This Joy’s Life

This is just too funny not to be share. (Sorry Facebookers to be repeating myself here):

Looking at this dooce daily style blog post about the book A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart, which itself is based on the blog of two women who took a picture a morning each for a year, reminded me of this YouTube video my brother showed Chad and I while he was here of a guy who took a picture of himself every day for six years:

Freaky, huh? I wish I could do something consistently every single day for more than a week, like eating an apple, working out, eating right and all those other new year’s resolutions one makes, or anything involving cleaning. I guess I brush my teeth everyday (pretty much) and make my bed every morning (it sets the tone for the day), so I should give myself props for that. Don’t think it would make a very good YouTube video though.

Suzanne turned me on to this little bit of comedic genius. It’s made me smile more than once, and got me in the Christmas spirit, so I’m sharing:

Good stuff! Here is a picture of a yard in our neighborhood:

I think it is safe to say they’ve gone overboard for Jesus.

So thanks, Suzanne. Here are the answers to the questions you’ve been dying to know:

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? A little bit of both.

2. Real tree or Artificial? Fake. Why sugar-coat it with the word “artificial?” I haven’t got time for the pain of chopping, watering, sweeping needles, disposing, etc. Maybe one year we’ll get crazy and have a real one, but not this time

3. When do you put up the tree? When I get around to it. This year it was the week after Thanksgiving in preparation for my brother’s visit.

4. When do you take the tree down? Before January 1st. It’s bad luck not to.

5. Do you like eggnog? Nope.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Rainbow Bright Doll. I wanted her soooooo bad. That was about the time I learned that I like the chase, because once I had her, I remember thinking how she wasn’t as much fun to have as I thought she would be.

7. Hardest person to buy for? My husband and parents.

8. Easiest person to buy for? Clara.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? No.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A fireproof box. It might have been a birthday gift and Brett swears I asked for it, but . . .

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Favorite scene is when the attic stairs hit Chevy in the head. I heart that movie!

13. When do you start shopping? December

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Probably.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Cynthia’s little wafer cookies with the yummy pink center and homemade sugar cookies.

16. Lights on the tree? Of course! Red and white.

17. Favorite Christmas song? “Last Christmas” by George Michael.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home, but I’d like to start a Christmas tradition of going to GA the day after and staying until after New Year’s.

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s? Yep. There’s Donner and Blitzen, Comet and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. No wait, anger leads to hate and hate leads to anger and Donner leads to the Dark Side? Next question.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Neither, ribbon or bow.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Open gifts with extended family on Xmas Eve, gift from Santa on Xmas morning, and spend the day at Grandma and Grandpa Fisher’s house, where we open the rest of the gifts.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? I agree with Suzanne: Christmas starting in October!

23. Ornament theme or color? Red and white, but also have numerous ornaments from “back in the day” that don’t fit the theme.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? We do Xmas brunch – french toast!

25. Favorite Christmas tradition? We are making new ones with Clara around, but plan to incorporate baking cookies for Santa and reading “Twas The Night Before Xmas.” Also, when she’s old enough, we’ll go and see The Nutcracker every year.

26. What do you want for Christmas this year? A Macbook.

Clara, you have the sweetest smile, smile:

(song begins at 2:56)

John McCain and Sarah Palin (a.k.a. Tina Fey) on SNL last night. Too funny while supplies last:

Today Chad and I are celebrating six years of marriage, which makes this post a little inappropriate. Still, the other night I had a dream that Chad left me for Jessica Alba, to which he responded, “That could never happen.” Could. Could never happen??? As in, it could never happen because she would never show up on our doorstep “could never happen?” As in, if she did then, yes, then it could happen?!

Chad didn’t follow this line of reasoning about his response and dismissed me as a lunatic. Therefore this post is dedicated to Dream Chad (to whom running off with Jessica Alba could happen). Hear this, Dream Chad: Dream Joy has a backup in Jensen Ackles, oh yes she does! (Even though, in truth, he’s probably too short for me, so it could never happen.)

This morning, Clara, my mother and I drove to Warm Springs, home of Roosevelt’s Little White House (Remember Roosevelt? You might have seen FDR on TV if you are old enough to remember it – oh wait, no, the TV hadn’t quite been invented yet).

Anyway, we just walked around the little downtown (all of one street) and ate a lunch of traditional Southern fare at The Bullock House. Here is a little of what we saw:

A cute, quaint little town. But did you get an errie feeling looking at those pix that it was a little TOO cute and a little TOO quaint. I mean, I feel like I’ve seen a lamp like that somewhere before:

Amityville Horror anyone? You can’t tell me that clown and his self portrait weren’t scary. Suzanne, you KNOW what I’m talkin’ about. And that giant green rabbit? My guess is he hasn’t finished that carrot because his belly is full of wee little infants. Halloween is coming, so maybe I’m just in the mood to get spooked. Warm Springs really is “too cute -LOL!” but I won’t be going there at night any time soon, let’s put it that way.

No matter which side you fall on for this year’s presidential election, it’s good for all of us to be able to laugh at ourselves, which is why I HAD to post this SNL skit (*forgive the advertisement at the beginning, nothing I could do about it):

Gov. Palin and Senator Clinton Address the Nation