Goings On

Don't worry...I am alive.
Duane and I have been excessively busy in the last little while, so my posts have been lacking, yet again. Once family is gone and parties are over and the new year has come, I will attempt to post of all the goings on from Christmas and New Year.
Just so everyone is aware, and to those who only update themselves on my life through the blog...I have also been out with a sprained back for the last couple of weeks, so I've not done much other than laying around and missing work. Good timing, I suppose...being that from the 20th to the 7th I was supposed to be off work for Christmas break anyway! I've recently received (from the Dr.) my prescription to take myself to the physiotherapist. Yay. I've actually put it off because it was just before family arrived and Christmastime...so I think I'll book myself in, but my next Dr. appointment is on the 2nd anyway. Meh. I'm not sure what I'll do.
For New Years, our original plans were to head out with a bunch of friends and do a cross-country ski trip into the back country to stay at a remote cabin. Problem was that only 3 of our proposed group is trained in avalanche awareness, we didn't have a plan "B"(because the halfway cabin was fully booked), and brother Steve had skied it a few weeks back with his girlfriend and they skied to the halfway point cabin in the amount of time it was supposed to take to get to where we wanted to go..apparently it was pretty strenuous. Moreso than the website told us! We know that if Steve was pooped after it, it must've been tough! Oh, and then there was the small problem that I sprained my back and wouldn't be able to ski, let alone carry in my own gear on my back! Not likely.
I think the revised plan is to head up to Edmonton where there is some SNOW, and spend some quality time with Julie and Lowell. That should be super fun! Maybe Julie and I will be able to limbo...oh wait...I have a sprained back. Dang.
Well, the cinnamon buns are ready...better eat them while they're warm!!

~K~

A YouTube Clip!

This clip is great...I was hoping to just transfer the clip itself, but I couldn't find the link to do that this time.
Anyway...here's the link! Enjoy!



(Duane graciously went in and embedded the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8

~K~

Borrowed This....

Tips for Getting Through the Holidays

1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving rum balls.

2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine single-malt scotch, it's rare. In fact, it's even rarer than single-malt scotch. You can't find it any other time of year but now. So drink up! Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip? It's not as if you're going to turn into an eggnog-alcoholic or something. It's a treat. Enjoy it. Have one for me. Have two. It's later than you think. It's Christmas!

3. If something comes with gravy, use it. That's the whole point of gravy. Gravy does not stand alone. Pour it on. Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy . Eat the volcano. Repeat.

4. As for mashed potatoes, always ask if they're made with skim milk or whole milk. If it's skim, pass. Why bother? It's like buying a sports car with an automatic transmission.

5. Do not have a snack before going to a party in an effort to control your eating. The whole point of going to a Christmas party is to eat other people's food for free. Lots of it. Hello?

6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Year's. You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do. This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.

7. If you come across something really good at a buffet table, like frosted Christmas cookies in the shape and size of Santa, position yourself near them and don't budge. Have as many as you can before becoming the center of attention. They're like a beautiful pair of shoes. If you leave them behind, you're never going to see them again.

8. Same for pies. Apple. Pumpkin. Mincemeat. Have a slice of each. Or if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labor Day?

9. Did someone mention fruitcake? Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories, but avoid it at all cost. I mean, have some standards.

10. One final tip: If you don't feel terrible when you leave the party or get up from the table, you haven't been paying attention. Re-read tips; start over, but hurry, January is just around the corner.

Remember this motto to live by:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
Have a Merry Christmas!

~K~

Our Christmassy Living Room

Here's a picture for now, but I do have more taken during the process. We finally set up the tree tonight, along with my nativity set Duane got me for Christmas last year. Last year, since we were in Ontario, we didn't decorate much let alone setting up our fake tree. That silly thing is so frustrating! Never mind all the pokes and scrapes (this is starting to sound like my garland hanging night at the church...see a couple of posts ago), but our tree has a pretty severe lean that can't be helped and is made worse by the top section being very out of proportion to the other two sections! Looking at it from the front is okay...can't really see the lean too much :)
Alright, since it's already over an hour past my normal bedtime, I'm going to pull myself away from the computer now...it's making me sleepier!
Now our living room looks so cozy!
Goodnight all!

~K~

Rude Awakening

Friday morning I had a rude awakening...and only 15 minutes before my alarm went off. How annoying, seeing as there was no way I'd be able to go back to sleep for 15 minutes with the adrenaline pumping.
Here's how it went. 5:30am, Duane starts talking in his sleep. "Uuggghhh, I totally just bashed my fingers in that! Ow!" Then he proceeds to move around a bit, then BAM!! He broke our bed. Ok, so he didn't BREAK the whole bed....he just snapped a rung off our headboard. He barely touched it! I swear that guy has super-human strength when he's asleep. There was no way I would have been able to break it. At that point he sort of realized what happened, and he said, "shoot I just broke the bed". I wasn't sure if he was alert or whether he was still sleep talking, so I touched his shoulder and told him he just busted the bed. He told me he knew, and then easily fell back asleep. ARG. He had the day off, so he could just forget about it and go back to sleep, whereas I'm just freaking out, worrying that he was going to turn around and stab me with the broken rung if I stayed in the bed....in his sleep, of course! That may sound a bit morbid, but Duane has done some weird things in his sleep, so I never know WHAT he's dreaming about or what he's going to do! In the end, I just laid there until my alarm went off and then got up. I didn't even get to hit my snooze 3 times like I usually do...there was just no point. I was already awake. Annoyingly so. I probably didn't even need my morning coffee because I was so awake. But, of course, I DID have my coffee...it's part of my routine!

Alright...so here's proof. It looks much less freaky than during the actual event....because, really, a picture is a picture(I'm surprised he only broke one!) We should've reenacted it and recorded that! Haa haa.



Maybe I should just break the same one off my side so it's symmetrical. Or not.

~K~