The Ghoulie's: We Are Doing What We Are Loving December Challenge (Page 45)

givemashot - 2009-12-21 9:05 PM No ideas for the cats, Tom, but I can relate to the one-night wrap job. It seems like every year the hubby and I, depsite our best intentions, have not wrapped a single gift for the kids before Christmas Eve. Let's just say that I have rung in Christmas with a live broadcast of the pope saying Christmas mass from the vatican more than once. (hey it's Christmas---and there's not much else on TV that time of night. er, morning.

givemashot - 2009-12-21 11:05 PM Stacie I'm so sorry that you're having muscle cramps! That sucks! With any luck you won't be reading this until morning...so how was that salty banana? And is that paleo? Mwah! Sleep tight.

aspeelma - 2009-12-22 3:04 AM Good morning Ghoulies!!!!

I ran on the treadmill last night, but I did not get my 10 miles in. I did a 10k, 6.22 miles. I have not been feeling great the past 2 weeks so I haven't really been eating and I could feel it last night, no fuel for the run. I made myself eat dinner last night when I got home. Then I baked a little over 13 dozen cookies. I needed cookies to bring to work, then my husband said "oh yeah, can you make me some for work, too"? Then the kids said "but we need cookies here for here". So we baked and baked and baked. I left a huge mess in the kitchen because by the time I was done taking cookies out of the oven I was just too tired to clean up the mess.

Tonight my husband is taking the kids out shopping so I hope to get their gifts wrapped while they are gone.

Have a great day Ghoulies! Play nice!!!

iowagander - 2009-12-22 12:43 PM

Sorry you're not feeling well Ann. I can relate. I always seem to come down with something around this time of year. I hope you're feeling better soon and that your appetite comes back so you can fuel properly! At least your cookie baking is (hopefully) done, right?

aspeelma - 2009-12-22 9:48 AM

Hi Tom. Yes, as far as I done I am done baking cookies. My husband and the kids are going out shopping tonight so I hope to get gifts wrapped while they are gone so I don't have to stay up all night on Christmas Eve doing it.

iowagander - 2009-12-22 12:54 PM

That's a good plan. I'd like to get started tonight, with some egg nog and Christmas music to keep me cheerful. Any favorite Christmas albums I may not have heard of???

wgraves7582 - 2009-12-22 11:55 AM

I cannot believe I missed that one!

disturbed275 - 2009-12-22 1:08 PM

It seemed almost too easy so I just let it go.

iowagander - 2009-12-22 12:54 PM

That's a good plan. I'd like to get started tonight, with some egg nog and Christmas music to keep me cheerful. Any favorite Christmas albums I may not have heard of???

aspeelma - 2009-12-22 9:56 AM

I like Sarah McLachlan's Christmas albulm. Other than that I just downloaded a bunch of songs from iTunes.

disturbed275 - 2009-12-22 10:08 AM

It seemed almost too easy so I just let it go.

wgraves7582 - 2009-12-22 1:26 PM Christmas music is cheesy, right? And Neil Diamond is totally shameless. So it stands to reason that a Neil Diamond Christmas album would be like a drunken Vegas soirée catered by the Melting Pot. It’s true that Diamond’s gut-busting style sometimes misfires—“The Christmas Song,” for instance, has a backing track that sounds stripped from a karaoke machine. But more often, it’s pretty juicy holiday ham: See the guttural “Later on—ach!—we’ll conspire” and the totally hammy chorus-girls ending of “Winter Wonderland.” Or the opening track, “Cherry Cherry Christmas,” which we know Diamond wrote because it mentions about 57 of his earlier songs: "Let's raise a Christmas toast of red, red wine / We'll even sing 'Sweet Caroline' / While the whole world sings along.” And Diamond really does save the best for last: “The Chanukah Song.” That’s right, the Adam Sandler one. As in, “Paul Newman's half Jewish, Goldie Hawn's half too / Put them together, what a fine-lookin' Jew.” There’s even a session-dude cock-rockin’ a guitar solo. It is—there’s no other word for it—totally festive.

Here is a review I found for it online!  If I find a free sound link I will post it for your torture pleasure!

wgraves7582 - 2009-12-22 1:32 PM It is on his myspace site:

http://www.myspace.com/neildiamond

wgraves7582 - 2009-12-22 10:26 AM Christmas music is cheesy, right? And Neil Diamond is totally shameless. So it stands to reason that a Neil Diamond Christmas album would be like a drunken Vegas soirée catered by the Melting Pot. It’s true that Diamond’s gut-busting style sometimes misfires—“The Christmas Song,” for instance, has a backing track that sounds stripped from a karaoke machine. But more often, it’s pretty juicy holiday ham: See the guttural “Later on—ach!—we’ll conspire” and the totally hammy chorus-girls ending of “Winter Wonderland.” Or the opening track, “Cherry Cherry Christmas,” which we know Diamond wrote because it mentions about 57 of his earlier songs: "Let's raise a Christmas toast of red, red wine / We'll even sing 'Sweet Caroline' / While the whole world sings along.” And Diamond really does save the best for last: “The Chanukah Song.” That’s right, the Adam Sandler one. As in, “Paul Newman's half Jewish, Goldie Hawn's half too / Put them together, what a fine-lookin' Jew.” There’s even a session-dude cock-rockin’ a guitar solo. It is—there’s no other word for it—totally festive.

Here is a review I found for it online!  If I find a free sound link I will post it for your torture pleasure!

iowagander - 2009-12-22 1:39 PM Sorry Ann! Didn't mean to steal that one from you.