Things To Do When I Get A House
1. Get a cat
2. Get a dog
3. Buy collectable christmas village houses
4. Buy more IKEA furniture
5. Devote a room to crafting

Reasons To Smile Today
1. Yummy breakfast
2. A trip to Trader Joe's
3. Coming home
4. Happy crafting
5. Finishing up presents

My Truck
1. It is dark red
2. It is a Ford Ranger
3. It has an extended cab
4. It has cutie flare sides
5. It is all mine!!!!!

The Fun Things About Buying A Truck
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5. You end up with a truck....

Happy Christmas Day
1. Happy presents
2. Happy ham and cheesy potatoes
3. Happy snowy walk through the cemetery
4. Happy turkey and cranberry sauce
5. Happy History of the World playing

Happy Christmas Eve
1. Reading The Polar Express
2. Sleeping upstairs with all the sisters
3. Staying up really late
4. Last minute present wrapping
5. Total fun and anticipation

TVFCA (The Valley Family's Creative Acronyms)
1. FIJ - First In Jammies
2. FTFTP - First To Find The Pickle
3. CTPI - Christmas Tree Putting Up
4. BHD - Big Hairy Deal
5. PDA - Pretty Darned Obnoxious

Coming Home For Christmas
1. Driving around looking for Christmas
2. Singing christmas carols as loud as possible
3. Calling Binnie and Becky to share those carols with each of them
4. Fluffing the Christmas tree
5. Reading the Polar Express

ESPN Classic
1. Reruns of sports shows, games, matches, ect.
2. They have all already happened
3. The outcome is known
4. Yet people watch it
5. I don't get it....

Holiday M&M's
1. They are only red and green
2. Which seems to me to be the colors of only one specific holiday
3. I don't think it represents the entire holdiay season
4. So I think they should make specific Hannukah packages, a Kwanza package, ect.
5. So everyone can enjoy thier M&M's during the holidays and not be forced to accept the Christian way as the right way!

Really Hard Freecell Games
1. 16143
2. 17575
3. 16220
4. 5088
5. 27748

Wowza
1. So finals week isn't much fun
2. We have been discovering that this week
3. But there are lots of good pictures around our computer desk
4. No, that didn't relate but this sort of random rambling is what finals week has reduced me too
5. Sigh.. I hope to find my brain on Friday... wish me luck

Why My Mother Thinks I Am A "Loser"
1. She can't complain about the grades I am getting in college
2. She can't complain about throwing away hard earned money for my college
3. She can't complain about all the boys I am dating
4. She can't complain that the boys I date are too short
5. She can't complain that I am a loser : )

Way to Avoid Studying
1. Stay in bed until 11am
2. Watch the most recent ER episode on tape
3. Spend 45 minutes deciding what to wear
4. Brush up on your Mario Kart skills
5. Write a list about ways to avoid studying : )

Pajama Pants With Personality
1. Pajama pants with snowmen
2. Pajama pants with stars
3. Pajama pants with coffee cups
4. Pajama pants with clouds
5. Pajama pants with polar bears

The Grocery List
1. Chicken
2. Chocolate
3. Christmas cookies
4. Cheese slices
5. Crackers

The Usefullness of Dave
1. He is there to provide a tire gague when you need one
2. He is there to help fill you tires when you need it done
3. He is there to take Lauren to the car place when she needs it
4. He is there to convince crazy guys that we don't have any money to give them
5. He is there to chat with at 7:30 in the morning when you can't sleep and he is getting home from work

Abby Is A Tuckered Girl
1. And so this is going to be a very short list
2. See, this is the end. Very short.

Let's Talk About the Color Blue
1. My couch is blue
2. My curtains are blue
3. My water drinking cup is blue
4. My backpack is blue
5. I like the color blue

Things That Make Me Laugh
1. My feet in Becky's shoes
2. Dr. Rafe imitating line printer noises
3. Dancing in cleats (i.e. falling off cleats)
4. A TMBG cd in a 25-disc cd changer set on random
5. Dr. Gurgur saying that we should assume the politicians are intelligent people

Guess Who We Saw At The Toledo Museum of Art Tonight?
1. Mrs. Adkinson
2. Mrs. Deluca
3. Frau Brewster
4. Mrs. Hardyal
5. Mrs. Volpe
(okay, so we didn't really see them, but there were some remarkably strong resemblances...)

Snow Day
1. So my mother calls me up this morning
2. And says "Na, na, we have a snow day! Do you?"
3. What kind of conversation starter is "na, na"?
4. She probably learned it from the deranged pheasants who were being suavely engineericle
5. Yeah, that's what I said

Does Cool Whip Count As Food?
1. We are having a potluck at our meeting tomorrow
2. And I have a lot of cool whip in my freezer
3. And I was thinking I could just bring cool whip as my dish
4. But I am not sure that it counts
5. So now I need a new food idea that is more than random chemicals mixed together and masquerading as a dairy product

A/C Power Cord Adapters
1. Do you know how many different A/C power cord adapters there are in the world?
2. If not, you should come to our house
3. We have quite a many
4. At least one of all of them, I believe
5. Except the one I needed tonight... sheesh!

Christmas Tree Putting Up Adventure #1
1. Realizing we need to remove half of the bottom branches so it fits in the space alloted
2. Realizing we have no tree skirt
3. Realizing we have no tree topper
4. Realizing the strand of lights around the top of the tree doesn't work
5. Realizing we need a lot more ornaments