Top 15 Tweets From 2012

Or, Why You Should Follow Me On Twitter

I did my "Blogging Memories Over the Past Year" back in November, so now I'm doing my best Tweets from 2012. Really it's from the last four months because I've only been on Twitter that long. Feel free to favorite or retweet any of them by clicking the little button under the tweet.

I started out like this...

So, I guess now I have to figure how in the heck to tweet!
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) September 8, 2012

After I got a little more experience, I moved on to things like this...

Man, I forgot how great it feels to take a shower. #nolongersmelllikeaworkingmansarmpit
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) November 17, 2012

and this...

Just ate half a block of Brie and peppermint bark for lunch. #buildingupmymuffintop
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) December 3, 2012

and this...

Anybody else ever go eight hours without changing their kid's diaper? Yeah, me neither. #liar
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) December 3, 2012

and this...

I love how my driver's license still has my weight at what it was 15 years ago. #fattyfatty2x4
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) December 3, 2012

and this...

Just spent 4 hours, off and on, looking for my phone. Found it when it rang. In my pocket. #mombrain
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) December 4, 2012

Then when I got sick of myself I REtweeted stuff like this...

Caught my kid chewing on a toilet brush. I guess I was busy polishing my World's Best Mom trophy.
— Katy in a Corner (@katyinacorner) November 12, 2012

And I could totally relate to this one...

The world population reached seven billion in March 2012. That's a lot of people not reading my blog.
— PeskyPippi (@PeskyPippi) November 9, 2012

because they aren't reading my blog either.

And then I retweeted stuff like this...

One of these days I'm going to Google "How to Get Into The Electoral College." But not today. I'm eating Twizzlers.
— ThoughtsFromParis (@tfpHumorBlog) October 24, 2012

and this...

My husband just spent an hour and a half hanging pictures and art for me. #foreplay
— Mommy, for real. (@mommyisforreal) December 1, 2012

and this...because I could - I mean, my husband could - totally relate to it...

My husband's time on the toilet has increased considerably since he got his ipad. Now he wants a footstool so his legs won't fall asleep...
— Kerstin Auer (@kerstinauer) November 25, 2012

and this...

You have as much chance of winning the lottery today as you do getting hit by lightning, while riding a unicorn, with Bono.
— Jon Acuff (@jonacuff) November 28, 2012

And then I had BFF's who would remind me how cool it is to be human...

Guess who forgot until the last 3 passes that our mower is self propelled?#thisgirl#dumb
— Felicity Wilson (@Fitzy529) October 26, 2012

Then I realized how much I missed myself and I went back to tweeting my own stuff, like this...

Answer: Infinity. Question: How many times can a child crap up their back before they get sick of it and use the toilet?
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) December 20, 2012

and on Christmas Day, stuff like this...

I'm guessing it's probably wrong, on Xmas day, to want to choke the person that created the packaging on my kid's new toys.
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) December 25, 2012

Then, I ended the year with this...

Reminiscing about a time when I used to party until midnight on New Year's Eve. Now I just sit in front of my #TweetDeck. #marriedwithkids
— AnotherBottleofWhine (@KateWhineHall) January 1, 2013

So, now you know why it can be fun to follow me. If you're not on Twitter, you can keep track of some of my tweets on my Tweets and Stuff tab or my Facebook page. Or you can go watch the ball drop because Ryan Seacrest is way cooler than me and we're getting close to that time. Happy New Year!!!

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80's Fashion Trends I Tried to Rock...But Mostly Didn't

Today's Monday Listicles are 10 Things Totally 80s.  This was a topic I got to suggest.  I also suggested 10 Tweets, which I'll post Tuesday.

I got so into the 80s as I researched for this post that I posted 15 Toys & Other Stuff from the 80s on Friday.  Check it out and let me know if you remember any of that stuff. I'm sure you will.

Ocean Pacific (OP)
Everybody wore these when I was in junior high.  I was obsessed with getting my hands on a pair.  Unfortunately when I got them...I didn't rock them.

Here's what they look like when they were worn well:

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Here's what they looked like on me.

BABY. GOT. BACK.

Check out the matching OP shirt. And the sweet pink Huffy. Actually the Huffy was my sister's bike. I didn't have a Huffy, but I did have a white and green striped banana seat.

