December Chit Chat

Or we could call you Glitter Puss?

Hang on I think I like Glitter Puss better, its a bit more naughtier, just like me

See, I know you SO well, don't I???!!!!!

For sure Mel, that you do

Winter solstice & Full Moon.
Dec 21.

How romantic!
Imagine long dark night in North Pole.
Cuddling & sipping mulled wine by the fireplace with your loved one.

love mulled wine. And fireplaces. And sitting by one with a significant other. Any where in the world.

Oh yes love mulled wine too. I had way to many this month LOL. Chirstmasmarkets will be over on the 23rd Dec. So we are back to tea and coffee again I guess

you can always make mulled wine. It's pretty easy. Some recipes also call for a bit of brandy added witht eh wine, but Brandy makes me sleepy!
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Mulled-Wine

Well, not literally in the North Pole. There's nothing but ice there. Closest land to it being Coffee Club Island.

I meant somewhere within the Arctic Circle to see the Northern Lights. Like that Igloo hotel in Lapland... Or any log cabin with a fireplace. Just creating an imaginary atmosphere. Btw, there's no full moon tonight.  Oh, well...

Thanks for mulled wine link.
It's important to simmer ever so gently so not to lose the alcoholic content.

To see the Northern lights you need clear sky and lot´s of minus degrees, still it´s rare.

Igloo hotel sounds COLD!   
I never cared about those, but "blue moment" that´s awesome

Merry Christmas
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/six-exercises-to-get-a-surfers-body/story-fneuzle5-1226788245678

Thanks....although I think I need this guy to come to my house and show me how to do....   

Oh yes .

Seriously is there something in the water at my place. Woke up this morning at 7.00am to find that my eldest had gotten hold of the tattoos I confiscated and not only tattooed himself but his 2 siblings. We are on our way for Santa photos and they have leftover Halloween goblins, witches and ghosts tattoed on their cheeks and hands - Good grief. Looks like I'll have to stop sleeping in.....

silly girl wrote:Thanks....although I think I need this guy to come to my house and show me how to do....     

Well when hes finished at mine (ha) I will send him to you SG although Im having so much trouble mastering those positions he may be here awhile....

Hubby just looked at this page and is laughing his head off at me, saying this is how you spend your time, sending pictures of photoshopped men's bodies - my reply "you wish he was photoshopped baby"... lol

Now to log out before he reads the rest of the stuff I post here   

Have a lovely Sunday everyone - Im thinking I should start a blog about my parental escapades or more the adventures and mishaps my children get into, for posterity and to shame them when adults LOL

I saw green and blue northern lights when I was backpacking in Canada near the Minnesota Boundary Waters. Even tho you know you are looking at it, it still doesnt seem real. I just stood there, watching, for a very long time. Breathtaking

As for the workout - the first paragraph says "the highly sculpted, practically naked Persian king who thinks he's a god". Yep, very believable. And not just in the movie.

Do these people realize that if he sold workout videos, they would most likely sell like hotcakes?

Yes, have a relaxing Sunday everyone! (I pass the surfer...)

theminis wrote:Hubby just looked at this page and is laughing his head off at me, saying this is how you spend your time, sending pictures of photoshopped men's bodies - my reply "you wish he was photoshopped baby"... lol

Now to log out before he reads the rest of the stuff I post here   

   Your husband has something to think about  

theminis...did Santa admire the tattoos ?

best covers of the year


http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/12/22/foto/cover_pool_2013_le_copertine_pi_belle_dell_anno-74283313/1/?ref=HRESS-1#1

it's me wrote:best covers of the year


http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/12/22/foto/cover_pool_2013_le_copertine_pi_belle_dell_anno-74283313/1/?ref=HRESS-1#1

it's me - #19 made me laugh out loud!!

I see George's art cover was #2 or were they listed in reverse order?

And #34 was very poignant and sad.

Joanna wrote:theminis...did Santa admire the tattoos ?

The Santa my children saw looked very old and possibly medicated, definitely had a weak bladder, kept taking breaks to feed the reindeer? All kids named what they really wanted for Christmas which was news to me, different from their letter to Santa. My eldest also went into the office at home where the presents are hidden discovered them all and told his little sister what she is getting for Santa and added, see Santa is not real as the presents are already here in the house. Santa Maria I could cheerfully choke him...Not sure how to get out of this one other than sneaking off to the shops to buy another secret present each, hide it better and say its from Santa.

Ah you should really screw with their heads and tell them those are the presents Santa asked you to hold for the kids down the block!

HA HA - Come Christmas day when she opens the gifts he told her about she will stop believing in Santa and I don't want that to happen, she is only 6. Hubby (who left the office door unlocked and is now in the doghouse) has been told to stop at the shops and buy them all another secret gift. Don't panic everyone Im not one of those Mums that goes present crazy at Christmas. My 3 only get 3 presents from us each year (1 is from Santa 2 from us). This year I only gave the eldest 2 as I had to buy their Ipads and now that has become their 3rd Christmas present ($1400 later Im still in shock). What to do, what to do.

