Yes, the model rocket is mine.

Why you ask, did my husband get me a model rocket for Christmas? Because he's great, that's why. You see every time we go into this one hobby shop I have flashbacks of my childhood. So I tell him the stories about how I grew up in the middle of nowhere (Alligator, MS) and we (my family) used to go to "town"(seriously! we went to Clarksdale) on Saturdays. Mom would drop us (the kids) off at Woolworth's and we could shop (with our dollar allowance) in the stores on that one city block. (It was really the only block, the main drag I guess) So I used to follow my brother Tommy (who was four years my senior and pretty much "God" to me) around. And every Saturday, Tommy would go to the hobby shop and I would follow. He loved to build model rockets so I spent alot of time watching him build his rockets and helping him shoot them off. It was great fun. So now every time we go to a hobby shop, I say to Doug, "We ought to build a model rocket." And for years he's been saying, "Yeah, we should." And now this Christmas season we will.

Ok, so that's not the only great thing he did this Christmas. He also got me a box full of gloves (my hands are always cold), the Giant Book of Origami (I wanted one of those origami calendars so I could create something new everyday...he got me the deluxe kit instead), several DVDs, a blender (we needed a new one) and lots and lots of money that he hid all over the house and gave me little clues (a treasure hunt) on where to find it. Things like that constitute greatness, to me.

Now, of course, all of that made Christmas fun, but the best part was getting to go to Church on the actual holiday. It really made it special. I think we should have church every Christmas day whether it falls on Sunday or not. I know some churches probably do, but ours never has. So, I think I'll suggest it.

If only I had known.......

I would have started model rocketry a long time ago.

Christmas ghost stories

Ok so yesterday as Doug and I were riding around in the car, a popular Christmas carol was on the radio. I do not know which one it was (and neither does Doug) but I swear it says something about telling "scary ghost stories"...... I am not kidding....... I have probably heard this song a billion times and I had never heard that line......"scary ghost stories" until Doug pointed it out. And so we both went...."What? Scary ghost stories? There are Christmas ghost stories? Hey, why haven't we heard them? All these years we've been missing out! We've been cheated.....no one has ever told us a scary Christmas ghost story! Uh, what's up with that?"

Merry Christmas

We're Baaack.......

We had to buy a new hard drive. We're having to reinstall every program we had, but we are on our way. Yay.

I get a whole month off from school and I am very excited about it! On my first couple of days off I was so happy to be alive that I decorated the whole house, inside and out. (ok Doug helped with the outside) I even bought a new wreath, put lights in all the windows, and put lights on the little tree outside. I haven't decorated that much, I think, since the girls were little.

But, in-between creating all this beauty, I was also creating some "Death and Dying" of my own. I killed five innocent little fish. It wasn't intentional, I mean how was I supposed to know that tropical fish need their water heated? (Perhaps the term "tropical" should have been a clue.)
But nowhere in my 2 gal aquarium instructions did it suggest you needed to heat the water. It mentions conditioning the water and buying a lightbulb but no heater. So anyway I go pick out the prettiest little fantail guppies and some neon tetras. And what do I do, I bring them home to the Artic to chill them to death. The tetras died over night but the guppies kept swimming furiously for a day (I think they were trying to create their own heat). By the second day, I had killed all five fish. What a shame. And I had even given them names.

On a lighter note.....Doug and I have a Secret Santa.....we don't know who it is but one of our funny friends is leaving packages on the porch with pieces of a nativity scene. Each package has come with a funny poem letting us know there are more pieces to come. The last poem was based on "We three Kings made in China we are." It was funny. So Doug and I have been leaving our Secret Santa cookies and milk in return. (we just might steal this little game and use it as our own next year.....it's quite fun)

I've hijacked Sarah's computer.....

Mine is broken.....which really hasn't bothered me that much now that finals are over. I was utterly and completely panicked when it first crashed. Why? Because I had four papers to write in about the same amount of days...ok well a couple more days but what's the difference when you don't have a computer? Needless to say, I was extremely stressed. My paper writing process usually consists of me sitting in front of the computer for hours and hours on end, lots of food and loud music, too. I really did not know if I could process a paper any other way but guess what.....I found the old fashioned just going to the library with paper and pencil in hand actually still works. I did get to use Sarah's computer for typing and some of the work but I survived without my old routine. Amazing.

I also survived my three depressing classes. For those who did not know..... I took "Death and Dying", "The Problem with Evil", and "Chemical Dependency and the Family" last term. Nothing like reading "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Plague" for Thanksgiving break. (it did make me more thankful though) I really liked the Chemical Dependency class. It was one of the few classes I've taken at St. Martin's that I have really enjoyed. I don't know if it was the instructor or just the relevance of the materials....but anyway it was good.

Just to let you know....Burlington Coat Factory never returned my email. But Doug finally cooled off....he never called the corporate office. I do know he will never shop there again though, so if you are on his Christmas list and you happen to get a $40.00 Burlington gift card, well you'll know why.......

(our computer should be back up next week)