All done here!

We took down our Halloween decorations and ginormous inside Lemax Village on the 7th. It was a very, very sad day.

We put our Christmas decorations up inside and out, tree and all with wrapped gifts underneath it up on the 14th.

As you guys saw in the random thread, all my Christmas shopping is done and wrapped. It's being packed in the car on Thursday to leave for our road trip bright and early Friday morning.

I am IN THE SPIRIT, man... Though I truly miss Halloween. It's my all time favorite holiday. Comes and goes so darn quickly.

I am hoping that This year will be the first year we put up decorations outside, but I have to get people motivated!!! lol

I love halloween also, but th 4th of july is my favorite holiday, only because its warm, you get to cook out side, and its an excuse

to play with fire /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

WWGSD Have Fun!!

My brother upon moving to a much larger house managed to wrangle a Santa costume on Christmas Eve and decided to suprise his son (who at the time was about 5 or 6 and daughter who was 3-4. He got changed in the garage and had a big bag of presents. He propped the garage door open w/a shovel in case he needed an exit strategy. My brother had a real problem w/the beard staying put and decided it would be best to keep the kids at a distance. Well needless to say my nephew took one look at him freaked out screaming Santa and bullrushed him in a way that would of made reggie white proud. In something like a demented holiday foot race version of the french connection my brother tossed the bag of gifts at him as a block, then knocked over a few chairs to slow him down as he was chased through the house he managed to get through the garage, knock the shovel out of the way jump in a car and disappear up the street. He only had his gym clothes in the car to change into so 10 minutes later he comes back to the house in tank top, gym shorts and sneakers sweating profusely. My nephew was like Dad where have you been I almost caught santa, but i got all the gifts. he gave me the slip in the garage (he wasn't strong enough yet to lift the rolling door). My nephew takes one look at my brother and says what happened toyou, there's snow on the ground why are you dressed like that? In an aside my brother mentioned that other kids in the neighborhood saw him in his outfit outside w/the big bag and when he beat a hasty retreat the neighbor kids panicked. What happened to all the gifts and why is he stealing Mr. Gorillaz car? My sister in law has said that it was the most frustrating video shoot she ever had the misfortune of being the cameraperson for, too much action she couldn't keep up, but the audio is supposed to be really funny. This happened in the early 80s so the newer tech was not yet available.

I'm so sorry, I wish you would have told me. I at least would have mixed it up with a little Frank and Bing! /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

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I used to have a neighbor that put up christmas decorations before holloween, piped out Elvis christmas songs for all to hear, and didn't take all the junk down till April. Kind of made me puke. /wacko.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

I'm so sorry, I wish you would have told me. I at least would have mixed it up with a little Frank and Bing! /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

I used to have a neighbor that put up christmas decorations before holloween, piped out Elvis christmas songs for all to hear, and didn't take all the junk down till April. Kind of made me puke. /wacko.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Yea, that's a tad bit rough.

I used to have a neighbor that put up christmas decorations before holloween, piped out Elvis christmas songs for all to hear, and didn't take all the junk down till April. Kind of made me puke. /wacko.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

Yeah that's a bit much!

I have some wonderful memories of many x-mas' past, but the most crazy one is the year my dad got drunk.

I had decided that I wanted to wear a cute skirt and top, finally I wanted to be girly but not frilly. So I figured it was time for some cute pumps and panty hose, I was 12. So I didn't have panty hose, I ask my dad if he could go buy some for me. He leaves for the store and he is gone for at least an hour maybe longer, so the family starts to worry, we didn't live miles from the store, we lived about 5 blocks from the store. So finally he comes home smelling like beer, he bought a 12 pack and drank it because his little girl was growing up. By the time he came home I had already changed into jeans and the top, I was upset, he was crying. Let's just say I was not a happy camper that day, then I realized to buy my own darn pantyhose and not worry about it next time.

It's that special moment in the life of every father of daughters when he realizes the boyfriends will soon be showing up on the scene and debating whether or not they could handle being in jail for killing said bf when they invariably break their little girl's heart. Or at least that's the way my Dad used to explain it to me!

