Tradition @ MindSay

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers until after they give birth in the spring.

 

Therefore, according to EVERY historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, EVERY single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen, had to be a girl.

 

We should've known... ONLY women would be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and not get lost.   ;)

 

~ B

So I'm going to visit my grandparents for Christmas. It's an old tradition and I usually don't mind. I'll admit that I don't like getting up so early, the two hour long car ride, and the inevitable boredom, but it's pretty okay. But this year's going to be very, very awkward, and most likely sucky. You see, one of my cousins recently tried to kill herself with a bottle of aspirin. Because of that, a lot of the family has turned their backs on her. My grandmother wouldn't even say goodbye when she was packing up her stuff and moving into a friend's house. My uncle has forbidden his children to speak with her, and no one can figure out what my grandfather thinks since he can't speak against Grandma in her prescense and she refuses to leave him alone.

My aunt is bringing my cousin by so that we can see her. I do want to see her. Let her know that we haven't all abandoned her. But I'm worried how the others are going to act. My uncle's taking his kids somewhere else while she's there. But what about Grandma? That woman's a big bowl full of crazy. Oh well. We'll deal with when it comes. I just hope that she doesn't do or say anything stupid...but she probably will.

Happy Hanukkah!

 

Care for a ... spin?

 

 

.So... omg.

.Tonight was Midnight Breakfast. It's at a secret time every year (except I found out ahead of time). Security goes around with a siren and wakes everyone up at midnight to go to commons and be served breakfast by the school faculty.

.It's a crazy thing.

.Apparently, four years ago, some guy got on a table and sang the national anthem in the nude. So... we half-jokingly said somebody should do it to keep the tradition going. A guy in my house agreed to do it. He chose my table, my entire house sang the national anthem, and  the elderly security guy's answer? "No harm, no foul."

.In case anyone was wondering, he's uncircumcised.

Hi all! I'm asking for your honest opinions here. A friend of mine was just showing off her new wedding rings the other night. She and her husband recently celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary, and wanted to trade-up on their rings. They got beautiful rings that came to a total of $12,000 for husband and wife's rings before the discount and trade in, and $7,000 after all that. They now have nothing left of the original rings they said their vows with. My husband and I still have our original rings that between all 3 of them cost less then $2,000. My engagement ring is beautiful, and has 13 real diamonds in it. Which, by the way, I only just counted for I think the first time ever, and I think it's ultra cool that there are 13 diamonds. That's been my favorite number since high school. LOL My wedding band is a thin, plain gold band because there was no matching band to go with the engagement ring. My husbands band is also plain gold, although the inside is engraved because I had it done before we got married. Now I never want to "trade-up" my rings. These are the rings we said our vows with, and no other rings could replace them. It would change the meaning. Trading them in would be like trading in each other. If there were a reason that one had to be replaced because it was badly damaged, or lost I'd be ok with that, because that was unforeseeable. (I don't know if I spelled that right) I just wonder who agrees with me, and who thinks it's ok to trade-up your rings. I won't think badly of you if you don't agree with me. Maybe I'm just sentimental, but I always want my same rings. I'd be ok with adding another ring to the set, but I want to keep my originals on my finger where they belong. So what do you think?