Posted on 11/28/2004 7:25:47 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Celebrate the holidays with HGTV's 12 Days of Christmas Specials, featuring all things festive, from decorating on a budget to finding the perfect gift. On HGTV.com, expanded coverage of each special includes videos, slideshows, step-by-steps and more to guide you through this busy season.
Hey Remember! Christmas
Premiere: 11/28 at 8 pm/7c
See how home products have been marketed to American consumers over the past 50 years. More...
Outer Spaces for the Holidays
Premiere: 11/29 at 8 pm/7c
Watch as the exteriors of two homes are transformed into imaginative winter wonderlands. More...
Year 'Round Christmas
Premiere: 11/30 at 8 pm/7c
Meet people around the country who make their yuletide celebrations last all year long. More...
Christmas Room by Room Style
Premiere: 12/1 at 8 pm/7c
Matt and Shari explore unique inspirational ideas for this year's decor. HGTV.com offers instructions for these projects. More...
Divine Design Christmas
Premiere: 12/2 at 8 pm/7c
Candice Olson takes the ultimate holiday challenge as the festive season quickly approaches. More...
Home to Go Holiday Special
Premiere: 12/3 at 8 pm/7c
Explore a whole new way of dressing up your home and table for holiday entertaining. More...
Holiday Design on a Dime
Premiere: 12/4 at 8 pm/7c
Each design team transforms a room with distinctive holiday cheer. Get in-depth instructions, video clips and 10 additional holiday decorating ideas on HGTV.com. More...
A Very Merry Curb Appeal
Premiere: 12/5 at 8 pm/7c
These festive facelifts are filled with tons of ideas to improve the look of any home year-round. More...
Holiday Windows 2004
Premieres: 12/6 at 8 pm/7c
Go behind the scenes as the world's best department store Christmas windows are sketched, built, installed and revealed. More...
White House Christmas 2004
Premiere: 12/7 at 8 pm/7c
HGTV goes inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a look at how the First Family decorates for the holidays. After the special, visit HGTV.com for a closer look at this year's decorations. More...
Way to be a unifier there John.
“We’re going to clearly bring (attention to) the rights of American people to vote without being harassed.”
Put up or shut up you big ugly buffoon. There was actual voter fraud in the Ukraine and they managed to capture a lot of it on tape.
You know very well in the United States every precinct was crawling with lawyers on both sides. The presidents of ABC, CBS and NBC all agree that they had poll watchers, lawyers, cameramen, and an 800 number to call in the event you, as voter, were harassed or disenfranchised.
After 1000's of lawyers and all that watching not a single report was made. The alphabet presidents wanted a juicy story so badly but all they got was an election.
An election that voted the wrong man in of course. /sarcasm!
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Goregous weather here again today, it's almost like fall. I'm off to play outside. New thread tomorrow morning. See y'all later!
BIG BIG BEHINDS EN VOGUE IN GERMANY
"Blame it on J.Lo, said Herrman Solz, the chairman of annual meeting of the German Society of Plastic Surgeons, which took place this week. The Hollywood actress and singer Jennifer Lopez's well-publicized, biggish backside is causing women to think twice about their own smaller seats. "Ever since she became famous, many German women want a bigger butt," he said,
Competitor Holly Karolkowski wraps a stove during the final round of 'America's Most Gifted Wrapper' contest in New York. Karolkowski, an amateur wrapper, beat a professional to win the contest. For the eight contestants -- four professionals and four amateurs from as far afield as Kentucky, Texas and Wisconsin -- victory offered kudos, 10,000 US dollars in cash and ownership of all the objects wrapped during the competition(AFP/Mandel Ngan)
blender
Gift bags/sacks rule.
A merica doesn't have princesses in the sense that Japan and Britain and a few other countries do. But it has its princess substitutes, from presidential first daughters such as Caroline Kennedy and Chelsea Clinton to a handful of the nicer Hollywood actresses. Just as with real princesses, there is always a great flurry of media interest when one of these American "royals" gives birth, and mothers-to-be across the land take note of the famous new baby's name.
In the latest such glad event, however, mothers-to-be weren't the only ones struck by the names that Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts gave her newborn twins last week. Everybody was. For a moment, people stopped thinking about Iraq and Ukraine and earthquakes and what to have for dinner, and exclaimed to each other: "She called them what? Is she serious?" Newspaper commentaries echoed the sense of outrage -- and of sympathy for little Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia, who it was generally agreed were doomed to a life at the losers' lunch table.
"Phinnaeus?" grumbled one grammar-challenged Internet chatter. "You can't even google that hardly."
Why such indignation? Ms. Roberts had not, after all, burdened her babies with the kind of New Age nonnames that have long plagued Celebrity Land. (Think of poor Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of the late rock idol Frank Zappa. Or the Phoenix clan: River, Summer, Liberty and Rain. Or tart little Apple, born just this year to another American actress, Gwyneth Paltrow.) ...
How Poor People Live
One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing him how poor people lived. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm, of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people live?" asked the father.
The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden; they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden; they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on; they have fields that go beyond their sight. We have servants to serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us; they have friends to protect them."
The father was SPEECHLESS.
Then his son added, "Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are!"
I have returned. And I don't know how to use the damned digital. Three years ago I decided I was going to learn to work it or die trying. I got as far as charging the battery.
And thank you very much for the above piece. I have copied it and sent it to my 3 sons. They're rich and they didn't even know it!
Welcome home.
Hoping that you had a super time in the district and that the party was wonderful.
With parents, and family, like you guys, I'm thinking that your sons are plenty smart enough to look around and see how "rich" they really are, in all aspects of the word.
We had a lovely order from the menu dinner (crab cakes,, they don't have many of those in Iowa, you know) and delightful company. Great conversation.
In my absence, 'they' had DSL installed in my computer. It is jerky and I am not a happy camper. There are literally hundreds of emails to read and respond to,, but the puter is annoyingly jumpy. Surely there is something wrong.
Hi BigWaveBetty!
I'm late to the party. I was checking out the new FR homepage and noticed the link to The Guild.
I love your threads. How I've been here since March '03 and missed them, I don't know. Please add me to your ping list.
I'm a former HGTV producer and LOVE all things decorating, gardening and of course, shopping!
Thanks,
Suzie
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