Follow me on Twitter Entries RSS

Dolphin’s Dock

Happy Earth Day

April 22, 2009

Filed under Green, Holidays, Splashes

Happy Earth Day. I’ve had so much going on that I haven’t been keeping up with my Green Tip Tuesdays, but hopefully you can celebrate Earth Day by find just ONE thing in your life that you can do “greener” and make that change today!

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over 10 months old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Happy St. Patty’s Day

March 17, 2009

Filed under Holidays, Splashes

Remember to wear your green!

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over 11 months old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

I Could Have Been an Internet Star

January 2, 2009

Filed under Holidays, Splashes

There’s a VHS tape of a young me behaving similarly over one gift or another. It’s either fortunate or unfortunate (I haven’t decided yet), that the internet did not exist at the time.

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Merry Christmas

December 27, 2008

Filed under Holidays

Note: This was supposed to post on Christmas Day, but I apparently hit SAVE and not Publish! Oh well

Though it’s been said, many times, many way, Merry Christmas to you!

Merry Christmas

2 Responses to “Merry Christmas”

  1. I know I’ve seen that picture before, and even commented on it. Are you sure you didn’t publish it here? Or maybe I saw it on Facebook. :-)

  2. Marry Christmas and Happy New Year to Dolphin, the BoyFriend, and the cats!

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Light Blogging for the Holiday

December 23, 2008

Filed under Blog-related, Holidays, Splashes

I’m all packed and headed to my parents’ tomorrow morning for the holidays. I doubt I’ll be making a post between now and when I get back (Sat or Sun). Have a great holiday!

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Green Tip Tuesday

December 16, 2008

Filed under Green, Holidays, Splashes

Deck the halls with LEDs

For every week (two hours a night) you run 300 LED Christmas lights on your tree instead of incandescent, you’ll reduce your CO2 output by 15 lbs. And next year, you won’t have to worry about the “burnt out bulb” problem either.

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Christmas Meme

December 15, 2008

Filed under Holidays

I wasn’t tagged, but I kinda liked this one and I’ve been in a particularly Christmas-y spirit this year so I stole this from GingerSnaps.

Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper, unless I have recieved a gift bag, in which case I will reuse it.

Real tree or Artificial?
Artificial. Why kill a young, growing tree, just so it can sit in my living room for a month and then get fed into a chipper? The artificial we have now is a little dinky in our new place (though it was perfect size for the townhouse), but it was free (from my parents) so I ain’t complaining til we an afford to by a bigger one.

When do you put up the tree?
Generally the tree and lights go up the first weekend after Thanksgiving, then I give the cats a week to get used to it being there before adding ornaments.

When do you take the tree down?
No later than the first weekend of the New Year (usually before).

Do you like eggnog?
I don’t think I’ve ever actually had it. Doesn’t strike me as something I’d like, but I’d try it at least once.

Favorite gift received as a child?
Hard to say, but I remember being INCREDIBLY excited about a Nerf Bow N’ Arrow once upon a time (picture credit).

Hardest person to buy for?
EVERYBODY. I dislike picking something out for someone else.

Easiest person to buy for?
I guess if I had to say, I’d say TheBoyfriend™, because I’m usually spending a bit more and I usually have a better idea of what he’d actually want.

Do you have a nativity scene?
Well, technically TheBoyfriend™’s mother gave us a nativity ornament for our tree this year, so yes.

Mail or email Christmas cards?
In person!

Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
I had a family member once who was distant enough that she shouldn’t have bothered to get me anything, but she did anyways. I got a 4-inch plastic ruler.

Favorite Christmas Movie?
The Nightmare Before Christmas

When do you start shopping for Christmas?
It varies. This year I started a couple of weeks ago. I’m done now.

Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Maybe a “Secret Santa” gift here or there.

Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Enh…

Lights on the tree?
Umm… Of course.

Favorite Christmas song?
Anything traditional or traditional with the slightest jazz twist. This year I’m loving the Christmas songs Micheal Buble has out (but then who doesn’t swoon everytime he sings…). I dislike “pop” remakes of Christmas songs and I LOATHE Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”

Travel at Christmas or stay home?
I go to my parents. Once TheBoyfriend™ and I build our new house, we’re going to try to have everybody come up and have Christmas there.

Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blixen and Roudolph (oh yeah and “Olive, the other reindeer”)

Angel on the tree top or a star?
Nothing this year. Last year we had a big snowflake.

Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas Eve. Sleep in on Christmas morning.

Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
Traffic.

Favorite ornament theme or color?
Our tree is in silver and blue.

Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Enh…

What do you want for Christmas?
To spend time with my family and friends. Anything material thing that I want that is less than what I can reasonably expect others to spend on me, I’ve already bought myself.

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Thoughts While Lisitening to the Radio

December 8, 2008

Filed under Holidays, Humor, Splashes

If you know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, AND Blitzen, what is the likelihood that you honestly wouldn’t be able to recall the most famous reindeer of all?

One Response to “Thoughts While Lisitening to the Radio”

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Holiday Updates

December 1, 2008

Filed under Family, Holidays

Sorry for the slow posting, but I’ve been incredibly busy at home and at work and haven’t really had any free time to post. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Mine was quite nice though the break from work was just long enough for me to get used to not going in, but not long enough for me to get bored and be ready to go back, so I definitely didn’t want to get up this morning. Some anecdotes, notes and thoughts from the holiday weekend.

  • We really were in need of doing laundry before leaving to visit my parents, but it just didn’t get done. No worries, my parents don’t mind if we bring laundry home with us, and in fact they like it during the winter because they vent their dryer into the house (filtering out lint), allowing it to pull double duty as supplemental heat (and humidity), reducing the strain on the heat pump. So we decided to pack light and bring home only a basket of laundry, to wash the first night and wear from the rest of the weekend. Unfortunately, I thought TheBoyfriend™ packed the basket, he thought I packed it, and it wasn’t until we arrived at my parents’ (four hours away) that we noticed that in fact no clothes other than those on our backs had actually made the trip with us.
  • My aunt is well known for giving strange Christmas presents, but this ear she offered a bit of a “pre-Christmas” present that was actually kinda nice. It’s one of those wax-dipped teddy bears that I’m sure you’ve seen, this one wearing a Christmas hat. The neat thing is that it’s pine scented, so set on the mantle in close proximity to the (artificial) tree, it gives the impression that the tree is in fact real and fragrant. I even caught myself thinking “wow, this tree smells so nice” a few times as I was putting lights on it, and I KNOW it’s artificial. The only downside is it’s a bit too strong to completely remove from it’s clear bag, so it’s sitting on the mantle still partially wrapped.
  • Speaking of the tree, I got it up. I’m not like my mother who likes the tree up as soon as possible and can sit in the living room with Christmas music playing and stare at the thing for hours on end, but I do admit to enjoying having a Christmas tree around. I will NOT however put one up until after Thanksgiving. I put ours up yesterday and put the lights on it. I’ll give the cats a week to get used to it being there and then hang the ornaments this weekend.
  • My grandmother likes to watch her grandkids open presents on Christmas (Christmas Eve actually, that’s when we have that side fo the family’s celebration). Every year, for quite a few years now, she gives my mom $50/grandchild and let’s my mom do the shopping. So now is the time of year when my mom is asking me what I want for Christmas that costs $50. You’d think I’d learn by now to be expecting it, but I’m never prepared. Plainly, if there is something that I particularly want that is <$50 I typically just go buy it myself.
  • Speaking of presents, I found an excellent deal this Cyber Monday morning on the perfect gift for TheBoyfriend™. I won’t mention what it is here on the off chance that he decides to read this (though it’s been a LONG time since he’s read my blog). I already had in mind what I was going to give him, but when I came across this item (which I wanted to get him but it was a bit too pricey every where else), I revised my plans.

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

Green Tip Tuesday

November 25, 2008

Filed under Food, Green, Holidays, Splashes

Some quick tips for a green Thanksgiving:

  • Buy locally grown ingredients.
  • Use cloth napkins and reusable plates and silverware.
  • Make enough, but not too much food.
  • Cooking and lots of guests raise the air temperature so you can cut down the thermostat a few degrees.

Have Your Say

* required

Note: This post is over a year old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.