Jingle Bells... Jingle Allllll the Waaaaaayyyy!

I hope you all are doing well. I can't believe we only have a week til Christmas. Crazy but totally awesome. I'm just really and wanted to say hi lol. Needed to get the previous journal off of here. Love yas and we'll talk later.. gotta go babysit and do some other things today. Have a blessed day!!!!

,

Jen

... is today. I just wanted to thank you all for the awesomeness that you are. Thanks to the ever lovely and wonderfully talented, Jen ^JunkbyJen for letting you all know about my birthday, too. Do me a favor, and go attack her page tomorrow.. Yes, 'tis her Birthday and she needs loads of lovins', too. See that she gets it. Happy Birthday, Jen! I know it's early, but in case I forget...


Ok... so mine was today... Sheesh lol. What a day... All things considered, it was a good day. It sucked in places.. ok, for most of it, but the small part that didn't was grand. And... to be honest, I'm thankful and blessed to be here after 32 years. So, what happened? Ha... We've had really and I mean REALLYYYY cold COLD COLD weather especially the past two days.. So, we thought, sure, why not? We'll give our furnace one more go...

Oh. My. Gosh. We're not touching that thing. EVER. We had a fire, but it stayed inside the furnace and burned up two of our 3 filters. But wait... there's more. So... we go to bed last night and Jay had been #1 on the list to get called out and sure enough... after waiting a day and a half almost... 15 mins later.. he gets called. Meh, that's no biggie.. what sucked was when he left. See...we had most of the space heaters going to keep us warm. I... still have anemia. Yeaaah...see where I'm going with this? I, from the time he left til about an hour before he got home... around 4am-ish.. was literally FREEEEEEZING. My nails were turning purple and everything I tried, wasn't working so I switch a couple of the heaters around...thinking that would help. It did... and when Jay got home, we dozed off.

My Mom... I love her. She, lol, bless her heart, of course was worried because of the furnace running and we didn't tell her about the fire...yet. So, since she couldn't get ahold of us this morning... especially since it's my Birthday, she ran over here and knocked on things. She banged on our window to our bedroom. Set the girls off. We were already stirring and you could hear Jay... well, lol.. Yeah.

Going on...

It was great to see her and to know she was feeling better since she was sick yesterday. We sat and I got my gift from my parents and my card, too. We talked and told her about the furnace, etc. I told her and she forgot that when he works late like that, that I turn the phone down so that it doesn't mess with him while he's sleeping. Everyone else pretty much has to wait until I get moving in them morning. At least til I get a routine going..etc.

Ok... so that was the great part... So, she leaves and we get our neighbors over for awhile after breakfast.. they leave and I go to take my shoes off and chill out here a bit, but I head to the bathroom thinking.. a nice shower would be great... Wrong. I go to the back sink and then to the tub and nothing. The pipes were frozen back there. Everything else worked up front, etc except for back there. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. So, off to the store to get supplies thinking.. an easy fix. Two hours later while using the heaters to smooth it out, etc. I hear Jay and he's po'ed. Too late to sum it up in a nutshell. There's water.. everywhere. It's not on our floor though. :whew: It went outside, but it turned out, that the pipes froze and in the process of un-freezing, etc... we blew a hole in the metal pipe/ring whatever. At this point, I want to scream.

Needless to say... it's been an extremely LONG day and we're both very tired. Jay called off for the night, because we didn't know what to expect. My Dad came over and helped fix stuff and it is working, except... now... the drain isn't draining and we still can't shower due to that. :facepalm:

Would someone please rewind my day so it's better from beginning to end? Thanks so much...


Love you all. I really am ok. Have a busy weekend starting tomorrow night, so you all might not hear/read much from me til Monday. So, take care loves and have a great weekend.

,

Jen

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::Yesterday's News::It's that time of year again. It's a special time for all of us. This year is even more meaningful than past on so many levels. Oh... definitely have to find that CSS from =Jamaal10 that he made for me last year. Planned on using it this year... me thinks it's on my other HD... Anyway, we've both been sick since our friends left this past Saturday. It was nice to have everyone here for Thanksgiving. It was cramped, but it was nice. We all had a really good time for the most part and I can't wait to see them again. They're youngest was sick when they got here and improved a bit by the time they left, but by that night, I had some of it and then by Sunday, we both were yucky. We're doing better now, although Jay has a cough he can't get rid of atm... :sigh: Soo...

As I was saying.. this Christmas is going to be really good. My Grandma is coming to visit for a week and a half. She'll be here on the 17th...a week after my Birthday. I'm looking forward to seeing her again of course and I'll be baking while she and my Mom sit back and watch me, and think about helping roflmbo. Yes, I'm serious lol. I don't mind. I'll take it easy and bake and I know my Mom will help out like last year. It was a blast. We'll also be a little somber of course, because EG is gone. Thanksgiving in a way I'm sure was enjoyable and yet.. at that time, my Mom and I would have been there a day or two to enjoy their dinner with them.... etc.

Anyways...

So, yes, it will be loads of fun. That, and.. when Grandma comes... hahaha... (note the oozing sarcasm coming..just a bit).. we tend to get the rest of the family that we don't normally see nowadays because they seem to notice when she's here and want to come, too. Yay... :sigh: Normally, I don't mind... well, ok I do, but.. that's a whole other story that I may or may not talk about at a future date and journal...

Hmm...what else? Oh... yes!

What are you all planning on doing for the Holidays? Anything special? What do you want for Christmas? I plan on working on some things around here. I've been meaning to get those calendars up I've mentioned before. I'm always a work in progress lol. I'm so silly.

There were other things I wanted to talk about, but again.. I can't think of what they were rofl.

Gotta love me! You all take care and we'll talk soon. Enjoy the features below! I hope to keep this going for the month of December. Oh and a better journal later on, too. I'm working on it. I am. Oh!! Please don't forget the Winter Dreams Contest [link] It's still going on!! Oh, does anyone want a Christmas card from me? Let me know! Thankies and love yas...

Much love to you all....


~Jen~

What A Boy Wants For ChristmasVery Funny Christmas Jokes

Darren remembers accompanying his father out shopping in the toy department of Hamleys one Christmas Eve.

Dad said, 'What a marvellous train set. I'll buy it.'

The girl behind the counter looked pleased and murmured, 'Great, I'm sure your son will really love it.'

Dad replied with a glint in his eye, 'Maybe you're right. In that case I'll take two.'
What A Girl Wants For Christmas

The Santa Claus at the shopping mall was very surprised when a Emily, young lady aged about 20 years old walked up and sat on his lap. Now, we all know that Santa doesn't usually take requests from adults, but she smiled very nicely at him, so he asked her, 'What do you want for Christmas?'

'Something for my mother, please,' replied Emily sweetly.

'Something for your mother? Well, that's very loving and thoughtful of you,' smiled Santa. 'What do would you like me to bring her?'

Without turning a hair Emily answered quickly, 'A son-in-law.'
Christmas Riddles

What did the reindeer say before launching into his comedy routine?
This will sleigh you.

What do lions sing at Christmas?
Jungle bells!

When is a boat like a pile of snow?
When it's adrift.funny Christmas jokes

What do you call the fear of getting stuck in a chimney?
Santaclaustrophobia

How do snowmen get around?
On their icicles.

What does Santa call reindeer that don't work?
Dinner.