Ho Ho Hold on a minute.....

With Christmas just around the corner....?....I have already mailed out our cards and can sit back and wait for those arriving in my own mailbox.

Back in the day, before computers could do all the magic things that they do, I used to actually cut and paste our cards......not like scrapbooking. Oh No!! I would do collages and strange things that I thought where "creative." I would merrily gather a years worth of pictures, have them printed, then cut them up and arrange them, ever so artfully, onto a sheet and THEN have THAT printed....a lot of energy, trips to the mall and money. Not to mention a fortune in gluesticks!!

One year I made it appear that we where part of the Nativity scene.  Okay, in hindsight, perhaps that wasn't such a great idea.

But I have to admit that I don't ever remember sending something out one that would actually show up under "images of bad Christmas cards" on the InterWeb....like the few here. REALLY...what where they thinking???

Not only is the sweater incredibly bad, but what is with the pose? He sort of looks like Vin Diesel though....before he totally shaved his head, bulked up and got into movies...." A STAR, one day I will be a STAR!!!"

This must be his brother.....ta da! Or.I've fallen and I can't get up

Again - what's with the sweaters? AND are all those pets DEAD? I think he may just be wearing one on his head....

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Gawker Media ran a competition in which 16 cities were pitted against each other, with the audience asked to vote on which city's accent they thought was the ugliest. I kid you not.

the company told the BBC its competition was meant to celebrate the regions.  Ugliest is celebrating??

Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania it won.  I guess they can take heart, because their neighbour, Scranton, Pennsylvania won the "unhappiest region in the U.S.."

My question - why are people too happy to bash poor old Pennsylvania?

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Our niece was in Las Vegas at a rodeo show - barrel racing is her sport...anyway....she posted this on her Facebook page:


Yesterday I bought a purse with a concealed weapon pocket in the back.... As the lady was explaining it to me, I told her "oh, we don't carry weapons in Canada" and in her southern accent she replied "oh, you poor dear".......Only in 'Mercia !

I had to laugh and then I wrote back: the right to bear arms....

The right to BEAR arms....as in Grizzly, Panda? Did I spell that correctly...or is it the "right to bare arms." Well, not in a Muslim country or perhaps the Vatican.

Funny how sometimes you right a word and it just doesn't LOOK .....write!

But I kept thinking to myself.... "I wonder how many Americans actually think it means the right to bare arms...as in to go sleeveless." You may laugh, but I'll bet you could find some....probably in Pennsylvania.




Things I have learned this week:

Sometimes my dear husband and I are not in sync. Example. I bought some dairy free (long story) coconut milk eggnog thinking it would be...less fat, healthier etc. for us to have over the festive Christmas holiday. Not that I am not going to be chowing down on everything in the chocolate department, or shortbread, or trifle.....

I took a tentative sip of the eggnog and then gave some to my dear husband, who said - yup that taste's okay.

AND THEN he said: "Do you know what would go really well with this eggnog?

and I said: RUM!!!!!!

and he said, "No........ FRUITCAKE."

Really?

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Collectibles is a Website dedicated to all things Christmas Vacation (obviously). Among the many fun items are Cousin Eddie wardrobe staples, moose mugs, and punch bowls. It's not too late to order them online....

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I loathe TD Bank online banking even more than I thought. The ironic thing is that it is called EasyWeb!

All I want is to be able to print, from my computer, my VISA statement. Simple right? I used to be able to do that with my old bank (which I am missing more and more every day....).

So, I go into EasyWeb and try to print my statement - which is ON THE SCREEN. But it won't print so I copy and paste it and it turns out all gobbledee - but I CAN read it if I have to.

I call Tech support and get - well, let's just say English isn't the guys first language - always good for customer support. He asks me some questions and tells me to click here and there - nothing! I get locked out....great. Log back in and try again and then he says "You aren't set up to get that. I will have to transfer you over to our VISA expert for help." On comes Elizabeth who advises me that, no we aren't signed up for that....(even though I remember telling the person who set it up that this is what I wanted!!)

"But Elizabeth I can SEE it on the screen. I just want to print it. I won't be around when the bill is mailed to me at my house."

"The Primary holder has to set it up so you can print it from the screen." REALLY - well that ain't gonna happen. Dear husband has even less patience than I do for this sort of......stupid, stupid, stupid thing.

Then she goes on to tell me that this is all for our security etc etc. Well....I figure if a person gets this far on my online banking the only other thing they can possibly do is        PAY MY F***ING VISA!

Needless to say - I copied and pasted and will sort it all out when I get my actual paper printed, in the mail VISA statement. I just want to give them some money on time...is it really that hard????

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Even though Freddy Mercury has been gone for quite a while, dear husband and I watched Queen, Live Aid - Wembley 13 July 1985 on Youtube. Still a great showman, still a great talent, gone too soon. R.I.P. Freddy Mercury. If you have a few minutes to watch this it is worth the time. My gift to you.....


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With all of the media/online/tweets/twitter/Facebook these days it is very, very easy for people to 'say' things that they really should think about before their fingers do the typing (or keboarding)  so my new tagline for 2015

Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it.


Have a great Christmas and we'll see you on the other side.....