1. B stands for _______
2. Tis better to give than to receive?
3. Did you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
4. What is your favorite kind of Christmas cookie?
5. Have you ever kissed under mistletoe?
6. Was 2006 a good year?
7. How will/did you ring in the New Year?
8. What will/did you wear for New Year’s Eve?
9. What are your New Year’s resolutions?
10.What are you looking forward to in 2007?
The malls are very dangerous with all of the great post-christmas sales. I went to the Northgate mall today to get a broken nail fixed at my salon and I ended up browsing around the rest of the stores.
These fantastically sexy boots, to the left, were originally over $100 at Baker’s. I snagged them for more than 50% off!
And I may be drawn back to the mall for further investigation on Express’s sale on jeans. ($20 off most styles, btw.) Damn evil malls drawing me in with their seductive sales.
Devon beware; the lemur and I may end up melting some credit cards!
It’s Christmas Eve tonight, which is the perfect time for a charming holiday hymn.
I present to you the best (or worst) rendition of O Holy Night, ever.
Merry Christmas, gang!
This one come from an old letter from an old friend. I like the Latin connection.
Perspicacity
(pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee)
noun:
Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.
Perspicacity comes from Latin perspicax, perspicac-, “sharp-sighted,” from perspicere, “to look through,” from per, “through” + specere, “to look.”
Alright class, please use this word in a sentence. 
Flora (below), is a Komodo dragon living at the Chester Zoo in England. She was pregnant and her eggs are expected to hatch into 8 baby dragon lizards around Christmas.
What makes her story interesting is that she’s never had the pleasure of socializing with any male Komodo dragons. Apparently some other lizards are known to be able to reproduce via self-fertilization, but the Komodo’s ability to do this is a new discovery, which makes them the largest species able to do this.
“The scientists, reporting the discovery in the science journal Nature, said it could help them understand how reptiles colonize new areas.
A female dragon could, for instance, swim to another island and establish a new colony on her own.
“The genetics of self-fertilization in lizards means that all her hatchlings would have to be male. These would grow up to mate with their own mother and therefore, within one generation, there would potentially be a population able to reproduce normally on the new island,”.”
I found this great website where you can find local lazer light shows and insane Christmas light displays around the world.
Bronner’s My Christmas Wonderland
I haven’t added our house as I’m not sure that its officially a “wonderland”, but its definitely a bunch of fun to look at all of the guys that are totally out of control with their Christmas displays.
So after 3 hours, old lights that were burn out, 2 drug store runs, 9 strands of lights, 3 extension cables, 40 sticky hooks, me being a nazi about gaps in the lighting and much frustration due to our only accessible power supplies being inside our garage and behind our house, our Christmas lights are finally up!!!
We ended up upgrading to new LED lights after we realized that our old blue “isicle” lights (that we hadn’t used in 2 years) were burnt out. We used little adhesive hooks that may need to be replaced with little screw in hooks, but we were originally just trying to not freak out our landlord (who lives directly across the street) too much.
And see, Devon? No wolves with BB guns in sight!
1. A is for ______.
2. What are your thoughts on malls during the month of December?
3. Are you done with your holiday shopping?
4. Do you play Holiday music in your house, and if so, when do you start?
5. Elves: Exploited or happy to get work with their unusual pointed ears?
6. Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice or Other?
7. Do you decorate your home for the holidays?
8. Colored lights on the house/tree or white?
9. What’s on your extremely wishful wish list this year.
10. If you have a Christmas tree, is it real or fake?
I just wanted to extend a congratulations to my friend and blog commenter, Lil’ Liberal/Moonbatty who gave birth last night, December 15th, at 10.15pm to a healthy baby boy… With no pain meds…. Hardcore. I totally lost her baby betting pool, but I’ll try to not hold it against Izzie for the rest of his life.
Congrats to mommy and baby!
Alright, I think I’ve officially seen it all. Either that or I’ve found a new art form that has yet to be explored.
I present to you: TamponCrafts.com
I don’t feel super OK with reposting pictures shown on the site, but I really must say the stuff that they create really boggles the mind. And I especially enjoy how they provide direction on how to create the objects they exhibit. My personal favorite is their “blowgun with bandolero”, but I dunno… Their Menorah may just be taking things a little bit too far.
Have I ever mentioned that people have WAY too much time on their hands?