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Monthly Archives: December 2006

A Little Christmas “traditions” History

These are some sites with various descriptions of word and tradition origins that you might find interesting. I don’t necessarily agree with all of them, but here they are: Christmas, wiki style more Christmas, in general. “Holiday” And for a little more of the ‘why’ history….. the Birth of Jesus (from Luke)

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In honor of you, i bought you a…..

Have you ever received an honorary gift? As in, “I bought a tree in the forest for you. It won’t ever be cut down. I named it after you!” I’ve heard of people ‘getting’ gifts like these that they liked….and more often, those that they thought were a biiiiiit hokey. Have you ever received a…

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It’s coming on Christmas…

There’s what…8 days until Christmas now. I’m still trying to get ready. I’ve finished all my shopping, but there’s still plenty to do. I’m currently working on certain projects that can’t be discussed here for fear of spoiling surpises….but they are not pieces of cake. Anyhow, the getting ready is getting done, slowly but surely….

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Are you a loser?

For those of you who are mildly addicted to television like we are, you may have been following the show The Biggest Loser on NBC. We started watching this season just by default. Nothing else interesting was on, and instead of just turning off the tv and reading or doing something productive, we searched until…

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