or something. It's not that I didn't like the songs themselves, I just didn't like them to skate to. My thought is if you are going to skate to stuff, it should have a good beat (dance music or Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart for speed skating) but what do they play? Stuff that I could fall asleep to. I'll just take my little Sony MP3 player with hours upon hours of music I like and hit the streets thanks. Of course with all the water out there, that won't be happening for awhile. :(
I thought maybe I would at least be able to squeeze out a run tonight but did that happen? NOOOOOOOOOOO thanks to Lake Bridgewood just down the street. I'm not a puss to run in drizzle (did that a lot when I lived in London and actually liked it) but when it comes to navigating a puddle the size of the Atlantic which is in the middle of the street - forget it! Oh and of course the sidewalks aren't any better. They never did come around to shovel those properly so if there wasn't a puddle on them, there was a pile of snow - LOVELY NOT!
The rest of the week it's supposed to be colder so maybe that will kind of freeze things up a little bit and I can finally get out for a run at least. Then again, by the time the road conditions are acceptable, the stupid weather will be back to throwing its wintry mix at us. Curses to the bastard weather God!
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Monday, January 24, 2005
Where to go?
Anthony and I have decided to take a little mini trip for our anniversary this year. Now the biggest question is - where do we go? Two years ago, we drove (yes drove) to Vegas for a week's stay at New York New York. It was fun and I liked being some place warm, but since we aren't the biggest of gamblers, a week was a little long to be there. There was also the fact that Ant hates to fly and basically will only board a plane if we are going to England to visit his family (puss LOL).
At the moment, we are looking at three places (kind of our old hangouts). Chicago, Minneapolis, and Kansas City are the "big three". Unfortunately, all three of these places have the potential of being butt cold over the Valentine's Day holiday, however, the shopping is decent (a bit better than Des Moines anyway) and hopefully we will be able to find a good club - preferably one that places electronica/trance/house. If anyone has any ideas on that front let me know!
Alright kiddies, I'm off to watch the Super Nanny work her magic. :P
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Sunday, January 23, 2005
New Look!!!
After a couple of days of pulling my hair out trying to get this css crap (definitely *NOT* my forte) to work for me, I was able to finally come up with a new look for my home here at Blogger.
The picture at the top is probably THE best photo I have ever taken and I have to say that I am very proud of it. It was snapped with our Canon 35mm digital camera at the October 4, 2003 Def Leppard concert in Las Vegas, NV.
Anyway, I hope everyong likes the new digs. Now that I sort of have the hang of all the coding, maybe I will change things around from time to time - who knows. 
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Fox Network Presents.......The Season Premier Of American Idol
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Don't get me wrong, some of the people on the show are pretty good but others are outright ridiculous and some of the outfits - GAG!!! What tickles me the most is the people who are absolutely awful yet they think they are the greatest thing to hit the scene. There is much to be said for having confidence in yourself but c'mon - these peoples' egos can't be blinding them that much can they? Ok, maybe that was a silly question. LOL
LMFAO - Leave it to find at least one in the crowd who was a drunk, found Jesus, and now thinks they can sing.
Oooookay - Let's end the show with some total psycho chick. Holy cow is she strange! Not only does she totally SUCK! I think she has about five or more people wandering around in her brain - all of their voices trying to come out during the same song too!
Til next time kiddies.....
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Monday, January 17, 2005
Has anyone heard???
My friend and co-worker was listening to a local radio station this afternoon and she said they announced that Def Lep will have Bryan Adams as an opener. Has anyone else heard this info? Personally, I think it is great if it is true. The funny part about it is that the other day on my way home from having my hair done, I was listening to Four Letter Word and when it started, I couldn't help but think that it sounds a lot like Bryan Adams' song The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You.
Guess we will have to wait and see if my friend really heard what she thought she heard. ;)
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Sunday, January 16, 2005
Dammit Dammit Sonofabitch!
Last night when I was getting ready for bed, I managed to rip one of my contact lenses in two. I'm sure part of why it split was because it was two years old and technically, you should only keep the kind I have for a year. In a way though, I was a little surprised because the last pair I had lasted me three years and when the optometrist looked at them, he said they were in excellent condition especially since I wore them everyday from the time I got up until the time I went to sleep.
Oh well, I guess I will be calling the doc tomorrow for an appointment. It sucks though because rather than just giving me a replacement lens, they are going to make me come in for a check up blah blah blah since it has been over a year. They are really shitty about this rule too even though my prescription hasn't changed in over ten years - BASTARDS! At least my insurance will pay for everything so I won't get screwed out of $200 in addition to having to take time off work. At least I am caught up there so taking a full day in order to take care of some other things I need to do along with going to the appointment won't be too much trouble.
