Merry ChristMoose!

This was one of the first ornaments Marshall and I bought when we got married, and it has always been one of my favorites. It’s a Hallmark ornament and the back says “Merry Christmoose.” I’m not sure why I love it so, because I’m all about traditional ornaments and traditional everything when it comes to Christmas. Anyway, still a favorite. It’s 21 years old now. :) I took this picture WAY back in 2004 w/my first digital camera in case you were wondering, and I’m sure you were.

I know that I get in these moods often, and I KNOW I’ve blogged about it a 100 times, but, here goes: I’ve been listening to Christmas music today, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and a couple of instrumentals; just good “old school” Christmas music.

Some Christmas songs that I’ve always loved–and always WILL love–just tug at my heart so much now. Does certain Christmas music do the same for you? I think about my Mom scurrying around getting everything together to go over to my grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve. Mom had four brothers and a sister, and I have a lot of cousins. We all met there at my grandmother’s house, and you better believe our Christmases together were something special. I can still hear the laughter because there were lots of it. I can smell my grandmother’s delicious homemade fudge, and fondly remember waiting for my late uncle who was always 20 or 30 minutes behind everyone in getting there. We’d always have to wait for him before we could open presents. It was pure torture. Anyway, I had a wonderful crying session today just because I miss my grandmother so much. I miss BOTH grandmothers, both only gone from me within the past four years, but my maternal grandmother was just about everything to me. I miss her so much that it physically hurts. I get this horrible pain in my chest sometimes when I think about her. Silly, huh? Anyway, I’m through reminiscing. (Well wait, it also made me think of my buddy Tim, who always yelled at me to “SHUT UUUUP!” when I started playing my Christmas music at work. Awww, I bet he’s going to miss me this year!)

I’ve enjoyed my Christmas music today though. I even did a little bit of online shopping for Christmas gifts. Just two small things that I can’t wait to give to the person I bought them for. They only have to wait 126 more days!

It’s beautiful outside today. It’s still hot (96 w/the heat index) but there’s a breeze blowing and the humidity must be low because the sky is blue with big puffy white clouds. That’s unusual for a hot summer day in Georgia. Usually it’s so humid that our sky is an ugly gray. Not today though, it’s glorious. I even took Lucy for a walk this morning. I think she enjoyed it as much as I did, as she only plopped down twice. (c=

I Simpsonized myself today. This is what I look like as a Simpson:

All in all, I’d have to say I’d make a pretty hot Simpson. I mean, look at those lips and that bling!  Sad thing though, I’m even fat as a Simpson. (c=

Nighters!