Advent Calendar: Day 8

A Muppet Family Christmas.

This always makes me think of someone. She's not around anymore. Nothing bad, it's just one of those times that life kinda gets in the way of living, so to speak. Another regret. One of many.

But this isn't the place or time for that - it's Christmas! Let's have some fun & forget about these things, if only for a little while.

Advent Calendar: Day 7

Get it while it's here!

Advent Calendar: Day 6

Some Christmas Numbers from the History Channel.

There's also a lot more stuff on there regarding the history and traditions of Christmas and how they came to be celebrated the way they are today, like here and here.

Advent Calendar: Day 5

Here are 16 terrible Christmas cards over at Funny or Die.

Some others at Smoosh.com (some do overlap, but that's how you can tell they're truly bad).

Here's one you can buy over at theoatmeal.com

And of course, failblog's Sketchy Santas.

Advent Calendar: Day 4

A lesser known, or seldom heard Christmas Song Mix

Advent Calendar: Day 3

Because apparently it hasn't been sucked dry yet, here's some Christmas Gangnam Style mash-ups.

Why? 

Well, I suppose in this day in age, I'm pretty sure this would have happened a lot sooner had Gangnam Style and Christmas occurred a lot closer. Actually, where was the Thanksgiving Gangnam Style? No dancing turkeys? Pilgrims? Native Americans? Cans of cranberry sauce? 

Internet, you let me down. 

Advent Calendar: Day 2

Here's a little Christmas diddy from The Darkness.

2 things:

1. Bells end (or bell end) is UK slang which roughly translates as "penis head"
2. Lead singer Justin Hawkins looks a lot like a guy I went to college with. Like, almost identical. 

Advent Calendar: Day 1

I'm not waiting for December to come around to start an advent calendar. I'm doing it now!

Here's Paul McCartney's Christmas classic, Wonderful Christmastime

And here's a parody of it:

Happy Thanksgiving

Yeah, I know

I don't care that Thanksgiving hasn't come yet. I don't care that people hate this stuff. It will always be one of my favorites. Even if I'm not totally sure all the ingredients are 100% natural.

That's right - fruit cake

Zoo TV

What? This Again?!

It's almost like an everyday thing, this blog(?)....

Um, Yeah

I don't know. So, yeah, here's this.

Chili

Con Carne

I made chili. It's probably going to be better tomorrow. Chili is weird like that. 

THe "con carne"

Everybody in the pool

Raiding the spice cabinet  

Pot of goodness

I Agree

Mini Chicken Pot Pie

And 1 Normal Pot Pie

Followed (well, kinda followed) a recipe, & it all turned out pretty well. Not as great success, but successful enough. 

The filling

The dough

Fill'd

Problem #1: not enough dough...

Problem #2: too much filling

Problem Solver

Covered & off to oven

The leftovers

Only mostly a mess

Success? Success!

Bonus Success!

Cooking

I'm going to try to make some mini chicken pot pies tomorrow, mostly following this recipe, but I might try to incorporate some other ones as well. There was this recipe that looks pretty good. I hadn't thought of using those biscuits; instead I'm using actual pie crust.

I'll be making chili at some point as well. It'll be 3 bean chili. Maybe some meat, maybe not. Last time I made it with meat, you couldn't taste it. And Tim Tebow was traded to the Jets. So this could go either way.

And Thanksgiving is coming up soon. I'd like to make some pretty awesome mashed potatoes. Uncle Phil would love them.

Unless I get called into work. I hate work. But I love making money.

Who's Up For Some Van Halen?

Oh, I Don't Know

like.....


whatever....


and stuff.....

The Jets Are Terrible

From top to bottom. 

And that's that. 

'Nother Weddin'

So many weddings, so little time.

Even though it's a fitted & tailored suit, I will forever have arms longer than any sleeve. 

That's right - blue shoes. It's a thing called style. You either got it, or you don't.

The ceremony.

The party 

The parting gift. 

I also tweeted this while waiting for the ceremony to start. And lo and behold:

Just a reminder here:

Great day, or greatest day? 

Friday Evening Psychedelic Grooving

A'round

A shopping cart full of wine. Hopefully it's stuff that's being restocked and not somebody's cart. Although I know more than a handful of people that would do such a thing.

Blurry Photo by BlurryPhotoApp5000

 Hmm....what?

Fit for a dandy!

Wednesday Evening Classic Rock MIx

Weapon of Choice

Tricycle

Fatboy Slim - "Weapon of choice" from Sterntag Film on Vimeo.

Time to Make the Donuts

Back to work at 5 tomorrow morning. Now, all I need to do is get upstairs dog to shut up, and we'll be gravy. 

Sunday Evening Slow Jams

*Not to be confused with this website.*

Nah, I'm just messing with you! Here's some heavy metal.

Yes......Yes!

I finally did it. I got them.

 So now I can have these.

And, as a bonus, apparently this is still a thing. Good for them.

Burrito-Time Watch 2012

Something that is far more important to me than any election:

When will it be Burrito Time?

Did I get to the store today? Did I have time to get over there? Was I successful in getting tortilla's? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Well, to be frank, nope.

I've been at work most of the day, and I'm due to go back there early tomorrow morning. So maybe I'll pick something up tomorrow. For now, I'm tired. I'm tempted to have a beer and call it a day, but I know I'd be asleep halfway through it. Maybe some of this will keep me up a little while longer.

Burrito-Time Fail

I was all set to make burritos tonight. I get home from the store. I got the meat. I got the cheese. I got the salsa. I got everything. Or so I thought. What didn't I get?

Tortillas.

Without tortillas to wrap it up in, I might as well be eating a taco salad.

And I don't want a taco salad.

So, instead, I'm having pizza.

To quote the Sugar Hill Gang

Say, if your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend