A few weeks ago my little town had its Santa parade. Now, the week prior it had been almost balmy for this time of year. That of course meant it would be freakin' cold for the parade. Luckily, I live on the main drag so I can sit on my front porch bundled up in a blanket and watch the parade without much trouble.I went on the Santa stroll and tossed my name into various drawings the local businesses were having. I actually won an exercise ball from my chiropractor's office. I haven't yet inflated it. That's the new year's goal...well, inflating it and actually using it.
The picture is of my sister and big deer head on a shopping cart. My sis is the manager of the bakery at the local grocery store. The store always has their departments decorate a cart and it gets pushed in the parade. For some reason, the bakery went with the idea of making the cart look like Rudolph. It seems someone in the store had offered to give them one of their deer heads off their wall. Tah dah! I yelled at my sis to come closer to me and quickly took the photo; hence the blur. Thankfully, my sister was able to scoot away before the next float caught up to her.
As you all know, I've been very bad with updates. All I can do is offer up that it has been a busy December. I co-hosted a sweet party the first weekend. The following weekend was my office party. For the second year in a row, the person sitting next to me won the flat screen tv. I think I'm going to sell tickets to get the seats next to me. After a few years, I could buy my own tv.
I've gone to a couple of flicks. I think I already talked about how great Fabulous Mr. Fox was. Or did I? It is super cool; a perfect vehicle for Wes Anderson's quirky talents. I saw Avatar and was disappointed. The effects are cool, but it's way too long. You could have easily taken out an hour of stuff. You see every plot point long before it happens and some bits seem like ideas that were later used in Aliens. And, the final big battle made me laugh. Not a good thing. The big highlight was seeing a 3D trailer for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. Oooohhhh, I can't wait for that one. Hopefully next week will be Precious, Up in the Air, and Sherlock Holmes.
I am also going to serve up the usual Best Of Lists. Don't know yet if I will try and tackle a Best o' the Decade or not.
MERRY CHRISTMAS LOVELY FOLK!!
1 comment:
Please wait til NEXT year to do a best of the decade! Everywhere I look there's a "best of the decade" going on. Unfortunately, the decade ends NEXT YEAR! If we follow our current system, there was no year 0 and so the first decade was from 1 to 10 AD. That means this decade goes from 2001 to 2010 and all these "best of" lists have been a year too early. Just my 2 cents worth.
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