M&M's

I sorted my M&M's this afternoon by color. What does that say about me I wonder?

Maybe it says I'm bored and need more work to do! :)

Autopilot

If it's only Wednesday then this is going to be a long week, despite having been off work on Monday. Oh well. Today I'm picking up boxes to prep for the move. For me it's mostly the books, I'll need to get some solid yet small book boxes. I'll pack all the books that I don't see me using in the next 2-3 months, and that should make a pretty big dent in my packing.



Ever have one of those days where you feel like there's a little gnome engineer inside your head driving your body around on autopilot, and your eyes are the engineer's piloting windows? Must just be me. Talk to the gnome.

Back to Work

It's Tuesday, I guess most of us are back to work today. I had a pretty good vacation, it's always too short, but at least I'll get another shot at it this weekend. Besides church and family time, I managed to get a little bit of gaming in, and did end up seeing "Kong" and "Fun With Dick and Jane". Kong was LONNNNNNNNG. Why do they have to make movies over three hours long? I mean, it's a good movie, but do you have to do *that* much development? If I wanted that I'd have read the book, hahaha!

I forgot to go see the Rhema Christmas lights display, I'll have to do that this week before they take them down (I think on Jan 3rd or Jan 6th). Better to do while there's NOT a line of cars backed up a mile long.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! I'm looking forward to my retirement from the music scene, this Saturday marks my final gig with Dynamo Hum. It's been a nice, fun job, and I've loved performing, but I will also love getting my weekends back. And not having to do direct deposit of my gig clothing to the laundry upon getting home because they stink so bad. :)

Lamb!

Since a lot of times I get in the habit of blogging what fantastic creation Chuck's cooked up in the kitchen, I thought I'd mention the FABULOUS rack of lamb that he made last night.



I think lamb is now my most favorite meat. Pity it's so expensive, but it's kinda nice to splurge every now and then. So I basically got my favorite meat last night for dinner and my favorite sushi for lunch (sea urchin) ;-). The lamb was SO incredibly tender, and his spices were olive oil, lemon pepper, and oregano, and perhaps a few secret ones I don't know about. Since we like our meat pretty rare, it was so incredibly tender that you didn't even need teeth to chew it. :)

Today it's off work at noon, lunch with Chuck and his dad, and then I disappear for one final shopping spree, which I am dreading dreading dreading. But then I'll be done, and time to wrap stuff.

Not sure if I'll blog until I get back to work on Tuesday, so have a fantastic Christmas and enjoy your families and each other.

Merry Christmas!

From someone who isn't afraid to say MERRY CHRISTMAS! Not "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" or any of the other politically correct junk that people spew this time of year.

I hope Christmas finds everyone happy and having fun with family. I won't make it home to Hawaii until the 2nd week of January, but I'll be able to do some family things here in Tulsa for Christmas.

Aside from church at Asbury on Saturday evening and church at Faith Lutheran on Sunday morning, I think we're planning a fairly laid back vacation, mostly staying home, gaming, drinking green tea / chai, and relaxing. Might take in the new King Kong movie on Christmas night. It's been somewhat of a family tradition to do movies on Christmas night, and I'd like to keep that one alive. :) We'd get so tired of people visiting us all day long for Christmas that by evening we were exhausted, so we'd escape to catch a movie at the theater so we were out of the house for awhile, heh heh.

Today I had a surprise lunch out at the park since the weather was wonderful. My favorite food (sushi of course), some Fuze white tea, and Chuck even brought a candle to the picnic table. I'm the luckiest (and most blessed) girl in the world.

Oh and one more thing...Ding! Fries are done!!

Divorce Kevin

Monday morning, thought this was hilarious when I was doing a bit of after-lunch surfing. There's a website devoted to fans trying to get Britney to divorce Federline, the king of the trailer park. You can even get the t-shirt, heh heh.



This also proves that more people in the world need to put their free time towards gaming. Obviously too much free time is not necessarily a good thing! If they were busy trying to level, then this kind of petition would've never happened. *snicker*

My Albums of the Year

What album did you find yourself gravitating towards this year the most? For me, I think there were two or three that were absolutely indisposable and took up permanent residence in my 6-disc changer in the Aztek.

1. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby


2. Casting Crowns - Casting Crowns


3. Chris Tomlin - Arriving


The Gwen CD had to grow on me. I thought some of the tracks were dorky/dumb the first few times I heard the album. Then after wash/rinse/repeat while I left it running at work a few times, it really became one of my fave albums this year. It shows that an artist who goes out and makes an album that SHE wants to make, can make it be a hit too. So many times when an artist strikes out to do "what they want", it ends up sounding blech.

Casting Crowns and Chris Tomlin were my other two favorites this year. I found myself much closer to God this year, and my music choices seem to reflect that as well. I'm just wishing we could get a new one out of Chris Tomlin, his songs have become practically staples for praise & worship services all over the place. These three albums I could probably run 24x7 and not get tired of them.

Your turn - 3 fave songs or 3 fave albums for 2005?

Narnia

Got out to see it right after work on Friday. Assessment? LOVED it! The movie was wonderfully done, the CGI gorgeous, and the story line well-developed. Looking forward to the other ones in the Chronicles!

Other than that, mostly had an indoor weekend. We had a fantastic roast on Saturday, so good it makes me drool even thinking about it. Then on Sunday we took the other half of the meat and made a stew out of it. I haven't had a stew that good since my mom made us beef stew and rice. MMMMMMmmmmmmmm! So good I had to escape for lunch and come home and have more today. I think we're going to decompress at Fuji tonight though for dinner. :)

Been trying to catch up with chores, and all the general unpleasant things that I'd like to avoid but need to be done. Mundane World.

Game-wise I'm almost to 41 now, and still no pony! *Pouts* It's just too expensive to afford a mount, so I'm hunting for money every chance I get. If I go "buy gold" then I know the game will lose its appeal in a heartbeat for me, so I'll earn my mount the old fashioned blood, sweat, and kills way, heh heh. Will make it that much more enjoyable when I do get to race across the countryside on horseback!

And other than that, I'm working on trying to do 99% of my Christmas shopping online so I can avoid that which is known as 71st and Hell during this time of year. The crowds are evil! I still need to venture out and enjoy the Rhema lights one night this week though.

This Week's Book & Music

Click the images to check 'em out...
Here's what I'm listening to today:



Here's what I'm reading this week:

Humps

That song is just terrible. Awful. An assault on the ears. Anyways, here's a link to a blogger that feels the same way. If you haven't ever heard the song, spare yourself the agony. Blech.


Slate on "Humps"

The temperature here is just ridiculous. This morning it was a balmy SIX degrees with a wind chill of -8. I can't wait to move! Phoenix is a wonderful 46 degrees right now. It'll probably get to the mid 60's there today. Meanwhile we're hoping to get to the mid TEENS. Oh well. Hopefully one more month to go until it's time for escape!

Christmas Carols

Please enjoy the holidays by listening to this wonderful rendition of "O Holy Night". Make sure you listen all the way to the end. My gooooooodness! It's painful yet funny at the same time... I just thought I'd share the torture with everyone.

Apparently I'm not the first to blog about this though: http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2004/12/17/o-holy-night/

And up until this one, I thought Cartman did the best "O Holy Night"! And no, that's not me singing, lol!