Britches Rugby Shirts (with rubber buttons)

I think this was a Washington, D.C. local thing - maybe a few other cities. My husband didn't have a clue what I was talking about when I brought this up to him. In our area, the Britches store was the "Abercrombie & Fitch of it's day". They sold casual and outdoor clothing.  But they had this one style of shirt, the rugby shirt, that everyone was wearing. What made the Britches brand so special, outside of the expensive price, and the warthog logo, was the rubber buttons. We couldn't afford the Britches brand, so I got the cheap knock-offs with the plastic buttons. So not the same. Kids checked for that crap.

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Now that I think about it, I think had one Britches rugby shirt. But I think that either I, or my sister, spilled chocolate milk down the front of it and it stained the white button part. Typical. Maybe that's why I was only allowed to rock the knock-off.

Ray-BanWayfarer Sunglasses

Here's Tom Cruise of Risky Business fame wearing his Wayfarers the cool way.

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And here's me using them as a hair accessory. I wouldn't put them over my eyes in the sun because then my hair wouldn't have looked good anymore. Because my style was hot...obviously.

I may not have rocked the glasses, but I sure rocked that cotton candy...and the farmer's tan.

The Banana Clip

Again, I could not rock this.

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I had my ideal and it wasn't what was being produced on my head.  I wanted to put the clip in and have the hair neatly curl around the clip to hide it, forming a giant set of sideways lips at the back of my head. Instead, my hair looked like any old horse's tail hanging out of a banana.  Lame.

Glacier Shades

Rockin' glacier shades

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Me trying to rock the glacier shades with my dad's giant visor and my little sister at Cypress Gardens.

Too cool for school.

The GIANT Bow

I LOVED the giant bow. I rocked this one...most of the time.  I had a bunch of these, along with a swell collection of scrunchies. I would wear them on the top of my head all the way down to the nape of my neck. I may have even worn multiple bows down my back on a french braid - that sounds like it would have looked stupid...which ensures that I probably did it. One of my favorites was a big denim bow with a silver Indian eagle medallion in the center. Wearing that, I gave new meaning to the term "Western Sizzlin". Hot.

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Mine was WAY cooler than this.

Feathered Hair
Hair is such a big deal when you're a teen. I spent hours with my curling iron. I had two failed perms. I could not rock this. There were a few girls in my school that had their hair so perfectly feathered that the feathering ended at the very middle of the back of their head where the feathered sides met, so that it looked like a faux butt crack on their head. I so envied their feathered butt cracks. I could not reproduce that butt crack.

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This wasn't me.
She had perfectly feathered hair.
I could never reproduce this on my own head.

The Ghostbusters T-shirt

I kind of rocked this t-shirt...in an awkward, oily forehead, eighth grade, metal brace-face kind of way. My sister was really rockin' that mullet.

The Mullet
My weak attempt at a mullet.

A woman who knows how to rock a mullet.  She's got a full-out party on her shoulders.

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She's got it. Yeah baby, she's got it.

How many of these fashion trends did you rock?  What was your all-time favorite 80s fashion trend? Tell us about it in the comments.


Sources for great 80s stuff:
Like Totally 80s, Fourth Grade Nothing, Best of the 80s, The 80 Greatest Fashion Trends

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Finish The Sentence Friday (New link-up)

Hey all you bloggers out there needing a writing prompt and another link-up! You need more of those, right? Okay, maybe not, but I'm doing one anyway.

This Friday, Janine Huldie from Janine's Confessions of a Mommyaholic and I are starting a new link-up: Finish The Sentence Friday. 

Each week we'll publish the beginning of a sentence and you finish it and link it up the following Friday. Make it however long or short you'd like. (I plan to write an entire post to finish it...unless I get really lazy or really distracted by my TweetDeck, trying to come up with something witty to tweet, then put it out there and realize it was actually stupid and it's stuck in Tweetland for the rest of my God-given life, for everyone to see and mock and pity my weak attempt at humor. So far, I've only done that like six times...that I know of.)

I'll put my "Finish The Sentence" story above the link-up each week for to you to read and enjoy and laugh hysterically at...or ignore completely and jump straight down to the link-up. I mean, if that's what you wanna do...fine...I would never do something like that...at least not in the last two days.

Anyway...

Next week's sentence to finish: 

"I went to the grocery store the other day and...".

Come back Friday, January 4th, link-up your post with how you finish the sentence, and check out some of the other posts. I'll be featuring some of my favorites on Twitter and my Facebook page.  Place the following button on your post or on your blog, so others know where to link-up.  See ya Friday! (Actually, I'll be posting 80's fashion trends I failed at tomorrow, so see ya then!)

