Thoughts, that's all

I'm listening to previews of tunes from the Black Keys on iTunes....groovy baby.  Their hit song "Lonely Boy" is great to listen to.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8  (Watch at 0:29 the guy in the window.)  I don't dance at all but this one would get me dancing in my chair or car. 

I think I may download a handful of their tunes.  I just watched a clip of the Ellen show where the star of the above mentioned video is on her show and busts a few moves too.  He's just a random guy at a casting call and gets chosen.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rZnYlhxJs&feature=related

I'm back on the hcg diet, starting the 500 calorie part tomorrow.  I have some beef portions cooked, and celery cut up.  That's my lunch tomorrow.  Time to get back to serious business of losing weight....the easy 20 lbs is what I'm really looking foward to. 

.....Ok, I got a bit distracted...was watching youtube....some clips from the Ellen show, farting dogs, a reporter who pooped her white pants during an interview, the Black Keys and game show bloopers.  I guess that's all the thoughts I have for now.

Christmas 2011

Here's just a little picture summary of our Christmas day on the 26th.

I convinced mom to change the Christmas tree colours this year.  They've been red, silver and gold for many years so this year we dropped the red and gold and went blue and silver instead.

Auntie Tenille, in Ontario, got Saibry a colourful tutu and teddy bear.  I gave Brad the best gift ever!  The Call of Duty MW 3 game for XBox. (pound it!)

The little ones each got their favourite character bubble bath, Toy Story and Strawberry Shortcake.  Caitlin got party lite from Tenille.

I got some awesome Roots leather shoe/boots from my parents....love them!!  And dad got a shop vac.

Each kid got their own boombox from Auntie  Melissa.  Saibry's is pink and Corbin's is blue....when I saw them I grabbed them and was thinking "SCORE!"

Then came the big dinner on Dec 27th.  Uncle Dan joined us from 8hrs away....he's by dad's older brother.  See the resemblance?  I took 4 pics of them at the table and dad's eyes were closed every time!
We had a polish/ukranian dinner this year, something totally different!  Homemade pyrogies with onion sauce, lazy cabbage rolls, ham, brussel sprouts (monkey brains), carrots, and buns.  For dessert was an assortment of cookies and other sweet goodies.

 My cat Loomis settling in on "who-ville" or at least a resemblance of it.

A Full Day with my Crickets

 Getting ready to make the gingerbread train with children's Christmas music in the background....I think the muppets were singing around this time.

 How's my spackling job?!

 Now let's compare.....see the resemblance?  How on earth is someone supposed to even remotely copy what's on the box?!  That icing (even after kneeding it in the bag) was not maleable....it clumped and then when I had to spread it, it didn't want to stick to the cookie.

 They are both so photogenic!

Cheeeeessssse!!

I'll have a Blue Christmas......

The Beginning of the Christmas Decor

This is the first year that the tree colours didn't include green and red.  Took a little bit of convincing by me, but success was to be had.  It's not completely done yet....my sister is bringing over her blue snowflakes and we may go shopping for some more decorations still.

 This is my dad's village.  We used a smaller table this year but placed it in front of the front window, which is different than all other years.  There usually is fluffy snow but instead we used a table cloth as the table is smaller.

And here is the dining/eating area.  Mom has collected reindeer and snowmen stuffies/ornaments so that's what's on the hutch.

The close-up.

A New Blog

http://acreativerealist.blogspot.com/

Here's the link to my semi-new blog if ur interested.  It's not as populated as this one and probably won't be but it's something for me to keep track of my 'creative' moments.