Yesterday's dead rat post was my 500th post. Here at Chez Trapped we bring you plenty of quality programming.
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Thanks to all who participated in my Christmas Challenge. There were 40 comments, the most ever on any post I've ever had. I sent $100 each to Feeding America and the Center For Family Services. It seemed like a nice round number. I don't have a screen shot of the receipts, you'll just have to take my word for it. When I made the donation to Feeding America, the receipt noted that since each dollar feeds 8 people (how do they do that??), that $100 donation just fed 800 people. Woot woot!
Thanks again, everyone. If you are still in the giving spirit, you can go over to Pseudostoops, who has a similar charity drive, where each day this week she will give 50 cents per comment to a designated charity. (You don't have to do anything more than leave a comment--you can even say "comment". Super easy.) So go! Say "comment"!
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Its December 19th! I note that I am running out of time to send a holiday card. I should probably try and take a picture or two of my kids.
I'll get right on that.
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I am nearly done my Christmas shopping. I have gifts for everyone except for my mother, who isn't getting anything because she won't tell me what she wants. Usually my sisters and I chip in together for a gift for her, but this year my sisters took her to see Kenny Rogers, and I wanted to go but couldn't, so now I have to figure out a gift to get her by myself.
Did you listen to Kenny Rogers when you were growing up? His greatest hits album was on repeat in my mother's car; we listened to that incessantly. For years I thought that Lucille had four hundred children and a crop in the fields. Apparently she actually had four hungry children and a crop in the fields.
I was also terrified that, like the Gambler, the best thing I could hope for was to die in my sleep. My grandmother taught me the "now I lay me down to sleep" prayer with the last two lines of "guard me all through the night and wake me with the morning light." But my eight-year-old self always added the "if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take." Just in case.
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Cookie Monster playing Jingle Bells has been very popular in this house.
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And how is your month of December going?
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Thanks to all who participated in my Christmas Challenge. There were 40 comments, the most ever on any post I've ever had. I sent $100 each to Feeding America and the Center For Family Services. It seemed like a nice round number. I don't have a screen shot of the receipts, you'll just have to take my word for it. When I made the donation to Feeding America, the receipt noted that since each dollar feeds 8 people (how do they do that??), that $100 donation just fed 800 people. Woot woot!
Thanks again, everyone. If you are still in the giving spirit, you can go over to Pseudostoops, who has a similar charity drive, where each day this week she will give 50 cents per comment to a designated charity. (You don't have to do anything more than leave a comment--you can even say "comment". Super easy.) So go! Say "comment"!
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Its December 19th! I note that I am running out of time to send a holiday card. I should probably try and take a picture or two of my kids.
I'll get right on that.
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I am nearly done my Christmas shopping. I have gifts for everyone except for my mother, who isn't getting anything because she won't tell me what she wants. Usually my sisters and I chip in together for a gift for her, but this year my sisters took her to see Kenny Rogers, and I wanted to go but couldn't, so now I have to figure out a gift to get her by myself.
Did you listen to Kenny Rogers when you were growing up? His greatest hits album was on repeat in my mother's car; we listened to that incessantly. For years I thought that Lucille had four hundred children and a crop in the fields. Apparently she actually had four hungry children and a crop in the fields.
I was also terrified that, like the Gambler, the best thing I could hope for was to die in my sleep. My grandmother taught me the "now I lay me down to sleep" prayer with the last two lines of "guard me all through the night and wake me with the morning light." But my eight-year-old self always added the "if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take." Just in case.
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Cookie Monster playing Jingle Bells has been very popular in this house.
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And how is your month of December going?