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15 Totally Awesome 80's Toys and Stuff

I was doing some research for my post on Monday: 10 Things Totally 80s.  I'll be focusing on fashions I tried to rock, but didn't.  Today, here are some other fun things.  Do you remember any of this stuff?


Crazy Foam

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Do you remember this stuff?  I had Super-Man. It was foaming soap. You'd push on the top of his head and he projectile vomited shaving cream-like foam out of his mouth.  Then you slathered it all over your body in the tub.  I'm sure it was meant to last a while, but I used mine up in three baths.

U-Drive-It

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I loved this game. It may have been from the 70s - probably. It was the pre-cursor to Pole Position. It had a working steering wheel and gas pedal. You pushed the pedal and steered your magnetized car around the streets with your steering wheel, trying to drive under bridges, avoiding pylons and stuff.  Sometimes I would slam on the gas and my car would fly off the map across the room.  That was fun.


Wacky Wafers

Source: memoryglands.com via Kate on Pinterest

I think they still make these, maybe. But I remember them in the clear wrapper on the bottom. Yum! Ten cents at High's Dairy Store.



Dolly Pops

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My sister had these and I would play with them too. I was a teenager.

Mr. Zog's Sex Wax

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This was big when surfing was everything even though we lived a good three hours from the coast. It's a puck of wax you rub on the surface of a surf board to give traction to your feet.  We bought it and chewed it because it was flavored.  It was like chewing flavored wax lips.  We felt like chewing it made us cool because it had the word sex in it. I don't think our parents approved of this, both because it had the word sex on it and because we were chewing who knows what.


Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine

Source: perpetualkid.com via Kate on Pinterest

I totally had this. I remember begging and begging for it. I think I used it twice. It involved a lot of turning the crank.  In no way was I spoiled.



Fashion Plates

Source: retroland.com via Kate on Pinterest

I loved these. Unfortunately, I ran out of paper too quickly and the plates made their way all over the house. And I didn't have a pencil sharpener.

Rubik's Cube Necklace

Source: geeksugar.com via Kate on Pinterest

I think these may be back in style and I just don't know it because there were a lot of images for this when I googled it. My best friend and I exchanged Rubik's cube necklaces for Christmas one year. I remember that I felt like I got the shaft because the one I gave her had a metal chain and the one she gave me just had a black cord. Again, I was not spoiled.



Waterful Ring Toss

Source: ilovethe80sand90s.tumblr.com via Kate on Pinterest

I remember playing with this a lot, but it probably just felt like I did and I really didn't.  I do remember the water getting low and I still tried to pump the rings onto the spikes, but there wasn't enough room between the spike and the top of the water for the ring to go and so I would have to tilt the game and hope gravity didn't work against me.  It was actually pretty fun before Atari 2600 came around.

Atari 2600

Source: atariace.com via Kate on Pinterest

Ahh, the good old days.

Here's me in my Holly Hobbie t-shirt, ticked off at my mom because she made me look at the camera while playing Space Invaders or Demon Attack.  The nerve of her. I just know I got destroyed.

Table Top Video Games

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This meant I wouldn't have to lug the entire Atari 2600 console all the way to my grandmother's house and hook it up to the back of her TV with a butter knife.  I could just take my Q-bert game.  My sister had Frogger.  Actually, I think she still has it. And I think it still works too.

Spirograph

Source: en.wikipedia.org via Kate on Pinterest

I've looked for one of these sets for my kids (and me), and thought we had one, but it turned out to be some cheap, dumb thing that didn't make anything as glorious as the spirals on this page.



Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy

I really liked this song. He's a great singer. And hilarious. Then you get the bonus of the Super Freak himself, Rick James joining in.  Now I can't get this song out of my head. Sang it too my family throughout dinner.


(The Original) Star Wars Action Figures

Source: liketotally80s.com via Kate on Pinterest

My husband made me put this one in.  The only time I played with them was at my babysitter's house when her grandson had them around.  I only really liked RD-D2.  I pretended like he was my Barbie's robot maid, like Rosie from the Jetsons.


(The Original) Strawberry Shortcake and Friends

Source: liketotally80s.com via Kate on Pinterest

Sadly, I was too old for Strawberry Shortcake by the time she came out.  But my sister wasn't! So, like Dolly Pops, I secretly played with these as a teenager too.


What do you remember or like best from this page? Tell me in the comments.

Tweet this, pin it, like it, whatever, then come back Monday for the 80s fashions I sucked at.

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How To Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

I never do New Year's resolutions.  I used to resolve to exercise more, watch less TV, eat less, whatever, but by day four I was typically laying across the couch entranced in a Real World marathon, hands and mouth sticky from my second box of Crunch-n-Munch.

