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Okay so I'm ashamed to admit it but...we just took our Christmas decorations down on Wednesday night! We got it done rather quickly and painlessly--wonder why I waited so long ;)! Anywho--in the spirit of getting things put away I changed some stuff around in my house, I've still got boxes to unpack of my really fabulous stuff! But anyway on to the show!

Redid my mantel with my "B" collection--my sisters started me on this fun idea!

And my sister got me this WAY CUTE lil' hutch for Christmas! LOVE it! It's on top of one of the "plant shelves" new Arizona houses are so famous for! LoL! I have a lot more I want to do up there, but this is the start! Shankum Snister!

This blog has called in sick!

Top Ten Things To Do or Not To Do Whilst Sick: (I'll let you decide)

1. Become intimate with your new best friend..... 

You can even get to know them better by visiting their own personal website.

2.  Take some medication that makes you dream about your best friend falling in love with one of your co-workers. *shivers with the heebie jeebies*

3. Light a candle a few hours before bed, and then forget to blow it out. Until you roll out of bed at noon the next day.

4. Be so grateful that your honey planned ahead and made an extra pan of homemade macaroni and cheese, so when you are finally hungry and sad that the first pan is all gone--you can brilliantly remember there is a whole new pan to put in the oven.

5. Watch the Santa Clause Trilogy from start to finish.

6. Snuggle down on the couch with your sick daughter and watch...

7. Take a long winters nap.

8.  Think that you can really just drop into work to do that "one thing" that just has to be done and leave again.

9. Try to write a top ten list and realize that you only made it to number 9 :)

An IM conversation with sup_ritz

Poppet: did you see my blog

sup_ritz: nope not yet!

Poppet: yes well

Poppet: it's funny stuff

(sup_ritz goes to look at my blog and then comes back)

sup_ritz: what in the world happen?

sup_ritz: ROFL

Poppet: umm

Poppet: okay

Poppet: so

Poppet: i'm blow drying my hair la la la la la

Poppet: Sees something fuzzy sorta in front of me

Poppet: yeah i need to get my eyes checked they are getting worse

Poppet: nah that is wierd

Poppet: hmmm that looks like smoke

Poppet: nah i don't smell anything

Poppet: i guess i'll just check

Poppet: *pulls blow dryer in front of me*

Poppet: BAHHHHH it's on fire

Poppet: there are flames

Poppet: oh help lots of flames

sup_ritz: the actual blow dryer?

Poppet: BAM *scare me with the noise*

Poppet: the blow dryers blows up

Poppet: the end.

sup_ritz: ROFL

sup_ritz: oh my, its a good thing your hair didn't catch on fire!

Poppet: YOU ARE TELLING ME!

Poppet: i was like holy cow!!! what would i have done

Poppet: I dont' think stop drop and roll works for that kind of thing

Poppet: long gone are the days when I can do a head spin

sup_ritz: ROFL

sup_ritz: could you ever do a head spin?

Poppet: nah but it's fun to pretend for drama purposes

sup_ritz: LOL

sup_ritz: well its sounds like a new blow-dryer is in order

Poppet: yeah i'm gonna have to  bust open the piggy bank

sup_ritz: good thing they are cheap

Poppet: I should save this conversation for a follow up piece on my blog

And so I did. There you have it the story of the ON FIRE BLOW DRYER!

Two Words...

 

                             NOT    GOOD 

(no harm was done in the end, but I really thought I might have a heart attack)    

Text Message.

Okay so I just don't have time to make this post cute or even try! LOL So pretend this is a text message to your phone. Although I *refuse* to use text message spelling...we're raising a whole generation of kids that thinks "Are you happy today?" is spelled RU:)2DY?

Halloween! Oh my where do I even start? It was Samantha's "official birthday" my little girl is TEN how is that even possible? I think I better do some bullet points for this day or this post will be 1200 pixels long!

