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How to save money at Christmas....
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Re: How to save moeny at Christmas....
« Reply #1 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 12:52pm » |
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LMMFAO Grant that is too funny!!! 
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Re: How to save moeny at Christmas....
« Reply #2 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 12:59pm » |
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SICCKKKK!
Sick and Wrong, Grant.......now, if you'd done that before I'd finished my shopping.........but it's just too late!
...........soooo, it's simply SICK.........and WRONG!
Silly Grant!! 
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
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OMG.
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #4 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 3:47pm » |
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For 164 years Santa evaded reindeer games. His luck was bound to run out.
What kind of evil doers are we? Jeesh.
Wasn't this around last year too?
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #5 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 4:59pm » |
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Pretty sure it was Svenn that had the same pic last year except it was in Norwegian.
Had to post it --- couldn't stop laughing when I saw it.
Sick, sick grant 
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #6 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 5:11pm » |
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Well, Back in 2000 I didn't get blond from the Swedish bikini team that I asked for, so I had to off his ass!!!
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #7 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 5:13pm » |
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Yer right. Is was that evil doing, Lefsa-glomming Norwegian. It's why my ancestors in the real Scandinavian country sawed off the western portion...... 
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #8 on: Dec 13th, 2003, 5:31pm » |
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36 degrees latitude.
47 degrees longitude.
Elevation 32000 feet.
Speed 120 knots.
Direction, North going South
BLAM
Dubya got em! Sleigh full of WMD.
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #9 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 12:26am » |
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Thanks Grant! I needed that today. Just glommed the picture and am using it for my background on my 'puter.
Have a great one!
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #10 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 12:29am » |
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Warning, BAH HUMBUG post....
The birth year is wrong, but the death year is right.
My Dad died in 2000, and with him died my santa claus.
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« Reply #11 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 12:37am » |
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Ohhh, Cat.....so sad.....my dad has been gone for nearly 20 yrs now, and I still feel the same. I have kept this silly thing he used to have on his dresser, and when I need him desperately, I talk to this "souvenir" of my daddy.....even now, I see the twinkle in his eyes....maybe, one day, Cat, the twinkle you see in Santa's eyes will make you feel it IS him......it's all about spirit....and your Dad's IS with you, yknow....
Wishing you and yours a Christmas of laughter and fond memories,
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« Reply #12 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 12:55am » |
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Now that Ive glued my ass back on ill laugh it off again.
LMMFAO!!!!!!
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #13 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 1:11pm » |
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Cat, sorry to hear the season brings such sadness. Hoping you can let us here cheer you up some. Cathi....that's a great idea!! She's right Cat, think Dad would want you to still see "Santa's" twinkle!!
AND..........grant............we knew you were sick!
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #14 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 3:11pm » |
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Thanks guys 
I still have Santa's twinkle all around me. I've experienced some ummm 'odd' events on various xmas's past that make me believe in Santa to this day.
My Dad was 58 when he died, and he would have told you with the straightest face around that there really is a santa.
My personal Santa died, but not the spirit. Santa Claus is the little bit of magic that happens at Christmas. It's in the things that Don has done, that others here have done, it's being able to give of yourself and even though the man that was St Nick is no longer on this earth, Santa Claus is very much alive.
A little story:
2 years ago, while Clark was deployed for Operation Enduring Freedom, I was looking at a bleak xmas morning alone with the kids. Then the kids got snooping around on the computer and found my secret web list of gifts bought for them. A good many of them were Santa gifts. They were 7 and 9 almost 8 and 10. I knew that Santa was gone for good for them. I sat my oldest down and explained to him that Santa was not a real person, that it was a state of mind, a magic that never dies. He was heartbroken, and I felt like xmas had been forever been destroyed.
That year, a gentleman by the name of Bob, was stationed at Ft Drum as backfill for the deployed soldiers. He went out and purchased gifts for all 3 of my children, and him being dutch, he explained they had a tradition that when you gave a gift on xmas you had to write a little something about the gift and the reason for the season.
Well, xmas morning rolled around, and there were 3 gifts under the tree, all in wrapping paper that I did not have in my house. The 2 older kids opened them (Ayden was only just 1 1/2) and read the little notes writting in red, not in my handwriting, and signed St. Nick, Kris Kringle, Sinter Klaas. Alex's eyes got very wide, and he said you did this mom didn't you...
I looked him straight in the eye and said "Alex, that is not my hand writing, I do not have that wrapping paper in the house, go check, and I did NOT put those gifts there!"
You would have thought a ghost got the boy. He started to go nuts. He said "Mom this is scary...was it...do you think...could it have been....?"
I looked at them all and told them that Santa is always there when kids need him most, and adults too. I gave them a couple of stories from years past that solidified my own belief in Santa, and told them that Santa doesn't ride around giving gifts to every kid ... he chooses children who's parents can't afford it, or who's lives are difficult, and they receive special gifts." I then told him that Santa must have felt that they needed a little reminder that not all things unseen and unproven are not real, and that it was his way of telling them that he was real.
My children still believe. They are approaching 10 and 12. I still believe. I've seen many small miracles that are at the hands of other caring humans, and some that are simply unexplained, but we all know that Santa is real, and the reason I know it is because my Dad was able to prove it to me the same way I did to my kids over the years. So my personal Santa may not be with us in body, but he will never be far from heart.
My gift to Clark that last year, xmas of 99, was a video camera. I thought that was a great gift. What I didn't know, was that wasn't the real gift. It was the video tape of that Christmas at home with my Dad, the last one, and the only video in existance of my Dad.
Magic comes in many forms, for some it's religious, for others it's kindness, for me it's Santa Claus.
He may have died, but he will live forever in the twinkle of eyes and the sparkle of xmas snow and in the magic of the season.
Cat
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #15 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 4:57pm » |
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Oh Cat, this is a beautiful story!!! You've warmed my heart dear.
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #16 on: Dec 14th, 2003, 5:51pm » |
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Thanks so much for sharing that. It "almost" makes me want to take down the pic.
Thanks for this and so much more,
grant
(Note that I said "almost". The pic stays. )
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Re: How to save money at Christmas....
« Reply #17 on: Dec 15th, 2003, 12:47am » |
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Aww cat thanks so much for sharing that. Brought smiles and tears when i read it to myself and AGAIN read it to Sam. Wonderful.
BTW (i believed in Santa until I was 11, some kids at school ruined it for me, that is until now that I have my own kids to create the magic of Santa with!)
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