I've never been able to keep my resolutions, so I gave up trying.

But this year is going to be different.  I have a plan.

I've realized over the years that if I'm going to make any change in my life it has to start with what I believe. If I don't believe something to be true then my heart won't be in it and I won't change my habits for the long-term. And I have no self-control. So this year's resolutions will be about changing what I believe.

I love junk food, I love Cherry Pepsi, and I love fast-food, particularly McDonald's.  McDonald's holds a special place in my heart. It's nostalgic, quick, cheap, keeps me sane with their Playplaces, and tastes stinking AWESOME. But it's bad for me.

But, is it really that bad?

I'm going to attempt to make myself believe that yes, it is indeed bad for me, as are sugar and processed foods.

My 2013 goals: 

- Eat healthier (less sugar and processed foods)
- Exercise two to three times per week.
- Lose 10 pounds by committing to the previous two goals.

Here's what I'm going to do:

1. Don't start on January 1st.  Forget that crap. I'll still be celebrating. Exercising and throwing out all my Christmas candy is not a celebration.  I'll continue to lay on the couch and gorge myself with salted coconut bark until it's all gone. I will make sure it's all gone by January 7th. January 7th marks the first full week of the new year. That's when I'll start.

2. Begin reading the book Get The Sugar Out by January 7th. This books shares of the horrors of sugar and the benefits of eliminating it.  It changed my thinking for a while when I read it over a year ago. I forgot the horrors and I'm back to eating copious amounts of chocolate every night and Happy Meals once a week.  I need to read it again to remind me why I should stay away from it.

3. Watch Super Size Me, the week of January 14th.  I need to spread out my life changes, so I'll wait until the following week to remind myself of the perils of fast-food.  This movie kept me away from McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants for three months. Then I forgot what was so bad about fast-food. I need another reminder. Click here to watch it now for free.

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Steve hasn't watched this movie because he's heard it's extreme and unbalanced (plus he'd rather watch The Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or some other manly movie I don't care to watch for a fifth time).  While I understand that all of these documentaries appear to lean toward one side, they helped me stop eating junk...and that's my goal, so I'll keep watching them until someone can show me that fast-food, sugar, and high-fructose corn syrup are good for me.

4. Read Fast Food Nation (or watch the documentary) in February. I haven't read this yet, but it's popular and if it will entertain me and turn me away from Taco Bell, I'll read it.

5. Watch Food Inc. in March. I watched it before. Again, forgot some of what they said.

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6. Find 10 quick and easy go-to breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes that don't taste like crap.  I have about five right now, but I need more because we're getting tired of eating the same old thing every week.  Did you hear me whine right there? If you have any suggestions, leave a link to the recipe in the comments.

7. Join the Y.  My gym closed over Thanksgiving break and I've had no place to work-out except my basement.  I can't work out when my kids are playing around me, worrying I'll be hit by a Nerf bullet or a flying Barbie.  And while my main reason for visiting the gym is for the childcare and quiet time, my body appreciates a stroll on the treadmill.

If I start backsliding (which I will around March...or January 10th), I'll...
Watch Fresh - I've never seen this, but I hear it's like Food, Inc.
Watch King Corn - It got me away from high-fructose corn syrup.

So, this is my plan.

Note: I've come a long way from two years ago when we were eating Pop-Tarts and Lucky Charms for breakfast and McDonald's at least twice a week. And I don't judge others for doing this (well, maybe a little), if that's what you eat.  I love those foods - like love those foods. But eating them makes me feel gross and gain weight and it'll make you do the same thing.

What are you New Year's resolutions and how are you planning to keep them? Tell us in the comments.

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THE Scariest Christmas Ornament EVER

One last pre-Christmas post before the big day. Kelly Duran from Writing Down The Bones suggested 10 ornaments on your Christmas Tree and the stories behind them for today's Monday Listicles.  

This is great because our tree is comprised of sentimental ornaments, whether from our childhoods, ones our kids have chosen over the years, gifts from family/friends, or mementos from trips we've taken.

Here are 10 of our ornaments and the stories behind them...

Kermit Krush Ornament - If you read about my 10 crushes, then you already know about this ornament and why it's on our tree...in all it's glory.

GOSH! Isn't he cute?

