Well Howwwwwddddyyyyyyy!!!! I’m back!

Seems like forever since I last wrote.  Well it has been over a month.  With the holidays and work being busier than ever and school taking up a big part of my free time…  Something had to give and well this is it.

So here I am coming back at ya.  So TV since January has been OK!  I really like the new Life Unexpected.  It is a cute, funny, little show that seemed to catch me right from the first minute! 

Now that Vampire Diaries is back I am even more hooked than I was before, I actually referred to it as my Second fave show after Criminal Minds.  I am still hooked on Ice Road Truckers 2 and Ice Pilots, have to admit I have a little crush on Scott!  http://www.icepilots.com/profile_scott.php 

I have also started watching The Deep End which I am also quite liking… 

I hate to admit that even though I swore I would never watch it, I started watching Grey’s Anatomy with my Grandmother at Christmas and now I am hooked.  Of course I am watching American Idol,

and the rest of my faves, House, NCIS, Criminal Minds, The Metalist, Brothers and Sisters, Bones, Fringe… 

Survivor starts this week Woo Hoo should be good.

America’s Next Top Model is starting in March… 

What else!  Oh ya!  Those Housewives, OC and Atlanta are running at the same time, I really wish they would put the new NYC and New Jersey seasons on, I like them the best.  Mmmm mmm!  TROUBLE (in the words of Travis Tritt!) They are all trouble! 

I miss Tori and Dean.  I REALLY miss my Kate and her Eight and Table for 12

However with the Duggars back and the show being renamed 19 Kids and Counting, with the birth of little Josie Brooklyn I have something to fill the void!  I wish them the best with the journey they have ahead of them with their newest little one who was born at 1lb 6oz.  http://www.examiner.com/x-24089-TV-Examiner~y2010m2d3-Duggar-family-reveals-intimate-details-of-Josies-birth-on-Special-Duggar-Delivery

Also I am a little bit addicted to CAKE BOSS!  Did you see the full sized NASCAR cake they built, if not here it is!  http://blog.zap2it.com/kate_ohare/2010/01/the-cake-boss-takes-on-nascar-in-a-big-way.html

AND dear Jesus I miss EASTWICK!

Now as for everything else (yes TV takes up a really big part of my life) Brody and the cats are well.  James and I are trucking along better than ever.  My boss is retiring so work is kind of up in the air right now, however REALLY over the top busy!  School is also keeping me busy.  I am in the throws of completing my last course in Criminal Psych.  I have one assignment, eight profiling cases and one paper to write, before the exam and well them that’s it that’s all folks.  On the other hand, I have to complete my PMP course load and write that Provincial Exam.  I learned my lesson last semester while working full time.  Being James’ girlfriend, Brody and the cats’ Mom, a daughter, sister, a grand-daughter and friend doesn’t make it easy to complete five courses…  So this semester I took two and it is easier, so I think I will stick with that! 

Well that is about it for  now!  I will try to write more often and bring back some of Brody’s funny stories! 

Thanks,  for stickin’ with me!

My fave Vids of 2009!

Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry and some will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

1 — Dog Cries when Soldier Returns Home

2 — Helping Baby Squirrel

3 — Jill and Kevin’s Big Day!

4 — Rapping Flight Attendant

5 — Single Ladies Gone Wrong

6 — Guy Falls off Treadmill

7 — Kayla says I Love you!

8 — Sleepwalking Dog

9 — Hallowe’en 2009 Math Class

10 — Dance off with the Star Wars Stars 1&2  

Hope you all have a GREAT New Year!

Mish Mash!

 Woo Hoo an early Christmas pressie.  Maybe she could have waited till the 25^th…  Duggar baby 19 arrives early http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20326622,00.html

 Pink thinks the prince is a redneck who needs more education http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/12/14/2009-12-14_pink_slams_prince_william_for_his_fox_huntinghes_like_a_redneck_from_the_south.html while I think she is an over inflated, egotistical celebrity like Bono who thinks that just because s/he believes in something that saying it out loud will have the whole Earth’s population believing it.  Don’t get me wrong I think fox hunting is abhorrent but I also think for her to spout her opinion in a letter and assume it is going to get someone to change their ways just because she took the time to write a letter (or her assistant did) is a little delusional! 

 List of Five best romantic holiday movies http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/family-relationships/articles/archive/rogers-chatelaine/best-holiday-romance-movies-2009-11-26 I agree with most, however I would rather have seen serendipity on there instead of Shite ooops! I mean White Christmas!

