Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone gets their fill of turkey and stuffing! Happy Thanksgiving

A Special Day

Today, November 26th, would have been my mother's 59th birthday. Here she is sporting her nurses uniform on her graduation day back in 1969. Happy Birthday Mom.

Photo of the Week Part 2

Drink much?!

Christmas Movie Classics

Recently I have been thinking about Christmas movies a lot due to the weather and quickly approaching Black Friday. Plus, I've seen a few Christmas movies on the Family channel as their Countdown to Christmas has arrived! It all got me thinking about some of my favorite movies to watch in the month of December. I admit it, i'm a sucker for cheesy, absolutely no-point, ridiculous Christmas movies. I luv them all, but here are some of my favorites...

I think everyone enjoys a good helping of The Christmas Story. This is usually on for 24 hours straight on Thanksgiving. I try to watch it at least twice. It still makes me crack up every time at the part when Ralphie and his brother get bundled up for school and he can't put his arms down. Oh the memories...

And I can't help but give a shout out to the plethora of cartoon Christmas movies. Two of my favs are How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas. You can't help but feel bad for Charlie's pathetic Christmas tress with no needles and one lonely ornament on it!

ELF with Will Ferrell is SUPER hilarious and one of the more recent Christmas classics. I highly recommend this movie to anyone. "You look very purple-ly today!"

I just saw this movie the other day, The Santa Clause. I had forgotten how much I liked this movie. Its super cheesy and really just ridiculous but I find it very cute and funny. There are two more of these movies but I have to say that this one is my favorite of the three. The little boy in this movie is so cute!

Another recent hit that I don't think will quite reach 'classics' status, and most people won't even watch, but I luv it, is Christmas with the Kranks! Another Tim Allen Christmas movie. Jamie Lee Curtis is also in this and she is super annoying but the movie as a whole is pretty funny. I like it when her honey ham rolls out of her shopping cart, through the parking lot, around cars, and into the street where oops! a big semi truck just happens to be driving. Totally lame but again, great for a night of Christmas movies.

Home Alone (the original) is another Christmas classics that I'll make sure to watch this December. Although no one actually likes McCauley Culkin, he does a fine job in this movie! I just think its funny--all his antics and tricks!

Finally, probably my favorite Christmas classic and one that I make sure to watch at least a few times is Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase. OMG, I laugh through this entire movie. Its just full of hilarious points. I have so many favorite parts in this movie I can't even pick one to share. I"m sure you've all seen this but if for some reason you haven't, this is my top pick for Christmas!

I'd be curious to hear your favorite Christmas movies...

Photo of the Week

This is an example of what NOT to do after you've had back surgery 2.5 months ago: Hoist your BFF on your back in the middle of the bar! Hmm, do you think maybe alcohol might have played a role in this debacle!

Two Year Anniversary!

Happy 2 yr Anniversary to me and Jeremy. Luv ya babe!

Fantasy Football Rollarcoaster!

This year I joined the millions of other people and participated in a fantasy football league. My team name (which I share with Jeremy) is Chef Tony. I was unable to go to the draft this year because I was immobile in bed, but Jeremy went for us and drafted a decent team. We have Randy Moss, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Matt Ryan, Deuce McAllister, Hines Ward, and the Pittsburgh defense, along with some other less important players.

Well Randy Moss has proved to be a HUGE disappointment this year after Brady got injured.

Houshmandzadeh has more off weeks then good weeks. We made a couple trades and picked up some other good players in D'Angelo Williams, Kevin Faulk, and BenJarvus Green-Ellis.

Matt Ryan has proved to be quite good as our starting QB. We also had Marc Bulgar who again, complete disappointment, but luckily we made the trade of the century to my buddy Steve. We traded Bulgar for D'Angelo Williams...the next week, Williams scored 22 points, Bulgar scored -1. Awesome!

Long story short, our record (including this weekend) is 3-8 :( I am very sad about this. Each week we lose I get more and more pissed. However, the last two weeks, our team has lost by 1 point each week!! How shitty is that?!?! We are three spots out of making the play offs and I'm really hoping to win the next two weeks!!

But I do love football season and this has been a good way to get more interested in the other games besides only the Steelers. Each week I go back and forth to hating fantasy football and then loving it. Its pretty fun! Hopefully we'll make the play offs and get to keep the season going three extra weeks!

Weekend Shout-Outs

I haven't done this in a while so instead of dredging up all the details of the weekend, I'll just do my weekend shout-outs to everyone that did something cool this weekend...

1. A big shout out goes to my sister for actually wanting to go out on her birthday and celebrate. Hope you had fun!

2. Thanks to dad for buying the pizza for the birthday dinner!

3. A negative shout out goes to Ben Jung for organizing a pub crawl but not giving out all the details :(

4. Thanks to B for making the LONG trip from the Middleton area to come hang with us!

5. Thanks to DJ Decker for embarrassing my sister at the tavern by playing happy birthday and making her face turn bright red!

6. A big negative shout out to Kristin's dad who said NO FIRE this weekend--just for that, I broke your favorite coffee mug. So there!!

7. Thanks to Kim's sister for not knowing her geography AT ALL. I'm glad we have teachers like this teaching America's children :)

8. Thanks to Heather for reminding me that Syracuse is in California....hmmmm

9. A big shout out to Greta T for being the WORST charades player on earth. One movement and she'd get pissed at us for not knowing it and bitch! Luv ya

10. And finally, a big shout out to Steve W for making the worst trade decision ever-I gave him Marc Bulgar for D'Angelo Williams, -1 points vs 22 points this week. Thanks much--I might actually win one this week :)

Happy Birthday Angela!!

A big shout out Happy Birthday to my darling sister who turns 24 today!! Hope you have a fun weekend-you deserve it!

2nd Photo of the Week

Tyler's Halloween

Photo of the Week

In honor of the upcoming girls cabin trip...last year's crew. Looking forward to a fun weekend!!

Election Day

Today is Election Day!! I hope you all get out and vote today. I voted a couple weeks ago which was nice because now today I don't have to worry about it. Its either gonna be a really great day for our country or a really sad day....We'll find out tonight!! I'm actually kind of nervous and excited all at the same time to see what happens...