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I may be funny to my friends but my family just thinks I'm strange.

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Christmas Day... More than just presents

Not wanting to sit around and look at each other after the 5 minutes of gift opening, we decided to go on an adventure.

Enchanted Rock















View from the bottom.

















Watching people at the top.

















Headed up, and up, and up.






















Holding on for dear life.


















Never a serious moment.


















A view from the top (my bottom, his top).


















As we decended and the sun set, it lit up Turkey Point into a glowing red peak.

Friday, December 22, 2006

I've Done It

Yeah, I've done a lot of things...

But today's acheivement includes:
Getting enough done to justify leaving the office at Noon.
Remaining on vacation until the new year.
Locating the last adopted family and making arrangements to drop off Christmas presents tonight.
Enough money in the bank today to pay all the bills and that last Chrismas gift on my way home.
Telling those people at work who make work worth working at...Merry Christmas.

Peace out...
I'll be on my sofa if anyone needs me.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Sometimes I Feel Special

Co-workers tend to get a little sentimental this time of year. Like today's mass emailing to "alldistro":
With the approach of this Season, I reflect on the blessings that I have.
One of the most wonderful of these blessings is your friendship.
I wish you and your family the most wonderful Christmas and may the New Year bring you happiness, peace, and prosperity.
May God Bless You


or how 'bout this one:
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:
Shortcut to:
http://badaboo.free/merryxmas.swf
Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled.

Ok, this one came right after they found out I'm the new editor of the company newsletter but it did make me feel good:
Hey on a different note: I do want to wish you and your Family a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! You are a terrific person that I truly love working with! (and I'm not sucking up....I really mean it)!

All these warm fuzzy emails made me feel, well... not so warm and fuzzy. I realize it might take a bit of time to call, oh, say, 500 employees and tell them how much their friendship means to you during the holidays (screw the rest of the year). And I realize you might feel a wee bit embarassed to say the mushy words outloud. But how can I take any of you seriously if you email me and 499 other coworkers your holiday sentiments using language that hasn't been spoken outloud since Shakespeare.

I handled my "coworker holiday gratitude" a little differently. I wrapped tiny little ICE BREAKERS LIQUID ICE mints and put a teeny tiny bow on each of them and handed them to just the people who made my work exsistance a little pleasanter with the following note:
Before you get the wrong idea about my gift, let me just tell you that its not bad.
All I’m saying is “You’re a breath of fresh air.” Merry Christmas


In other news:
I've just been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.











Wait...so were you. Now we're all special.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

I've Seen It All

Our annual White Elephant gift exchange at Church only happens once a year for a very good reason... your gift could wind up on ebay.

A once in a lifetime opportunity!
Popular Blogger and Published Author
Real Live Preacher's Bountiful harvest of 2006 belly button lint
100% authentic complete with the infamous cascarone confetti piece.

Don't miss this one time opportunity to have in your home, a piece of Real Live Preacher. I get him every Sunday but now you too can have a piece of RLP on your mantel next to the urn in which you keep Aunt Mavis.


Complete with Certificate of Authenticity signed by RLP himself:
"What you hold in your hands is a 2006 crop of high-quality belly-button lint, grown and harvested over the last year by RLP. The colors of the collection reflect the variety of new shirts I wore over the past year, including a very rare bit of lime-colored lint from a Habitat For Humnity t-shirt.Also included in the collection is a single piece of confetti from a Fiesta party. This miraculous bit of confetti, working with all the vigor and optimism of a salmon going upstream, managed to find its way down the front of my shirt and ended up in my belly-button, where I found it the morning after. I certify on my honor that every piece of lint in the collection is genuine and was gathered by myself from a period beginning at Christmas of 2005 and ending in December of 2006.
Note: This collection contains no lint gathered from the dryer or any other source."

On a side note:
Little princess brought a friend from girl scouts to the party. I keep extra gifts around cause this happens frequently. The girl, who's parent I met once for 5 minutes that same day, ended up with a gigantic pair of women's underware. I wondered how I was going to tell the girl's dad that she received size 52 panties at the church Christmas party. Little princess and said girl scout seemed totally jazzed by the gift and proceded to put said undies on both of them, at the same time, over their clothes, like some strangely connected set of siamese twins.

Big Daddy stole the David and Goliath action figure's from RLP and I ended up with a pair of tiny slippers (that might fit my dog) after RLP stole my ceramic cow with a goose on its back and both of them wearing santa hats. But I'm not bitter.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

For the League of Server Servers

Have you ever injured your gums? with say a nacho chip and it swells up around your teeth. You can't brush your teeth because it hurts soooo bad. Then you can't stop poking it with your tongue.

That's what happened to me.