Saw this in the news last night.  Today I googled the little one eyed creature and quite a few hits came up.  The most popular being that it’s the most emailed photo on yahoo, per this link.  What do you think? So far I haven’t been able to find it on Snopes or Urban Legends.  In my google search, I did come across another photo of a cyclops kitten, this one being a black kitten.  I find it hard to believe, myself.  The mastery these days with photo editing software makes it so hard to tell real from fake.  I’m on the fence with this one.

Thanks to being tagged by Terri and TJ here are my "four things":

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
1. model
2. bartender
3. used car salesman
4. event programmer

Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Night at the Roxbury
2. The Abyss
3. Almost Famous
4. Princess Bride

Four places I’ve lived:
1. Canton, MI
2. Livonia, MI
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Dearborn, MI

Four websites I visit daily:
1. Yahoo Groups, I’m in a handful of local parenting/playgroups with Gavin.
2. Got Breastmilk?, I’m a moderator here. Member since ’03 and even though Gavin no longer nurses, these women have become my friends.
3. Typepad, for obvious reasons.
4. Google, I’m always googling something.

Four of my favorite foods:
1. seafood
2. mexican food
3. junk food
4. dark chocolate

Four places I’d rather be:
1. at a Depeche Mode concert
2. anywhere warm and sunny
3. at home playing with Gavin
4. cruisin’ down Rodeo Drive in a convertable

Four albums I can’t live without:
1. Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, Sarah McLachlan
2. Surfacing, Sarah McLachlan
3. The Singles 86-98, Depeche Mode
4. Wild Birds 1985-1995: The Best of the Beggars Banquet Years, Peter Murphy

Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Survivor
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Grey’s Anatomy
4. Medium

Four places I’ve been on vacation:
1. New Orleans, LA
2. Tampa, FL
3. Southern Caribbean Islands
4. Mackinaw Island, MI

Four people I’m tagging if they want to be caught:
1. Mr. Honeydew
2. Kim
3. Rachael
4. Heidi

What am I going to do now? The other day my husband comes up from the basement and says.. "Your hard drive is making some weird noises"  I think nothing of it and said I’d check on it later.  I go down, it’s making these clicking noises I’ve never heard before.  Nothing is working, the keyboard, the mouse.. all frozen, so I shut it down.  Come back an hour later, thinking it just needed some rest.  I turn it on and that noise returns, only this time I get a boot screen telling me that the component is missing or damaged.  That’s right folks.. my hard drive crashed!!

I’m not concerned with too much data lost.  The most important thing to me is pictures, those are irreplacable.  Luckily for me, I was quite consistant with burning new pics to a disc.  Another lucky for me is that the last picture upload to my computer, I hadn’t erased off my camera yet.. so even though I hadn’t burned them to a data disc yet, they are still on my camera.. whew!  There were a few pictures that are gone, those that folks emailed me.  And I had quite a collection of web design graphics that are now gone, including ones that I created like my blog banner you see at the top.  Shit!! I just realized all my favorites are gone too!! I had them all catagorized too, dammit!  The more I talk about this, the more upsetting it’s going to get as I realize more and more stuff I’ve lost.  Just thank God I hadn’t erased the Christmas pictures off my camera yet!

So now I’m on the market for a new hard drive.  Looking at this one, I’ll have to wait till pay day next week though.  So, in the meantime, I cannot access the internet at home.  What am I going to do with myself late at night after hubby and child are in bed? That’s my "me" time to surf.  UGH!!

Well, have a great weekend everyone! I’m off work until Tuesday.  All this time with no internet at home is going to be a true test of my sanity!

Hope you all enjoyed your Christmas.  I really had a fun filled day.  I’m super excited that my sister is in town for the whole week. Unfortunately I do have to work my 3 days this week, but I’m just glad she’s here.  Christmas Eve was spent at my friend Amy’s parents place.  Dave ended up staying home with Gavin and I went alone.  I’ve gone every year for so many years now.  That’s the night for some drunken holiday cheer.  Amy’s mom got so hammered, we were laughing our ass’s off.  I got home at about 2am to wake up Dave so that we could play Santa.  He bought Gavin his huge activity table that about swallows up our entire living room.  We were up till after 3am wrapping his stocking stuffers.

Went to my IL’s for Christmas dinner at around 4pm.  My MIL makes a delicious juicy prime rib roast every year.  I just love going over there to graze on all the hor d’orves and munchies.  I was almost full before even sitting down for dinner.  We exchanged gifts there then around 7:30pm we headed to my grandma’s where dinner was just wrapping up.  This Christmas was the first Christmas without my grandma, and although my mom is now living in her house, it’ll still always be grandma’s house.  Everyone came over, as usual.  There was still a sense of something missing though.  Right before we opened gifts, my mom says that her sister in Wyoming said to play this song for everyone.  Half way through it, most of us were in tears.  But it was still a nice moment for the family to reflect and remember my grandma, especially at Christmas.

Tradition the past couple years has been that Gavin and I spend the night there with my sister and her daughters and Dave goes to a buddy’s house for a Christmas nightcap with his friends.  My sister took Gavin and I home Monday afternoon.  It’s going to be a fun week with my sister here.  She and her husband along with Dave and I will probably do something fun for New Years Eve.

More soon… stay safe and have a wonderful New Years Eve!!

