Christmas Light Hang-ups

It is a week til Christmas and my Christmas lights have yet to go up (and stay up successfully)... I've pretty much given up on the outdoor lights... Needed a ladder, which then means I need someone who is used to using said ladder safely or someone to catch me ifn I go up cuz we all know I think I am a freakin acrobat when it comes to decorating. I needed a special staple gun or special staples. The guy at the store looked at me like I was from Mars when I told him this... I guess he never had to hang lights. Okay, so I buy a special tape that will stick to the slick paint on our apartment walls to hang the indoor lights on the windows. I put them up yesterday, and they've fallen twice. For today, I think I will not worry about them.. Maybe I will try again on Monday and use them funny plastic hooks with nails, ya know the kind they use to hide cable cord along the walls. But then part of me still says, they will be up for only one week now. And we haven't even gotten our tree yet... Yeah, Christmas is not going to be the same at all. Not even certain we will have our usual Christmas Eve get together thing either.... Yeah I think I will stop now before I depress myself... Christmas music is soo going to play on now, cuz I need that cheer.....

Isa the Christmas Elf

Ever seen an elf on speed, ok maybe just an extreme sugar high? Well, look out lest ye be decorated for standing still too long. She comes in like a blur, singing Christmas Carols all by herself at the top of her lungs and carrying boxes and boxes of Christmas decorations. Taking time to plan and taking down anything that doesn't look right in her winter wonderland world. Turning her ordinary apartment into a little Santa's workshop. Tinsel and holly hung over anything that stands still. Ornaments and figurines placed with care and presicion on any surface that can be spared. And oh the jingling bells she wears will drive all nuts, but she loves to hear them ring. A Santa hat large enough to serve as scarf and hat in one or reindeer antlers with tiny bells to adorn her head. Why she even has mini bells for earings! Yes, yes, she is a Christmas Elf... or as SOME people call her the Christmas Nazi... but she denies that one. And oh, things must be done her way or get out of the way. Yes, she can drive even the most sane person mad with all the Christmas cheer. But for those who do not see her quite as often, she does manage to bring smiles to their faces with her Christmas cheer and she loves to do it! So if the friend ya once knew and loved seems a bit or extra odd this time of year, keep in mind she is trying to convert her apartment into a winter wonderland for this is her favorite time of year!

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u go elf girl:)

Posted by sarah on 29 Nov 04 Monday - 12:18 AM

The Blues

Blue toilet water, can anyone tell me the appeal of blue toilet water? I mean scented toilet water I can understand, but why blue? And who made Blue Toilet water a possiblity for people everywhere? See now for me, white signifies clean. So where does blue fit in? Blue just disguises. But now they make these things by clorox to keep the toilet cleaner longer. And yet my mother still wanted blue water. Well actually she asked if they had other colors so it could match the decor in the bathroom. Yes, folks, she wondered if she could get green toilet water aside from using the toilet with blue water. Oy, I'd be scared if they made a rainbow of options for toilet water.

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ooooh, but blue is such a peaceful, serene color, like the deep blue sea. and u know that the water is clean cause its blue. unlike the ocean, which is brown a lot of the time. or brownish green. oh, and the other cool thing about having the blue water is that you really get more options. i mean yeah, u get green, but when you're feeling really special, u also get purple...

Posted by sarah on 17 Oct 04 Sunday - 7:16 PM

Parts are Parts

What if your nose wasn't on your face? What if your hands weren't at the ends of your arms? Have you ever wondered what we might look like if our parts were assembled differently? We'd be like giant Mr. Potatoheads. An arm sticking out of your back, your hands hanging off a knee. A nose at the tip of your chin and your ears on either shoulder. What would we look like if we took all our parts and scrambled them up? My mother and I used to play this game just for kicks. We'd point to a shoulder or arm or whatnot and say "what's this?" and the other would reply with some body part that totally does not belong. It was late night silliness, I know. But the funny looking humans we'd create were well worth the silliness. One of these days, I really should draw one of these funny looking people and their parts are parts.

My Stupid Cat

Well as ya may have noticed by one of my pics, I have a cat. Usually a very bright and bratty cat. Yes he rules this house and has us all granting him anything he wants. Us all, as if there were a whole staff of servants. It is just my mother and I who tend to his needs.

He is an indoor cat who dreams of being an indoor/outdoor cat with the freedom that comes with it. Alas, we do not live in a place where we can grant that wish. Plus there is some sort of flea infestation in the backyard that we'd like to keep him from. Oh, and he is not always as bright as he seems. Once at our old place, he actually ran up the wrong flight of stairs trying to go home. And even in that place, he only had supervised visits to the outside world.

Here, there is no balcony for him to spend his morning hours enjoying fresh air and sunlight. Here, he must enjoy sunlight through a screen door or at window sills. But still he tries to get out. He tries to make a run for the door once opened. And he has been working on a hole in the screen of a window for some time now. I first noticed him sticking his head outside the hole. We decided to block the hole with a heavy box we were certain he'd never move.

Well, tonight, he did. He not only moved the box out of the way, but he managed to sneak out that hole. Lord alone knows how long he was outside. He wanted so badly to play with one of the neighborhood cats that he was determined enough to move the box.

I heard sometime later the sound of him scratching at the screen. I went to shoo him away from making new holes or worsening old ones. But I did not see him, I got closer thinking I had missed him, and then I saw him. He was hanging from outside of the screen, trying to get in!

I went into mama rescue mode and attempted to remove the screen to get him back in. All the while, I was crying out something, probably a lot of "Oh shoot"s and "Stupid cat"s. Mom heard me and went to the door when she saw me putting on shoes. I told her to stay with the cat and I ran around the apartment building to go get him. When I got there, Mom was literally holding him to the screen and she was losing her grip. I quickly grabbed him and brought the fidgetting brat in, all the while calling him a stupid cat even though I love him. I actually was scolding him for scaring me and asked him didn't he know I love him as if he were a child who might answer.

My frantic motions freaked him out, but he was having a ball otherwise. I had to calm him down as he sensed me all frantic still. But he is fine now, and I too am fine and no longer shaky.

He has so lost his rights to my bedroom window unless he is supervised. That darn cat is running out of lives, I swear. Anyway, thus is the adventure of the Stupid Cat and his human mama.

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Ah good, I have trained him well...

Posted by Josh on 12 Oct 04 Tuesday - 11:38 PM




Posted by Tony the Tazman on 31 Oct 04 Sunday - 12:07 AM


Here Carisa I thought you would like this one for a comment to your blog

Posted by Tony the Tazman on 31 Oct 04 Sunday - 12:08 AM

Bubblewrap rules!

Bubblewrap Ok, who doesn't like poppin' bubblewrap? Even when opening gifts, part of me just want to play with the bubblewrap. I know it is sad, but oh so true. Anyway, try the link. It is funny. Watch out for that maniac mode. :P EDIT: Just figured this linking thing out, wee this is fun.