Is it wrong to want this??

I saw it on an infomercial. It's called a Bump It. You can check out the video and order it for me on Big Happie Hair. :o)

The Mom Song

This is AMAZING!! I was laughing so hard I was crying!!

Holiday Cartoons

Christmas Poetry

Christmas Poetry

Merry Christmas One and All
I Hope Your Christmas Tree Don't Fall

But if it does just let it lay

And Santa will put it on his Sleigh

Merry Christmas One and All

I Hope Your Christmas Tree Don't Fall

But if it Does Just Let it Lie

And Upon the Ground it will Rot and Die

By P.Piazza @ Company, Inc., 1995 A.D.

Song Writer, Poet, and Carpet Salesman

Still Living

Santa Claus is Comin' and the Kids are Getting Greedy

It's Christmas Time

They Know it's in the Stores Because They've Seen it On the TV

It's Christmas Time

They Go Into the Forest and They Cut Down All the Trees

It's Christmas Time

I Know Who Has the Power Saw but Who Plants All the Seeds

It's Christmas Time

By Larry Norman - 1972 A.D.

Song Writer, Poet, Christian Philosopher

Deceased

This is an excerpt from our Mr. Paul Piazza. He learned how to attach things to emails and sent me this poetry as a test. He cracks me up!!!
P.S. Johnny & I think that he is really Santa Clause hiding out here as a carpet salesman!!! I'm going to give him my Christmas list this week. heehee.

Stockton Top Blogger?? Me?? Ha!!

Okay this is random.... Courtney posted a blog saying that yesterday she was a top blogger in Modesto and she was featured on feedjit.com.... very cool for her!!

Then at the bottom of her post she said that I was on it today!! No way!?!?!? Apparently it clears out everyday and makes room for a new round. I looked it up and sure enough... there I was!! HA!!

Too funny... well keep following my blog and you can find me on there again!! Thanks for reading!!

MVC Christmas Choir

I am singing in the Monte Vista Chapel Choir this Sunday during the Christmas services!! FUN FUN!!! My friend Courtney is also singing. However we are not near each other... because she smells. Kidding!! She is a soprano & I am an alto and we are on two different sides. That's all. I promise. ;p There will be two services and thus two chances to hear us sing!! I'm excited that my brother and his family as well as my parents are planning on attending. I hope to see you there too!!

My addiction... Pogo!!

So I am addicted to a game website. Pogo.com. LOVE IT!!! My friend Toni got me addicted to it last June. I haven't missed a challenge yet. Yes I am a dork. I know this. Every Wednesday two new mandatory badge challenges come out one to three personal challenges are available as well.

This weeks mandatory challenges are:

Phlinx

Anubis' Badge

Win 25 rounds this week! to earn the badge

Word Whomp

Carrot-cicle Badge

Win 15 games IN A ROW this week! to earn the badge

Personal challenge (only one)... I chose from the 2007 book:

Word Craft

Professor Wordsworth's Badge

Correctly find 300 words on Medium difficulty! to earn the badge

I have already completed the Word Craft and Phlinx so far... Word Whomp to go. I'm going to have to have mom help me with that one. She is good at that game. :o)

Should you feel compelled to check out my addiction, let me know and I will send you a guest pass good for a week. You can find me as Teaseburger24.

Stay tuned for weekly updates on challenges!!!

Too much to do... too little time

So I have soooo many things I want to blog about:
-School
-Work
-Sushi
-Thanksgiving
-Apple Hill
-Catering for the Montagues and the Festival of Trees
-Christmas
-Christmas Choir
-SF Day
-Me being the opposite of me
-Pogo
-and much, much more...
but I just DON'T have time!!! And I'm stressed. So I'm keeping my fingers that in the very near future I can take a time out and blog. sigh.

Words of Wisdom

Mommy actually works at Home Depot and was selling a shovel, but it might be best to always check your kids homework before they turn it in.

Genesis through Deuteronomy

My parents gave me a hot pink NIV Adventure Bible on my birthday January 28, 1991. LOVE that Bible. The color, the way it reads etc...
So I opened up said Bible yesterday.... only to have the books Genesis through Deuteronomy fall completely out.... and the rest about ready too. Awesome. That did not make me happy. I am such a ragamuffin!!! Everything I have is stained, holey, ripped, broken and just plain falling apart. ((sigh))

Tag You're It!!

My friends Allie at Curves With Attitude and Courtney at Practicing Patience TAGGED me for a photo blog.
The rules are as follows:Go to your 6th picture folder & copy your 6th picture and put what it is here. Then tag 5 other people to do the same.

This is my grandparents during our October 2007 James family photo get together.

I don't have 5 followers to tag.... so I'm only tagging the two that haven't done this yet. Ha!!!

I tag:
Mike @ Murrow's Blog
Letty @ My Little Family

First baby picture of Michael Phelps

I don't know why... but I find this hysterical!!

Social Styles

So my friend Courtney at Practicing Patience challenged me to actually READ her WHOLE blog post today ... (it was a lot of words but I made it through) It was very a very interesting read about figuring out what social style Miss Courtney and her 'friend' fell into.

According to this theory there are 4 quadrants: Analytical, Driver, Expressive, and Amiable. And within each of the 4 quadrants it breaks down further into sub quadrants with the same categories analytical, driver, expressive, and amiable. What you are depends if you ask/tell and how you control/display emotions.

So at my request, Courtney sent me this little test... and I took it. And fell into the Expressive Expressive quadrant.

Below is a list of my working style strengths:

- Energizing
- Motivating
- Upbeat - enthusiastic - positive
- Offer reinforcement
- Generate enthusiasm
- Visionary... often initiators of change
- Create excitement and involvement
- Share ideas and dreams
- Good brainstormers
- Fun

And potential blind spots:

- Too much, too high energy; can be draining
- Too big picture - don't provide enough details
- Too open to change (scope busters on projects)
- Move too quickly for others and/or without checking out assumptions or attending to details
- Like to work more on fun stuff vs. routine work
- Easily bored by slower paced communicators

What I expect from others:

- Develop a relationship in an open, friendly atmosphere; share ideas, thoughts, feelings
- Be willing to "try on" new ideas... and "roll with the punches"
- Focus on the positive, assume the view of "glass half full" vs. "glass half empty"
- Try to have some FUN at work; recognize the value in people relating and socializing
- Provide a "snapshot" not all the details
- Enable them to save time/effort
- To influence, show some enthusiasm and present information in an interesting way
- Allow them to try new things: to grow
- Avoid "micro-managing" but help them attend to important but less exciting parts of their job
- Talk about the big picture and how a current project/assignment fits into it
- Provide recognition for their visions and actions; help them achieve their goals
- Offer personal incentives

Okay... so MOST of that is dead on!!! The whole open to change and focus only on the big picture and no attention to detail is way off base. But other than that.... very insightful!!
Thank you Courtney!!

And so it begins....

So I have been told that I need to start a blog... I really don't think I have enough to say and I'm not the biggest fan of words to keep up with a blog. But hey, what the heck. I'll give it a shot. I may not be posting daily, but I will give it a try. Sooo.... here we go!! Wish me luck!!