Santa Claus is coming to town...and I found out what he is bringing too.

It has been pretty busy for me both at work, at home and with my extra-fun activities.

I can't tell you how many pricing requests I have had, contracts I have written and hours of meetings I have attended.  No really, I have no idea any more.  It.is.just.a.lot!

I took last Monday off - I was at school to meet with the team reviewing our school's IB accreditation and for parents to pickup poinsettias from the fundraiser.  But I worked the whole time due to the crunch I am under, so yeah - that was 8 hours of PTO well spent.

My director was in town - we report to someone in Boston now - and he took us out to dinner Wednesday. That was actually really nice and I enjoyed being out with him and the members of our team who could make it, there was about 6 inches of snow, so....

I went to a FUN cookie exchange on Thursday after working until 7pm. My son has been eating ALL the cookies. Yesterday I put a stop to any further consumption of the Russian Teacakes.

Friday night - a real live, grown-up, dress-up, holiday party with the other couples from our church!

Saturday? All us moms, and some dads, get up for 9:30am  Christmas Pageant Rehearsal at Church. Cuz we are JUST THAT SMART in our planning of fun!

Then off to see Santa with the in-laws:

It was a good thing we got to see Santa too - I had NO idea he was bringing a Crayola Crayon Maker!

Then Saturday Night? Oh YES. More real-live holiday fun. This time with SAILORS!

My friend Julie married a Navy guy - he has Navy buddies and they invite along my Sailor and I to the fun!  I think I almost peed my pants twice. 

Sunday - church and then ALL THE ERRANDS I had no time to do the rest of the week.  

Please do not look to closely at my floor.  I have not vacuumed in - ummmm. yeah. 

Laundry? I will get to the mountain. 

PTO tonight - Girl Scouts tomorrow night - then I give up. Oh wait, I promised Boo Boo La La we would make peppermint cocoa to give as holiday gifts to various and sundry lovely people. 

And I need to stop and pickup gifts as they arrive for my ship-to-store orders.  

What have a gotten my self into?  I remember when I actually used to blog about

1) Hot guys I would want to sit on.

2) Which scooter should I purchase?  

3) Daddy getting chased by Old St.Nick! 

4) AND SNOW!!! 

I hope your holiday season is not nearly as hectic, but just as fun!

Joy to the world, peace on Earth, and Merry Christmas! 

Jane you ignorant slut!

Probably the last "good season" of Saturday Night Live occurred when I was in Junior High...After that season everyone quit, except Brian Doyle-Murray...and he is too grouchy. 

I mean, is it SNL without Lorne Michaels at the helm?

Anydebatetopic, we had a teacher named Mr. Finnegan and he was the wildest English teacher on the planet.  He read Tom Sawyer aloud to us in class and put his heart and soul into making the characters come alive for a bunch of white, middle-class, midwest, t(w)eens.  No easy feat.

Saturday Night Live, or SNL, had a hold on the public lexicon - it still does.  (Really?  Really?)  And one young girl in Mr. Finnegan's English class had picked up on a word she found HI-LAR-I-OUS!
(close your eyes if you are sensitve!)

DILDO

She used it CONSTANTLY.  And one day she said it in class, something like,

"Jeez John, don't be such a dildo!" 

However, she had no earthly idea what the word meant.  Mr. Finnegan decided this girl needed a lesson in how to UNDERSTAND the words that are coming out of your mouth...

"Miss "K", do you KNOW what a dildo IS???"
"ummmmm"
"Well, Miss K, a dildo is a device used to simulate sexual intercourse.  In other terms a vibrator."

plunk - the sound of EVERY girl in the classes jaw dropping onto their desk!

"Miss K, do you think you would like to CONTINUE using that word in reference to your classmates?"

snort, snicker snicker - all the boys have now recovered the shock...

"ummmm"
"I did not think so, sit down."

Yes, ladies and gentleman, an exchange that would not get past any jr. high audience today - Finney would have been FIRED.  This is as recalled by the many retellings of the story that day - how I WISH I were in that English class, but I BELIEVE it...you would too if you knew Finnegan. 

(plus, we knew that Miss K used the word all the time, we ALL did.  and now we knew what it MEANT!)

Here is a clip from SNL around that time.  What do kids know about s.e.x.?  Nada.

Thanks JennyMac for the inspiration today!  Big Hug!

There goes Santa Claus...MEme Monday.

Wanted:

Better video camera to take cool videos of random happenings to myself and Boo Boo La La.

p.s. Santa made our day Saturday!

Boo Boo did not get in the Top 25

And Mommy is a fatA%% so I am going to join up with the

Skinny Girls in Sumo Suits

Like them I wish I was a skinny as I was when I "thought" I was fat. I currently weigh about FIVE POUNDS more than I did when I gave birth to Boo Boo La La.

I have been working out three times per week minimum - except last week when we had strep and stress - and trying to write down what I eat. I have lost MOSTLY inches and not nearly enough pounds.

My goals for week one are:

1) Squeeze in an extra workout
2) Pay more attention to what I put in my mouth - really ENJOY what I am eating or drinking
3) (RANDOM NOTE) figure out how to put my slideshow up on my blog!! HELP. I have it in Flash and PPT and just cannot figure out how to get it on here...

I went out in the snow and 5 degree chill to get the photos and they are just sitting there! ;)

Onward!