Well, I hated taking down the gorgeous custom Christmas banner that Patty made for me, but it's January and since I took my Christmas decorations down today (boo, so depressing!), I thought I would put up a new header too!
It's always time for the Padapuppy, so enjoy!

Isn't it amazing!! Patty shadopath  made me this incredible manip of the boys (our absolute favorite picture of Jensen and Jared!) in front of my tree and Dickens Village decorations!  I'm so glad I took pictures of my decorations, lol. The most talented Miss Patty then cut out the boys and put them in my living room, complete with cute Santa hats - sigh - now THAT's a Christmas wish come true ;-))
Thanks Patty!!

Thanks to samusamu14 and fabilimah. Posted by ckll in Dean_Sam.
The video has disappeared, sorry! But there are download links on Dean_Sam that were posted just last night.

Okay, this is getting frustrating! I have tried to post the new pics from my camera four times and for some reason, the cut will work, but then the captions are all screwy and the pictures' placement is all weird. Grumble. Anyway, I decided to upload the pics to my Village Photos account and create a page, so I will link it here:

img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1187878/2118570


Now, for captions!
1. Precious Taffy, my sister's chihuahua on her favorite spot on the back of the couch ;-)
2. Pretty hall table at my sister's house.
3. Squeaky the cat being inscrutable.
4. Another Squeaky ;-)
5. My little Christmas tree and Dickens Village houses!
6. More of my decorations.
7. Top of my media cabinet with a wooden snowman made by my Dad ;-)
8. My 'Sammy throw' that Patty got me for my birthday last August - isn't it pretty!?
9. Wreath made by my Mom years ago on my front door (inside).
10. More decorations on the wall.
11. My centerpiece on the dining room table.
12. Tiny pictures on my bathroom wall ;-)

Christmas Cottage is finally coming to tv. Lifetime Network is running a promo for the television debut of the movie for December 19th at 9 p.m. Even though I have had the DVD since it came out, it's nice to see it airing on television. Perhaps it can become a holiday tradition on Lifetime ;-)
And now to remind you of the main attraction of this little movie....

I'm home from Phoenix (actually, Chandler), AZ where I spent Thanksgiving with my sister and my brother-in-law and their kids. It was a great turkey day - good food just like mom used to make, good company and fun with the pets, lol.
I have a pic or two, but only that; seems I didn't know that when you buy a new camera, the ion battery doesn't have much charge in it, so I took my brand new Kodak M381 digital camera with me, but I didn't take the charger! Argh. The battery went 'low' fairly quickly and I only managed to take a few pics. Sigh. I am SO NOT A CAMERA PERSON, lol! But I do love the new camera!
I had to post another picture though. This one is quite old, ahem, and is what brought about the title of this post. Time does fly; one minute you're in school and the next minute, you're old ;-)
But the pictures live on and capture moments in time that even the mind forgets. This is one of my favorite pictures of me and my brother and sister. It's one of those posed family things done at Olan Mills Studio (are these studios in other states? I grew up in Western PA and they were there, but I don't know if they are known elsewhere or even if they still exist. Just imagine a Sears photoshoot ;-))
My dad carried this in his wallet forever and it never fails to crack me up. I am the youngest and in the middle - my sister Susan is on the right and my brother John is on the left. I don't know exactly how old we are here, but I would estimate that I am about 5? If so, then Susan is 9 and John is 8. Hey Susie, is there a date on the back of the picture?
Susan had the picture at her house and she scanned it for me and emailed it over. I am so tempted to make little photogifts with this, lol. It's so adorable ;-)
Without further ado, here we are!!

Kristin's column has a spoiler and wow, I am psyched for this episode. We'll have to wait til next year for it, but it sounds like it'll be well worth it!

Squee!!
And please, apologies to the handful of people who will see this on their friends list  - the preview feature doesn't show me the cut, so if I goofed it up and there is no cut, please don't yell at me ;-) I DID cut it, so let's keep our fingers crossed that it worked!

