Christmas already

This was the first morning in a long time that the sun rise was not hidden by gloomy clouds.
We went to look at Christmas lights last night. Most of the pictures didn't turn out. The house in these pictures was amazing. Miranda just loved it. I have not felt like it was Christmas. Yet it is only a few days away.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MIRANDA

Christmas party, Santa, haircuts, and a laugh

The mobile home park we live in always has Santa in the park office around Christmas. The kids enjoyed seeing Santa. Coleman and Sarah told me that they were very glad they knew Santa knows what they want. I have Coleman's picture on flickr.

I finally was brave enough to get my hair cut. I had a lot taken off but it is so nice to have a hair style again. The picture below is after a long day of running and chasing kids so it doesn't look the greatest. I had it cut Thursday night.
Friday night was my company Christmas party. I had a good time. It is so funny to see the people you work with all dressed up and not up tight about work. Of course the best part is the drunk ones that make ass's out of themselves. The picture below is of the dance floor. The lady in the middle white shirt with black belt was the craziest dancer. She was all over the dance floor. I can't even explain it. I didn't have a problem getting up there after seeing her dance. A lot of people were taking pictures and videos of her dancing. I think it was the best part of the evening.

AND NOW FOR SOME LAUGHS

(I have add my own names to make it more fun)

Say Something Positive
A husband(Randy) and wife(Sybil) are getting ready for bed. Sybil is standing in front of a full-length mirror taking a hard look at herself. "You know, dear," she says, "I look in the mirror, and I see an old woman. My face is all wrinkled, my hair is grey, my shoulders are hunched over, I've got fat legs, and my arms are all flabby." She turns to Randy and says, "Tell me something positive to make me feel better about myself." He studies hard for a moment thinking about it and then says in a soft, thoughtful voice, "Well, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight."

Sex Education
Coming through the door after school one day, Coleman hollers out...

"Okay everyone in the house, please stand advised that I, Coleman Richard Sterling, have on this date made a complete fool of myself in sex-education class by repeating stories concerning storks as told to me by certain parties residing in this house!"

Sunrise,Sickness, Plane tickets, & Laughs

Thursday morning the sunrise was like a beam coming from the ground it was so pretty. The above picture is from that morning. I didn't use photo shop on it. I thought it was beautiful.

The girls were very sick earlier this week. Miranda started complaining of her throat hurting her and was running a fever last Saturday night. I called Monday morning and got her an appointment at her doctors. Shortly after getting the appointment I noticed a rash and she was itching like crazy. The doctor said she had scarlet fever which was caused by her strep throat infection. We left the doctors and filled her prescription. When we arrived home there were two messages from the kids school saying Sarah was in the office with a sore throat and a fever. She had been there for two hours by the time I got home from the doctors. I felt so bad. She is so shy at school there for she wouldn't ask them for a cover. She laid there two hours cold. As for Miranda I'm sure most of you know how much of a candy addict she is. She was so sick she wouldn't even take a sucker when we were at the doctors. She usually begs for them from the minute we walk in and tries to snatch one if someone leaves the door open where you go back to the rooms. Everyone is doing better know.
Vince bought his plane tickets with help from his parents and there flier miles. He departs on December 31 around 10:45am. He is flying back on February 14th. and will get in around 10:35pm. That will be a long time to be away from him. I'm glad we get to see each other on Valentine's day. I believe this is going to be the hardest part for us being so far apart. I'm hoping to have every thing up here done early so we can move down earlier but I'm also having a hard time knowing I'm leaving everyone here. I'm hoping to get my mom blogging she says she wants to but we have trouble getting her to read her emails.
Below I have but some funny ways to answer the phone when talking to telemarketers. Let me now if you have ever used one of these methods and which one is your favorite. My favorite is #3 and I plan on trying it some time.

Creative ways to deal with telemarketers

1- Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, "Oh No!!!" and then hang up.

2- Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The Telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me, either!" Hang up.

- Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.

3- Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.

4- Tell the Telemarketer you are on "home incarceration" and ask if they could bring you a pizza.

5- Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.

6- Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how's your mom?"

7- If they want to loan you money, tell them you just filed for bankruptcy and you could sure use some money.

8- If they start out with, "How are you today?" say, "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems; my arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died..."

9- If they say they're John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people work there, how they got into this line of work, are they married?, kids?, etc. Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary.

10- Cry out in surprise,"Judy! Is that you? Oh my God! Judy, how have you been?" Hopefully, this will give Judy a few brief moments of terror as she tries to figure out where she could know you from.

11- Say "No", over and over. Be sure to vary the sound of each one, and keep a rhythmic tempo, even as they are trying to speak. This is most fun if you can do it until they hang up.

12- If MCI calls trying to get you to sign up for the Family and Friends Plan, reply, in as SINISTER a voice as you can, "I don't have any friends... would you be my friend?"

13- After the Telemarketer gives their spiel, ask him/her to marry you. When they get all flustered, tell them that you could not just give your credit card number to a complete stranger.

14- Tell the Telemarketer that you work for the same company, they often can't sell to employees.

15- Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up... louder... louder...louder...

16- Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.

30 Degrees or 71 degrees?

We have been getting a lot of snow tonight. We are under a winter weather advisory. The picture below is Sarah Playing in the snow about a half hour into the snow storm. Our winter advisory isn't over until 9 AM.

Vince received a call on Thursday with a job offer. He worked most of all the details on Saturday. It is a great job making twice as much as he does now. There is big catch. The job is in West Palm Beach. Vince starts in January. The kids and I won't move down there until the beginning of June. That way they can finish this school year out here. We didn't think changing schools with that big of a move would not be good for them all at the same time. I cried the first night I found out. Mostly because I don't want to move that far away. It will be hard being that far away from our family. I never realized how much of a Mommies girl I was until now. I will be closer to my Grandma Lois. That I'm very happy about. The kids are happy about it most of the time. Coleman is so funny. He didn't want to go at first. Then when Vince told him they had a really good school that they would get to go to he was all for it. Way to go Coleman thinking of education. Sarah wanted to move until we mentioned that she wouldn't get to see her cousins very often. She started crying and said she would miss Samantha way to much. Vince told her we would make sure she gets to see all her cousins more before me and the kids move down. I'm not so hot about how hot it will be in the summers there. Which brings me to the title. Those are the current Temps as of 11:30PM. Of coure the feels like would look like this 19 degrees or 71 degrees. We are going to rent a house from Vince's new boss. At least at first. It's on a dead end road and the elementary is at the end of the dead end. I will blogg more asap.