December 30, 2009
December 28, 2009
A day of wonderment and delight
My Christmas vacation is almost over. One more day in the land of sun and warmth (if you consider 53 degrees warm). Some highlights of my trip so far...
1. Reading the story of the Savior's birth on Christmas Morning before the opening of gifts. A reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
2. My dad telling my sister and I how proud he is of the women we've become.
3. My plethora of gifts..including...drum roll...THE PERFECT BROWNIE PAN!!! My sister rocks.
4. Jen, Mom and I playing Rummikub and laughing til we cried. Then making a joke that Grandpa always used to make about being tired and needing to go to bed. Then bursting in to tears and crying until we laughed.
5. Cookies. Aunt Lani's delicious chocolate cake. Garlic smashed potatoes made in my brand new pressure cooker. Dad's stuffing. Cheesy grits. Omelets at Dean's Cafe tomorrow morning.
6. Sleeping in til 10:00 every day....and even later on some days!
7. Princess Bride. Cheesey Christmas movies. The Librarian 3. Hours of movie watching on the big screen tv and cuddly blankets.
8. Matching Christmas Jammies for Jen, mom and me.
9. Mom rubbing my arm and tickling my back. She is the best back tickler in all the land.
10. The feelings of love and comfort while being back home with those that love me best.
1. Reading the story of the Savior's birth on Christmas Morning before the opening of gifts. A reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
2. My dad telling my sister and I how proud he is of the women we've become.
3. My plethora of gifts..including...drum roll...THE PERFECT BROWNIE PAN!!! My sister rocks.
4. Jen, Mom and I playing Rummikub and laughing til we cried. Then making a joke that Grandpa always used to make about being tired and needing to go to bed. Then bursting in to tears and crying until we laughed.
5. Cookies. Aunt Lani's delicious chocolate cake. Garlic smashed potatoes made in my brand new pressure cooker. Dad's stuffing. Cheesy grits. Omelets at Dean's Cafe tomorrow morning.
6. Sleeping in til 10:00 every day....and even later on some days!
7. Princess Bride. Cheesey Christmas movies. The Librarian 3. Hours of movie watching on the big screen tv and cuddly blankets.
8. Matching Christmas Jammies for Jen, mom and me.
9. Mom rubbing my arm and tickling my back. She is the best back tickler in all the land.
10. The feelings of love and comfort while being back home with those that love me best.
December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I hope you are all ready for the big day tomorrow. The shopping should be done, the cookies should be baked, and the stockings should be hung by the chimney with care. For Santa is on his way!
If you want to track the fat man, rudolph and his sleigh, you can click here to see where he is. SANTA TRACKER.
I'm off to California for a few days to visit my parents.
Ho Ho Ho and Happy Holiday!
If you want to track the fat man, rudolph and his sleigh, you can click here to see where he is. SANTA TRACKER.
I'm off to California for a few days to visit my parents.
Ho Ho Ho and Happy Holiday!
December 22, 2009
Christmas Cookie Rules
To clarify, I did not write these rules, they were sent to me in an email. That doesn't make them any less true though!
1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you're making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend's first cookie is calories free, (rule #1) yours is also. It would be rude to let your friend sample alone and, being the friend that you are, that makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. Red ones have three and green ones have five - one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. Cookies eaten while watching "Miracle on 34th Street" have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking Causes calorie leakage..
9. Any cookies consumed from someone else's plate have no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to their plate. We all know how calories like to CLING!
10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes NEVER have calories. It's a rule!
So, go out and enjoy those Christmas Cookies - we only get them this time of year!
1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you're making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend's first cookie is calories free, (rule #1) yours is also. It would be rude to let your friend sample alone and, being the friend that you are, that makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. Red ones have three and green ones have five - one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. Cookies eaten while watching "Miracle on 34th Street" have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking Causes calorie leakage..
9. Any cookies consumed from someone else's plate have no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to their plate. We all know how calories like to CLING!
10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes NEVER have calories. It's a rule!
So, go out and enjoy those Christmas Cookies - we only get them this time of year!
December 17, 2009
Dear Bob's Sweet Stripes candies,
You are little melty in my mouth pieces of joy. Why do you only come out at Christmas time? You are the perfect mixture of peppermint flavor with almost the consistency of a butter mint. With just a little crunch to get through your light outer shell you dissolve in to pure peppermint bliss. You are gone so fast that sometimes I'm not sure I even ate you...so I sample another just to confirm and to remember your sweet taste on my tongue.
Truly your only fault is the annoying little plastic wrappers that you come in. Why, Bob's Sweet Stripes candies, do you want to waste my time with these?
Please re-consider a year round job.
Love,
Stacy
Truly your only fault is the annoying little plastic wrappers that you come in. Why, Bob's Sweet Stripes candies, do you want to waste my time with these?
Please re-consider a year round job.
Love,
Stacy
Amy Grant - Boo Hiss
I have a confession. I hope I do not lose friends over this. I despise have a strong dislike for Amy Grant. I really don't think of her all that often...except at Christmas time. Because I love her song Emmanuel. And Tennessee Christmas. And that whole stinkin' album of hers.
But I can't listen to it anymore. I am a woman of principles. Once I decidesomeone is dead to me to dislike someone intensely it takes more than a chipper Christmas song or some sappy ABC tv special to get back in to my good graces.
Here's the thing. I am not a preachy kind of gal. I love all people of all races, religions and creeds. (truth be told I don't really know what a creed is, other than that rock band that my sister intensely despises as well). I was raised to never judge and have had friends and family from all walks of life. But I am proud to be LDS, a mormon, even with all of our crazy ways. And Amy Grant has spoken many times against the mormons and how we are abominations in the sight of God. And then she stole Vince Gill from his wife.
So yes Amy Grant, you have a lovely voice. And maybe you have a lovely heart and personality as well. But I don't see it. And I forgive you....I just won't buy any more of your albums.
But I can't listen to it anymore. I am a woman of principles. Once I decide
Here's the thing. I am not a preachy kind of gal. I love all people of all races, religions and creeds. (truth be told I don't really know what a creed is, other than that rock band that my sister intensely despises as well). I was raised to never judge and have had friends and family from all walks of life. But I am proud to be LDS, a mormon, even with all of our crazy ways. And Amy Grant has spoken many times against the mormons and how we are abominations in the sight of God. And then she stole Vince Gill from his wife.
So yes Amy Grant, you have a lovely voice. And maybe you have a lovely heart and personality as well. But I don't see it. And I forgive you....I just won't buy any more of your albums.
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