1. After seeing how much I liked watching George Bush on Oprah a couple of weeks ago, I did end up downloading his biography to my iPad and have now read the whole thing. My opinion? "Meh." The writing was all over the map, and clearly not actually written by him, unless his way of speaking is just completely different than his way of writing. I will say that it was interesting to read about the life of a President, who certainly has to be grappling with a number of huge issues simultaneously. It was interesting to see his spin on his decisions, although nothing unexpected.
2. I have been watching Sarah Palin's Alaska series on TLC. My opinion? "Meh." Beautiful scenery, but I just can't stomach her. Maybe I'll start watching it with it on mute the way that Brenda and I did to Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman years ago, when we just wanted to look at the hot guy in the chaps.
3. I am ready to have a crisis of conscience over the two aforementioned items. Am I becoming Conservative? Might I be a Tea Partier? Will my eyes turn red instead of staying blue? Please, let it not be so! I think we're still good though, since I didn't think too much of either. Whew, that was a close one. I think I need to read An Inconvenient Truth again.
4. We had our photography session for our Christmas card pictures last night. We survived and got good shots! There were no tears and only a modicum of bribing involved.
5. I have tons of pictures that I need to upload from our adventures over the past couple of weeks, but I haven't gotten around to editing all of them yet. But soon!
6. Christmas is in full swing at our house! Our Elf is on the Shelf. The tree is up. The garland graces the stairs. It's all Christmas music all the time in my car (it's still talk radio in Ramy's...Scrooge). I've also got a strange craving for boiled custard. Yep, must be the holidays!
7. A little hint to anyone booking travel for the holidays...as much as I've come to depend on Southwest as my low-cost carrier over the past two years, their prices have been universally higher this holiday season. One way flights on American were $70 cheaper than on Southwest for New Year's Day. Of course, on American, you do have to pay a surcharge for luggage. But not $70 worth.
8. Rebecca has four fancy Christmas dresses, six casual Christmas dresses or skirt outfits, and four casual pants or leggings Christmas outfits. We will be crashing each and every holiday party that we can find for the next month to find places for her to wear them all. Unfortunately, Ramy and I will be wearing the same outfits to each of them.
9. I'm looking for recommendations for a new lens for my Canon EOS Rebel. If you have a lens you love for your Canon DSLR, please email me!
10. In case you are as much of a fan of Christmas and television as we are, here's a handy, dandy cheat sheet for you so you can track what Christmas special is on which night, when, and on what channel.
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