Young Girls in Bikinis for the guys and Barbie houses for the ladies

I thought that I would flashback to Past Christmases, some of my favorite moments.....

Christmas 1998- After all the whoop la of family stuff during times that I normally like to forget..... I have a treasure of a memory. My Best Friends in high school (and still my best friends) "Jill" and "Scarlett" came over with their bikinis and a bottle of what we told my Mom was "Sparkling Wine" (really it was a bottle of gods knows what, I remember it was cheap liquor of some kind) and went out to my Hot Tub outside and sat in the hot water with our cheap liquor..... It snowed, we spent hours out there, talking about life and love (HA! we were sixteen what did we know). It was one of my favorite because life was simple, I had the whole world out in front of me. My best friends were there.... I love you ladies

Christmas 1988 or 1989 I was a child so I don't quite remember- It was still when my parents were still married, we were living in a pink house on 40th Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I can picture that house, on the Air Force base, wood floors, four bedrooms. I had a full size bed and my own room but my brother "Dumbass" and my sister "Sookie" would still end up in my bed by the end of the night, every night. I remember waking up about 4:00am after "Santa" came and ate our cookies and brought us our presents. We never opened them until my parents got up but we looked in our stockings and would sleep on the floor by the tree. My mom would make bread pudding for breakfast. Dumbass got a GI Joe aircraft carrier and I got a "Barbie" house that was actually a piece of furniture that I would be able to use later in life... That "Barbie" house had many uses after that, but that will be a story for another day.

Christmases Present- I have my own children this will be the first year that they can both walk and unwrap presents by themselves. This one will be a little melancholy for me... I will get to enjoy it because I won't have to work, so that's nice. I am not on speaking terms with my mother so I won't to get to see my half sisters who are 10 and 13 (I did sneak presents over to them though, texting is an awesome thing). I will get to see Dad, Princess and Dumbass is bringing Rockstar over, my parents in law will be there (since they live with us). I will get to see my Roo Roo cook in her kitchen that we bought her and Wubbers play with the Garbage truck we bought him (my son has 3 loves in life.. His Stuffed Monkey, Trash and Trucks). I will spend it with Bill, my husband who has brought me something that I haven't been able to figure out yet. All and All I am looking forward to it..... So Merry Christmas everybody!!!!

Christmas Cookies and World Domination

So this weekend I was very excited to get to carry on a tradition that my stepmother Lin, as Dad likes to call her, and I started a few years back, we baked Christmas Cookies. I haven't really got to participate since I have normally worked like a dog during these past years as a "Big Box" Manager (90 hours+ during Christmas and I am not shitting you). This year was different and I decided that I was going to make up for the last few years and do a marathon of baking. Lin and I invited my sister in law Princess to help. Princess and I started promptly at 9:00am and Lin joined us around 12:00pm (Lin had to go to the scrapbook store but brought us pizza so it was cool) I am never and I mean never going to be as ambitious as trying to bake 16 different types of cookies again. When we started it was great, I had caffeine in me, the boys (Dumbass and Bill) watched the kids. Afternoon was OK, I started to drink some Grapefruit Vodka and Tonic's and we were moving at a good pace. Then all hell broke loose, the boys came in to the kitchen because they were bored, Dad showed up and we all got talking and forgot about baking , most everyone moved at a snails pace, Princess got sick, I almost started crying because I was so tried. I didn't, I just kept on trucking....... Princess left with Dumbass and Rockstar because she felt like crap and went home. Dad had to go home to feed his and Lin's furry kids that live at there house (3 big dogs).... That left me and Lin, by 11:00pm we were done for the night. The next morning I got up and finished by myself..... another 4 hours went by... That's right 17 hours of baking. If I ever have to look at another fucking cookie it will be too soon. As good as they are, I don't even want to eat them, right now... I probably will tomorrow though. I will say that the cookies are beautiful and "the divas" call me Betty Crocker since I brought them a plate. My back hurts and my fingers have been burnt or cut. So next year maybe just 10 diffrent types.

In other news..... Princess is Preggers!!!!!! I knew making her drink all that water at my house would work. That is why she was so sick.... I found out that next day (Dumbass called me but told Bill first which is a load of crap because he is my brother, not Bills) World Domination here we come!!!!!!!!