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Saturday, January 15, 2005
Decisions Decisions
Today I made my trek to Ames to get my hair highlighted and cut. The drive belt on my car is starting to wear out, so I asked Ant if I could drive his. Obviously a drive belt is not something you want crapping out on you when the car is running and you especially don't want this happening on an interstate in the middle of nowhere on a butt cold day where the high temperature is all of 7 not including windchill. Anthony had asked that I put some air in the tires on may way there. I thought that would be easy enough especially since there is a Kum N Go just down the street on my way out. Ten extra minutes should be more than enough. I really need to start adding about ten minutes to whatever amount of time I think something will take to my calculations.
It ended up taking me two or three of those ten minutes just to get out of the driveway since Mr. Snowplow man was so kind to put the eight foot pile at the end of the street right by where our drive is. Even in my car I have to do some jockeying to get out so you can imagine what the case is going to be when a longer/wider car is involved. After I finally started down the road, the next task was the tires. The first three went along smoothly. The fourth - GRRRRR! I don't know what the deal was but it seemed like no matter how I put the nozzle on the valve, it was letting the air out of the tire rather than putting the air in. Rather than increasing the pressure from 30 to 35, it went down to 24. YIKES! I knew I was really getting short on time and I was afraid I would end up making the tire even more flat so I decided to call Ant and ask him to bring me my car so I could make my appointment. I called twice in a row - no answer. Well SHIT! What is the point of having a flippin cell phone if you aren't going to answer it? With that, I decided to give it one more shot to see if I could get it to work. Thankfully, I was able to manage it and was finally on my way by 20 to 11 (my appointment was at 11:30). I made it JUST in time.
Two and a half relaxing hours and $200 later, I was on my way back home. It was then that I started really thinking about my next car purchase. Ant and I had already made the decision that unless something goes horribly wrong with my car, that we will probably be "taking the plunge" about this time next year. By waiting until then, his car will be paid off and that way we will only have to pay for one at a time plus the insurance on his car will be that much less - financially it just makes the most sense.
On one hand, I'm excited about getting a new car but on the other, I'm sorry to see my black 1997 Sunfire go. It's been a VERY good car to me and except for a few minor blemishes which could be easily fixed (knock on wood), it's in very good condition for its age and mileage. Nearly 175000 miles and I have only had to make one actual mechanical repair that was over and beyond your normal maintenance. I only just had to change the battery this past May. The clutch, headlights, etc are still the original parts which were on the car when I bought it new nearly eight years ago. There's also the idea of possibly taking on a car payment again. I was hoping that we would be able to bank the extra money for awhile and depending how much the payments are, we may still come out on top if they are less than the payments on Ant's car but still, I would rather be putting away $1500/month than only $1000.
Anyway, here are some pictures of the cars who have made my short list. All that is left to do now is to find what data I can concerning the quality of the cars and to go to the dealerships and take some test drives when the purchase time comes around.
Audi TT
BMW Mini Cooper S
Chevy Cobalt
Mazda RX-8
Mitsubishi Eclipse
Nissan 350Z
Saturn Ion
Saturn Sky
Volkswagon Beetle
As much as I like the TT and 350Z, I don't know if I could justify spending nearly $40000 on a car since they do nothing but depreciate when you drive them off the lot, but if the statistics deem them the better cars and I'm pleased with the test drive, you never know. The Cobalt, Ion, and Sky, however, already have an advantage going for them at this point - that being that Ant can get a nice discount through work meaning that combined with what we will be able to put down on it, I could end up with little or no payment - gotta love that idea. :D
Oh well, we will just have to wait and see when the time comes.
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Thursday, January 13, 2005
Queer Eye For The Straight Girl
Mediacom channel 72 (Bravo) is showing this program. I like a lot of the stuff they put on especially Keen Eddie (this one hasn't been shown for awhile - probably because there were only thirteen episodes made before it was cancelled...such a shame.), Project Runway (this is right up my alley since I have a Bachelors in Apparel Merchandising, Design, and Production (emphasis in design) - whew what a mouthful!), and Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. This Queer Eye For The Straight Girl, however, has got to go! It sucks the big one! I don't know if it is the people they chose to be the "fab 5" or what but it just doesn't have the appeal "Straight Guy" does. This one is a big old thumbs DOWN! At least Extreme Makeover is on so I will be able to amuse myself with the boob tube during the 8 o'clock hour this evening since it is so fucking cold and snowy on the walks that I can't go out for a run.
Til next time kiddies....
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
The Neighborhood Vampire Is Also The Village Idiot
There's this guy that lives in the house on the opposite end of our street. He seems to only come out in the late day/evening hours so I call him the Neighborhood Vampire. Ant and I have never met him and I'm not sure either of us want to because the urge to choke the living shit out of him might be too great for either of us to control.
