my new t.v. faves

Ok... I am apparently a little behind because I just started watching "How I Met Your Mother" and " The New Adventures of Old Christine". These shows are REALLY funny!!! Since I am un-employed (I promised myself I wasn't gonna cry!) I have the opportunity to watch a lot of Lifetime and in between dumb ass made for t.v. movies they air episodes of these awesome shows! My fave people on HIMYM are Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) who is this total womanizer that makes everything into a sexual innuendo and he has the funniest lines!I also really like Marshall (Jason Segel) he is a dopey romantic that is head over heels for the sassy Lily (Alysson Hannigan).

Ok onto The New Adventures of Old Christine. Ok these shows have long ass titles. Anyway.... Love Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Her character Christine is divorced and her ex hooks up with a NEW Christine that is younger. Anyway, Old Christine is hilarious! She takes clothes and other personal items out of the lost and found, eats out of the garbage.... and well she is just overall funny. So I think you should check these shows out if you haven't already :)

'Tristmas Samiee Style!

I cannot believe Christmas has come and gone!! All that preparation and it is over in the blink of an eye! We haven't gotten much snow yet (wow that sentence seems wrong) and it took longer than usual for me to get into the Christmas spirit.

One gift I made was a pillow case for Miss Aariel so that she has her very own when she stays here! Well she liked it so much she climbed in it and was like, "HAHA I am a pillow pet!" Seriously?? How on earth does she come up with this stuff? 

Oh ya we made a TON of candy this year! me and the girls dipped stuff in chocolate. Cinnamon bears, pretzels and well our fingers :). HAHA As you can see we took our job really seriously and made VERY few inappropriate jokes. 

December 26th

26 December 2010- Day 145

Sunday

Boxing Day!

Today was the laziest day ever. We couldn't go into church because all public transportation in Chilham was stopped for Boxing Day. I stayed in my pj's and didn't do anything all day. I did get a cool picture of the only eggnog we found. It was in a juicebox and had a bendy straw. Tasted good, but made me giggle.

December 25th

25 December 2010- Day 144

Saturday

CHRISTMAS!!!!!

I was lucky enough this year to get one of the biggest stockings ever created. I kid you not it was HUGE. I got a 12 pack of soda, an a hoodie in my stocking and along with tons of chocolate and other awesomeness. Being the forgetful person that I am I forgot to take a picture of it when it was full. Let's just say it was awesome.



PS Christmas was awesome. I forgot to take pictures, but Kathleeny got some awesome ones!

December 24th

24 December 2010- Day 143

Friday

Christmas EVE!!!!!

Today's picture is awesome. Jesse... being the awesomely cool dude that he is went into town to finish his Christmas shopping and came home and got all of us flowers for Christmas Eve. It's seriously one of the nicest things ever.



My brother is awesome!

December 23rd

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Thursday

I have to say that the days I am updating will be kind of boring because my camera batteries are nearly dead so I have to take pictures really quickly before it dies. So the quality sucks.

Jesse and I went into Ashford to the outlet mall to get the rest of our Christmas presents. We forgot how close to Christmas it really was, and decided we needed to get our butts in gear. Jesse just kept getting bigger and bigger bags with every purchase so I had to take a picture of the biggest bag I've seen! (It was bigger than his boxing duffle bag) It fit everything into it. I thought it was hilarious.

December 22nd

22 December 2010- Day 141

Wednesday

For some reason non of us in the house have been feeling much of the Christmas spirit the past few days, so today we played lots of Christmas music and made Christmas treats. It helped a bit. I'm hoping to feel a bit more of the Christmas spirit tomorrow when I finish the last of my Christmas shopping and finally mail off some Christmas cards. Maybe that's what I've been lacking.

December 21st

21 December 2010- Day 140

Tuesday

Today was an awesome day because we got to watch Serenity. Kathleen and Jesse's first time viewing this awesome movie. The down part of watching it is realizing that that is the end. No more. But the movie was awesome and I'm glad I get to share it with my England family!

Seriously... it's awesome.

December 20th

20 December 2010-Day 139

Monday

I finally figured out that the stocking stuffers I bought for Kathleen and Annie were too big to actually fit in their stockings, so I wrapped them. Then I spend the rest of the day not working on anything. ha ha ha

December 19th

19 December 2010- Day 138

Sunday

Today was a beautiful Sunday, but not for anyone wanting public transportation. We were unable to get to church... lots of snow the day before. I didn't get a good picture, but here's what I got before my camera's batteries died.



Christmas is all around us!

December 18th

18 December 2010- Day 137

Saturday

I finally started feeling a bit better, but decided to have a Firefly marathon to introduce Jesse to the awesomeness that is Firefly!



It really is a show that I rewatch at least once a year! It never gets less awesome.

December 17th

17 December 2010- Day 136

Friday

Our house is looking more and more Christmas-y... it's awesome! Thought I should take a picture!



I never knew mistletoe had berries. Learn something new each day.