( Read more... )

Wow, that's a weird post title! Anyway, congratulations to Jensen and Danneel on their engagement! 
And now for the weird trivial thing- tonight I was watching Conan and he did a bit in the monologue about them taping their 100th show. He showed a funny fake montage of people from tv saying things to congratulate him. What should flash by but a snippet from "Changing Channels' of the trickster saying 'tv land'! I almost got whiplash since I was playing a computer game and looked up and saw SPN! Whee! I have been wanting CBS to show a preview for SPN since they show ones for Vampire Diaries all the time and the CW is part of CBS, but here we had a quick flash of it on NBC ;-) Strange indeed.
I can't believe I haven't updated this thing since August....argh. I should post some reactions to episodes if I could organize my thoughts ;-) Needless to say, I loved Changing Channels - sheer genius and I particularly loved the funny Sam bits - Jared is so much better at comedy than he gives himself credit for ;-)

New icon above! One of the best moments, the boys on a tandem bike, lol.

Your Name Comes From Mercury

You have the gift of gab, and nothing energizes you like good conversation. And it's likely that when you're not talking, you're writing. You love communicating your thoughts. You are also quite studious. You find learning to be both easy and rewarding. You are good at understanding what is being communicated to you. You also know what questions to ask to better clarify things.

Thanks for this Patty!

I almost forgot to post these ;-)
Here are some pictures of the new place. It's like my old one, only remodeled and all shiny and pretty. Somehow I failed to take any of the living room, but I will do that soon. The memory card seemed to fill up at only 40 pics and I could have sworn it held more than that.
I made sure I took a few pictures of the accent walls - the color is 'Treasure Hunt' and I have no idea why it's called that. It looks a bit like squash or sweet potato pie filling, lol. Very warm and pretty, at least I think so!
( Click to see the pics )</div>( Click to see the pics )

I've now got the new LiveJournal Messenger. My Windows Live ID is cindyls@livejournal.com. Sign up now and we can chat!

It's Patty's birthday!! Happy Day! Happy Day!
( Click for the rest! )</div>

OMG, PATTY ROCKS BIG TIME!! SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! SAMMY BLANKET, SAMMY BLANKET, SAMMY BLANKET!!

Yep, you read that right! Patty NOT only came and helped me move on Pre-Official Move day, but also bought me dinner at The Elephant Bar (our favorite restaurant and they changed the menu and it is awesome!), but also got me the Sammy Blanket for my birthday!! This on top of all the wonderful ecards, the amazing VID she did for me, cards in the mail complete with Jared doctoring, lol, and that's still not all - she is coming back tomorrow to help me again. I can't even express how grateful I am to her - because of her help and all the wonderful birthday goodies, this will go down as a most memorable birthday! I get a new apartment and oodles of goodies AND did I mention it - the SAMMY BLANKET from Star Collectibles!! I guess it's officially a throw, but we'll call it a blanket and it's GORGEOUS! All Sam all the time, my idea of heaven, lol.

So, more on the move update while I'm here - we managed to get quite a few things moved and I even did some more tonight after Patty left. I got the linen closet and coat closet done, most of the kitchen (except for hanging some things like the light above the sink, the whiteboard, etc.) and we even rolled the butcher block table over and she brought a handtruck that she used to take more shelving over and many boxes. It's awesome! The apartment is awesome as well - the accent wall is like a warm pumpkin color and looks great! The only downside is the beautiful new cabinets are much shallower and less roomythan the old ones, but I love recycling and donating and giving away things, so whatever I don't have room for, I can deal with it ;-)
The place is so bright and shiny ;-))
More after tomorrow!
And once again, Patty, you rock! Thank you sooo much!
See you tomorrow! Dinner's on me ;-))
Jared agrees!

Okay, one more goodie from Patty!! This is waiting for me at my mailbox here at the apartment, but I have been too lazy to go get it, lol. I promise I will get it today though!!
This thing is hilarious!! Love the gag reel soundtrack, lol!!!

Thank you again Patty! You are spoiling me terribly ;-)))

YouTube - hunky Jared Birthday card

Well, Patty has outdone herself! Look what she made for me on my birthday!! I can watch it over and over and I think I already watched it about five times!! Squee!!
Oh boys! Sorry, you are still 'the boys' to me ;-))
Thank you Patty, I can't tell you how much this means to me; it's the best birthday EVER!



YouTube - Happy Birthday Cindy!

Another fun ecard - this one sent by the mysterious Jared Bluesteel, rofl! Is that you Patty? Hee hee.
Thank you!!

JibJab Sendables - Rocker - You Rock shared by Patty

Thanks Patty! Hey, since we are sharing a cake, can you arrange for him to pop out of our cake??? Hee hee...that cheeky thing ;-)) Adorable!!
Thanks again! I love it!

JibJab Sendables - Sexy Man Popping Out Of Cake shared by Patty