Amy's Poetry and Potpourri .. Dec. 22-23, 2003

12-22-03 | JustAmy, St.Louie1 and Mama_Bear

[JustAmy]

Well ..... good afternoon. You get here just as I have to run out for awhile.

Meeting my son in Hanford, then meeting my friend for dinner. Will be back later.

Have a great afternoon.

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Okers.
Been out running around assisting with the last minute shopping for the sis.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I'm so glad to see you, Amy, and I'm very happy that things are working really well for FR, and Jim. LOL, bigmouth-liars should be careful! What a lesson, hahaha.

click on the graphic

[MeekOneGOP]

Howdy ! Sounds like you had a busy day yesterday. Everything's just hunky-dorie here !

I've been working on my new Soros pic. Almost done with it, I think ...

[MeekOneGOP]

My pleasure ! :O)

Christmas is almost here now. Yikes !

[OESY]

Holiday Diet Tips

1 - If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

2 - If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, they cancel each other out.

3 - When eating with someone else, calories don't count if you both eat
   the same amount.

4 - Foods used for medicinal purposes have no calories.  This includes
   any chocolate used for energy, brandy, Sara Lee Cheesecake (eaten
   whole), and Haagen-Daz Ice Cream.

5 - Movie-related foods are much lower in calories simply because they
   are a part of the entertainment experience and not part of one's
   personal fuel.  This includes Milk Duds, popcorn with butter,
   Junior Mints, Snickers, and Gummi Bears.

6 - Cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breakage
   causes calorie leakage.

7 - If you eat the food off someone else's plate, it doesn't count.

8 - If you eat standing up the calories all go to your feet and get
   walked off.

9 - Food eaten at Christmas parties has no calories, courtesy of Santa.

10 - STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backward.

[deadhead]

Hi All! 2 days to Christmas, I am a little frantic LOL
Just finished decorating the outside, finally touch.....2 animated deer.
Much to do inside! Have a great evening :-)

Colleen

[OESY]

Selected images from the web portraying the coming of Christmas:

A visitor takes a photo of the sculpture 'Christmas Angel' at the ' Ice World '
in the northern German town of Luebeck. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)

Franciscan monks walk in the Church of the Nativity
in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (AFP/Musa Al-Shaer)

A woman lights candles in the Grotto, the place where
according to Christian tradition Jesus was born, in the Church of the Nativity
in the holy West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AFP/Musa Al-Shaer)

Two-year-old Jordan Love from Wisconsin waits in line to see Santa Claus,
at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Andy King)

Santa Claus, seen here on a snow mobile without a reindeer in sight, has declared war
on Rudolph and the other reindeer after they grazed on the rare orchids
and other flowers that grow on his property. (AFP/Sven Nackstrand)

A cat watches the snow fall from the shelter of a bird feeder in Anchorage, Alaska.
More than 10 inches of snow fell in the Anchorage area in a period of 12 hours. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Toy Terrier puppies sleep in protective clothes at an exhibition of rare breed in Moscow.
Over 2,000 dogs and about 300 cats are presented at Zoovetexpo exhibition. Alexander Natruskin

A camel with Santa Clause hat, placed on the animal's head by his owner to attract foreign tourists,
sits in front of the 4,500-year-old Pyramids at Giza, on the edge of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Egypt is a mainly Muslim country but, with a thriving tourist industry,
many people join the seasonal festivities. Egypt has a large Christian minority,
who celebrate Christmas on January 7. (Aladin Abdel Naby)

A diver dressed as Santa Claus feeds fishes as part of the season's attraction at a local aquarium in Tokyo.
The annual attraction is expected to draw many visitors. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

Chap, a five-month-old monkey, wears a Santa Claus outfit at an amusement park in Tokyo.
According to the Chinese astrological calendar, the upcoming year is the year of monkey. (Yuriko Nakao)

A group of men dressed as Father Frost, the Belarus equivalent of Santa Claus,
and women dressed as Snow Maidens dance around the Christmas tree
in Belovezhskaya Pushcha national reserve near the village of Kamenets during a show,
southwest of Minsk. (Vasily Fedosenko)

Workers set up a giant statue of Santa Claus around a radio tower in Manila.
Tourist arrivals in the Philippines rose 11.3 percent in October from the previous month
continuing a recovery from the regional effects of SARS. (AFP/Joel Nito)