December 16th

16 December 2010-Day 135

We finally got to watch "Muppet Christmas Carol" and it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! Plus I got this really cool shot of Kathleen and Annie watching the movie by Christmas tree light.

December 15th

15 December 2010- Day 134

Wednesday

We finally got our Christmas tree!!!!



Tis the season!

December 14th

14 December 2010- Day 133

Tuesday

I adventured out for class, and caught this awesome picture, but I ended up overdoing it and am now worse than I was yesterday. Dumb sicknesses at the end of the semester.

December 13th

13 December 2010- Day 132

Monday

Today I was still sick, and couldn't really function well. So Jesse and I ended up watching Band of Brothers all day. It was awesome! I love that series, and I always end up wanting to hug my Grandpa!

December 12th

12 December 2010- Day 131

Sunday

I have been sick since Saturday, and slept past church.



I was in my slippers the whole day. (Well the portion that I was awake.)

December 11th

11 December 2010- Day 130

Saturday

Today was our ward Christmas party. I have fallen ill and so I didn't stay long and didn't take too many pictures, but I did get one that puts a smile on my face. Disney princess's playing the wii. They were all playing a dancing game. First question I had was... why did the Disney Princesses come to our ward party. Second... who brought the wii?



Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)
Snow White (Movie by the same name)
*these are the princesses that were ready to meet Santa.

December 10th

10 December 2010- Day 129

Friday

Pictures today are of us decorating the church for the Christmas party. I just found the tree decorating the best. Look at all the cute pictures! (It seems to take a ward to make the perfect tree.)

December 9th

9 December 2010- Day 128

Thursday

Today was the day we had free to roam Bruges. We decided first to climb the clock tower. It's apparently the thing you do here. So we did... all 366 steps of it. The first picture is of said tower.



Then when we finished Dierdre gave Ioanna a sour straw. She had never had one before and this is the face she made. She thought it was going to be sweet, not sour. Needless to say she really didn't like it.



Then we decided to go on a walk around the canals. Usually there is a boat tour, but he canals were mostly frozen, and so the boat rides were closed. But I got some really gorgeous pictures of Bruges. It's really beautiful, and small enough to walk around.

December 8th

8 December 2010- Day 127

Wednesday

Today was the day of the conference, so I didn't take too many pictures, and the ones I did take kind of surrounded meal times. The first picture is of Dierdre and Laura and their giant cups of soup. I really want those mugs.



The second picture is of Rob, Dierdre, and Krysta waiting outside of the pub we had dinner at. Can't ask for more than good food and good people. But this picture does one better. It also includes good hats!

December 7th

7 December 2010-Day 126

Tuesday

Today was the day of traveling. I started in England, then went through France to get to Belgium. The first picture is my friend Dierdre working on a crossword puzzle on the Eurostar. Her and another friend Laura were addicted to the cross word puzzles that day!



And then the majority of the pictures I took today are of the crazy hostel we stayed in. It was a mix of Alice and Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We were in a Tim Burton hostel. (If only Johnny Depp were there.)





Pencils on the walls... weird!

December 6th

6 December 2010- Day 125

Monday

Christmas is all around us! Kathleen made more decorations for our home. It's so festive!

December 5th

5 December 2010- Day 124

Sunday

Annie and Jesse were continuing the theme of warming up the radiator. Only this time the radiator was at the train station. It made me giggle.

December 4th

4 December 2010- Day 123

Saturday

Winter is here, and it is cold. We have taken to placing our shoes on the radiator to keep them warm, and to have toasty toes when we put them on!



Adventures in charity shop shopping. Kathleen found a mini bowling set that was Christmas themed! (Only it is called a "Skittles" set. I'm not quite sure why it is named that.) So much fun.



Mini bowling is hard. I only knocked down 7. Sad day.

December 3rd

3 December 2010- Day 122

Today the snow decided to give us a break, so we went into town to start our Christmas shopping. I love Christmas time, and I love getting presents for people. I only wish I had an unlimited supply of money to do so.

So today's picture is of the Christmas cards I purchased and the present Annie and I got for Jesse. (It's an AWESOME present! I am so excited for him to open it.)



Yay for Christmas time... now I better start on my Christmas cards! I already feel a hand cramp coming on!

December 2nd

2 December 2010- Day 121

Today was an official "Snow Day" all classes were cancelled and the school was closed down. So we all decided to play in the snow, and it was crazy fun! Here's a few shots of the beginning of our fun. (I had to put away the camera before it got too wet.)

Tilly even enjoyed our adventures until she had snow dreadlocks frozen to her. (Apparently that happens every winter.)

If I don't say it enough, I love where I get to live and who I get to live with!

December 1st

1 December 2010- Day 120

Today was a particularly lazy day. I really didn't do much, and didn't take too many pictures. Kathleen made our first Christmas-y decoration for our home. She's awesome. Here's a picture of our festive-ness.



But I did play around with a few pictures of mine on picnik. I will put one of my fav's on here.

Here's the original picture I took of Elanor:




Here's the finished product after playing around on picnik: