::my very own Christmas Story:::
” Do you know why we cut down trees and hang ornaments on them for Christmas?” my nine year old self asked my Dad as we were setting our tree up in our living room.
Now, setting the tree up in our house was not fun. We had one of those old-time fifty pound [...]
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I Learned It In School
December 10, 2009Posted in Christmas Stories | 1 Comment »
On The Tenth Day
December 23, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Today
On
Day 10
It all begins to make sense
Don’t ask me why, don’t ask me to explain the psychology behind it
but I get a lot of request for ghost stories during Christmas.
Here are a couple that’ I’m really glad I wrote because not only [...]
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On The Ninth Day
December 23, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Today
On
Day Nine
Anita Marie Wonders
Is It M-all It’s All Cracked Up To Be?
On my very long commute home from work we drove by a Mall surrounded by ice and snow.
It’s a very pretty Mall with an outdoor carousel just across the street in the Park.
It’s awesome, especially at [...]
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Day Eight
December 21, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Today
On
Day Eight
Having Dodged The Bullet
I Go In Search Of
Another
We were supposed to have a windstorm
here in Washington State
and some of us here did.
We were suppose to be sitting here in the cold and dark
and some of us are.
So every time I [...]
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On Day Seven
December 20, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Today
On Day Seven
We Find Out That It Really Sux To Be Me
Just after Thanksgiving, I start getting
The Letters.
By that I mean
Those Letters
that tell you what the sender did over the year.
And what a great year they had.
Which is wonderful for them.
My Mom [...]
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Once In A Christmas Song
December 19, 2008It was just before Christmas when I heard the Trans-Siberian Orchestra for the first time.
My Mom had told me about a video for a Christmas Song and how it was about a little girl and her kitten who escape into a snowstorm take over an Orchestra in the woods and how even though you saw [...]
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Do You Know What Today Is?
December 18, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Today
On Day Six
Anita Marie Asks…
Do you know what today is?
Before I tell you let me tell you about my day.
Today it snowed.
I baked.
I played with my cats and wondered if
I was stranded in my car on the side of the road in this snow [...]
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That’s Right, It’s Snowing
December 18, 2008Here in Washington State we just don’t have regular old snow- HELL NO
We have Thundersnow
Trap us on the Freeway here in Washington?
Oh.
I think not.
What you don’t see here is that a few minutes after this picture was taken cars started to turn around and drive the wrong way down the Shoulder ( behind this pedestrian ) so that they [...]
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Day Five
December 17, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Today
On Day Five
Anita Marie Concludes That:
Diamonds maybe a Girl’s Best Friend
But a Fiji Mermaid will never fall off the back of your toilet
and into the toilet bowl and end up costing you hundres of dollars in Plumbers fees.
It snowed today here in [...]
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Day Three
December 14, 2008:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-
OR
Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::
Photo: It’s A Cryptid World
Today
On Day Three
Readers Want To Know
Is that your Christmas Present
or
Did Something Die
Under Your House Again?
I enjoy Politics.
I enjoy being part of the process and I really enjoy the psychology of it all- I mean- after I’ve [...]
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