 Well I guess I should have read this a long time ago!  I find it amusing how tension filled it can be having three generations in the workplace at the same time!  http://hrguru.monster.com/news/articles/3189-12-things-to-never-say-to-older-and-younger-coworkers?page=1

 This is the BEST video I have ever seen…  AND people say animals have no higher intelligence! 

 Now this has me a little more than PISSED off.  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091221/business/cbusiness_us_mortgages someone like me who is smart enough to know what I can and can’t afford, will have to suffer for the rest of the idiotcy out there that grabs things because they want it and find loop holes to get it then can’t pay for it later AND the government is touting this as being “helpful” to first time buyers!  I don’t think so.  It is putting homes further out of reach for many!

 While I do find Brittney Murphy’s death tragic.  I cannot understand the outpouring of emotion from people who only know her as the characters she played.  I don’t get that. 

 OK so here it is my pic of the day!  From I’mtiredof.com

Please check this out!  http://dogtime.com/dog-adoption-stories/stories/150-brenda-lily

So to all of you (because this will be my last post until after the holiday) Have a happy, loving, safe, warm, filling, WHATEVER…  Holiday and all the best in 2010.

The Holidays! A time that is supposed to be fun, loving… However is most of the time stressful!

Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.  The immortal words of Clark W Griswald from 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.  A staple for my generation.  I can recite every word!  I have watched it three times already this year.  I have it on DVD and VHS!  That has to say something.

So here is a run down of the things that make Christmas, Christmas to me!

Cadbury Selection Boxes —

Oh how we waited for these on Christmas morning.  Usually they were sent from Ireland and a little worse for the wear but they were still the highlight!

Christmas Caroling in Public School.  Every morning in the two weeks before Christmas, in the wee hours, we would pile into the gym and sing carols!  I loooooved it!  This happened to be and still is my fave! 

As I got a little older and met my best friend the high point of the Christmas Season was to break out the John Denver and the Muppets CD at work and make EVERYONE ELSE CRAZY!   This is the best! 

Now every girl who grew up in the 80s loved WHAM!  I don’t care what you say you did!  This was one of their most famous songs and as a matter of fact is my ring tone right now!    here is the best remake yet! 

Some of the best movies ever made are about Christmas.  Home Alone…

Christmas with the Kranks! 

Surviving Christmas… 

The Family Man.  http://www.family-man.com/

The Family Stone!  I CANNOT watch this with crying! 

And the Best of all time…  Serendipity!  Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack how much more could you ask for! 

Sleeping over at my Grandparents on Christmas Eve, opening one gift before bed.  Waking up on Christmas day to pressies all over the living room.  Breakfast and then playing and then dinner!  OH! 

I still want a But hey I can dream! 

I think my fave Christmas gift EVER was the year that I got chewie!  My Grandmother had hidden it in her closet and was pretending something was growling in there and I had to go find it and there he was.  I still have it too! 

That putting up our Christmas tree was a big affair and how much my father loved putting the glass balls, the tinsle and what he referred to as a Judy but most would know as a Garland!  Ha ha!  Get it?  Our Special icicle lights, our trips to Pioneer Village and having dinner in the half way house! 

Soooooo many things come to mind that I could stay here and write forever but alas.  I have other things I need to move onto!

So now I wish you a happy holiday no matter what you are celebrating.  I wish you love, joy, peace, warmth, family, a full tummy and contentment!  Then onto the New Year, I hope it is everything that you could ever wish it to be.

I will leave you with another set of words of wisdom from Clarkey boy! 

Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?

Following links, on a friends blog lead to this…

Here are some other blogs I discovered and actually like.  You will see a pattern.  Hmmm…  I wonder what it might be….

Please comment on what you think!  In the new year I am going to get back to being serious about writing and will try to blog at least once a week, not just share links and pictures but really write for you. 

I only have two classes this semester and then one next and so my time won’t be as tight as it was last semester with five classes on top of working full time, being a full time doggie Mom, full time girlfriend, sister, daughter, grand-daughter, friend! 

So here!  Have fun perusing!  Have fun learning, have fun reading and exploring from someone else’s point of view!

http://biggiezblog.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

 http://retrieverfarm.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

 http://www.vtdogs.net/?expref=next-blog

 http://carlothedog.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

 http://theinuogler.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

 http://juliemichigan.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

 http://nashaway.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

Pic of the day!

