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What the Holidays Mean to Me

What The Holidays Mean to You

For you, the holidays are a very spiritual time. You have as much holiday fun as everyone else - but you never forget what you're celebrating. You celebrate the holidays in a minimalist style. You are likely to give a few great presents and decorate your house with a few special items. During the holidays, you feel happily busy. There's so much to do and not a lot of time to do it. But you enjoy every minute of your holiday chores. You think the holidays should be nostalgic and sweet. The holidays bring out your inner child. Your best holiday memories are of childhood foods and traditions. You secretly still wish you believed in Santa Claus.

What Do the Holidays Mean to You?

Happy Birthday Liesl!

Happy birthday to the greatest sister-in-law ever! You are the sister I never had and I am so thankful for you and for everything you bring to our family. I hope you have a fabulous birthday! You deserve it!

Your Elf Name Is...

Freckles Sticky Fingers

What's Your Elf Name?

What kind of pie are you?

I don't know if this really describes me but I do love pumpkin pie!! :-)

You Are Pumpkin Pie

You're the perfect combo of uniqueness and quality. You're able to relate to many types of people with many different tastes. But you're by no means generic or ordinary. In fact, you're one of the most original people around. Those who like you are looking for something (someone!) special. You tend confuse people when they first meet you. You're not as complicated as you seem. Even though you have a lot of spice and flavor to you, you're never overpowering. You are a calm and comforting force in people's lives.

What Kind of Pie Are You?

Turduckens

I recently discovered some very interesting poultry knowledge. It's so interesting that I want to do a public service and share it with everyone (Liesl and Chad) who reads my blog.
A Turducken is a de-boned turkey stuffed with a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed with a small de-boned chicken. The name is a portmanteau (a word that fuses words together to give it a combined meaning) of those ingredients, turkey, duck, and chicken. The cavity of the chicken and the rest of the gaps are filled with a seasoned breadcrumb mixture or sausage meat, although some versions have a different stuffing for each bird. Some recipes call for the turkey to be stuffed with a chicken which is then stuffed with a duckling. But I don't want to think about ducklings so I will move on.
A variation of this interesting meal is a turduckencorpheail. This is a standard turducken, which is then stuffed with a cornish game hen, which is then stuffed with a pheasant, and finally stuffed with a quail. Ewwww is all I have to say to that.
In my somewhat unknowledgable opinion all of this sounds disgusting, but I have heard it is actually a very tasty treat. If anyone has tried these interesting meals, I would appreciate your input. :-)

Steven Curtis Chapman Concert

We had a fabulous time at the concert last night. We feel so blessed that so many great artists are coming to our church for concerts! This one was amazing! Great music, great message, and wonderful visual effects. The really neat thing about this concert was that his two sons were performing in the band. His 16 year old was the drummer and WOW is the main reaction we all had to him. He is great and has a huge future ahead of him. HIs 18 year old son was playing electric guitar and he was awesome too. It was so fun to see them all playing together. We all enjoyed it immensely and also enjoyed seeing my dad play air guitar during the last song of the concert "Dive." :-) It was also really loud and my mom's hair was vibrating to the beat. hehe. All in all a fun night!

I was tagged by Liesl!

Jobs I've had:

1) Script Supervisor
2) Associate Director
3) Voice Over Supervisor
4) Associate Producer
5) Retail Sales Associate- Brookstone and Office Max
6) Technical Director- Thousand Oaks City Council Meeting Television
7) Head of the Nursery at Monte Vista Presbyterian Church (Jr. High, High School)
8) Math and Spanish Tutor

Places I've Lived:

1) Sherman Oaks, CA
2) Studio City, CA
3) Malibu, CA
4) London, England
5) Newbury Park, CA
6) San Bernardino, CA
7) Chicago, IL


Places I'd Rather Be (in no particular order):

1) Sailing on a sunny day anywhere
2) Visiting Steve and Liesl in OK
3) Shopping at Harrods in London
4) Turtle Bay, Oahu (I kind of want to live there)
5) Grand Teton National Park

Foods I Love:
(I realized that I like a lot of things that aren't good for me :-))
1) Pumpkin Pie
2) Sugar free/fat free/lactose Free Chocolate Pudding
3) Boneless Buffalo Wings (must be boneless, no exceptions)
4) Mexican food, mexican food, mexican food. I could eat it every day
5) Nutella
6) Orange Chicken
7) French Fries (Either regular fries with malt vinegar, or the chili cheese variety)
8) Strawberries

TV Shows I Love:
1) Heroes
2) Lost
3) Jon and Kate Plus 8
4) 24
5) Lost
6) HGTV- too many to list


Movies I Love:
1) Parent Trap- Old and New versions (thanks Steve and Liesl :-))
2) Sound of Music
3) Seabiscuit
4) Dreamer
5) Mad Hot Ballroom
6) National Treasure
7) What a Girl Wants


Books/Authors I Love:
1) Beverly Lewis
2) Elizabeth George
3) Harry Potter Series
4) The Tipping Point
6) The Nancy Drew Series- read every single one of them as a kid

Good News All Around

This week has been so great because we found out that Chad got a new job! He will be store manager for a kids science toy store in our area which is exactly what he's been looking for. He'll be in charge of 5 employees and will be able to do whatever he thinks is best to run the store. We are so thankful for this new opportunity for him.
And in BLT news, I was able to run yesterday! It's been about 7 weeks since I broke my toe and it's finally ok with getting back into exercising. It felt great to be able to do that. Yay for healed toes!

This Little Piggy...

... went to the gym! This was the first time since I broke my little toe so this was a big milestone! Today was the first day I was able to go to work wearing something other than a flip flop and that felt great too. It's almost exactly six weeks since I broke it which is longer than I expected it to take. But I'm thankful that it has healed straight and for some reason it's skinnier than the other toes.