making the most of a sick day

both kids are home sick today which means i am home from work with them, which is kind of nice (not that i'm psyched that they are sick, but you know what i mean). today i'm...

• listening to this station which plays nothing but xmas music between thanksgiving and xmas which sometimes makes me want to barf, but it's nice when you are spending the day decorating or cookie making or holiday crafting or whatever
• running to the store to get "sick treats" for the kids ("the junkie popsicles, not the kind with fruit in them")
• re-doing the halloween decorations to make them more holiday-appropriate
• making stuff for upcoming fairs
• watching goofy stuff john sends me, both highbrow and lowbrow

it feels like it's going to snow today. that would be cozy.
hope you're having a good one!
xoxo

Comments

[Dawn]

Get out!!! I just found that Wedding dance video and was going to put it in a blog post. I laughed so hard...how awesome!!! Love the snowflakes...xoxox Hope the kids feel better soooooon.

[Kristen Mary]

Ha! I've been searching all morning for a good Christmas music station with streaming audio to listen to at work! Thanks for the tip :-)

[claire]

Dude. I about peed my pants on the second video. I wish I would have been as clever as them and done something like that! Of course we couldn't afford a dj when we got married, but whatevs!

[Jenna]

have they played Dominic the ITalian Christmas donkey yet? That was the first station I ever heard that played that song....enjoy your day and I hope it snows!

[erin]

thanks for that video link - made my day!

[stephanie D]

Damn- That's what our wedding was missing! =)

[liz]

role reversal at my house today -- I am the sick one, and my kids are the ones bringing me tea while I watch last night's Project Runway from the couch. I love 94.9 WHOM ("your radio home for the holidays!"), but my family thinks I'm a total nerd. Bean said, "Please, Mom, can you at least wait til December first?"

[sulu-design]

I only clicked on the low-brow... thanks, I needed that.

[estea]

okay, since you're a youtube slut you've probably already seen this.

if you haven't, prepare to be a little creeped out and laugh til you pee.

or maybe that's just me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JPONTneuaF4

SHUN THE UNBELIEVER

xxxx

[betsy]

You know I live for the low-brow. :D That wedding video was hysterical. I hope your babes are feeling better. xo

[taoist]

I notice your snowflakes are square...Snowflakes are six sided, and it only takes a couple extra folds to make them so. While quite a few methods exist online, here's the steps I find the easiest:

1. Take a regular proportioned piece of paper. With it in front of you oriented portrait-wise (the normal way) fold it in half, bringing the top and bottom together.

2. Now fold it in half, bringing the left and right sides together. So far this should be the same as how you make four sided flakes.

3. Taking the corner where all the folds meet (which is the center of the paper when unfolded), fold one of the edges that meets at that corner into the middle of your folded paper. Try and get it so that it bisects the angle as evenly as possible (so, since you're bisecting a 90 degree angle by folding one side against itself, you want to see two 30 degree partitions left).

4. Flip the paper over, and fold the other edge that meets at that corner over the same amount as the previous fold.

You should now have a wad of paper which is wedge shaped, coming to a roughly 30 degree point, which is perfect. Cut around this angle in the same manner as you normally cut around the edges to make square snowflakes, and unfold to see your final design.

A common mistake people make when doing this design is choosing the wrong point to fold around. If you do so, when you unfold, your snowflake will fall into pieces.