Friday, December 29, 2006

TWO

Because i'm terribly bored at work and there's no one here but me....no phone ringing, no one stopping by, the third floor is closing up early but us!!

Terrible Twos If you opened it, you have to do it.

Two Names You Go By:
1. Pen
2. Yo Bitz

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Jeans
2. Sheesh, you'd think we were getting ready to play strip poker.......SOCKS

Two Things You Want in a Relationship:
1. I have them....Love
2. Friendship

Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Hanging with Hal
2. Be with family and friends

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. Hug my Mom
2. NOT BE HERE AT WORK TODAY!!!!!

Two pets you had/have:
1. Our dog Cleo girl!
2. Our cat Weiner Willow

Two people who will fill this out: (I hope)
1. Jenny
2. Janelle

Two things you did last night:
1. Shopped with my sister
2. Watched Brother Bear with the family

Two People that live in your house:
1. Hal
2. Pen

Two things you ate today:
1. Banana
2. My sisters awesome homemade Turkey Soup...yummy for our tummies!

Two people you Last Talked To:
1. Shell (my sis)
2. Shari.....Love ya, don't want to be cleanin' up what your cleaning up!!

Two Things You're doing tomorrow:
1. Toboganning with the kids
2. Go see Eragon

Two longest car rides:
1. BC to Nova Scotia (about 8 times in my life but wonderful trip)
2. BC to Saskatchewan border

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Hal and I's summer break

Two favorite beverages:
1. Water
2. Ice cold Coke

Two Cool People:
1. Laura
2. Rhonda

Two Favorite Bands/ Singers:
1. Don Williams
2. Def Leppard

Two Necessities:
1. God
2. My family and friends

Two Sports:
1. Hockey
2. Baseball

Two favorite candies:
1. Truffles that I got for Christmas (simply to die for!)
2. Cinnamon Caramel popcorn with nuts

Two Movies:
1. Silence of the Lambs
2. The Notebook

Two Books:
1. Tuesdays with Morrie
2. Pet Sematary

Two Channels:
1. the ones with Lost/Greys Anatomy/CSI's and Brothers and Sisters
2. Discovery/Animal Planet

Friday, December 22, 2006

I CRIED LIKE A BABY!

You guys will never believe what a fast one my sister pulled on me!!!!! Tuesday night she called and was totally stressing about what to pack, that there was not enough room in the van for the 5 loaves of homemade bread Mom was sending for us, all the gifts, the GT's, etc. So to lighten the mood I told her "Well just leave one of the kids at home?" This was followed by a short silence and then a big giggle.

Well I tried to get a hold of them Wednesday night to let them know there's a good possibility of snow Friday in our area and that if it was snowing in Smithers to spend the night there as it would be late and not good to drive through the Hazeltons and the pass from Smithers to Kitimat.

We're so excited to have them for Christmas and want them to arrive safely.

Back to the story: I leave work yesterday afternoon to get Hal for lunch. We have lunch, I drop him off and head up to visit with Laura, Adam and the boys. They decorate the tree and we're hanging out shooting the poop when my cell rings. I answer it and it's my boss Pauline, she needs me at the mall as there's a 'situation'. Now she's not been felling well so I boogied down to the mall very worried about her. I walk in to the office and ask her 'Are you okay? Do you need to go home for a bit??' She says "I'm fine, just fine, however not sure how you're going to be?" and she looks intently across the room, I turn to follow her gaze and there is........













MY SISTER, HER HUSBAND AND MY THREE NEPHEWS!!!! I dropped the bags I was holding, ran to my sister and hugged the stuffing out of her and burst into tears!!!!!! They were not due to arrive until late tonight. My heart is full with happiness and so much love for our little family. We are so very blessed and lucky to have such a loving relationship.

Not sure how often i'll be on or yourselves so MERRY CHRISTMAS and a VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY 2007 from our home to yours.

Penny and Hal

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Christmas Carols for the Disturbed

1. Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?

2. Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Kings Disoriented Are

3. Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas

4. Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me

5. Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets
and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees
and.....

6. Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me

7. Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire

8.Histrionic Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll Tell You Why

9. Attention Deficit Disorder --- Silent night, Holy oooh look at the froggy - can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?

10. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder --
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells ....

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Christmas Traditions part one

A while back i'd posted about Christmas traditions and wondered what others had as a family tradition. Tonight Hal and I were pulling stuff out of a storage area and he says "Hon, when are you going to bake your shortbread?" I'd then realized here we are almost the middle of the month and it wasn't made yet.

I make a cheater version of Shortbread but it's melt in your mouth heaven!! It's 1 lb butter, 1 cup icing sugar, 1/2 cup corn starch, 3 cups flour and 1 tsp vanilla or flavour of your choice. Hal and I prefer the almond flavour. You whip the butter and flavouring, add corn starch and icing sugar, whip that. Then add in one cup at a time of flour and then drop by tsp. on a cookie sheet. 10 minutes later....voila...heaven!




My sailor man is happy and content for the time being. This is just one of our little traditions started the year Hal and I began our life together.

God Bless everyone and more traditions to come!
Pen

Monday, December 4, 2006

Getting motivated....

Ho Ho Freaking Ho!

The heater in the beater is fried and we're not putting another penny into it....including me! (hehehe sorry couldn't resist!)

Hal is going to look at used vehicles in Terrace this week and see what he can find. We're in a quandry as to buying used and praying like heck that it's not going to dollar us to death and that we get something decent....Hold on! What the hell am I saying...ANYTHING is better then the Beater! I have to admit that it's been good to us for as old as it is. 1985 Pontiac 6000 with almost 300,000 km on it.

For Hal it's parting with a car that used to belong to his Mom and then to his Aunt. For him it was more of an emotional attachment cuz it could not be for anything else, lol.

Fingers crossed and positive thoughts that we find something reasonable that's not going to break the bank.

Now to the getting motivated part. I've skipped out on Yoga more then a couple times now and really have to get into something physical but i'm finding that this is not what I want. There are also Christmas cards to be finished and baking. Tonight i'm doing the Christmas cards and wrapping up the last of the parcels to be mailed tomorrow.

On a positive note it's only 18 MORE DAYS UNTIL MY SISTER AND HER FAMILY ARRIVE!!!

xo Pen

Friday, December 1, 2006

21 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS AT OUR HOUSE!!


It's 21 days and a few hours until my Sister, Brother in Law and 3 nephews come for Christmas. That's the best gift for Christmas and is making our Holiday Season so much more exciting.

Hal and I are floating on cloud 9 and so anxious for them to arrive safely. We moved here in '99 and haven't had a Christmas with them in that time. Growing up we always had huge gatherings and the door was open to one and all.

The house is being decorated this weekend, parcels and Christmas cards to the post office on Monday afternoon once the work day is finished. Hal is going shopping next week with Doug and i'll be giving him a list of last minute gifts that I can't find here in town. We've got a closet full of stuff for the kids here already not to mention the stuff that my sister is having delivered here. Have a few bids on ebay for other cool stuff for the kids that i'm unable to find in the stores. If I win the auctions that's awesome but it's okay if not as these are just extras.



Back to work....
Pen