Hey everyone have a good holiday?

Had a bit of a scare last night when my computer went screwy on me but all is good.

Thanks to Tommy Thompson's incompetence, I live in the one country suffering a flu vaccine shortage.

and frenzy. only to have it last exactly a meer 24 hours!

and i sat back and CALMLY WITNESSED IT ALL!!

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excellent weekend flopped on the couch with the Mrs thank you

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:hi: Yer gonna witness it again next winter too.

yes, at times i think :wtf: but in the end, they are like lemmings.

i like lemmings sometimes. :P

I am telling you though, x-mas gave me the oppertunity to finally view some of those really good documentaries like outfoxed and bush's brain, really good viewin.

will suck more thursday when we have part 2.
my nephew is a boring greedy little bastard. not looking fwd to more of him!
so john, did you get your speedos?
if bill murray can do it!!

I instead got new reading material, new movies, and new video games, and new CDs.

My wife and I weren't able to visit my side of the family this year. It turns out my mother came down with a nasty 24-hour stomach flu on Christmas eve, so it's better we stayed home.

Hey, did you see what happened to Big Ben in the game yesterday, he all right? I havent read anything or heard.

He should be alright, but I've heard they may sit him out against Buffalo anyway, just to give him a rest, since next week's game is pretty much meaningless.

I was worried. I was pleased to see the that the Bus had another good game though.

I went over to my folks house and celebrated with my two sisters, their husbands, my little neice, grandma, and my parents. We celebrated on Sunday. The guys watched football all afternoon and then we a had a big dinner followed by exchanging gifts. It was pleasant.

It was nice. There were some great football games this week.

and I can't complain. :)

and say no!

But i am not most people. you know that.

I actually have contemplated getting a celtic cross on my right shoulder honest though.

i was talking about my beliefs. silly kleeb. :hi:

Yeah well I have some pretty edgy beliefs too like my belief that college should be free.

but we still had a nice holiday.

I hope I dont get it, well I hope I get it before I have to go back to school.

my husband is sicker then my daughter and he also complains a lot more than she does. 3 of my neighbors are also down with it too. I'm hoping it will skip me because if i get sick who the hell will take care of everything?

I was sick a couple weeks before we got out for break, and I don't wanna fall more behind but I don't wanna go to school.

with tummy flu...but otherwise it was nice.

hope all is good.

Christmas with out of town families is always such a logistical nightmare, plus two big families and many multiples of kiddos running around. Plus queer uncle sui has a reputation of eccentricity and generosity that must be upheld.

Oh, and having Mom pull out the latest effed up over-engineered christmas piano sheet music she could find for sui to bang out some tunes after seven or eight sniftas of 150 proof moonshine eggnog would have been stressful had I been sober enough to be nervous instead of trying to channel the Liberace christmas special while my peeps were warbling away behind me in their own eggnog induced haze.

But yes all's well that ends well - just 362 more days until christmas again.

the 25th is feast day.

I see.

Sick but still good... dang colds!

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The turkey kicked ass. I've got my recipe down to a fucking art! :D My buddies were basically falling over themselves saying how good all the food was. I'm thankful for that as I almost amputated two of my fingers cutting a squash. I'd hate to have my injury be all for naught.

We had roast beef on x-mas day, that was a good meal.

If you want to learn how to cook, watch the food network and watch it often. Focus not so much on the exact recipes, but the techniques they use to prepare food and how the combine the ingredients. Do this for a few weeks, then start cooking yourself. So much of it is trial and error. If something goes wrong, figure out what is it and then fix it the next time you try. I've learned all I know from doing this, and I'm a madman in the kitchen! OH YEAH! :smoke:

I'll consider it, I gotta learn, I always let the girl who I partnered up with in home ec do the cooking! and she had to help me sew too.

HAHAHAHAHA! Sewing . . . LOL. Sorry about that. :D Just watch the food network religiously, and have you family agree to be your guinea pigs and that's a start. Help your parents out in the kitchen too, and watch what they do as they do it. Within a couple of months you'll be able to cook pretty well, assuming you're not like my little bro. I tried teaching him how to cook in preparation for me going off abroad, but I swear it's like trying to teach trigonometry to a cactus.

And he's an absolutely fabulous cook. He made chocolate bread pudding for dessert, OH MY GOD!!! He watches alot of Emeril. I got him an Emeril cookbook a couple years ago, that's where the bread pudding recipe came from. The techniques are important, I actually watch Great Chefs for that part. Following recipes to the letter when you're first learning can produce great results too!

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I received the "Live Aid" dvd. I didn't see the concert in '85--had to work all day. I was drooling over my 80's crushes (Paul Young, Jim Kerr, Ben Orr), when I realized that they should be gorgeous! It was almost 20 years ago! Even I was gorgeous in 1985!

WHERE did the time go???

And I hope yours was good also, and that 2005 is an inspired one for you.

All good wishes.

If you haven't played, it's hysterical! Great day, everything turned out perfectly. Which makes me extra happy because it was my daughter's first time for putting on Christmas for the family.

It was ok. I'm glad you didn't have computer problems. :-)

T

we had a very nice holiday. Went to midnight Mass, put Santa's presents under the tree and slept for four hours until the wee ones awoke. They love this though, so it is all good.

And he liked the hat I knitted.

Relatives mailed all kinds of fattening goodies.

Kids very appreciative of their rather modest haul, but they're great kids all the time, anyway.

But it's too damn cold!!!!!

It was an anniversary gift, had a great time. Came back with the stomach bug but got over it. Last minute shopping, lot's of cooking. Great times with kids & their SO's. Today, I rest & surf the net!