What to do? You shop more!

I know it´s crazy, but they are young once. (Me, kids and christmas = bad and costly combination)   

True Carla - Just sent a list of things for hubby to buy on his way home - just one extra present each that will remain a secret!

Lots of great covers in link above. Shock value images.
Bloomberg's Hedge Fund. Time Out London Sex Issue.
Stylist magazine often comes up with great content, like the ironed burnt shirt. & Time's China.
Yes, #19 was amusing. Boston #34 was very sad.
Harper's, NY Fashion & Playboy ones are beautiful too.

If they're in order, George on W #2. & Brad Pitt in a similar Esquire one further along.

dunno about the order
guess they haven't an order

but #19 in the link is not so bad

did you see the actual link?

http://www.coverjunkie.com/poll/cover-poll-2013/4

you can vote

Oh God, whyyyyyy did I offer to host a Christmas party at my place? Whyyyyy??

I'm making mulled wine in an electric rice cooker for crying out loud! That's how pathetic my planning is!

  Mulled wine in a rice cooker   

theminis wrote:True Carla - Just sent a list of things for hubby to buy on his way home - just one extra present each that will remain a secret!

You might be able to get away with saying that because you live so far from the
North Pole, Santa asked you to be his helper this year and hold their presents to save him the extra long Journey on Christmas Eve ???

No good ? Sorry......it's the best I could come up with.

Idea....Next year hide the presents at your in law's house ???

> > A Different Christmas Poem
> >
> >
> > The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
> > I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
> > My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
> > My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
> > Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
> > Transforming the yard to a winter delight.


> > The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
> > Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
> > My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
> > Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
> > In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
> > So slumbered I, perhaps I started to dream.

> > The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
> > But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.

> > Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,

> > Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

> > My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
> > And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
> >
> >
> > Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
> > A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

> > A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
> > Perhaps a Trooper, huddled here in the cold.

> > Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
> > Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

> > "What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
> > "Come in this moment. It's freezing out here!

> > Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
> > You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

> > For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
> > Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.

> > To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
> > Then he sighed and he said, "It's really all right,
> > I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

> > "It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
> > That separates you from the darkest of times.

> > No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
> > I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
> > My Gramps died in Europe on a day in December,"
> > Then he said,

> > "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
> > I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
> > But my wife sends me pictures. He's sure got her smile.

> > Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
> > The red, white, and Blue American Flag.
> > I can live through the cold and the being alone,
> > Away from my family, my house and my home.
> > I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
> > I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
> > I can carry the weight of killing another,
> > Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.
> > Who stand at the front against any and all,
> > To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

> > "So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
> > Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
> > "But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
> > "Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
> > It seems all too little for all that you've done,
> > For being away from your wife and your son."
> > Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
> > "Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

> > To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
> > To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
> > For when we come home, either standing or dead,
> > To know you remember we fought and we bled.
> > Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
> > That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

> > PLEASE,
> >
> > Would you do me the kind favour of sending this to as many people as you can?
> >
> > Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
> > service men and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities.
> >
> >
> > Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe.
> >
> > Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed
> > themselves for us.
> >
> >

That's beautiful Pattygirl....thank you.

so beautiful so sad

it's right
ppl
shouldn't forget

Arriverderchi Farewell everyone, why am I wishing you all goodbye- well its 3pm on Christmas Eve and Im about to leave the house with 3 impatient kids and tackle the shops to finally finish my Christmas shopping - I may not make it out in one piece, may not even make it home with all 3 kids - Merry Christmas, its been fun, thanks for the laughs

Katiedot wrote:Oh God, whyyyyyy did I offer to host a Christmas party at my place?  Whyyyyy??

I'm making mulled wine in an electric rice cooker for crying out loud!  That's how pathetic my planning is!

LMAO!

theminis wrote:Arriverderchi Farewell everyone, why am I wishing you all goodbye- well its 3pm on Christmas Eve and Im about to leave the house with 3 impatient kids and tackle the shops to finally finish my Christmas shopping - I may not make it out in one piece, may not even make it home with all 3 kids -  Merry Christmas, its been fun, thanks for the laughs

Leave a trail of breadcrumbs it will help you get back home... as long as the birds don't eat it.

Good luck!

I may have left my sanity there but I made it back home, at least physically, got some bargains at the grocers so not all bad,

Still 3 hrs of shopping time left till they close, I may just go back!

I've just made mulled wine in a rice cooker (I don't have a stove or any pans) and although I do say so myself, it's effing awesome!

  Great, I hope it is not too good that you start drinking it all alone....  

Oops! Too late for that. Ahem.

 

By the way I love the flying stars. So cool     

Oh wow only now I see the countdown for 2014 above on the top left side

aahh so exciting

      

countdown? where exactly ?

Go to the Top page and then on the left corner you see it in red/orange

no
I have the shades of gray look
maybe is bec of that?

So you can see the countdown but in grey??? Or you can't see it at all?

Maybe I start seeing things now and I'm the only one LOL