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- I drove by a house that not only had their exterior display of lights up, but also had them lit.
You need to start of list of what you are thankful for (besides the typical stuff):
I'll start it off:
1. NFL Network - We now have 3 games on Thanksgiving instead of the previous two.
2. The sound of leaves crunching under an 16 month old's feet as she enjoys her first fall.
3. Tomorrow our chimney will be fixed so every time it rains we don't feel like we need to build an ark.
4. Teaching said 16 month old to rake said leaves
5. The endless challanges a certain bloggers house presents when it comes to wiring.
6. Blogs. Blogs. and more Blogs.
7. DVR's
8. VRE
9. CIA, FBI, and NSA
10. ABC's (the alphabet)
11. 100 Calorie snack packs from Costco
12. Fanta Soda (for the Pope and a certain blogger I still owe a 6-pack)
13. The Big Mamma Burger
14. Pittsburgh
15. Thrift store ties
16. Newt
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- Good start! I will follow:
17. THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS!!!
18. Bonfires.
19. The Milky Way, which I can see from aforementioned house.
20. Re-wiring house for Turkey Day.
21. Fanta... because it deserves being mentioned over and over.
22. Irish Road Bowling, for which our inaugural game begins soon (we have rules and cannonballs)!
23. Lane 1-Q pipe tobacco.
24. Books.
25. Occupied Virginia (h/t to the RWR)
26. NCAA Football 20XX (because they are all awesome)
27. PS3s and PS2s.
28. Beer. Specifically Yuengling.
29. Whiskey. Specifically Jameson.
30. Make-your-own beer and wine kits.
31. Wargames. The old Avalon Hill types too, not the pansy and hip computer games (unless they are reproductions of the old AH or SPI games).
32. Turkey.
33. Healthy children and worry-free pregnancies.
34. Sunday Mass.
35. 10 acres in the middle of nowhere, a general store I can call my own, and good friends to share it all with.
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- comment Doogman
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- 36. Family and Friends that love me
37. DUH!! The 2006 midterms!
38. Whiskey, specifically Talisker
39. Wargames, definitely the old Avalon Hill ones, specifically Panzer Blitz!
40. Macs and OS X! WHOO HOO!
41. Macs using Intel chips that can run BOTH OS'es concurrently and natively! *hip action* UNH!
42. Wonderful Colorado weather that has snowdrifts one day and hiking the next!
43. An acre on a mountainside far from any highway
44. My lovely wife to share it with
45. The neighbor kids and dogs who always come to visit and play
46. My two cats
47. My dad
48. New neighbors in town - good ones!
49. The new Battlestar Galactica
50. The new Doctor Who
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- Sorry for the two deletions, couldn't get the numbering straight! (long day)
- comment Mark Gardner
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- 51. Being named on the front page of said bloggers blog
52. Cell Phones
53. Not having a blackberry
54. Fanta - said blogger is right
55. Any Pregnancy
56. 5-time Super Bowl Champs Pittsburgh Steelers
57. Digital Cameras
58. Power Tools
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- I was there a week ago and silently vowed not to return until it's appropriate to have Christmas merchandise out -- December 1 at the earliest.
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- 59. Freedom
- comment Charles
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- I started putting up my lights the weekend before the election, although I only turn them on to check out how it's going.
I hate having christmas stuff in stores before holloween, but realise that we want to get out christmas lights up before christmas, so we do need to start buying them before thanksgiving (like I have to buy a couple thousand blue lights to replace the ones that look more like clear lights now, blue is notorious for flaking).
I've finished phase one, about 5,000 lights up, about 30,000 to go.
The first real push is friday after thanksgiving, I should have 15,000 lights up before the end of the weekend if all goes well.
Deer go out later, too much temptation for kids to come by and kill them (I had half my deer beheaded last year, but not one was stuffed in a mailbox).
Lights sitting on the grass go last, because the kids will step on them, and because I'll step on them putting up the other lights.
I'll be posting pictures occasionally at my blog.
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- 59. Sharp pains from back problems leading to exercise, dieting, and possibly the road to my target weight.
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You need to start of list of what you are thankful for (besides the typical stuff):
I'll start it off:
1. NFL Network - We now have 3 games on Thanksgiving instead of the previous two.
2. The sound of leaves crunching under an 16 month old's feet as she enjoys her first fall.
3. Tomorrow our chimney will be fixed so every time it rains we don't feel like we need to build an ark.
4. Teaching said 16 month old to rake said leaves
5. The endless challanges a certain bloggers house presents when it comes to wiring.
6. Blogs. Blogs. and more Blogs.
7. DVR's
8. VRE
9. CIA, FBI, and NSA
10. ABC's (the alphabet)
11. 100 Calorie snack packs from Costco
12. Fanta Soda (for the Pope and a certain blogger I still owe a 6-pack)
13. The Big Mamma Burger
14. Pittsburgh
15. Thrift store ties
16. Newt
17. THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS!!!
18. Bonfires.
19. The Milky Way, which I can see from aforementioned house.
20. Re-wiring house for Turkey Day.
21. Fanta... because it deserves being mentioned over and over.
22. Irish Road Bowling, for which our inaugural game begins soon (we have rules and cannonballs)!
23. Lane 1-Q pipe tobacco.
24. Books.
25. Occupied Virginia (h/t to the RWR)
26. NCAA Football 20XX (because they are all awesome)
27. PS3s and PS2s.
28. Beer. Specifically Yuengling.
29. Whiskey. Specifically Jameson.
30. Make-your-own beer and wine kits.
31. Wargames. The old Avalon Hill types too, not the pansy and hip computer games (unless they are reproductions of the old AH or SPI games).
32. Turkey.
33. Healthy children and worry-free pregnancies.
34. Sunday Mass.
35. 10 acres in the middle of nowhere, a general store I can call my own, and good friends to share it all with.
37. DUH!! The 2006 midterms!
38. Whiskey, specifically Talisker
39. Wargames, definitely the old Avalon Hill ones, specifically Panzer Blitz!
40. Macs and OS X! WHOO HOO!
41. Macs using Intel chips that can run BOTH OS'es concurrently and natively! *hip action* UNH!
42. Wonderful Colorado weather that has snowdrifts one day and hiking the next!
43. An acre on a mountainside far from any highway
44. My lovely wife to share it with
45. The neighbor kids and dogs who always come to visit and play
46. My two cats
47. My dad
48. New neighbors in town - good ones!
49. The new Battlestar Galactica
50. The new Doctor Who
52. Cell Phones
53. Not having a blackberry
54. Fanta - said blogger is right
55. Any Pregnancy
56. 5-time Super Bowl Champs Pittsburgh Steelers
57. Digital Cameras
58. Power Tools
I hate having christmas stuff in stores before holloween, but realise that we want to get out christmas lights up before christmas, so we do need to start buying them before thanksgiving (like I have to buy a couple thousand blue lights to replace the ones that look more like clear lights now, blue is notorious for flaking).
I've finished phase one, about 5,000 lights up, about 30,000 to go.
The first real push is friday after thanksgiving, I should have 15,000 lights up before the end of the weekend if all goes well.
Deer go out later, too much temptation for kids to come by and kill them (I had half my deer beheaded last year, but not one was stuffed in a mailbox).
Lights sitting on the grass go last, because the kids will step on them, and because I'll step on them putting up the other lights.
I'll be posting pictures occasionally at my blog.
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