Out Of Office

We're headed to Paris for new years.
I know...it's terrible, but we'll manage somehow ;-)

My Flickr pool of strange xmas ornaments

Strange people
Originally uploaded by merlinprincesse.

What are blogs for if not shameless self promotion and vanity?
I've started a Flickr pool of Strange Christmas Ornaments. Join it and upload a photo of one of the strange ones on your Christmas tree. That way, when it comes to life. Oh it will... And turns everyone in your family in to little x mas ornaments, we'll know which one to avoid at the gypsy garage sale it will eventually end up in.

::update::
I made it on BoingBoing!
woot!

Because it's never too early to teach your kids to drink beer

Because it's never too early to teach your kids to drink beer
Originally uploaded by alanreeves.

A good friend of mine, who's blog is somewhere over THERE----->
gave me this awesome Christmas gift of children's training beer from Japan.
I just need to get a pack of candy cigarette's and I'm all set.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Mighty Mite lights
Originally uploaded by TheDamnMushroom.

And colored lights for all

Gingerbread Men

You know, it's more difficult to get gingerbread supplies this time of year than I thought. What the heck?
Mega Safeway= Sold Out of molasses, I mean come on people, it's December stock up on this stuff will ya? And not a Cookie Cutter in sight. Of course they offered pre-packaged, individually wrapped gingerbread cookies for like $2. Nice.

Not-so-mega Albertsons= Had the molasses, which is really good, because Margaret wanted to substitute maple syrup using the logic that they are right next to each other on the shelf. That crisis averted, we ventured forth but still no cookie cutters, and a swarm of shoppers had descended upon the baking isle like locusts on holiday, only their wheelie shoe wearing offspring were left.

We continue the quest for a gingerbread cookie cutter tomorrow.

Horrified christmas tree ornament

IMG00029.jpg
Originally uploaded by alanreeves.

I think it used to be a wind mill only the wheel fell off,
but my brother hung it on the tree anyways and gathered us around to witness the little house screaming in terror.

Apocalypto a go go

Oh wow where to begin, okay lets see, there's running....lots of fighting...gore...people get sacrificed...more running...more fighting... movies ends.
Morbid curiosity compelled me to go watch Mel Gibson's latest filmed in ancient native tongue language movie tonight. The plot of said movie is described above. The real horror lied within the audience. I seriously need to stop going to the movie theatre. CHILDREN were taken to this R-rated, *incredibly* violent and gory movie. Infants, toddlers, and grade schoolers at 7pm on a Saturday night. Watching skulls get hacked open on screen. Human sacrifice galore. The crescendo of horror peaked when I looked at the bloated child of the emperor watching intently while priests removed hearts and chopped heads for the crowd below. It then dawns on me that the fat children around me are doing the same thing, how meta is that? Perhaps the fall of civilization as we know it is at hand. Don't panic. Bring a towel.