Be careful what you wish for...

In a staff meeting before the holidays the question was posed, "What is one wish you have for Christmas?". Well I said to have a White Christmas and that's exactly what I got! I'm up in WA for the holiday with my mom and brother. The snow has been beautiful, especially out at the lake, but there's so much of it. I've finally started to brave driving into town on my own as it's melting and it's nice to get out of the house.

Tonight I'm getting together with some high school friends for Karaoke at Reggie's Tavern. It's a total dive and my brother and his crew might make an appearance as well. Should be good times!

Christmas Wishes

Dear Santa,

I keep seeing commercials for the Snuggie and I really want one. I can't tell you how frustrated I get when I have to extract my hand from its warm resting spot under my blanket to answer my phone. On top of that, I really want to look like a Jedi Knight while lounging around my house and think the Snuggie will help me make this dream a reality. I really hope you can work around any copyright issues (I assume that something as genius as a snuggie is copyrighted) and have your elves whip me up a nice knock off.

Thanks for all you do and for your dedication in hiring the disenfranchised. Ever since Ozzy Osbourned stopped touring, little people have had a really hard time finding work. I doubt it will end anytime soon as there are no immediate plans for a sequel to Willow.

With thoughts of gingerbread men....

Stephanie

Fit to be Fried

Friday night started out with a long overdue trip to the Cracker Barrel for Fish Fry Friday with Mike, Amanda, and Baby Kate (we missed you Bran!).

Then it was on to the second round of action. See when you are single you can hang with your married friends early and then cruise out to the single scene later. This way I get the best of both worlds and the marrieds don't fall asleep on me as I'm hitting my second wind.

The second round that night consisted of a house party at another friend's place. She had a great fire going, some good cider, and one fella set the mood with some acoustic guitar playing. Then came the reason for this post: they busted out "I love the 80's: trivia". Teams were randomly assigned and of course my teamed smoked the competition. I fear that again people won't want to play b/c we whooped them so bad. In all honesty, I was more of a support player this go round, but did help out by knowing the first names of the infamous Menendez brothers, some random facts about Reeboks and The Facts of Life, and was able to sing the Different Strokes theme song.

There were cries of our team being stacked, to which we replied it couldn't be since it was random.

That little exchange led to what I believe is the best name for a quiz team ever: "Randomly Stacked". I will so be using that in the future, hopefully in a venue that allows me to pad my pockets a little bit.