I think I’ve mentioned it before, and I meant to get this video up a while back (remember how I was done decorating about a month ago and I’d finished my Christmas shopping before the end of Thanksgiving weekend? Yeah, I know ya’ll hate me and you’d THINK in that month that I’d get around to posting a video before the actual Christmas Day, but you’d think wrong).

Anyway. Hubs and I went a little nuts decorating this year. Fresh garland on the tree, put our pre-lit garland on the stair railing, the old garland absolutely everywhere, new Santa and snowmen lamps, the Christmas village, our Nutcrackers, our humongous How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Night Before Christmas books, our Christmas stuffed animals under the tree, and a bunch of knick-knacks. I think it looks pretty sweet, so I video’d it (including my hippopotamus that sing “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas”) and had intended to actually dub in an MP3 from one of my many Christmas cds, but found out too late that just because I rip a song off a cd that does not turn it into an MP3. Bummer. So, the vid is mostly silent. Hope you enjoy it anyway, because there will be a quiz later.

And, since I’m a “settle for second best” kind of girl, I thought I’d show you exactly hard it is to achieve even second best for me!

Two more things. In the first video, at the end, you’ll see the lights on my stair rails in the shape of stars, snow flakes, and snow men. This is because I found these awesome glasses at Lowe’s or Home Depot or something that look like 3d glasses, but which actually make little lights look awesome. I have a Santa one too, but it doesn’t work as well. And the second thing is my earring ARE blinking. Love ‘em!

#1- Surprised Kitty

You’ll probably think that I found this video through DoshDosh’s tweet- you’d be wrong. I actually saw it on Yahoo yesterday, but DoshDosh tweeted the link today at a really good time for me to copy it out saving me time. Soooooo cuuuuuute.

#2- Which Way Did It Go, George?

This cracked me up. Also from Yahoo, I saw my husband watching this vid of a football player (Florida State Lineman), who didn’t move. I don’t know anything about football, so I can’t explain it, but it’s pretty durn funny in my opinion.

#3- What Do Red Foxes Eat?

Yesterday (or maybe it was the day before?) I posted a link to this video. My favorite Make Money Online blogger filmed his 7 year old daughter hand feeding a red fox. Apparently, foxes eat hamburger patties. Pretty, pretty fox.

You can see what I mean here, because they have embedding disabled. Poopy heads. (vid is clean)

Also, I don’t think anyone understands all the words to this, but for those who are interested, here’s a vid of the underpants gnome song. Enjoy!

Oh yeah, it’s one of those days. In fact, I would think that I were still asleep if it weren’t for the fact that my husband’s head hasn’t morphed into a turkey and I haven’t managed to teleport to the school bus naked. Yet.

I woke up with my ear clogged, a sneezy nose and itchy eyes. I’ve been having allergy symptoms pretty bad for over a week now, and in fact, I think I broke the skin on the side of my right eye from rubbing. Yesterday I had the itchy eyes and the “I’m gonna pass out any minute now” feeling all day, but today is at least twice as bad.

I haven’t had much to blog about. Most of what I’ve been doing is building niche sites and link building, which doesn’t exactly lead to exciting conversation unless you find “WHY HASN’T GOOGLE INDEXED ME YET!!!!!” to be a real ice breaker. And if you do love that kind of convo, DM me so I can stop bugging the people who I have been screaming that at.

On the upside, for the first time, I’ve truly felt the StumbleUpon love by receiving more hits on my un-indexed site than I would have gotten if I’d been ranked number 1 for my term. Ad clicks too! I’ve finally reached my AdSense payout level! Woot!

Now, I need to go do some more link building, but in the meantime, I sought out a video of the song that closest matches my health level right now.

OK, they changed a couple of the lyrics, so don’t hold me to that….
BTW, if anyone’s interested in a holistic nutrition degree, feel free to check out that link.

Anyone who’s known me for 5 seconds can guess that I’m not a sports fan.  Seriously? I could give a rat’s…. tail.

But my husband asked if I wanted to go to the Hershey Bears VS Wilkesbarre-Scranton Penguins game, and thinking of research for my novel, I agreed. And to be honest, I really didn’t get into it, but mostly because my brain kept wandering off into what my MC would be thinking as she watched the game.

But there were some amusing moments during the game.

I’m not sure what it is with sports having stupid things during the intermissions, but they had some people come out wearing sumo wrestler outfits to hit some pucks into the net. I don’t know what they won, but the other sumo ended up flat on his back on the ice and couldn’t get up without help. Which I thought was funny.

The cool thing is, there was a fist fight in the first 2 minutes of the game. I thought that was awesome, but I was so busy taking pix of the fight, that I forgot to pull out my Flip and video it. I spent the rest of the game clutching my digital camera in one hand, and my Flip in the other waiting for another fight. It never came. This made me sad. Which annoyed my companions because I spent the rest of the game and the 45 minute ride home complaining about the lack of fights.

And for you sports nuts- that’s Cocoa posing with the Stanley Cup. I’m assuming that’s something important or special? My husband made me take the picture.

The Hershey Bears seem to be a pretty decent team, and won 3-2. On the other hand, they managed to not only miss a penalty shot, but took two shots at an unguarded net- and missed both.

The Penguins, however, seem to prefer slamming people into walls and sliding across the ice on their stomachs instead of their skates to actually making shots. Does this make them a bad team? Not necessarily. They may just have different goals than every other hockey team in the known world. I’m just sayin’.

So, anyway, he pulls up this awesome video of Andrea Bocelli singing Elmo to sleep. I love it! Andrea Bocelli has the most incredible voice, and it’s so cute the way he keeps smiling at Elmo.

There’s a better quality video here, but it won’t allow for embedding.