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31 Days of Holiday Memories!, Log

98 Degree Christmas

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31 DAYS OF HOLIDAY MEMORIES!

Day 3

I haven’t kept it a secret that I was in marching band in high school. So was my brother.

My brother’s senior (?) year, the band participated in the Disneyland Hoilday parade. So we flew out here to California from Indiana. We made it home in time for Christmas (they’d gone out for Thanksgiving time instead so the students didn’t lose their WHOLE holiday break).

Anybut, while we were there, we saw another parade….I can’t really rmeember where or what it was called cause I was tired and slept through most of it.

BUT I do remember the band 98 Degrees were on one of the floats….but so was PIKACHU!!! The Pikachu float got a louder response than the band….which was sad.

 

31 Days of Holiday Memories!, Log

A Goofy Christmas!

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31 DAYS OF HOLIDAY MEMORIES!

Day 2

The earliest Christmas memory I have, is waking up early in the morning.

We still lived in California and I think I was…3 years old?

Anybut, I remember rushing down the stairs and I saw something sitting on the piano bench of our wonderful electric piano. It was a Goofy (the Disney character) doll dressed as Santa. My parents placed him so it looked like he was playing the piano.

We still have that piano…don’t still have that Goofy doll.

31 Days of Holiday Memories!, Log

The Jitterbug

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31 DAYS OF HOLIDAY MEMORIES!

Day 1

My junior year of high school was the first time in like 10 years they did a musical.

It was The Wizard of Oz….ugh. Not my favorite musical, but I auditioned for it anyways.

Now, because of marching band, I couldn’t be cast in a large role, but I was cast. I remember the audition process. I sang for our school’s choir teacher and she said, “Another person who can sing not in choir.”

……….Thank you?

Anybut, I also remember writing on my audition sheet that I was not a good dancer.

So what was I cast as? A munchkin? A flying monkey?

No.

I was cast as a Jitterbug…..the tap dancing part of the musical.

I did it. I learned fake tapping cause they only had four people who could ACTUALLY tap. I went through the rehearsals and the performances. Every night the Tinman fell on my foot

My band directors were a little sore that I wanted to be in the show and not in the pit playing oboe, clarinet, and english horn….but I was happy.

We still have pictures of me wearing my Jitterbug makeup.

Okay, I kind of cheated with this one, but it was during the holidays. The musical was the fall musical and marching band ended in early November so the performances were in late November, early December. So it basically counts.

Plus, I think the pictures of me in my Jitterbug makeup had Christmas decorations in the background……

If I find the picture, I will add it to this post or make a separate post with it.

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December!!

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I forgot to make an obnoxious post about how it’s the 1st of December!!!

HOW COULD I?!

WHERE’S MY HOLIDAY SPIRIT?!

Uh, uh, uh…..

31 Days of Holiday Memories!!!!

Every day I’ll write about a random memory from the holidays (specifically around Christmas since that is what my family celebrates).

I’ll do 2 for today and I’ll post them at 2pm and 4pm.

 

 

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Snowy Mountain…Snowy Mountain

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Anybody else read that title like “Can-dy Moun-tain. Can-dy Moun-tain”…like the unicorns from that old Charlie the unicorn video? Just me? Okay.

Anybut, the good thing about the rainy days in Southern California:

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SNOWY MOUNTAINS!!!

The closest I get to snow every year.

Here’s another:

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Not as pretty color wise, but a little clearer.

YAY!!

But it did rain again after I took these pictures and got chilly so….boo.

Thought this would also be fitting as a December 1st post so there’s that, too.

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Sooooo I Googled Myself

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Not out of any narcissistic need to find myself…

I was just curious to see what others HONORED to bear my name have done with their lives!! (In case you’re new here….this is me being overdramatic for no reason)

Anybut, I learned a lot. I MAY just be the least successful person with my name. I saw 2 doctors, a few nurses, a graphic designer, a real estate agent, and a few others who still came up in the search before me.

The most interesting thing, though? 2 of them lived in Indiana, 2 of them are from Illinois (one of whom was born and raised in Chicago where one of my closest friends was also born and raised), and another was from Arizona. I don’t remember where any others were from cause I wasn’t clicking on their information. I’d read the google search results and move on.

I mean, so many of me living so close together and we never bumped into each other……

OH WAIT!!! That’s a lie! I did meet someone with my name when I worked at Barnes & Noble. Not making this up. I literally met a woman with my name who was a teacher and had our Educator’s card (or was it just the Membership card?) AND was a regular….

But I never had the courage to tell her that we had the same name…I thought that was weird and didn’t want to freak her out…..at least freak her out more than me staring at her trying to transmit the information using our same name connection…….that’s a thing, right?

Fun fact: She looked nothing like me. Good for her.

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Doggone It!

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There was too much excitement yesterday with the “mini” Thanksgiving my family did and by mini I just mean not a full-size turkey and not as much food.

We made the choice because my parents are going to see my brother next week and didn’t want to have too much left over food and so we all compromised and decided we’d do a FULL turkey dinner for Christmas instead…okay, whatever.

BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT!

With all the excitement and adjusted time frames for the cooking…….WE FORGOT TO WATCH THE PURINA DOG SHOW!!!

HOW COULD WE?!

We remembered to watch the Macy’s parade, some football (not real hardcore fans), and some holiday baking shows.

But the MOST important television event of the year?! Forgot.

Anybut, congratulations to the dogs who performed well and congratulations too….

>checking google<

THOR?! The winning dog was a bulldog named THOR?! AND I MISSED IT!!! LIFE, WHY?!

I guess…there’s always next year….ugh….

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The Tree The Tree

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The time has come…

The Christmas tree is up.

And one cat, Lele loves it…and by that I mean he’s already sat under it and given his approval.

Midna refuses to go downstairs…too much excitement.

Anybut, here’s a pic:

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Yay. Holidays. The next step is cookies…but those’ll have to wait until later.

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Friendsgiving

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Yesterday I had a delicious dinner with friends.

I got to meet an adorable French Bulldog names Stitch who is (in my eyes) Instagram famous…but mostly the cutest little puppy.

You can see pictures of this adorable puppy at @sincerelystitch.

The food was of course absolutely delicious and I couldn’t move after. Which was good cause we played JackBox games after which require very little movement.

It was a special Friendsgiving since one of my friends had just flown back from Saudi Arabia the DAY BEFORE! He’d been working on a musical there for an Arts festival.

He was very jet lagged but did his best to stay awake through dinner but crashed early. We all definitely understood.

Anybut, it was a fantastic Friendsgiving and now today is the real deal with my family.