Whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year I hope you find it complete with the joy and the loving warmth of being with family and beloved friends. I hope you all have a happy and healthy New Year filled with love and laughter.... and may you all find a reason to smile each and every day in the coming year.

My Christmas gift to you all ....

love in your hearts .....

happiness in your homes ....

and peace in your world.

Merry Christmas to you all !

A Safe and Merry Christmas to all

And a Marry Christmas to you and yours also Lauren. :o)

Bah! .. Humbug!

You know, I've never known what the above greeting means .. I just heard it in a movie and thought "hey, I could use that and sound worldly" .. kinda like saying "aloha" .. right? ... *basks in the glow of his worldlyness* ...

So? .. does anybody know? .. I'll be right back .. (*runs off to google the phrase*)

It's Scrooge's dismissive response to Christmas, and all things good in "A Christmas Carol", no?

See here, ya Scrooge, and take your figgy puddin' with ya ;-)

Thank you Lauren :) I too, am wishing you a joyous Holiday Season and a most prosperous and Healthy New Year.


*giggles after reading Keith's above* :P

Um, oops. Merry Christmas.

Humbug - [Brit.] Boiled Mint Sweet

I suppose it means a trifle, or useless sentiment.

Let's be thankful.

Thank you Lauren and the same to all my fellow Caedesians ;=)

I know what Lauren wants for Christmas.. lmao..

My Christmas wish:

since I don't do MUSH very well .. I shall leave you with a story, something I also don't do very well


RE: Christmas shopping

did I ever tell you the story about working at GEMCO? .. it was a store here, opened in November of 78 (I was 18) .. just in time for the Christmas shopping season .. I worked in the warehouse ... people would come in and do their entire kid's Christmas toy shopping .. 6 shopping carts FULL .. they would put it on "layaway" .. which meant they only paid, like, $5 and it was held for them to come back, like a month

the sales girls on the floor, due to the fact they got poor training on the matter, would take these carts to the warehouse and give each one a push .. one cart going here, another going there ... only ONE cart had the tag that said all six carts were together ... I, and others, had the job of organizing these purchases into a location that could be found when the time came

well .. the time came ... one guy, showed up, Dec 23rd'ish .. said his wife was in the car and "ready to POP" with their newborn child .. could I hurry ... I hurried, I couldn't find it, he left, toyless

one lady showed up Dec 24, she had about six tags with about 30 items on each tag .. toys for her kids, mostly ... couldn't find them .. can you imagine? ... my BOSS said to go out on the 'floor' and try to re-assemble the lists .. ??? .. have you ever worked in an environment where the nice decorum of civilized life is cast by the wayside for the sake of a cabbage-patch doll .. or Barbie's Dress-up Playhouse ... the toy aisles were, not only empty, but a disaster zone .. the in-demand items were long-gone .... and this poor lady had to do all of her shopping in a matter of 4 hours, when only 5 minutes ago she thought she was completely done and free of the stress ... la-la-la-la .. I got my shopping done!!


sure, sure, sure .. us 'guys' do that all the time .. rush out and pick up a nice cheery seasonal card .. something to thank our own Mrs. Clause for all her efforts since the last Ho-Ho-Ho punchline ... but, women! they're ill-equipped for this ... had I been married to that poor woman, I think I would have had to splurge for two cards ... and, hopefully, I would have the presence of mind to make sure they were both from different card-bins

hey I just did that.. lol.. all my shopping in 5 hours including groceries..

yeah .. it was your done'ness that prompted me to bore everybody


Your fault!

lol.. sorry.. lol

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY AND A HAPPY NEWYEAR!!!!

One Christmas when the kids were little I got the bright idea to do that very same thing Keith. So about in October we went Christmas shopping & got a slew of Christmas presents & put them in law away & paid like 10 bucks a week or something on & I felt so proud & smug on Christmas Eve cuz we were done & all we had to do was go to the store & get them.

Us & everybody else in Cleveland. We got there at 7 & were there until 4 . And Gary still had toys to put together ! Yeah... a fun & memorable Christmas... gary wouldn't let me do that again.

And yes.... Jacqueline knows EXACTLY what I want for Christmas !!!!

O.O (<--- that's 'cause Jacqueline told me what Lauren wants)

I ... I ... did not know that corn could be used in that way. :o|

:oD

Live & learn Les... live & learn.

*goes off to 'live and learn' ... and in those efforts and process, stops the rotational spin of the earth and people start falling off the planet...*

Oh oh ... now look at what YOU did. :o|

*mars* (<-- my version of 'snickers' ... 'cause, as I am want to say ... sometimes there are enough nutz in the equation)

:oD