Gotta Love Christmas

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Laundry Is Boring

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Yes, we looked at rings this past weekend but there won't be any "big news" until sometime in 2006. In other words, don't be expecting anything when we come home for Christmas this year. We just started looking and if there's one thing we never do, it's make major purchases in a hurry. We will be taking our time and finding the "perfect ring" so again, look for news on that front in 2006.

(We're already married in our hearts and have been for a loooooong time!)

For centuries, Hindu women have worn a red spot (known as a bindi) on their foreheads. We have always naively thought that it had something to do with their religion. The true story has recently been revealed by the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC.

When a Hindu woman gets married, she brings with her a dowry. On her wedding night, the husband scratches off the red spot to see if he has won either a convenience store, a gas station, a donut shop, or a motel in the United States.

Courtesy of Shannon Powell

Hmmmm, I wonder how Kim would feel if I wore my Stone Cold Steve Austin shirt for our engagement photo? LMAO!!!!! I mean, wearing a black t-shirt that says "If I throw a stick will you leave?" in your engagement photo...that's classic redneck!!! (And is it just me or does this girl look like she's 15?)

Courtesy of Stacy Lowery

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am a straight up Christmas nut and can't wait to have my own house to decorate. Of course National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation set the bar for going overboard when it comes to lighting your house up for the holiday....BUT NOTHING....could ever top this!

You have to see this video!!! Trust me....it's worth watching.

• http://gorillamask.net/xmasinsanity.shtml

In spite of all our modern luxuries in California we still have to do the most dreaded chore of all...laundry. We have a washer and dryer at our place but when you have 8 loads of clothes, it can take all day so we loaded up the car and went to the local laundry mat Sunday morning. We washed all 8 loads at once and then dried them all at once. What would normally take us 10 hours, we got done in 2. The downside is that hanging out at the laundry mat is boring as this picture clearly illustrates.

Kudos to Kim for snapping this "staged" candid photo of me. And yes...I'm "trying" to grow a beard...'trying' being the key word! :-p

We spent almost the entire day Saturday running all over the South Bay and "window shopping" since Christmas is quickly approaching. I'm a Christmas nut so of course I was stoked when I ran across this giant inflatable snow globe complete with falling snow inside. Kim wasn't so impressed but if they have any of these left after Christmas and they're marked down, I may just have to get one anyway. I'm already dying for next weekend to get here so I can start decorating for my favorite holiday!

We also started "looking" at rings this weekend. We visited Robbins Brothers in Torrance, the world's biggest engagement ring store according to them and spent about 2 hours trying out different styles and looking at diamonds, etc., etc. We still have a lot more "looking" to do but watch out for more updates about this next year. That's all we'll say about that for now! :-)

You can now watch the entire segment of Trading Spouses lunatic Margaret Perrin as she rants and raves about "dark-sided" stuff and declares herself "a God warrior." As funny as it is to watch this woman have a mental breakdown over absolutely nothing, I still feel sorry for her kids and her husband. She really needs to seek some help. At the same time, I would love to run into this woman in public. I think I could literally give her a stroke by running up to her and saying I'm dark-sided and chanting some made up words while waving my hands around like I was casting a spell on her. LMAO!

• http://www.break.com/articles/tradingspouses2.html

Kim's company held it's annual picnic at Knott's Berry Farm this weekend giving us a chance to get out and have a little fun. We arrived around 11:00 in time for lunch and quickly headed into the park to ride a few rides. As with most theme parks, the lines were kind of insane so we only managed to ride about 5 or 6 rides but we still had a lot of fun. The weather was great and even in shorts and tees we were still a little hot...at least till we rode the log ride and got pretty wet.