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Holiday Meme

Ashely tagged her CHanukah celebrating friends to turn her CHristma meme around:

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay,
here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE! Just copy (not
forward) this entire email and paste into a new email that you can send. Change all
the answers so they apply to you. Then send to a whole bunch of people you know,
INCLUDING the person that sent it to you. 'Tis the season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Reusable fabric bags

2. Fancy or cheap Chanukah candles?  I prefer the beeswax candles because they fit ANY menorah

3. When do you put up your menorah? About 6 p.m. the first night of Chanukah

4. When do you take the menorah down? We usually make it through all the nights of Chanukah, unless we're visiting. (And what do you do with the leftover candles if you don't use them?)

5. Do you like latkes with applesauce or sour cream? I don't like latkes, not even  sufganiot.

6. Favorite gift rec'd as a child? Wonderwoman underoos
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7. Do you have a dreidel?  A couple.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Kim

9. Easiest to buy for? Anyone under 10

10. Worst gift you ever received? Nothing.  I really got nothing.

11. Mail or email Holiday cards?   Mail. I like to make them myself when I can.

12. Favorite Chanukah movie?  LOL I had to do it

13. When do you start shopping for Chanukah?  January

14. Have you ever recycled a present? Not really

15. Favorite thing to eat?  Cookies!

16. Favorite Christmas Tradition? Movies and Chinese food of course...

17. Favorite Holiday song?  Let it snow.

18. Travel or stay home? Stay home

19. Can you name all of the sides of the driedel? Yes

20. Menorah: oil or candle?    candle

21. A present per night or just one? this year one kid per night

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? holiday "cheer"

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Where do I start?

Well, it's been a wild couple of weeks to say the least.  It started off at the Lamaze International Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.  The good news is that I figured out how to fly and NOT drool on myself for days afterwards - Xanax!  I actually worked on a plane.  It was great to not have panic attacks.  And lest you believe it to be a one time trick - it worked every time. I rode four, count them, four airplanes in two weeks!

In AZ I gave two presentations and lead two special groups. They were fun and exciting. I also enjoyed just relaxing with my good friend, Pat. I also picked up some goodies for friends who are CBEs. My room was way far away and it felt like a real hike, but it had a nice view of the mountains.

I came home for about 40 hours.  In which I went to HS open house, had a dinner date, shopped like a mad woman, fixed dinner for 15 guests for Rosh Hashana, did a radio interview, and went to services. I left services to go to the airport, and changed my clothes in the parking lot.

ICEA was fun, though I was wiped out. I had a good time with my room mate, Teri Shilling, even though I think I drove her a bit nuts.  She did get some good laughs in, mostly at my expsense. We had dinner with Penny Simkin, Kathy McGrath and Rachel Miller one night which was so fun to just sit and talk. We also spent a lot of time talking to Debby Amis and Jeanne Green while at ICEA, though they had led a training seminar at Lamaze, but they were busy then and unavailable for converstaion. I did two more presentations and helped Teri lug her two 74lb (EACH!) suitcases to her sessions.

I made it home in time to spend some girl time with Laurie and Paula.  We stayed out until 2 a.m.  Then back on the road with the kids for school, brunch, our first book club and stamping!

Some memorable highlights from the week:

• Ada insists on telling me how to drive. If I go the "wrong" way she tells me all about it.
• Hilary apologized for a flare up she had - which was very mature of her.
• Grandy (my mom) had a birthday and I took grandma to see her.
• Grandma informed Mom that she wouldn't live much longer. (Grandma didn't know why we were laughing so hard.)
• Clara and Owen are loving soccer and ballet.
• Lilah has fallen and scrapped up her knees again!  Poor baby. Though she is pleased with her new shoes.
• Isaac is not liking homework, but glad to be back in Tae Kwon Do and chess.
• Benjamin, after a lengthy conversation about the role of electricity in the body, including the ability to pass that electricity on, concluded: "So if it's a lightening storm outside, don't walk around holding hands..."
• The fish is alive, even after I cleaned the tank, but the boys declare that the tank still smells.
• Kevin is very, very, very glad I'm home.

What College am I?

You're the Massachusetts Institute of Technology!
People have often said about you that the odds are good, but the goods are odd. You're definitely good at knowing what the odds are in any situation, even if you might have trouble expressing what they are to a crowd of people. You see the whole world in numbers and have even argued that it might be beneficial to replace peoples' names with numbers in all situations. It would seem that you are odd after all. But brilliant. You make a serious effort to never go outside.
Take the University Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Phone Spell

Okay so I was looking for something that took random letters and gave you the words that it spelled.  Instead I found Phone Spell. So watch out 50-all-ache-I as I might be calling you.