hope everyone had a HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

wow… so i FINALLY get to update….i guess i’ll have several different parts…



XMAS PARTY with old hs friends

so we have a potluck over at my friend’s house and got to catch up with
a lot of people… and along with a white elephant gift exchange…and
pat’s gift was probably the most memorable… LOL…

my xmas cookies i decorated and pat turning a tree into a volcano…it had dinosaur sprinkles…

and after THAT we had to decorate a gingerbread house!  the
siblings teamed up to decorate their own houses… amy and i were
successful… but then our room failed…. too much snow on our roof…. we were too tired to fix it so our mom tried to reinforce the roof….

before and after…how sad…

sara and mako went all out on their gingerbread house… even after we opened presents they were still working on it…

and LASTLY we opened presents… the younger cousins were getting a
little restless towards the end…OY….anyway, it’s always nice to spend xmas
with the fam…





and after NO TIME TO SLEEP… had to do laundry and pack for idaho!

to be continued….

busy busy busy…

WARNING…if you didn’t like my thumb story you won’t like the following….

so this past monday was my aunt’s birthday….i didn’t get to see her
till the day after…. but when i saw her she had her left thumb
wrapped up… i’m not the only one who injured themselves… except her
wound was WAAAAAAAAAAAAY worse…. she was helping my cousin with a
science project b/c she was REALLY sick…. so my aunt was cutting some
boards for my cousin and my aunt cut like a ‘u’ shape wound… like
DEEP cut wound to the point where the skin/flesh flapped down and blood
was coming out…she ended up getting stitches and stuff… anyway…
yeah… luckily she’s okay…. but ouch!

anyway… not much going on here… just kinda doing a lot of
shopping… well more like going, but not really being productive…
only 5 more working days still we have days off! yeah!

stupid head cold NO MORE!

stupid head colds

THANK YOU!!!
thanks for all the birthday wishes!!!!

the cards, the calls, the e-cards, IMs, etc. made it much happier!

most of my birthday was spent in bed b/c i wasn’t feeling well the
previous day… but i slept for like 13 hours straight and felt much
better…i pretty much rested most of the day….catching up with
people and made last minute reservations and went out to dinner with
pat, andy and shirley to the house of prime rib
in sf…. soooooooooooooo yummy sooooooo much food!!! YUMMY…
FOOOOOOOD! sorry no pix, andy will probably have some, along with a
food review?  not sure… and thanks andy and shirley for a yummy
birthday dinner!

ANSWER…

THE STORY…
i’ve done some pretty stupid/not paying attention sort of stuff but
this was one of the worst….. i was cutting a piece of 1-ply rag with
a razor when pain hit… i looked at my thumb… there was a clean cut
and it started to bleed a little… then i looked around for the rest
of my thumb…and there it was… and so i start looking around
frantically…. washed it off and held it…until i got a bandaid….2
of course… didn’t want it to bleed through…

anyway… yeah.. basically it was a chunk of my skin plus a little flesh sliced off… icky…

thanks everyone for the creative guesses! (actually did look like a loogie! since it was so out of focus…sorry!

GUESS WHAT THIS IS…

answer will be posted tomorrow….until then sorry about the poor quality picture… makes it more of a challenge