Thanks for sharing.

I had decided that I wanted to wear a cute skirt and top, finally I wanted to be girly but not frilly. So I figured it was time for some cute pumps and panty hose, I was 12. So I didn't have panty hose, I ask my dad if he could go buy some for me. He leaves for the store and he is gone for at least an hour maybe longer, so the family starts to worry, we didn't live miles from the store, we lived about 5 blocks from the store. So finally he comes home smelling like beer, he bought a 12 pack and drank it because his little girl was growing up. By the time he came home I had already changed into jeans and the top, I was upset, he was crying. Let's just say I was not a happy camper that day, then I realized to buy my own darn pantyhose and not worry about it next time.

We have a huge family and my father in his infinite wisdom bought industrial carpeting for the house. It's so flat that in a pinch you can actually sweep it instead of vaccuuming. So my mom was sweeping the carpet and had generated a huge cloud of dust that caught the breeze from the open doors and windows and was choking her. I ran out to see what was up and seeing she was desperate for water, i dashed back in my room, where i'd been oil painting and grabbed one of the two dixie cups on my desk. Ran back handed it to my Mom who promptly drank it. You guessed it, I handed her the wrong cup. She accused me of trying to poison her and chased me w/a broom all over the house. I managed to lock myself in my room until my father came home from work and calmed her down. But yeah, i was grounded for xmas that year.

Oh no!! That's kind of hilarious, but only because her health wasn't harmed in any way!!!

Sounds like something my Mom and I would have done.

See most people would've got a bug bomb...lol

That's what makes me different!

Even now, if we find spiders in the house I just open the door and push them out. If it's too cold during winter, they go in the basement! They can eat all the grody insects they want and help me out in that aspect. Not that we have an insect infestation, but you know what I mean! I'm way too anal and clean to have an infestation of those sorts, but I still hate killing them.

The only insects I really hate are mosquitos of course, and centipedes. Also, there are some sort of bugs that look like centipedes, but they're furry, and when you spray them with Raid they die immediately and their legs fall off. I hate those. I don't mind anything else.

Oh boy... You guys have some good stories to tell!

I don't have anything that exciting.... Only two little funny stories.

1. We always went out as a family, my sister, my parents and I to pick out our tree and tag it at the beginning of November. The day after Thanksgiving we'd go cut it, drag it to the truck, bring it home and set it up. One year, and the LAST year my parents got a live tree (about 10 years or so ago) we were finished decorating it, my Dad started a fire in the fireplace and we were all enjoying some drinks while watching TV. I glanced over to look at the tree and in the dim light (only lights on were the TV, the fire in the fireplace and the tree lights) and I saw a "shadow" moving up the wall. I said "what the heck is that???". Mom turned on the one lamp and here, we apparently had a giant sack of spider eggs that just hatched, and the thousands of babies were crawling up the wall behind the tree in a swarm. Then they dispersed, and went EVERYWHERE. Spiders don't bother me, but we didn't want thousands of them in the house. It was a funny night to watch 4 tipsy family members, my brother-in-law and my boyfriend at the time run all over trying to vacuum up all the little spiders.

And yes, we dumped them all outside in the pine tree. Spiders hatching in winter though...?? Must have been the warm fire!

2. This might have been the same year, I don't remember. We always would cut our Christmas tree in pieces when it was time to take it down and burn it in the fireplace. Dad was downstairs and Mom and I started cutting up and burning the tree. Well, we didn't even pay attention - we were completely oblivious in wild womanly chat - when the fire alarms sounded and my Dad comes running from downstairs. The house was COMPLETELY filled with smoke because we "forgot" to open the chimney up! Once we did, and a few windows, the smoke was pouring out of the house so much the neighbors thought we had a fire and called the fire department. Luckily we knew half the guys on the department so they got a chuckle out of it, but it was a stinky smokey house inside for a few days.

At least the fire department got to our house in a timely manner. No worries about them like I would be worried about the cops getting to the wrong place in Bronz' neighborhood!! *lol*

See most people would've got a bug bomb...lol