I'm sure at this point many of you are asking why we would want to harm this man since he sounds tame enough right? I agree. Keeping different hours isn't crazy enough to justify wanting to off somebody, BUT when that somebody decides revving a Harley at 2am during the summer months to the point of rattling the neighbors' windows and waking them up from a sound sleep is perfectly acceptable, the picture quickly changes. The annoyance doesn't stop there though. One evening when Ant was coming home from work, he drove around the corner where this guy lives in his usual speedy fashion (boys will be boys when it comes to their sports cars ). Evidently it was too fast for the Vampire. He happened to see Ant and yelled at him. Ok so he probably deserved a talking to but from what Ant said, he was over the top.
The event that became the "cincher" to proclaiming this man as Village Idiot Vampire came yesterday when I was driving home from work. The weather wasn't overly great but the commute was a smooth ride. Most of the roads I travel were only wet but it's a much different story when you get to our neighborhood. There is still snow all over because dumbass snowplow man doesn't know what he is doing and the drizzle only complicated the navigation of the mess he left. Anyway, when I get back to our little corner of town, The Vampire was right behind me - was surprised to see him out so early in the day (bahaha). This very man who lectured The Englishman on "safety" was riding my ass so tight, he would have been up in and God only knows where else if I had stopped quickly - FUCKER!
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
What kind of blogger am I?
Found this at Steph's blog. Normally, I just pass these things by but figured what the hell this time.
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You've got a razor sharp wit that bloggers are secretly scared of.
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Monday, January 10, 2005
Why I am hesitant about having automatic withdraws taken from my account
Ant and I decided as a way to help streamline bill paying, we would have our house payment automatically deducted from our checking account. Before that, we were paying the bill online but we actually had to log in every month to set it up for payment. With things like that out of sight out of mind, it can lead to forgetfulness which is why we went ahead and decided to have it done automatically. Things had been going along just dandy until last night when I went in to have a look over our account. Wells Fargo was kind enough to withdraw an extra $317.25 from our account without our authorization. I've never been overly thrilled with this bank and was even less excited about them when I saw their latest trick. When I saw what they had done, I told Anthony, "Someone is going to get their ass beat!"
This morning I called their customer service line and spoke to some drugged up sounding woman named Linda. Lemme tell ya some of these people I swear are dumber than a door knob. I explained to her what the situation was and asked why on Earth they decided to take it upon themselves to snatch an extra 300 bucks this past month when they processed our payment. After she interrogated me with her "security" questions and drew some blood, her reply was, "The extra amount was applied towards the principal." Well no shit lady I can see that online. I didn't ask WHERE is was applied, I asked WHY it was kidnapped in the first place. Ok, so maybe I wasn't that rude with my wording but I was getting a little irritated by that point. At first I thought I was going to have a bit of a fight to get our money back but it ended up I didn't thank God. Although I was in the mood for a good ass whipping, starting the work week off like that is no way to go.
I found out that the reason WF did what they did was because when I had our escrow account removed from our mortgage (why give them extra money every month so they can earn the interest rather than us?) someone forgot to adjust the payment amount for the first payment of the year. Whomever adjusted all the others, but not that one. Since there was no escrow account for that money to go into, WF decided they would just take it and apply it to the principal of our loan without asking rather than giving us the option of refunding us the money - BASTARDS! You can bet your ass that we weren't about to let them get away with doing that. I know, it would be that much more off the amount we owe right but really, it's more the principle of the matter than anything. Banks shouldn't just be allowed to take their customers' money they aren't entitled to in the first place and do with it what they please. Even though the woman acted a little put out over my request for a credit, she pushed it through and was even nice enough to call me back to let me know that it went through.
Check is in the mail today - or so "Wells Fartgo" says it is.
Catchya later kiddies...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Rant Central Headquarters
On an average day, I'm a very calm and quiet person who is happy enough just to be left alone to get on with the duties of the day. On the flipside, there are some things and some people that really just bust my chops and rub my buttcheeks raw. Read on and see what I mean...
It was how warm last week??? Yes folks something to the tune of 60. So what is it now? Cold - Butt cold. All of 20 if that and snow coming down like a banshee. Gotta love Iowa - one of the few places the weather is more fucked up than the people living there. This is only the beginning of my gripes about the weather though. I have an even bigger one involving the ass munches who attempt to plow our streets and driveways and the people who ignorantly think that 4 wheel drive is going to do something for them in this weather. Why? Oh gosh, where do I being? Oh yeah, Mr. Snowplower.
