Random Ramblings

Our first coldfront and light snow I hate this cold. Luckily its warming back up later this week into the high 60s

We had our Christmas family get together last Saturday. We rented the clubhouse where we live and all my kids and their significant others and all my grand-kids and my mom and stepdad came. It was cool..we were a family. This is the first time I have ever gotten everyone together at the same time.

I listed one of my brother's sculptures for him on ebay - hoping I can sell it for him and help them out for Christmas:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230895817002?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

or

http://www.ebay.com/itm/American-Eagle-Metal-Sculpture-/230895817002?pt=Art_Sculpture&hash=item35c276912a

Nice look sculpture...but way out of my price range (and I wouldn't have anywhere I could put it anyway)

Staybrite wrote:

Nice look sculpture...but way out of my price range (and I wouldn't have anywhere I could put it anyway)

Are you kidding, it's way out of MY range too .

He's done lots of metal work for vehicles as well as art - and has done well for himself with his talents. This Eagle was created for a huge patriotic float for a parade - the float honored those who lost their lives on 9/11.

I love the sculpture of the eagle your brotehr has made.

So good to read you and your family have had a good Christmas family meeting brokentulsa.

brokentulsa wrote:

We had our Christmas family get together last Saturday. We rented the clubhouse where we live ...

We did the clubhouse rental thing several years back with my wife's extended family. It was great to have a place large enough for all of use to gather comfortabley (instead of craming 30+ people into a 1800 square foot house)

Sometimes it's so annoying being the only male in an office of 10+ women.

Today was "dress in all red for some reason, prolly cuz it's Christmasy or something Day"

then non-stop chatter and squealing for the first hour and 1/2.

then I go to the Manager's office to drop off a reciept, and there are 2 women hugging each other in a corner crying for some unknown reason....

omg I cannot take anymore of this estrogen !!!!!!

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Sometimes it's so annoying being the only male in an office of 10+ women.

Today was "dress in all red for some reason, prolly cuz it's Christmasy or something Day"

then non-stop chatter and squealing for the first hour and 1/2.

then I go to the Manager's office to drop off a reciept, and there are 2 women hugging each other in a corner crying for some unknown reason....

omg I cannot take anymore of this estrogen !!!!!!

Preach on brother! Sometimes I leave at lunch and just sit in my car to get away from it. Although there's only 2 and not 10.

Ha! That's what you get for being health care professionals. It's a field dominated by women! (with the exception of doctors....for some reason).

You should have gotten into one of those "math centered" careers. I have worked as a structural engineer for the last 14 years. 10 percent (or less) of my coworkers were female.

Well neener neener neener ! If I had a normal body, I would have done body-work on cars and prolly been head painter, doing customized car painting/art.

Besides I still use my fingers to do division.... so math's out

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

.....Besides I still use my fingers to do division.... so math's out

Hmmm might have been tough to do that more than a couple of times. I mean what do you do with your finger after you have cut it into thrids?

Going to see The Hobbit tonight!

bassdude wrote:

Going to see The Hobbit tonight!

Nice! Let us know what you think.

The Hobbit is great! Pay no attention to the idiot reviewers who don't like it......they say "the frame rate is too high" "the effects look too fake" "Who cares about dwarves anyway"

They're morons......the movie is much faster paced than LoTR, fastest 3 hour movie I've ever seen, has a good balance of humor and seriousness.

I recommend it.

I have new strings for my guitar, finally, that sound beautiful.

Two days before Christmas.
Outside it's rainy, cloudy and grey.

Christmas will be so different this year 4 weeks after mom went to her Heavenly home.
I miss her and I miss my dad.
Why Christmas makes the feelings of sadness stronger?

Christmas is gonna be very different without my grandparents. My grandma passed away four years ago and my grandpa was taken this year. So our family has gone from 6 to 4… What's more, my brother is rarely home from university (thankfully he's back for Christmas) and so it would otherwise be just me and my parents.

Feliz Natal!

My father-in-law died 2 days before Christmas (16 years ago). It made my wife very sad every Christmas for about 10 years. She still thinks of her father every Christmas (as do I) but the saddness isn't quite as bad anymore.

it was 10 years ago yesterday that my wife's grandfather died and 3 years ago today since her grandmother died.

strike that.. reverse it... today is the day grandpa died and yesterday is when grandma died...

I can't believe it...not only is it a white christmas...its a full on blizzard.

For my wife and I's Christmas present, I bought and installed a new natural gas wall furnace (since our old one decided it didn't wanna work anymore).

But even cooler than that, my son-in-law got me a still sealed Leviticus "Knights of Heaven" vinyl original from 1989 ! Wooohoooo !!!

Guilty/forgiven, two happy people, your wife for the natural gas furnace and you for the Leviticus vinyl.

Santa made me happy with Jame At Home.
Yep, I love cooking.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

For my wife and I's Christmas present, I bought and installed a new natural gas wall furnace (since our old one decided it didn't wanna work anymore).

But even cooler than that, my son-in-law got me a still sealed Leviticus "Knights of Heaven" vinyl original from 1989 ! Wooohoooo !!!

You have a cool son-in-law.