We’re moving again! Sorry but I need more room and more features so here’s the new addy http://gerijones6464.typepad.com/alteredcrow/   Please change your bookmarks or readers. I will leave this one up for awhile and to link to my archives, until I get them all moved. but starting today the new addy is the place to be!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXkSEcCwU8A

I’m just too distracted, after all I’ll be 46 on the 25th!!! So here’s my gift to you for the big day and I’ll post after Christmas. In all seriousness, I wish you all the happiest of Holidays,whatever one you celebrate. I pray you all receive and assimilate the sweet Peace of this season and look past the silliness to the heart of it! I love you all!

Sometimes you know you can NEVER say it as well as someone else. Read this! Get some perspective.

Pfft not here. Just a little dust on the ground,gone by noon and the source of much sobbing here. Damn weather!  Poor little boy!

Any way go here for your own snow.Stolen shamelessly from Pretty Little Things.

I wish you snow, have fun!!!

Here’s the copy of an email I received this AM. As you can tell from the content, my Wisconsin family suffers from brain freeze!!! I’m begging y’all, come south!!!

Hi Geri,
Two weeks ago after our first major snow we went out tracking wolves for the Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR for short) and we came across this set of bear tracks instead. Some hunters must have scared him out of his winter den. This is Sam’s self portrait of him with the bear track.
Warren

Abject humiliation might be the best gift you give those you love, so here’s your gift from me,Tammy and Tristyn!

Happy Holidays!!!

This was my hell today!I wrapped presents from 830-30 a full 12 hours

my legs hurt, my arms hurt and  hurt and I’m so tired  could lay down and sleep for a week! NEVER AGAIN!!!  I swear I didn’t make my handmade pledge but truly, about a third of that pile is handmade.  The best part is: I can clean this pigsty tomm.

  One of my swap ornaments: Michelle Tang

  Another:  Veronica Rinker

  This cutie from:  Sarah Day

  This tree from Laurie Mortinger

Aren’t these sweet. I love them all and next year I’m putting the real tree up so they can be shown off properly!

   The Charlie Brown Tree

  My Christmas Card LOVE!!!!   Thank You Cousins!!!!

 Last but not least( ok, maybe least)  my grey hair

   SEE!!!!   OMG someone might think I’m old. Bitches!!!

I am ALIVE!!!!  Damn I have’nt been that sick in a LOOOOONG time. So I’m over it and,of course, now Tammy is sick. I hate the flu and I hate the crazy,sneaky weather here that nurtures it so well.

I’m sitting on my couch and watching:   these bitches are fucking nuts!! I mean WHO really lives like this. BUT… I never miss this show, it’s the new punk in my life!

Tammy and I sickos that we are, finished our ENTIRE Christmas Shopping today. Yep! all of it in one day! Of course, I blew my handmade pledge but I swear I’m still sickly<G>. I also cut my long hair off today. About 8 inches. And I’m almost COMPLETELY greyheaded!!! I swear. I’ll make Tammy take a picture tomm. So today was a good day, even if we were puny. Did I overspend?? Not one penny over my budget!!!! YAY for me!!  Did I buy too much stuff?? YEP, but hey, every single thing I bought was on sale,so we just did really well with our money!!  Did Tristyn get most of it<G>? You betcha!!!!

  Guess who’s visiting at my house this week??? Yep, the flu. So I’m sorry but I feel rotten and really have nothing to say. I did get my ornament from Laurie Mortinger from the ornament swap and it’s beautiful. I love the tweedy fabric she used and it looks lovely in my nook!I’d love to show you…but still no camera. Also I’ve been getting all kinds of Christmas Card love( I really LOVE having all this rediscovered family) And you should check out this site. It’s my cousin Cassie Donnelly’s website. Our web is growing!

I’m so lucky to have Tammy. I mean do YOU have a partner that just says ok to any crazy plan you come up with??? I do!!! And my Christmas plans just got very crazy. Very Crazy Indeed.

I hate all this stuff and spending and just over the topness of Christmas. It makes me nuts and it makes me feel bad. I feel awful for all those out there doing without or out there feeling less than they are because they can’t worship at the alter of spending. So I told T that I thought since I was making most of our Christmas, she should match me gift for gift to donate to our local AIDS group. and she said…OK. That’s all, just, OK I really love this girl. Sometimes it hurts I love her so much. So now I really got to work. Love y’all. Give til it hurts, ok?