You know a man of my ability
He should be smokin on a big cigar
But till I get myself straight I guess Ill just have to wait
In my rubber suit a-rubbin these cars

Well, all I can do is a shake my head
You might not believe that its true
For workin at this end of niagara falls
Is an undiscovered howard hughes

So baby, dont expect to see me
With no double martini in any high-brow society news
Cause I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues

Cause I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues
Yeah I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues.

JIM CROCE

All day… All day it’s been going through my head…

We will be heading to Detroit this Christmas. I was hoping to head to Florida to be with my Grandparents, but financially it just isn’t in the cards.

So we will be heading to the Motor City, where Ben and I both have family we love. My parents are going too so we will all be together.

My Father-in-Law sent me a preview of their beautiful tree so I could share it with all of you!  There are some things I should explain about a McG family tree first.

• All ornaments are glass.
• No ornament should be touching another.
• No ornament should be touching a branch.
• Bird nests will be allowed in the tree, other then that, no other form of ornamentation other then lights and glass bulbs will be allowed.

There… now you know the rules for the McG tree… Ben has relaxed a little with his tree, He now lets the kids put the ornaments on and then he goes through and fixes the tree. It works. Also he allows me to get glass ornaments that are different shapes. It’s all good and the trees always look beautiful. When doesn’t a Christmas tree look beautiful!

This years tree is special to them because they cut it at the family farm just before they sold it.

Very pretty isn’t it?
My tree is going to look incredibly tiny now!

Do any of you have special rules for decorating?
What are you doing for Christmas?

 Today is my day of freedom! I am off to the cabinet company to work and make merry. Ben is putting the lights on the tree now, so tonight when the kids get home we will finish decorating. I have so much to show you and so little time!

Did you see some of the VERY cool links that people left? If you haven’t gotten a chance you should cruise the comments section on my last entry…

You have GOT to try this one out….

It is now one of my all time favorites… Thanks MeezerGirl!

And THIS ONE… has unfortunately become one of Cooper’s favorites…

Thanks A LOT Carpus! 

OK… I will have good stuff later… I will… I hope. :-S

OKAY

Now I want the stupid Hooters post to be over and done with… but I HAVE nothing else!

We won’t decorate the tree until tonight. So until then… I will LINK…

I am going LINK crazy…

Here are some sites from my favorites list.

I am addicted to this one. Free Rice   I’ve only gotten to level 44… Ben has reached 47… It’s funny we often play together and average 42…    Allo Darling steered me here.

Picture town I love looking through peoples pictures… And OF COURSE I want to win a trip to Tuscany… If one of you wins because of MY link! You’d better take me with!

Suzi Blue I don’t remember who I got this from… someone on Xanga… But I love checking on what she’s doing, she can be a little odd… but aren’t we all.

Chip Simons  I like thinking Hmmm… I could do that. I found this site through. Streetphotos

Okay… Now I feel better… Hope you enjoy checking out the things that I like checking out. If any of you have links from your favorite places you want to leave, I WOULD LOVE THAT!

Leave me a link to your favorite site… Please!!!!!!!!!!!

The title could apply to one of two things;

My idea or our waitress.

About a month ago they started advertising

Kids eat free on Sunday…

That, an intense craving for chicken wings,

and the fact that I have never been to Hooter’s before.

Made me want to go.

I was a little offended when they built a Hooters in my Traverse City.

It just didn’t seem to go with the dynamic of the town, that and I was wondering who would want to work there?

Well, there were a lot of girls working there, all of them fresh out of high school.

In spite of the sign most of them were brunette…

and all of them looked incredibly uncomfortable in their uniforms.

Which weren’t as bad as I thought they would be, just incredibly tight and uncomfortable looking.

On the list of life experiences that I needed…

this was definitely not one…

The wings were awful!

What was I thinking?!

There must be a science to ordering that I just don’t know.

A couple behind us  had a buffet of wings in front of them, all of them looking better then mine.

She was watching the Green Bay Packers and he was watching the Lions.

They seemed very happy with two televisions each and a pitcher of beer between them.

Well the kids had fun.

When I told Ben he was right…

(He loves hearing that…)

Hooter’s was awful and we didn’t need to go back.
The kids were shouting WHY! WE LIKE IT!

OH BOY.

In other news!

We went to get our Christmas tree.

Let the decorating commence!

People need to realize that everytime they talk about how “fragile” our planet is, It’s just like asking outer-space aliens to come invade us. ~ Jack Handy

Right now I want to be there.

I want to feel the bass vibrating through my body. I want to slam against the person next to me with no regard for mine or their personal safety. I want my ears to hurt from the noise. I want to feel, anything but what I am feeling right now.

Mildly apathetic.

Last night Ben jumped out from behind a door and scared me. My immediate response was “THAT’S NOT FUNNY!” I was pissed for a half a second and then I started laughing hysterically I was laughing so hard tears were running down my cheeks. It would have felt much better had my head not been aching from caffeine withdrawal, but it still felt good.

My favorite jokes were always played on my family. We used to dump cups of cold water over the shower curtain on unsuspecting people who neglected to lock the door, I unfortunately was the recipient of many of these.  We once ran a toy cockroach over the table at my Aunts house during a card game and watched her drop her cards and scream. My favorite person to play jokes on is my sister.

When we were younger, the laundry room was in the basement of our house, a cold dark area that no one ever wanted to go so we often went together to change the laundry. As I was walking across the floor I noticed a string had caught on my foot, when I pulled it a cloth across the floor moved. SO naturally when D came out of the laundry room I yanked my foot, causing the cloth to leap, and yelled “RAT!” I have NEVER seen my sister fly up stairs so fast.

Ah good times. 

Have you played jokes on others? What’s your favorite one?  

OH and don’t worry… I have plans for Ben… MUAhahahaha… cough, cough, hack.

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I’m still having great fun playing with photoshop and exploring all of the tutorials out there.  I just finished a project for my sister and I think I’ve created a monster because she just emailed me two more things she wants done…

This is for a pin to celebrate her 1000th find.

I think I’m getting the hang of this photoshop stuff.

Bring it on!

Check yourself. How often do you check yourself?

Recently  I have stumbled across several questions and articles on the internet that have made me think about who I am as a person.  One of them was posted by our own illustrious Theologian…

I can’t remember it word for word and I am to lazy to look for it right now. (still sick)

If you had to stand before God right now and convince him to let you into Heaven, what would you say?

Now I’m not looking for an answer to that one from anyone, I’m sure that the answer is pretty standard… Christ died for our sin… yadda, yadda, yadda… I’m  NOT trying to belittle this, it  just isn’t what I am looking for. 

If you had to defend yourself… What would you say? Would you feel good about your defence?

Regardless of whether you believe in Heaven or God or Jesus… Would you feel good about the life your living and the way your living it?

What constitutes a life well lived? Kindness to others? Helping others? Living yours to the fullest? Fulfilling your dreams?

I’m looking for answers people. Believe me, trying to find them while I’m hopped up on cold medicine… NOT an easy task. (and still no caffeine!)

What do you think?

Managed to get out and about today.

YOU LOOKIN AT ME?

I like the bits and pieces of nature I see in the winter.

THE END