I don’t know why, but when I saw this Dancing Guy, I thought of Shea, hoping for her that Mr. Honeydew is just as talented.  I know my man ain’t. LOL

Give Gavin a big 10 vote for Jones Soda.  You can only vote once. Thanks!

1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them out under the tree? Some are wrapped, some are not.

3. Multicolor or only white lights on your tree? Neither, mine are all blue lights.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, but I think I will next year, sounds fun.

5. When do you put your Christmas decorations up? 2nd week of December

6. What is your favorite holiday side-dish? Ambrosia (sp?) It’s that sweet green goop with marshmallows and pistachios.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a kid? The year my mom had a dressed up Santa come in during the middle of the night and leave presents under the tree.  She woke us up, told us to be real quiet and that Santa was downstairs.  We crept half way down the stairs and peaked over the banister to see Santa.

8. When & how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don’t remeber actually. I think my mom "slipped up" on purpose, but I remember that she wasn’t telling me something I didn’t already know.

9. Do you open any gifts on Christmas Eve? One gift.

10. What kind of cookies are left for Santa? Usually store bought Christmas cookies.

11. Snow … love it or dread it? Love it when it’s fresh. After that, yuk!!

12. Can you ice skate?  I haven’t had ice skates on my feet in many years.  I can’t rollerblade to save my life, so I imagine I’d do just as bad on ice.  Funny thing is, my husband plays hockey and is a hockey ref.

13. Favorite Christmas gift as a kid? My lime green skateboard.

14. What’s important to you about the Holidays? Being with family.

15. What’s your favorite Holiday dessert? Jello Cake, made with cherry and lime jell-o.

16. What’s your favorite Holiday tradition? I started a new one this year to do with my little man, Gavin.  Making a gingerbread house.

17. What tops your tree, star or angel? Nothing actually.

18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? Oh, gotta be giving, of course!

19. What is your favorite Christmas carol? Oh Holy Night is my favorite Christmas song.

20. Candy Canes … yuk or yum? I can handle eating maybe one each year, that’s it.

21. If you had to spend this Christmas with only 1 person… who? I’d spend it with someone who doesn’t have anyone to spend Christmas with.

22. Tag 3 people to take this Christmas Survey. Tammy, Dan, Shea

Thanks to Jenna for reminding me that there is only 9 days until Christmas.  I have less to buy for, but more to buy for this year, if that makes any sense.  On my side of the family, of my siblings and cousins, our children total about 15 kids.  We always just bought for the kids and never exchanged between ourselves.  Every year I bought all 15 kids pajama’s, pretty easy and within budget.  Well this year, my sister and cousin decided that buying for the 15 kids was just too much.   I never complained, considering that having the least amount of offspring, I had the most kids to buy for.  My cousin alone has 4 girls.  Well anyway, so this year we put all the kids names in a hat and drew for each child.  On the plus side, it’s a little more fair.  My cousin, having 4 children herself, has 4 to buy for. Am I making any sense??  So since I just have Gavin, I only have one child to buy for.  But this now also means that the kids will be getting less this year because they won’t be getting gifts from everyone, just from the cousin that picked their name.  That’s all fine and dandy to us parents, but what about the little ones? Now, other than what their grandparents get them, they will only have one gift to open.  Maybe the older ones will understand, but we can’t expect the littles ones to.  So, now I have less to buy for this year.. and that part is done.

Now on my husbands side… he has a smaller family with less than half as many nieces and nephews as my family.  Everyone pretty much just bought for the kids and for grandparents.  This year, they decide to exchange names and include everyone in the draw.  So I have less kids to buy for, but now more because I drew my brother-in-law, Gavin drew my sister-in-law, and Dave drew his sister’s husband.  So we ended up with no kids to buy for there, but now 3 adults instead, that we’re not used to buying for.  I have no idea what to get my brother-in-law.  I’d much rather go into Target on any one given day between now and Christmas and just buy  20 pairs of pajamas and be done with it.

3 Things courtesy of Tammy.

3 names you answer to:
1. Jenn
2. Mom or Mommy
3. Jennifer

3 parts of your heritage:
1. Irish
2. German
3. English

3 things that scare me:
1. child abduction
2. spiders
3. the original Exorsist

3 of your everyday essentials:
1. chapstick
2. toddler kisses
3. tv

3 things you are wearing right now:
1. my new purple sweater
2. black bra
3. my wedding ring

3 of your favorite songs:
1. "Elsewhere" by Sarah McLachlan
2. "Trouble" by Coldplay
3. "How Soon Is Now" by The Smiths

3 things you want in a relationship (other than real love):
1. compassion
2. great sex
3. communication

2 thruths and 1 lie (in any order):
1. I’m a natural blonde
2. I steal cable
3. I’m a cat lover

3 things about the opposite sex that appeal to you:
1. hands
2. eyes
3. strength

3 of your favorite hobbies:
1. photography
2. drawing
3. web surfing

3 places you want to go:
1. Ireland
2. Balis
3. Australia

3 things you want to do before you die and live to tell about it:
1. skydive (ditto TJ)
2. join the mile high club
3. scuba dive

3 ways that you are sterotypically a male/female:
1. emotional
2. I love smell good things like candles and potpourri
3. I’ll buy a pair of panties just because they’re pretty

3 people you would like to take this survey:
1. Dan
2. Shea
3. Kim

I’m addicted to this game, Luxor.  Warning! Clicking on link will take you directly to the game. You too could become addicted.