Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Have you ever been on a real sleigh ride? How about the warm weather version - a carriage ride? I've been on a hay ride, does that count? I don't know if I've been on a real sleigh ride, but oh well! I get to ride an ex-carriage horse!!

2. What's your policy on 'chain mail'...you know, the emails you receive that are often some sort of poem/blessing/good wish that ask you to send it on to 10 or 12 friends? Do you delete without opening, read and trash, read and trash and then worry you won't be blessed/lucky/protected? Do you delete the sender from your contacts or just go ahead and send the love onward? It depends on the chain email, there are some that are really cool, and if they have facts in them I automatically go to Snopes.com to make sure it's true, but then there are some that are just cute that my boss will send to me, that just make me start my day off right :) I absolutely love some, but the ones saying that "you'll die if you don't- - -" I delete them usually, don't even read them!

3. Who is your favorite character in any of the Christmas movies and why? My favorite character(s) in a classic Christmas movie would be Mr. Heat Miser & Mr. Snow Miser from The Year Without Santa because the two of them in their songs are just so awesome!

In one of the newer Christmas movies, I like the boy in Christmas Shoes, because he's sweat and all he wants is to buy these shoes for his mom that's dieing, because he wants her to look pretty if she meets Jesus that night.

4. Share a favorite quote. Just one? Okay, I'm giving you a couple because I couldn't just give you one!

"There were six churches:
The Methodist, which had a warm and friendly pastor
The Presbyterian, whose minister was a very proper person
The Episcopal, whose pastor was a born actor
The Lutheran, whose pastor was rigid and pompous
The Baptist, which had a simple, but like-able pastor
The Catholic, whose pastor was aloof and inflexible"-Joshua by Joseph F. Girzone

"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling 5 balls. The balls are called work, health, friends, family and integrity. And you are keeping all of them in the air; but one day, you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls, family, health, friends and integrity are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked perhaps even shattered."-Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

"Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying "It takes a village to raise a child." Well, I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my child" ~Unknown

5. What's your favorite holiday scent? I love the smell of pumpkin pie and apple pie cooking, or the one that is always in my house a fire (love the smell) or our homemade chex mix. I absolutely hate the smell of pine! BLEH!

6. Does the Christmas season stress you out? In what way? Sometimes, the whole gift buying process is always stressful, especially when it's coming down to December 20th, because then you realize you only have five days to get everything bought, wrapped, labeled, and shipped (okay I usually ship mine like a week before Christmas). Then you have the whole family part, if your family is anything like mine then you'll want to spend Christmas with one, but you'll have to spend Christmas with the other - - - That usually happens here, and you always have the stress of cooking when you have family coming over (especially if it's your in-laws coming)

7. What's the best thing about your life right now? The best thing about my life? Oh, well everything! I have a wonderful family (a few nuts in the extended family, but hey we all do right?), both of my jobs are amazing, my boss is sweet and too nice to me! My friends are amazing and are a great support in my life. My two church families are amazing, they're always there for support if I ever need it. The horses are great and are like my four legged family. My life is pretty great (if you asked me this last Christmas, you wouldn't have gotten such a long list) and I've been blessed into a great family, and although we're not rich and live lavishly, we have the right amount, and it's just perfect!

8. Unkown at the current moment - - - My brain has taken the Christmas holiday off, but a little too early.