Memory of a Nightmare Ornament - This one reminds us of the time we camped in Acadia National Park in a downpour that required us to dig a mote around our tent. It was after Labor Day, so there were about three other campers at the entire camp.  One group of campers was right next to us. As we could so easily hear their conversations, we learned that they were all recovering alcoholics, who were clearly celebrating their "recovery" with copious amounts of beer and six foot high fires, left unattended. And they had all been in prison. We left as soon as we could. 

It's Broken, But Sentimental Ornament - This was the first ornament we got Sheehan (our eight year old).  Big Bird's nose is broken off, but I can't part with it because it was his first.

My Husband Hates This Ornament - Every year I find this ornament on the back of our tree.  Steve is a Bears fan. I think he thinks I got this ornament to spite him, but I bought it before we started dating. I don't watch football, but I grew up outside of D.C.  I got this ornament when I was missing home. Plus, it was on clearance at Hallmark because nobody in Chicago likes the Redskins.

Our Son Picked This Ornament And We Don't Know Why Ornament - Every year we let each of our kids choose a new ornament for the tree.  Typically, they choose Spider Man, Sesame Street, Cars, drums, etc., but when Josiah was five, he chose this. I like that he went out of the box.

Bigger Than Your Head Ornament - This is the biggest ornament on our tree. This is one giant representation of all my mommy-guilt. I don't know who made it, and by making it I mean, one of my children stuck three stickers on it. But, I feel guilty throwing it away.  So, for now, the giant thing is staying on the tree. In the back.

(Note: I had written something entirely different about this ornament, but when I re-read it this morning I realized how ANGRY I sounded, so I changed it.  I'm not angry, just overwhelmed by the mommy-guilt related to this ornament. Okay, maybe I'm angry at the mommy-guilt, but not at the ornament or my kids. But now everyone who read it will think I'm an scroogie-ogre. Ack!)

Nobody Knows What To Get My Husband Ornament - Every coffee-lover has one of these on their tree, right? Unless you're picky and only like Dunkin' Donuts or Caribou or some other high-priced coffee.  Personally, I'd be content with a can of Folgers hanging from the tree, but Steve is kind of a coffee snob.  

I choose to think it's full of non-fat,
no-whip, extra-hot, Peppermint Mocha.
Steve says: Mocha Valencia. I say: Nasty.

Everybody's Been To Graceland Ornament - My husband doesn't like this ornament either  He thinks it's cheesy, like one of those Velvet Elvis paintings. So not even close. When I asked him to think of weird ornaments on our tree, this was the only one he mentioned.

Like Having Satan On Your Christmas Tree Ornament - Why do we even have this thing on our tree?  We got it in China in 2008 when we went to adopt Josiah. We wanted an ornament to commemorate the trip and this is what we found. Seeing as how Christmas is not such a big holiday there, it wasn't so surprising that there wasn't much to choose from. We didn't notice that the eyes popped out until we put it on our tree. We like to think it's a dragon.

Wait, I change my mind...

Merry Christmas!


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Bring Me An Egg Nog And A Log O' Heaven

I got tagged by my cousin, Dawn. She blogs at Dawn's Disaster. I do her Super Sunday Sync link-up every Sunday where I hope to get new readers for my blog. 

As far as the tagging goes, she sent me five questions that I have to answer and then I have to send five new questions (Crap. I have to think of five new questions?) to ask five other bloggers that I want to tag. Yes, it's a chain letter, but it gives me something to write about and hopefully my answers will mildly entertain you. So here they are:

1. What tradition does your family partake in that is unique to your family?

Hmm.  Well, the last five years-ish we've gotten together with my sister's family and we do an "Around the World" Christmas Dinner.  We cook up entrees from different countries and pig-out.

This is my sister, Melissa.  Don't mind the fro.
Except sometimes it gets in the way when we're
chopping onions for 'Around the World' Xmas.

The first year, we were really elaborate and had a map on the wall with tags indicating the country each entree was from. We had Caprese salad, stuffed grape leaves, Mexican corn bread, fruit salad in a hulled-out pineapple, curry chicken, hand-wrapped wontons, and a bunch of other stuff that we couldn't finish because we made too much.

Elaborately tagged map

My niece with some of our worldly food.

Last year, I think we had Swedish meatballs we cooked up from Ikea, tamales we bought already made, and microwaved dumplings from Trader Joe's.

And this year, at the rate we're going - they're coming over on Saturday and we still haven't talked about our menu - it may end up being Taco Bell with a side of sauerkraut and some Danish butter cookies for dessert.  Let's talk, Melissa.

2. What is your favorite Christmas dessert/treat?

Man, I remember having a Buche de Noel in French Club in high school, which I was the secretary of, I might add. I beat out the person who didn't show up for the election.  I sizzle.

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As you can see from the picture, the real name of this should be LOG O' HEAVEN. Because that's what it tastes like. Great, now I'm all verklempt. I just shed a tear over food - wouldn't be the first time.

But it looks like a pain in the rear to make because it involves rolling and stuff, but when somebody else makes it for me – which is like never – I swoon.  Look at those little mushroom puffs all over it.  I just want to bite it.

And no, we've never made this for our "Around the World" Xmas dinner.  Maybe Melissa will surprise me with one this year. (hint-hint)

3. Do you enjoy egg nog?  Spiked or regular?

My AOL instant message name was EggNogLvrKate, if that tells you anything. I love it that much. But, not as much as Buche de Noel. Nothing as much as Buche de Noel. 

I prefer Lucerne Light Egg Nog without the liquor. Drinking egg nog is like sitting in the clouds just below Buche de Noel Heaven.  

I thought about photoshopping a picture of a cloud with Buche de Noel sitting above it. But then realized it would take too long, so I didn't. 

4. What is your favorite Christmas song?

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. 

What? 

I'm serious. 

Let me tell you why I'm serious. It's a nostalgic thing.  We have this music box or rotating music thingy, whatever you want to call it, and on my sister's first Christmas, I remember my dad holding it up for her to see (she was a month old) over her bassinet and letting it spin around and play it's music. I still have the music thingy. It sits on my mantel every Christmas. And I think about that one moment every time I pull it out of the box and put it on the mantel. And then I turn the knobby and let it spin and play.

It actually looks like Santa kissing
Mommy. So the song is totally deceiving.

5. Is there usually snow on the ground by you for Christmas? 

I'm in Chicago, so there's usually snow on the ground all year long. Or at least it seems like it. But, yes, there usually is snow on the ground, I think. Not sure about this year though. Although a storm is approaching, as I type.

Steve just proofed this for me and said my answer to question #5 was flat.  But I don't really have anything funny to write about snow. Other than don't eat if it's yellow, and that's really not funny because everybody knows it. So, really, it's a cliche. Bleh. Anyhoo, I'm at the end of my rope for funny stuff and this post is growing like a weed, so let me cut to the chase and get on with the rest of the show...the clock is ticking...or I could just talk until I'm blue in the face, but there's no time like the present...

Now, I tag five other bloggers who are supposed to (but not required to) answer my questions. Although if they don't I wouldn't be surprised if they find some coal in their stockings this year.
Heidi at Heidi is Taking the Plunge - She's been blogging about the different activities she's done with her family each day for advent. It's pretty cool. I always wanted to do that. And then I got lazy.
Sara at She Cooks, She Crafts, She Runs - Sara nominated me for the Liebster award today (THANK YOU!) and since I've received it already and am sure you guys are sick of hearing about secrets, I'm tagging her with some Christmas joy instead. :-)
Stacy at Ramblings of an Undiagnosed Mad Woman - Stacy and I compete for longest blog URL ever. I just counted. Crap, she beat me. 
Stacy gave me the Blogger of the Year Award 2012 today. Yay! Thank you! As acceptance of her award, she shared seven things she couldn't live without.  My favorites: combat boots and "As Seen On TV crap" - I love that.  Since I got this award from Gina last week, I'm going to Christmas tag Stacy instead of answering the award questions.   I wonder if people will still be passing this award along in 2013. That would be very hipster. I just learned what hipster meant the other day, so I had to use it.  
Janine at Janine's Confessions of a Mommyaholic - Janine blogs honestly about her life as a mom. She's part of the Bloppy Bloggers blogging support group I'm in, as is Stacy (above) and Melanie (below). I think everyone in our group agrees that Janine is the most loyal member of our group.  We love her and you will too!
Melanie at Scribbles & Smiles - Melanie blogs, designs, is a freelance writer, and is currently working on a novel. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa and one of her dreams is to travel through as many states as possible along Route 66 in the U.S. How cool is that?

My Questions:
1. What's the coolest stocking gift you've ever received? 2. Do you prefer to wrap gifts or use gift bags? (short and easy one) 3. What's the weirdest ornament on your tree? (I'll be sharing mine on Monday) 4. What are your thoughts on re-gifting? 5. Describe the best Christmas morning you've ever had. (not really a question, but ya know)

What's your favorite Christmas dessert? Is it Buche de Noel? I thought so. Do you like egg nog? Leave your answers in the comments. Or share anything...anything at all.
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