Hef's little helpers Tanea Brooks and Lisa Ligon enjoy the winter wonderland created
at Hugh Hefner's Christmas party at Bliss in Los Angeles. (Meaghan Murphy)

A photo montage Christmas greeting made by members of the 1-22 Battalion
of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division, featuring the face of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
manipulated to look like the head of Santa Claus, is posted on the wall of army barracks in Tikrit, Iraq.
A heavily bearded Saddam was captured by U.S. forces near his home town of Tikrit on the previous Saturday. (Zohra Bensemra)

Sixty Santa Clauses from the United States and Canada travel onboard a Star ferry during
a cruise on Hong Kong Harbor. The Santa volunteers are on an annual goodwill world tour which
includes stops in Beijing, Singapore and Bangkok, offering Christmas gifts to children. (Garrige Ho)

* * *

From "Don't Grin or You'll Have To Bear It"
by Ogden Nash

It is better in the long run to possess an abcess or a tumor
Than to possess a sense of humor.
People who have senses of humor have a very good time
But they never accomplish anything of note, either despicable or sublime
Because how can anyone accomplish anything immortal
When they realize they look pretty funny doing it and have to stop to chortle.

[Mama_Bear]

Huff-puff........I'm here, finally!

Made my LAST trip to the store, I am finally through running around! Thank goodness.......now I can start cooking. :-)

That is a sweet raccoon story, OESY.......and Mama_Bear is in the story too! I'm famous!!

[JustAmy]

Hope you accomplished a lot today. I hate trying to get into any store this time of year.


Bah Humbug!!

What happened to your gifts of coal?

[JustAmy]

Hi Victoria ..... did I miss you? Hope you had a wonderful day.

Do you have a most memorable Christmas story to share with us?

[JustAmy]

I'm still busy with Christmas. Wonder if I will ever get the house cleaned.

I have 20 people coming for dinner on Thursday. I may wait to clean house until Friday! LOL

Hope you had a very good day, Meekie.

[JustAmy]

Thanks for the Holiday Diet Tips. Do you think that means I can enjoy that 5 lb box of See's Candy.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi Amy! You're back!!!

Do you have a most memorable Christmas story to share with us?

I have embarrassing Christmas, but I don't think I would post them, LOL!!!

[JustAmy]

Hi Colleen.
I did some last minute running around today.
Than we took my son and my friend (his Godmother) out to dinner.
Sounds like you are almost ready for Christmas.

[StarfireIV]

Christmas eve
A very special time indeed
As the sun sets on Christendom
All attentions and intentions of the faithful
Hyperfocus on some ultimate intangibility
And this troubled world seems just a little less so
Some might call it mass psychological energy
Or others may simply dismiss it as a mass conditioned
Response
There can be no doubt however that
something
Something truly wonderful happens
Within the time frame of these few hours
Churches fill to capacity
A state not seen since this same time last year
Still they gather for a purpose
A time to reflect on what is,
What has been,
And what yet may come to pass
Forgiveness asked for things regretted
Appreciation for things received
And hope for future graces
All in the space of a
few
precious
hours

"A Few Precious Hours" 12/23/03 StarfireIV

[StarfireIV]

The path to love
is just this
a path
neither a destination
nor a goal unto itself

love is a house
constantly being remodeled
reconstructed
and developed

It is inspired by God
and also his gift to his
children

needs
times
and people
change

mutual love proves true and real
when...
the house that is built
the path that is traveled
and the children of the creator
change too

"The Path" 12/23/03
StarfireIV

[JustAmy]

Those Christmas images are great. I love the picture of the Toy Terrier puppies. They look so precious.

While in the mall today, I stopped at the pet store to look at the puppies. I wanted to bring all five home. I had to remind myself that I wasn't really in the mall to buy anything. I was there to meet someone and to buy more wrapping paper.

[JustAmy]

"how can anyone accomplish anything immortal when they realize they look pretty funny doing it and have to stop to chortle"

That is funny!! I talked to my sister tonight. We were discussing the earthquake. I told her that I thought it was a dizzy spell until I realized everyone in the room was also having dizzy spells. It's a good thing there was no emergency.

[JustAmy]

That bad, huh?

Well my embarrassing memory was only embarrassing because at that age it doesn't take much to embarrass young girls.