I am slightly marvelled that I don't have so much more to say about the holidays, considering my love and fascination for this time of the year?
So we had a good Christmas at our house Saturday morning, Kids were very happy. Aiden got a Nintendo DS finally(hes been asking for several years), Camille got a computer(that we are still trying to get in good working order). We did not consider that her room would not have a phone jack to be able to connect the Internet modem in to. And the the DVD writer stopped working. Consequently, we have to buy a wireless USB adapter and a new Drive just so she can get on Facebook and you tube and download her new PC game she also got for Christmas. Ugh, ghrr, yikes and all of the other exasperation noises I can make to express my feelings toward electronics!!! It takes the patience of Job to deal with computer junk, and patience was not one of my God given gifts! Lilli-Kate got a Barbie that produced a very animated "WOW" and big round eyes, I wish I had it on film!
Later that day we went over the mountain to Meme and Papaws house, for a few more presents and a delightful Christmas dinner!
Daniel and I both worked the whole week, waiting with great expectations for New Years Eve!! Our buddy Tab came down again with her kiddos this time. Poor Camille had to stay home and Babysit While the Grown ups went out to have some fun. I can't tell you how many times I heard "that's not fair"... One would think me telling her "I don't care" once would be enough, but man, those teenagers are persistent!! The kids had party favors and some bubbly (sparkling grape juice). They stayed up till midnight (except Keaton who was out by 1930, and Lilli shortly after), and slept a little late on Saturday. This worked out great for us!!
Don't worry its just the cider bottle.Us grown ups went out for a nice meal (Red Lobster-thanks to Christmas gift cards :-), despite the fact that Tabatha is deathly allergic to shellfish...One might ask "why would you choose to go to Red Lobster if you have a shell fish allergy? Well, like I mentioned above, Gift certificates. As well as, Tabatha loves other seafood, and as it turns out Red Lobster is very considerate of people with allergies, they have a special menu and everything!! We had a great dinner and then decided to try out the dueling piano bar again. It was of course standing room only, my feet and legs are still telling me how abusive I am. I enjoyed the music and entertainment much more this time and the whole experience was actually quite fun. Interestingly enough, all of the entertainment did not come from the pianist! Ernie Biggs is a 2 story bar and both times we have been, we spent our time up stairs, with the best view of all the excitement. The pianos are downstairs backed by floor to ceiling mirrors, as well as 2 full bars and the restrooms in the back. Up stairs, the balcony, 1 bar and the VIP room that has a bathroom. It just so happens that a wedding party had reserved the room for a reception. They actually flagged a few bar stools on the balcony, the doors to the small VIP room AND the bathroom door!!! Tabatha tried to use the restroom and the Mother of the groom actually stopped her and said the bathroom was for the VIP party only, and would not let her use it!! As if the common people, hanging out at the same bar as them, are not good enough to sit on their toilet? To me if you can't share a public restroom, you shouldn't be hanging out in a piano bar, on New Years Eve no less! Oh well, by this time Tab has had plenty to drink and it was an exciting adventure down the stairs and across the whole club to the common persons restroom in the back corner.
The other nightly entertainment was the skank in the very short strapless mini-dress, who apparently forgot her undergarments. The dress truly needed its straps back, it was trained to strategically fall down every time she raised her arms, a bit of a preview of the nights events to come, or just easy access. So, LittleMiss Shows Alot made an interesting dance move of squeezing the sides of her boobs, as if to create some cleavage, while discreetly hiking up her dress every 25 seconds. And I must mention her greatest feature, the "get low" booty grind down to the floor, that ended as she was rising with a very liberal and obvious (supposed to be hidden, maybe nobody is watching, I have a huge itch) vaginal scratch session, that promises any watching "I want a piece of that" party goer, a nasty, itchy, crawly, lasting reminder of their year end bash!
And the final Act of the night was the redneck super model that provided us a little strip tease on stage, by unbuttoning her much too tight plaid shirt to reveal her matching red Victoria secret miracle wonder Bra. While doing so, snagging cash off the piano and out of the pianist tip jar! As her date notices he tries to distract her (or the pianist) with a grinding gyrating slobber-fest. Needless to say the entertainment came after this, when the pianist made her give the money back, the bouncers show up and her date has to physically carry her off the stage as she is groping the piano bench, because her time has been cut short :)
Daniel and I talked about it and I think we will go up there again and try to get there early enough to get a table next time :-).
All right, I follow Daniels cousin, Danielle's, blog and Her latest post about recapping the last decade really gave me some ideas of what I'd like to do with my Blog. I hope she doesn't mind me copying her idea :) In order to avoid the inactivity of my blog due to insufficient writing material of our current happenings in life, I will start at the beginning and recap my life through shared pictures and memories. (I got a really cool Scanner/ Copier/Printer to help with this) Well, maybe not quite so structured as Chronological order, but maybe certain events and highlights!
It will be a bit of my own scrapbook. Of course, I will input and report all the current developments to do with the family and kids and all that sweet here and now stuff, as well!
I can't wait!
