December 28, 2008

• Holiday stories

  My Niece Natalie 3 years old:  Daddy sing me a Hanukkah song

  My Brother David:  sure honey, Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I made you...

  Natalie interrupts: NO!!!!  Not that one ( very agitated by now)

  David:  Oh Hanukkah oh Hanukkah  Oh light...

  Natalie:  NO!!!!!!  ( starts to sing)  Guess who eats together at the Cawnagie  dewi
  Bowser at sha na na and Arfur Fonzewelli
  
  Jennie: ( finishes)
  Paul Newmans half Jewish, Goldie Hawns half too
  Put them together, what a fine lookin Jew

  
  HA HA HA...

  The poor kid is half Lutheran, so I guess that's the extent of her Hanukkah repertoire.

  I have to say though, it was the cutest version of the Adam Sandler Hanukkah song I ever heard and it was very cool that a three year old knew the words.  At least sort of.

  I decided to be Jewish this year and forgo Christmas at expunges family and get Chinese and see a movie.  Unfortunately, the Chinese restaurants in my home town don't realize they are supposed to stay open on Christmas for the Jews. 

  Thank goodness for I Hop. 

  I saw two movies, The Benjamin Button one and Slum Dog Millionaire.

  Reviews:

  Button movie:

  Brad Pitt is gorgeous.  I mean the man is seriously hot.  The movie was weird, and long, and the end kind of gave me the creeps.  But it was different and good, and Brad is REALLY good looking, even if he did dump poor Jennifer Aniston and then have five hundred kids.

  Slum Dog:

  Really, REALLY, good even though it had some sub titles.  Usually I don't like to read my movies, but there were only a few so it wasn't that bad.  Stay through the credits even though that was VERY strange and had NOTHING to do with the tone of the movie, or the movie itself.  Ok. fine, here is a spoiler, they do this strange Indian line/show choir dance in a train station during the credits..  Odd.

  Both Movies got claps, but I thought that was because it was Christmas day and people were just happy to have the day off.

  Movie one I got an aisle seat and no one sat next to me and it was great.

  I snuck into movie two ( yeah whatever, like you have never done that) and got punished by getting stuck between two elderly loud couples.

  This prevented me from seeing movie three which was going to be Doubt.  I was cranky by then so I came home.

  We had a very white Christmas and Matt and his friend started to make a very cool igloo.  Today it is a huge puddle.

  Igloo making

   
  
  Igloo making tool

  

  Slacker

  
  
  
  Almost done, but never to be completed : (.  They were too lazy to put on coats.  And as I said it is now a puddle.

  
  I have to work New Years Eve and Day.  Yeah, Thanks Safeway.  Way to screw over the one Jewish employee who wouldn't work Christmas.  And by one Jewish employee, I mean I am the one Jew who works there.  The other one molested a boy and is now in prison.  But hey, I had movies to see and I Hop to eat!

  I did work Friday and the boys complained about Christmas dinner.  I'm sure it was much better than the prison food they could have been eating, but try telling them that!  Well actually I did and it didn't go over too well.  : sigh:

  My favorite Chanukah present was money.  Expunge gave the kids two big change jars for Christmas, I got nothing, but it might be because we are divorced and I'm Jewish.  Anyway, I thought the change jar thing was funny and kind of clever.  Unless it doesn't add up to much, then it's dumb.

  That about sums it up.  Happy 2009.  See, all you you freaks who thought the world was ending in 2000? well we are still here and everything is relatively fine.  

  So there, weirdos.
  

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