• Dave and I leave work EARLY--we have to get ready for these 400 trick-or-treaters that are coming. We decided to rush home and try to put up some surprise decorations all over the front porch for Samantha (I was just to crazy busy to decorate this year). So we find the boxes in the garage from the move and set to work as fast as we can (it was a BEAUTIFUL day by the way so we had all the windows and doors open! I love the weather in our new little town!)
• The best TREAT EVER! I knew my mom was coming up for a visit and to check on the office, plus you know...to be there for Samantha's birthday. She calls me on her cell phone and tells me she'll go pick up Samantha for me not to worry about it because she's almost in town! I'm thinking oh that is FABULOUS more time to decorate! Well about the time they should be getting home I look down the road and I see a black Tahoe coming--I almost cried because it made me miss my sister SO MUCH (she has one). I was SHOCKED to see that it WAS my sister!!! She surprised me by bringing the kids up with my mom!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• So my mom and sister help us decorate because all these Trick-or-Treaters are supposed to start coming at 4:00. Well...we wait. and we wait. and we wait some more!
• Then about 5:50 it starts getting dusky--here comes a few--hooooray! I'm thinking I guess not all my candy will go to waste! And THEN about 6:05 the masses started pouring in, we stood at the door and gave away candy for TWO HOURS NON STOP! I raided my pantry, found all the fruit snacks and snack packs of chips, everything I could find--we finally just had to close the doors and turn out all the lights! We know we had over 500 at our house!!!!!!!!!! We could hear them out there until 9 pm! So we would have had we're thinking at least 700 or so kids! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT! They had traffic police on every street! It was insane! (We also found out we better get ready for Christmas! It's non stop drive through traffic in our neighborhood to look at Christmas lights!) LOL I'm going to need a small bank loan every year for candy and lights!!!!!
• Samantha looked adorable in her "Out of this World" glitzy glam orbitz sort of space girl costume, it was so fun that Auntie Molly was here to help her with that she LOVED it! Dave took her trick-or-treating to a few houses with Tank (our Italian Greyhound) I'm sure Samantha is a little old for trick-or-treating but hey we didn't get to do that in Mesa when we lived there!
• The kids looked ADORABLE in their costumes, Province sat in a rocking chair by the front door in her little witch costume for over an HOUR and said "Hweewo" to everyone that walked up. She even said "twik wr twt" a few times I know she did!
• It was an amazing night and I will treasure it FOR A LONG TIME!!!! I now it's going to be ages before my sister gets up here again with the new baby when it comes. I have to admit that after they left the next day I cried for a long time, I miss my mom and sister so much! Sometimes I wonder how in the world I ended up so far away from them--but--I can't think like that, it's not going to help anybody! KEEP MOVING FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy cow if this was a text message I'm SURE I would be over my monthly allotment! But on to the next stuff!!

Samantha's Birthday Party! WOW was that fun--we had 12 girls in our house doing.......what else? SCRAPBOOKING! They all made journals "diaries" to take home! I'll write more about this later I really want to share some pictures! I was so glad that we were able to do the party for her, we invited 12 girls and I was really worried that because Samantha was new, not many would come, all of them came but 1! I am SO GLAD she has found some great friends here! She is so sweet and needs some good friends!

Last but no least! DSD-Better known as Digital Scrapbooking Day (well it lasted the whole weekend!) Can I just say I'm exhausted LOL who knew working on the computer could tire you out?! :) But believe me I'm not complaining IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!! We got a lot of new customers to drop by and check us out--I'm so THRILLED with how everything turned out our first year! I gave away tons of prizes on the boards (with the help of my super star creative team!) and just really enjoyed myself!

Hmmmmmmmm your phone bill maxed out yet? CUL8R! *giggles*

Hum with me now!

*edited to add* ROFL okay people! This is not EGO as in she has such an ego! It's ego like my name is not long enough to sing the song "Where in the world is Carmen San Diego" --f-u-n-n-y- stuff I've been getting by email! Let's sing it all tongether now..."Where in the world is tangieeee baxteregooOoo"

LOVE these! :0)

Well you know this is one of those days where digital creating is very satisfying. I absolutely LOVE these and just enjoyed the satisfaction of making them even if no one buys them LOL! The whole time I was doing them I had this vision of a golden sunset and deep rich colors, over-grown forests, knights in shining armor, princesses dancing around a maypole, exoctic birds singing, the sound of rushing water. It was wonderful and relaxing. I  treasure those moments... they are truly enchanting.

Am I the last one on the planet....

to hear of Paul Potts? I'm just blown away by the story and this first video. You can see the judgement everyone is feeling towards him and there is a moment right before he sings he looks like he might burst into tears from the looks he's getting from Simon and the judges. Wow I was just really inspired by it, and so touched! Thought I would share just in case I wasn't alone ;)

Encore! Encore!

I found some oh so fabulous clips of Clue on youtube! This is one of my fav-or-ite clips from the movie! I quote it ALL the time at home...flames...on the side of my face... There's lots more so go check em out, one of them you can see the whole move really in about 3 minutes :) Although you miss all the oui oui jokes! Enjoy! One of my most fabulousest friends came to see me this weekend, perhaps I can talk her into watching it with me? Afterall these sorts of movies are ALWAYS way funnier in the wee morning hours with friends from waaaaay back when ;)! Have a fantabulous weekend peeps!

How is it that....

Some of you have never seen the movie Clue? I was talking to my sister via yahoo messenger the other night and found out she's never seen it! I couldn't believe it! Its heeee-LAR-ious and one of my favorite movies! Although it does star Tim Curry who is one of my favorite actors of all time, he's in so many of my fav's! Anyway that is not the point! This is a classic, a piece of movie history, a treasure! But then again I think I'm the only one who has the movie Oscar memorized and know exactly where each and every bag is at all times. I found out tonight there is even a whole fandom kingdom out there devoted to thing! But what doesn't have a fandom following these days? Target even has it in their $5 section I'm pretty sure! Maybe it's just one of those things you had to see in it's "prime" to really appreciate it, who knows!