I Got Nothin'

To blog about that is. Same old same old here. Our snow is finally melting and it's at that hideous dirty stage where you just long for it to all go away. Do I need a vacation to someplace warm? No doubt.

I'm procrastinating on finishing my Advent Tree ornaments, but need to get them done so I can put the tree away till next year. Meantime, I'm making a pretty pair of socks and selling off a bunch of my stash as I decided I need money more than yarn right now. No wonder I'm depressed! I love my yarn stash like you wouldn't believe.

And I got in big trubs for letting the boys buy weapons at the dollar store. Call me irresponsible.

Get Em Home For Befana 2010

I'm just going to quit with the week # count, because it's too depressing to realize my weeks of clever blog posts STILL haven't gotten F&I back home! But the campaign will continue in '09!

This week, I remind our faraway Virginians that if they were at home, we could have celebrated the feast of Befana on Jan. 6!

All of us Sundstrom kids fondly remember going to Toddie & Baba's house for a great 2nd Christmas celebration on "Befana". We got all of our favorite eats (which included grissini [bread sticks] wrapped in Oh Boy Oberto Salami, celery sticks squirted with Cheez Whiz, olives to put on each finger, delicious roast beef with Toddie's to-die-for roast potatoes, and lots of homemade vino for the grown-ups). We got more presents too, absolutely the best part!!

For non-Italians, La Befana is a witch visits all the children in Italy on Epiphany, and gives coal to the baddies, candy and gifts to the goodies. And any day you get presents is a good day --- see what you are missing!

Here's a kind of crazy (but very Italian) poem/song about Befana:

(Italian)La Befana vien di nottecon le scarpe tutte rottecol vestito alla "romana"viva viva la Befana !!
Porta cenere e carboniai bambini cattivoniai bambini belli e buoniporta chicchi e tanti doni !

(English)The Befana comes by night

With her shoes all broken

With a dress in Roman style

Up, up with the Befana !!
She brings ashes and coal

To bad nasty children

To the nice good child

She brings candies and many gifts !

Now, if Fred & Irene manage to make it home this year, I PROMISE to revive Befana for them (and all the other good children in my family). Maybe even make those delish roast potatoes!

Back On The Horse

Pia, Katie and I all re-started Weight Watchers today. OK, they had to drag me there, but once I got there I got a little more enthused. And boy do I need WW! Here's to a healthier 2009!

BEST VIDEO EVER!

This is SO funny!

Lasik In My Future?

So I woke up this morning, looked at my alarm clock (which is old fashioned with hands not digital) and saw it was 6:10. Got up, made coffee, went in to check my e-mail and looked at the time down in the corner of my computer screen. It's not 6:10, it is 2:30! I may have been hanging with the boys too long -- they are just learning to tell time and don't always see the difference between the little hand and the big hand. Or maybe I just need Lasik so I can actually SEE the clock.

BFF!

Liam took this picture of Alex and me today. No school again! We are hanging out at my house. Liam and I made popcorn using Pia's old-fashioned stove-top popcorn popper. He was amazed, and explained to Mikey "this is how people made popcorn a long time ago". I guess pre-microwave WAS a long time ago, but the popper 'corn is def. the BEST.

An End to the Big Skid?

The Zags finally got off the schneid! Beating Tennessee in OT. Of course, I didn't get to watch the end, having given up on our team when we were looking rather sucky in the 2nd half. That'll learn me.