Christmas Bonus

As I went back through my Christmas pictures, I realized I missed this little gem.

There weren't enough great-granchild participants for the nativity at my Mom's family Christmas party so my uncle, brother-in-law, and brother got in on the action. Aren't they adorable? (Sorry for the blurriness)

I realize that this is is a month and a half late, but I did do some fun/interesting things over Christmas and wanted to share.

First, Bri and I had our annual Christmas party. These are the invites encouraging the participants to wear their ugliest sweaters.

Then, we went to the festival of trees. This was the first time I had been since my days of performing when I was in dance. This was by far the coolest tree.

This was the second coolest; one because it was an awesome ode to Harry Potter, and second, because it was created by one of my former patients and her family.

For our Christmas party, I decided to make some cake pops. I went on Bakerella's website to get ideas for Christmas themed cake pops. There were three suggestions; Christmas trees, Santa hats, and reindeer. The Santa hats looked easiest and I figured she had used a mold of some kind so I could whip up a batch easy peasy. Looking on her website, she simply said form them into cone shapes (like that was going to happen). So I went with the reindeer because I can totally form cake into balls without assistance.

The first few looked pretty decent.....

Then after 4 hours, they started to turn a little... strange.

"My head is too big for my body. And lopsided..."

"Come here, little girl. I have some candy for you."

"I don't talk good 'cause Pop done run my face over with the tractor."

"I'm melting, I'm MELTING!"

"So what if I just got my wisdom teeth out? Momma says I'm still special!"

Remind you of any hyenas featured in a Disney movie about lions?

"I think the black eye makes him look tough, not demented."

"I don't know what's going on, but I'm happy to be here"

After Dasher smashed him between the eyes, Rudolph never looked the same.

The whole creepy group, together at last.

Good times, good times. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas.

"I have a bit of a sweet tooth"

Regardless of how often I get this particular combination of letters on 'Hanging With Friends,' I always think the answer should be 'cake.'

"Sheldor is AFK"

So, I've had a variety of interesting experiences with single wards, especially their fast and testimony meetings. I feel that some of the highlights of the past few need to be shared.

- A twenty-something balding boy compares him sharing his testimony to his character on World of Warcraft killing a dragon as equal celebrations of their gods.
- Another twenty-something boy giving the details of his mother's suicide attempt over the weekend
- Multiple people declaring that this is their last week in the ward because they're getting married "and it will happen for you, too."
- Many "I don't know where I'd be without my roommates"
- Young man telling about how much he loved his girlfriend
- Girl talking about how far away her parents are now that she moved away from home (they live 30 minutes away, at the most)

There are obviously other great ones that I may add later but I just wanted to share the insanity the single LDS people are forced to listen to at least once a month.

"What do you mean you don't know?" "I don't know!"

I am a child of television and movies. This has become more evident as I've gotten older even as I've tried to be a grown up. One of the things I've always wanted to do is to try a wider variety of foods but I never knew what to try. Thanks to my love of television and movies, I had good, solid information on what to try.

First Incidence:

So a couple of years ago, my roommate wanted to go out and try indian food. Not ever having tried it, I wasn't sure what to order until I remembered this movie clip. (Just watch until 5:55, I couldn't find just the clip)

If any of you haven't tried indian food, the chicken tikka masala is a nice dish to try first. It's delicious!

Second Incidence:

At work, we decided to order thai food. Once again, I resorted to my television knowledge to decide what to order.

Pad Thai No Peanut
(Follow the link, I couldn't embed it)

Needless to say, pad thai is my go-to thai food dish.

Thank you for helping me choose, TV. May your guidance continue in the future.

"Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?"

So, I have had absolutely no motivation to blog, journal, write, etc. but I'm really trying to motivate my self. So you get my snarkiness.

Totally want this dude's job. Awesome!

Because what I'm looking for in a grown man is his dedication to his childhood superheroes expressed in his underwear choices.

So glad they finally put instructions on tissue paper! Because it's always so hard to figure out how to get the paper into the bag.

It's like a Hot Wheels car just not as cool. Mostly ridiculous.

Somehow I can see why these were 50% off. (Yes, in fact, they are plastic)

Hate to see what their definition of 'any' is.

I'm feeling some mixed messages. I'm so confused!

If you're taking the time to put something on your window, make sure it's spelled right. Especially when it's a thinly veiled insult for all you 'whimps' out there.

'Dating the Living Prophets?' Sounds awesome!

"Soylent Green is people!"

And now, I leave you with some eye candy.

(As a side note, when I took this, there was still snow on the ground, it was about 20 degrees outside and I had to pull off my gloves in order to catch this guy in all his Spandexed glory)

Enjoy until I get motivated to blog again.

"Don't Put Twinkies on Your Pizza"

Conversation with my mom:

"Hey Sharee. How's it going?"

"Good. Not much going on. You?"

"Pretty good. How have you been eating?"

"Decent you know. Only going out once or twice a week."

"That's good. You know it's tempting to always eat out when you're on you own."

"I know, I'm trying to do better."

"Good. You'll have to show us some of your recipes next time you're home."

"Okay, bye Mom."

"Bye, Sharee."

I'm in big trouble next time I'm home.