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Dec 31 2007

jessica’s new year’s resolutions

Published by jess under holidalies, jess

yeah, yeah, yeah….my real name is jessica. but i’m sure you knew that.

i used “jessica” because i want you to know just how serious these resolutions are - oh, they’re serious, man!

1. spend less, save more. easy enough, right?
2. buy a new car. shit. shoulda referred to resolution number one. but i really do need a new car. mine celebrates its 14th birthday this year and it really is on the last legs.
3. yell less at my kids. even though that seems to be the only way their ears work. should i take them an ear nose throat specialist?
4. keep my home cleaner. this should be easy, as we’re moving to a house with CLOSETS (a phenomenon, i know) and a garage! i’m sooo excited. in fact, that is exactly why my writing has been light and i haven’t been visiting YOUR place as often as i would like. i’ll come by with coffee as soon as i get all settled in, i promise.
5. quit smoking. again. for the 57th time. i can do it if i want to…the trouble is that i really don’t want to. if you’ve never smoked, you won’t understand, so don’t leave hate comments about the smoking unless you’ve actually been a smoker. you should know that i never smoke in the car with my kids and if i only had five bucks left to my name i’d buy milk instead of cigarettes.
6. get stormy 100 percent housebroken, instead of “being almost there.”
7. learn to live even greener. i already recycle, but i want to learn more about what i can do to live green.
8. be more serious about blogging if i can find the time.
9. research starting my own business.
10. i wanted to round out my list with ten solid resolutions, but i can’t think of another one, so cram it.

i wish you the very best new year ever. may your new year’s eve be filled with friends, family, laughter, alcohol and debauchery. or not alcohol if you are one of those peeps who chooses not to imbibe. i’ll be drinking my six-dollar ballatore gran spumante champagne and chilling with pals. while i should be moving. :)

xoxo. 2007 has been a great year. i’ve met wonderful souls (too many to link…check out our blogroll) and i can’t wait for 2008.

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Dec 30 2007

Disney World… I need advice on tickets.

Published by Bridge under bridge

Does anyone know how to get great deals on tickets to Disney World? I really need some help.

Yes…

I am going. I guess my family is going as well. LOL.

I have to go to Floriday for work, and I just happened to have saved a bunch of skymiles so I am taking my family with me.

We have:

Plane tickets… check.
Car rental… check.
Hotel… check.
Tickets to local attractions… um no.

Anyone ever been? Know any pointers?

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Dec 28 2007

Why I loved Christmas this year…

Published by Bridge under bridge, holidalies, kids

My son made a poem about Christmas this year. The poem was about how Christmas isn’t about toys (yeah right), but is about how families come together.

It was adorable.

This year not only my parents, but my in-laws came to my house for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It should have been a stressful situation with me wishing I was anywhere else, but it wasn’t. I think my husband bought enough beer and wine for once. They drank egg nog. I drank wine. We all ate way too much. That was just Christmas Eve. Then we started all over again. I should mention that the egg nog WASN’T spiked.

Christmas day went well as well. Isn’t that swell? Please someone hit me now. I even cracked a beer open really late at 11:30 AM. We let the kids play with Santa gifts then made breakfast. Then we all opened all of our gifts. I got pans. Pans I purchased myself. My husband got clothes. Clothes he purchased himself. LAME.

What wasn’t lame is that I had friends over for dinner, and friends over for games. Loralee mentioned that she hated Christmas Day afternoon since all the hype was over. Well at my house I try to make the entire day fun. They came over and had dinner, and then we played games. Jess then came over to play games as well.

We played Boggle.

I suck at Boggle. Loralee and Jess do not.

We played Scattegories.

I am alright, but Loralee is great. I really shouldn’t play games with her since she always kicks my ass. DO NOT PLAY LIFE WITH HER!!!

For the record… when playing Scattegories with your in-laws you should probably not write “cum stains” when you get the letter “C” and have to write “something that you could find in Las Vegas.” Just thought you would like to know.

Here are some fun pictures of Christmas Day.

My kids before they opened ALL of their presents.

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My mom and my daughter. I will honestly cherish this picture just for the expressions on their faces.

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I would call this picture blackmail. Isn’t my dad cute when he plays Barbies?

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Then my dad danced with my daughter? How cute is that?

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I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. Travel safe.

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Dec 27 2007

7 Things

Published by Al under al, holidalies, humor

We, at SHSNE have been tagged by our friend Jeffy to come up with 7 things about ourselves that most people don’t know.

So here goes. These are 7 things you probably don’t know about Al.

1. I don’t always flush after I pee (what is it with me and mentioning urine in my posts). It is just me using the toilet and I (Bridge is freaking out right now. I only do this at my own house so calm down would you?) don’t see any reason to waste the water by flushing every time I pee.

2. I’ve never been in love. Oh, there have been a few times that I thought I was but, as it turns out, it was something not quite unlike love but it was also not so different from a strong like.