Around 1am this morning I woke up to the sound of scraping outside. Upon hearing this, I thought maybe there was going to be some improvement over the last couple of years attempts at plowing which usually occurred two days after the fact. Pffft! Yeah right - clearly a period of temporary insanity on my part. They plowed alright. The streets only and in the process managed to push a big ridge (about 6" or so) of the white stuff across the end of our driveway. When I looked out this morning and say the handy work, I found myself shaking my fist and giving a one finger salute to Mr. Snowmover. Not that he would have seen me doing it even if he had been out there since his head was evidently stuffed up his butt when he was grappling with the snow.
Later, when I was almost ready for work and prepared to have to shovel my way out, I heard some more scraping outside. What? Did you finally decide to come back and finish the job? Yep, sure enough that's what he was doing. He finished it so well that the 6" mound had grown to 12"! WTF? We pay 120 bucks to the association for this?! Grrrrrrrrr! There is a property management company out there who is just going to love me after it receives my nastygram!
Luckily, the mound wasn't as evil as it looked and I made it out with no trouble. That didn't curb my muttering nasty words as I drove down the street which Mr. Snowplowman was so nice to half clear. To add insult to injury, the half assed plow job that he did do was enough that it exposed the sheet of ice under the snow. He may as well just left it there as it would have been a hell of a lot easier to navigate. The trouble didn't stop there. As I was slowly making my way the ten miles to work at ten to seven in the morning, I got out on the interstate which wasn't too horrible but I could tell there were icy patches at the least. I got on the ramp at the interchange (commonly referred to a mixmaster here) to go from one interstate to the other, I had someone come up behind me, ride my ass, and honk at me for not moving fast enough. Hello second one finger salute of the morning. I couldn't believe someone would have the audacity to do something like that. Yo Dumbshit - ICE, BRIDGE, BEND IN THE ROAD - what part don't you understand?! ARGH! Fucker!
What a wonderful day and it only got better. I get to work and things are peaceful enough, well, until SHE shows up. SHE being the woman who sits on the other side of one of my cube walls. More often than not, she bugs the hell out of me anyway more than just about everyone I work with the exception of one of the guys there. Anyway, if I had a dime for every time the woman mentioned having 4 wheel drive on her car blah blah blah blah blah, I would be so rich, the money would be flowing out my ears! I swear it may as well have been Beavis and Butthead feeding the lines as they do. Hey baby wanna see my 4 wheel drive truck? It runs real good in the snow. LOL Other than this woman grating on my last nerve, the workday was stellar.
The commute home wasn't too bad. Considering the weather reports I had heard through the day, it wasn't bad at all but when I arrived back to the neighborhood, that all changed. Nothing like driving through drifts of snow all over the place because once again, Mr. Snowplowman proved to be plow challenged. The guy gave me the creeps too when I went back out to get the mail. I was walking back to the house and as he drove by he kept looking at me in a way that just made my skin crawl - YIKES!
Otay kiddies, I'm outta here. Project Runway is on and I wanna watch.
Until next time.....
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Well Spank My Ass And Call Me Charlie - She's Back!
Peek-A-Boo! hehehehe
Yeah yeah yeah I know, long time/no blogging. Bite me, I've been busy! Pppplllllbbbbbbssssstttttt
I could bore you all with the lengthy details of every last thing I have been up to over the past couple of months but I think I will be nice (for once) and spare you the gory and gruesome details and go with the Reader's Digest version. What? What's that you say? You want the details? No! My vote counts more than yours - you lose! Neener neener.
- Halloween: This was the first time Ant and I decided to actually dress up and go out to a bar with a couple of friends to "celebrate". Ant went as a bachelorette with a five o'clock shadow (I still can't believe he wore one of my bras! LOL) and I went as a dead hooker. My original idea was a vampiress hooker but I didn't find out the stuff used to mold the fangs I had to my teeth was hard and unusable until it was too late. :( Our friend Jerry went as a Shooters waitress (he was actually chosen as one of those with the best costume) and our other friend Doug went as a zombie. Check out the pics below if you want a real laugh.
- Thanksgiving: A nice five day holiday from work for me (Yeehaw!) which allowed for some extra bonding time with The Englishman. Turkey day was spent at my sister's house and fairly low-key as most holidays for us are. I think the biggest excitement of the day was watching my sister's four cats attempt to latch on to some of the meat.
- Christmas: Christmas Eve everyone gathered at my brother's house in Story City before heading to my folks' place. The only downer of the evening was that my mom told me my niece had a Leapster so Ant and I bought her a game for it only to find out after she opened it, she didn't have the machine after all. Bad Mommy!
- New Year's: Things were fairly uneventful but it was nice.
That's all for now.
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