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Swiped from ladyfox7oaks...



Gotta love Animal. :)

Yeah...I've been neglecting my LJ nowadays, haven't I? Lately, everything that's happened to me can either be summed up in 140 characters on Twitter or talked about in a weekly picture-a-day post...

Having said that, onto the pictures...

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Yep...I'm late on this one. I had a lot of pictures to go through from doomsey and my trip to the zoo on Friday.

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The Passover Story a la Facebook

I meant to post this story last week, but I forgot. My brother-in-law is very silly. During the Saint Patrick's Day dinner last weekend, my parents had the History Channel on, and they were airing a show about how extra-terrestrials might have influenced human architecture and civilization. Some of the "experts" they interviewed for the show were real loons. Anyhow, my brother-in-law told my two-year old niece that George Washington wore so much make up to hide his green skin. He also said that Alexander Hamilton got into a duel and had one of his antennas shot off. My mom told him to stop because they're going to get concerned phone calls from said niece's teachers once she does go to school. I'm thinking it won't be a problem though because the teachers will know that her father is a clown.

Now, it's story time. Let's say that, in some alternate universe, aliens did influence human history. What wacky scenarios can you come up with? I'm going to say that the Mayan civilization disappeared because of a zombie outbreak. It was caused by a virus that aliens inadvertently spread to humans when they visited our planet for the first time. Also, Einstein was was sent to Earth to help advance human civilization with his theories on mass energy equivalence and relativity. He has a third eye hidden on the back of his head under all that hair. Charles Darwin was a Cthulu-like alien. His big beard really wasn't a beard, but a hologram. They were really tentacles. And, of course I had to take this last shot. Sarah Palin isn't human: she's an evil Cylon. Her next mission is to take out Tina Fey, gosh darn it, because she cruelly mocked her during the American elections. There's also another model of her in Joe the Plumber's head. She told him what to say during his visit to Israel. To this day, she is still in his mind having a torrid love affair with him all while continuing to manipulate him for her own ends.

Yes! 2008 is toast! Happy New Year, everybody!

The last few days have been enjoyable. On Christmas Eve, we had dinner at forestdruid's mother's house. As always, the food was delicious. Christmas Day was at my parents' house. My dad dressed up as Santa Claus and gave presents to my nieces. This year, Emma did not cry in Santa Claus' lap. Initially, she was afraid of him, but once she saw that she was getting presents, she was as happy as a clam. My parents also think that she might have suspected that Santa was her grandfather, so we're going to start changing around who plays the role. It looks like I'll be playing Santa next year. Tee hee! Sounds like fun. :)

I also got a lot of nice presents this year. My parents got me Charmed Knits, which is a book of knitting patterns for Harry Potter fans. I also got two classic Doctor Who DVDs: "The Hand of Fear" and "The Invasion of Time." My sister got me a cute kitty cat t-shirt.

Oh...I also brought the stuff that I baked earlier this week. The fudge was such a hit that it disappeared before dessert. Yeah...we have a lot of chocoloholics in the family. I kind of felt bad for bringing it though because my dad ate a couple of pieces. He really shouldn't be doing that because his blood sugar has been high. I did bring him some angel food cake and strawberries sweetened with Splenda for him to eat so that he wasn't eating all kinds of sugared stuff.

Also, I inherited my great-grandmother's cookbook. (Said great-grandmother came to America from Germany. She lived in a tenement not far from UIC when my dad was a kid. Allegedly, her coffee cakes were legendary). Originally, doomsey and I were going to scan it and give it back to my folks, but my dad can't eat sugared stuff anymore. doomsey and I put it in a safe place, and hopefully, we're going to start scanning some of the recipes soon. I would love to see if I can resurrect some of her coffee cake recipes. I just have to keep in mind that a) cups back then were six ounces and not eight and b) eggs were smaller then. Either I'm going to have to find regular eggs or I'm just going to have to monkey with the recipe and use less egg.

We left my parents' house in the early afternoon and headed over to see doomsey's folks. There, we had spice cake and watched Die Hard 3. My mother-in-law gave us our Christmas present yesterday. It was a new cushion for our papasan, which annoyed doomsey because, according to him, there was nothing wrong with the one that we had. (doomsey has been a curmudgeon this year because he keeps complaining about getting Christmas presents. He claims that he doesn't want more "stuff"). I don't think it's that big of a deal. I'm sure we can freecycle the old cushion.

Anyhow, we're celebrating Hannukah tomorrow with doomsey's family, so there should be even more festivities. I think almeda is also going to teach me how to crochet.