Advent

We're halfway through Advent and I realize that I'm blowing it again. Advent should be a time of prayer and preparation for the celebration of Christmas. I had great plans at the start of Advent: Daily Prayer, Writing Christmas Cards, Putting up the lights, and cleaning the house. I prayed two days, wrote no cards, hung no lights, and moved some boxes out. Not a very good record against my plans.

So what have I been doing? I got caught up in the commercialization of this time of year. I've been buying presents ... for me. Today is the third Sunday of Advent and the Priest is wearing rose vestments to remind us to be joyful today before we launch in to the home stretch of preparing for the start of Christmas. I'm not looking at today very joyfully. I'm thinking that I need to get started (or finished) preparing or I won't really be ready to start celebrating for real Christmas Eve.

God Bless everyone and have a Blessed Advent!

The annual making of

The annual making of the Christmas Fudge is about to begin. Mmm, mmm!

is wondering why the

is wondering why they're called "belly buttons". Shouldn't they be called "belly holes" oer perhaps "belly dents" for most people?

I got a new phone, a

I got a new phone, a Motorola Droid, and now my Google address book has a use. There were over 1450 contacts in there. I've pared it down to 1385 so far. I would love to update your contact info if you would send it to me privately.

And I'm thinking abo

And I'm thinking about making some salsa, right after a nap. _yawn_ Rainy days make me sleepy.

Yummy rice! Ann show

Yummy rice! Ann showed me where my rice cooker was (telling me where it was failed) and I just cooked some rice. Awesome!

Here's an easy way t

Here's an easy way to say thank you to our military troops. Now mash the link and say thank you with me: http://www.letssaythanks.com/

I just got my first

I just got my first fail whale on Twitter! Cool!

I just put in for my

I just put in for my California Lifetime Fishing License. I'll never have to buy another California Fishing License again! Woo Hoo!

RT @CurtJester (aka

RT @CurtJester (aka Jeff Miller) If you code, you will find this pretty funny http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091201