And this was from the weird fortune cookie...

Merry Christmas,

  This was in my fortune cookie. Yes, we had Chinese on Christmas. Yes, we went to the movies. No, my mother is Catholic.

A Christmas Story Chinese Restaurant Scene

This Christmas, we went to the movies and had Chinese food. One of the top Christmas memories, besides shooting Champagne bottles at the weird neighbor's house.

Santa is a little creepy.

My mom keeps this picture up year round. I was probably 2 years old? And terrified. 

Happy Festivus to Mrs. Russo

Some hardcore Christmas fanatic put this in the local newspaper. I'm 1) amazed that someone spent the money to do this and 2) contemplating sending her a menorah.

a seattle agency's holiday card

Wexley's little white elephant gave me a picture of David Hasslehoff!

Click here to play!

My wish list.

Besides world peace and the ability to fly...
 Here are a few of my favorite things (that will not be under my tree unless I buy them myself.)

I don't necessarily want this thousand dollar harmonica, but a harmonica would be nice in general. And red one piece long underwear is just essential for the holiday season anyways. I love plaid. And chia pets. And a vintage cat clock would go great with my 50's style bar stool.

My love for Eric Hutchinson

Two years ago, I got hooked on this great musician named Eric Hutchinson.

I saw him play at this bar in Atlanta two years ago and he was amazing. It was small, no one knew who he was back then and it was fantastic. It was so amazing and fantastic that I actually did something I never EVER do: I messaged a "famous" person.

Let me first say that the last time I tried to contact a famous person was in Mrs. Harvey's sixth grade class. We had an assignment to write to a famous person. While some kids wrote to the president and to Blossom, I wrote to Danny Devito to tell him that I still appreciated his acting ability regardless that he was in Twins.  DeVito never wrote back but some kid in my class got sneakers sent from Magic Johnson. (By the way, Click here to see the Blossom Intro in Spanish)

First let me say that I think its wicked lame when people try to contact an entertainer. Don't @Obama or @MeryllStreep.  They're busy.  But at the time, I wasn't really liking Atlanta (at all) and his music was what I listened to ALL the time. So I wrote him to say thanks for writing great music.

And he wrote back. Wrote a wicked nice message.

Not going to lie, it was pretty awesome. And further made me like this musician even more. Taking time for the fans? Pretty sweet. Now he's probably too big for that, but it was still great.

And I thought I would write about this today because on three separate radio stations and at three separate times, his song "Oh" played.

TABITHA

whenever I feel like I need to "go to the mattresses," I channel my inner Tabitha.

She's amazing. Wouldn't want to be on her bad side though.

JMU Flash Mob Rave Party at East Campus Library 2009 (HD)

Ahhh college. I love how JMU takes finals week and makes it into the best party ever. Only the dukes can do that.

Fabutext: Awesomely written technology

Message from Caroline:

9:12 pm Thurs. December 10:

Phyllis is Santa.

The decade according to 9 Year olds

My favorite is when the kids have no clue what an internet dial tone sounds like...

Watch here.

AWESOME.

Read more here.

What I do in the 20 minutes of free time I get a week...

I made a flyer for a local dj here... just because he's pretty good. And while the rest of Maine thinks that Kanye's Graduation album just came out, this guy actually plays some relevent stuff.

I love these illustrations... and they're from a cookbook.

You think Rachel Ray's books look like this? Probably not.

My bum finger.

Today at work, I sliced my finger with an exacto knife. It bled for 25 minutes. Nevermind the chipped nail polish please.

No worries- my hand still fit in my mitten so I was able to get all bundled up and go sing christmas carrolls for Prelude Weekend in Kennebunkport.

What's the difference between....Thoughts of the day.

Portland, Oregon vs. Portland, Maine....
the Snugglie vs. the Slanket
Cheerios vs. Weird organic stuff I stupidly bought in shape of O's
The apartment on the West End vs. The apartment on the East End


hmmm.

Logo Fun

This logo is brought it you by the letter E.

I love making logos.

The Day I was attacked by a turkey in Downtown Beantown

Once upon a time, I went to Boston. It was awesome.

Until a large turkey in the middle of the city attacked me.

And my blueberry muffin from Starbucks.
I took a picture,

As I ran across the street.

And Boston wasn't so awesome anymore.

(right before she charged!)

On a serious note, there are a ton of wild turkeys that have crossed into cities. And they aren't very nice. Not like the turkeys in my back yard here on the farm. Those ones are ok.

Birthday Freebies!! In an economic crisis.

My quarter lift crisis is rapidly approaching and since this is also an economic crisis, I've been checking out some nice freebies I thought I would share with you all. So far I've got a sundae at Friendlys. Yahtzee.

Click here to get free stuff for your Birthday.

Pac Man necklace!!! Ghosts included.

HUGE WANT. Birthday coming up folks. Found on ModCloth.