3. I call myself a psuedo-geologist. If I could put it on my business card as my official title, I would.

4. I devised a new rating system for the opposite sex. It’s got to take off soon enough because it’s based on booze. Read the original post here.

5. I’ve stolen street signs in two different states and transported them across state lines (I think that makes me a felon).

6. I have a life-sized cardboard cut out of Darth Vader walked out of a bowling alley with me (somehow totally unnoticed by any of the staff or security guards) after a short night of drinking and tossing a ball down a lane every now and again.

7. I put honey on my toes and had some guy lick it off… a whole nother post.

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Dec 24 2007

1991 food fight

Published by jess under holidalies, jess

i said i’d post about the food fight i was in during my 9th grade year at good ole north cache junior high and so i’m making good on that promise.

the problem is that my memory is less than good, so bridge might be able to fill in some of the gaps much better than i can.

one of the things i do NOT remember is why i was eating school lunch in the first place. from a very early age, i learned to hate school lunch room food. the milk was always the wrong temperature (read: warm!!!) and the meat looked like it was part cardboard insulation. vegetables were just plain not part of my diet and the smell of the food? OMG. nasto!! the deal was sealed forever when i had take my turn scraping trays with daren jackson (let’s pretend that’s not his real name). i think that was in the 4th grade. it was one of the most disgusting things i had ever had to do in my life to date. the only thing that made it even halfway bearable was that daren was quite the little stud, even in the 4th grade. i remember that he and i figured out how to cheat on oregon trail and we laughed so hard about it that we got in trouble and couldn’t play oregon trail for a couple of days afterwards. what we did is put a negative sign in front of the money we wanted to spend when we were buying goods and it would put that much money INTO our account, instead of taking it out. we were some rich pioneers, i tell you what.

back to the eating lunch thang. it was just NOT COOL to each school lunch. but let’s quit figuring out why i was there: the fact remains that i was. i think it had something to do with the bridge having a big crush on a guy named andy. so there we were, having lunch. i wanted to see if you REALLY could flip mashed potatoes off the end of your spoon. so i tried it out. and then i think i tossed a handful of peas for good measure. god knows i sure as hell wasn’t going to be eating those peas. and i think that some dude called bridge a bad name (she knows what it was, but to spare her feelings, i’ll not mention it without her permission). then, it was on. full scale food fight.

dun dun DUNNNN… insert scary movie music.

until the janitor, fred, saw us. DOH! busted. he was seriously the lunch room hitler, but he dressed like he had just returned from a taping of the hit saturday night show “hee haw.” he had a big red nose and a horse face to boot. and i don’t know where he came from or what exactly he had seen, but i DO know i tried to blame it on the boys and get out trouble.

unsuccessfully.

turns out bridge and i, along with andy and his pal ryan, ended up washing the tables in the lunch room for a week. A WEEK! in the 9th grade!!! can you think of anything worse when you are 14 years old? oh the humiliation. no recess, no gabbing with gal pals, no passing notes, no staring at hot boys playing lightning in the boys gym.

the only good thing that came out of it is that i can say i was in a bona fide food fight and it’s a funny story to share. remind me to tell you about ending up in the vice-principal’s office my senior year in high school for something i wrote on a sophmore’s paper…

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Dec 23 2007

Beaver Mountain

Published by Bridge under bridge, holidalies

***EDIT***
Here are the pictures I promised…

The first picture is of my daughter and I on the ski lift. Beaver Mountain apparently just got a triple ski lift. About time. Too bad this lift wasn’t a high speed quad!

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This picture just cracks me up.

My daughter looks so sad. My husband looks… well um cute. You can actually see my sons face. Did anyone else notice the nice 30 pack of Miller Lite? LOL. That was ALL for me. Yum.

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***END EDIT***

I am so excited to announce that the nearest ski resort to where I live is officially open. It is about time. Luckily it snowed a lot the other day. Otherwise I would not be able to ski tomorrow.

Did you catch that?

I am totally posting late at night and post dating this post.

If you happen to read this post during the hours of 9:00-5:00 MST I will NOT be near my computer. I will be hopefully skiing with my husband and children. That is if my children are not complaining about every single thing.

I will post some pictures when I get back. Until then…

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Dec 22 2007

I am totally drunk posting…

Published by Bridge under al, bridge, holidalies

So I just got off an IM session with Jess and Al. I am excited to mention that Al will be joining me at my house after Christmas. I am sooooo excited. She is flying in to see her family and then coming up to see me… Only me… NOT ONE OTHER PERSON. K, I am totally kidding. She will be up here in her old stomping ground to say hi to lots of people. I just happen to be on her agenda. /sigh

I am sure we will drink a lot.

At least I hope we do.

Actually, I am SURE we will.

Expect lots of funny posts soon.

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