What Joseph Could Have Been Thinking

In one scene of The Nativity Story movie, Mary has just returned from her visit with her cousin Elizabeth and you see everyone's shocked expressions when they realize she's pregnant. When they show Joseph's expression, Aidan promptly exclaims, "Damn, girl!"

I suppose Joseph could have been thinking these exact words if this happened in our time and he lived in the projects.

The Christmas Story

Little kids with accents are always cute. Love how the star was "shining" at the end. Didn't know they threw a rave after Jesus was born. Cool.

Christmas Break Wrap Up

I didn't accomplish my goal during the break. I was only able to watch all 6 seasons of How I Met Your Mother during the break and catch up on Mad Men before the break. Being sick for the last few days of holidays helped me to focus and push to the finish line. I'm not going to give up though. Now that we have to get back into our daily routine, I'll just watch an episode or two from my list on the weekends. With a little perseverance, I know I can accomplish my goal. Slow and steady wins the race and when I do, it's going to be legend...wait for it...dary.

Christmas Break Update

Before Christmas, I posted a list of shows I wanted to watch during the Christmas break in order to help me accomplish my couch potato goal. Before the break, I actually caught up on Mad Men in one weekend. This weekend, I've completed season one of How I Met Your Mother.

I think I'm falling behind but I guess it didn't help that I've been distracted with the card game Wizard. I think we've played 12 hours of it over that last 3 days. One night, we logged 6 hours in a row, playing until 3am. It was fun waking up for church the next morning.

Sheldon cleaned the house while I was at church so I got what I wanted for Christmas. I didn't want to worry about cleaning while I was trying to accomplish my couch potato goal. This morning, I'm feeling a little bit of guilt for not accomplishing little chores on my list but not enough to actually do them yet. Maybe tomorrrow.

Well, I've got to go back to the couch now. I've got to stick to my training schedule better if I expect to meet my goal.

Christmas Wish List

It's been so crazy this year with both boys busy with school and extracurricular activities, adjusting to a new position at work, and my new calling at church that all I want for Christmas is to be a couch potato the whole break. I've even made a list of shows I want to catch up on or start watching:

1. Mad Men
2. The Office
3. Dexter
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. Modern Family
6. The Big Bang Theory
7. Private Practice

5 out of 7 shows are ones I'd have to start from Season 1. I have realistic expectations that I won't be able to watch all of these shows but it's such a relaxing thought to have nothing planned.

Who am I kidding? I give myself 2 days before I get sick of doing nothing but I'm going to give it my best effort to become a couch potato.

Now do you think my family will be on board with this idea?

Holiday Patience

I was walking in a parking lot the weekend before Christmas, doing some last minute holiday shopping. A car came up behind me and honked for me to get out of the way because the snow banks prevented me from walking close to the side. I turned to acknowledge the honk and just started to make my way to the side to let the elderly couple in the car to pass and he honks at me again! He didn't even give me a chance to even attempt to get to the side of the road. For some reason, that really peeved me so as they drove past me, I yelled, "A little holiday patience would do you some good!"

Yeah, that's not normal behaviour for me and it doesn't stop there.

I saw where the couple parked their car so when I got into my car, I wrote a note and left it on their windshield. The note said, "Tis' the season to be jolly so a little holiday patience would be good. P.S. Pedestrians have the right of way. Merry Christmas!"

It felt good to do it. I wish I could have seen their faces when they returned to their car and read the note.