December Love

I'm sitting here in my mom's house thinking of the past month and year. I have learned some good stuff this month. Some stuff: I realized my husband loves high heels. I know they make me stick my small butt out and make me taller--sheesh they make my feet hurt. But, he pointed out some crazy shoes that I thought were for runway models. It must be all about the hot lady, heel walk. I thought that shoe thing was a stereo-type, or at least my guy is a stereotype.

In addition, I guess our marriage has been based on recurring Little House on the Prairie scenes. Our basement was flooding, I donned rubber boots and began to use a bucket for the window well. As the rain pounded on my head I couldn't lift the window grate to get to the water. After struggling to move it I began shouting in the wet dark. Finally, I stormed in where my husband was calmly setting up a pump system with his drill. "Why must you always resort to turn-of-the-century-prairie techniques?" It is true. I grew up reading wilderness, self-sufficent books. I am positive if we have had to live in a post-apocolyptic world like in the The Road, I'm sure I would die. I have absolutely no talents involving any use of tools. It worries me I would not be the survivor when I wander a road looking for food and shelter.
At the end of it all, Christmas reminds me of some constants, after endless fun and eating--you really can be sick of chocolate. I still love singing Christmas songs. Christmas morning is best with kids. Egg nog still is only good for a few sips. Sisters still provide the best giggles. Parents can still make me roll my eyes when I am middle-aged. Siblings can still poke me in ways that no other person knows how. Or maybe this all means I have a lot of growing-up to do. Finally, I love laughter, movies, marriage a-has, food, singing, presents, family and all the good stuff of the season! Really, at this moment I am being reminded of how pathetic I am while a game awaits my presence. That would be my last yearly constant. I couldn't let a blog sit until I did two entries for December. "Is she still blogging?" quotes, a sister with a tinge of hurry-up let's play a game. Why yes, I am and I still have a good time with it--but I am off to games and silliness.

Uncool Test

Reader's Digest recently published a list of words which are passe. For each phrase you use--give yourself a point.
1. bling I was never a fan
2. talk to the hand
3. been there done that
4. cutting edge
5. hipness
6. not As in That is so cool! NOT!
7. totally awesome Been there done that ten years ago and haven't been back
8. like She was like sha and I'm like blah
9. sell-by date I'm not sure about this one. Doesn't everyone check their milk date?
10. neat-o Maybe in the 50s!
11. diss
12 dude I use this word all the time. I use it when I'm frustrated, to sound folksy with people at cash registers and plumber/repair type people and in every day conversation. Could I sound more pretentious? I'm thinking what a dead give away of an older-white lady thinking she is "with-it"
13. with-it ouch
14. my bad uggg
15. girlfriend guilty sometimes
16. don't go there
17. bummer
My score so far is 8 out of 17. So, sort of out of it. However, one should probably add the following:

18. bust a move
19. lame
20. chill
21. hot or is that still hot?
22. whatever
23. da bomb He is the da bomb. I used this for a nanosecond when I was teaching. I'm sure I sounded pathetic and a poser.
24. told you the updated version of face, as "in your face"
25. that is jacked