I found this picture at my new fave blog!  http://judylobo.wordpress.com/category/animal-stories/

It is even better when you realize there is research out there that proves that primates are able to recognize themselves in a mirror, not mistake their reflection for another of their species!  Read about it here! 

 http://www.springerlink.com/content/p0h5721671472322/ 

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1t6pu160l4574871/ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119167144/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Happy Birthday Nikki Sixx!

http://www.topsongs.ismywebsite.com/?p=1815

Check this out! It’s kinda funny!

http://judylobo.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/hanukkah-shmanukkah-5770/

So it’s been a while…

I have not watched Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) in a while but this time I started watching late in the season.  I love the Osbournes and routed for Kelly the whole way.  Until I watched Donnie Osmond’s first dance on Monday night.  Well I fell in love.  He won, Kelly came in third.  I am happy and well I will see how it goes with Season 10…  Watch or not to watch that is the question!?

Went to see New Moon this past week-end…  Not impressed.  I loved the book it was my fave of all four I read it in one day at the cottage.  The movie just didn’t do it justice!  Jake all the way for me peeps!  Not contest in my mind!  Love me some werewolves! 

Have been skimming through blog roll here some really good blogs and writing you should do the same when you have some time.

Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in the old man’s hat if you haven’t got a penny a ha’penny will do if you haven’t got a ha’penny then god bless you!  Picture Miss Piggy and John Denver!  I love it.  Gotta break out the CD!!!!  I am so very excited, I am sure it is going to be a good year for us!  I have done most of the shopping only about two more to go! 

Work have been good nothing too much to report.  I for the first time actually enjoy coming to work. 

 Cell phone is busted.  Every timeJames calls it hangs up on him!  LOL!  I think it’s hilarious and it just really ticks him off!  Oh and I busted my Parking break in my car and with a manual trannie it ain’t a good thing!

 Love, happy to be in it! 

Was going to do a pic of the day but found this on YouTube instead!  And they say dogs are dumb!

 

Here’s a quick recipe too!  They have a new Budget wise section on Kraftfoods.com and a big Potluck section for Christmas and US thanksgiving coming!

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/chicken-parmesan-bundles-107338.aspx

So, I am going to the One of a Kind show with  my Mother-in-law and Grandmother this Sunday!  I have not been in years, should be fun! 

Along with the One of a Kind we used to go to the Sugar Plum Fair every year at Casa Loma, it was the National Ballet of Canada’s major fundraiser.  Kinda miss it.  We always got these chocolate and caramel covered apples from a place called Treemendous apples.  I don’t know if they still exist!

I am really very sad that  Eastwick has been cancelled it was really the only new show this season that I liked. 

Jon and Kate plus Eight signed off on Monday night!  I am really sad!  I am going to miss that show quite a bit.  STOOPIT  Jon.  Criminal Minds and Vampire Diaries have moved into my fave show category although I am really leaning towards Table for 12 as a replacement and in the end I still have 18 (soon to be 19) Kids and Counting! 

It’s kinda funny that this season I didn’t watch too much of the reality TV, I have not watched Survivor, missed a few of the Hell’s Kitchen, got board with ANTM to the point I PVR’d it and skipped to the end every week so I could just see who got kicked off!  I am getting back to the dramas except when it comes to TLC.  Oh who am  I fooling, still watching the Housewives and Tori and Dean.  Still watching Canada’s Worst Driver!  I love it!  My newly discovered Rescue Ink is GREAT too!

Had lunch with an old friend and her puppy last Friday!  It was nice!  This time of the year is always good to reconnect!  

I miss my best friend we don’t see nearly enough of each other.  Lives are too busy!

A shout of Sympathy to my long time friend MAB.  You have an angel watching down over you know.  Just know that Snoopy is with Tiny and Mowhawk now!  You will always have him in your memory! 

The loss of a loved and cherished pet is devastating especially when they are nearing their 20s.  Here is a website that helps with this…  http://www.pet-loss.net/index.shtml However you need to remember that you have to go through the stages or grief the same as you would with a Human being!  Don’t let anyone tell you any differently!  http://www.petloss.com/rainbowbridge.htm

Well that is me done!  Going to sign off now!  Have a good one!  I won’t leave it so long in between next time! 

 

Two videos that will show you that animals are defo more civilized than Humans!