Gypsy's Musing

[Error: unknown template qotd] My favorite holiday as a child is still my favorite holiday, Halloween. My birthday is the day before and up until I was 8 years old I thought the entire world dressed up just for me. Imagine my heartbreak when I discovered that wasn't the case lol. My dad always went all out on Halloween, his costume, the decorations for the house, of course it helped that he made artifical limbs for living so we always had spare body parts to really give the house a creepy feeling. I do the same now, my house is always decked out and our yard is transformed into a huge graveyard every year. However, it more than just the candy and the parties, I love the magic behind Halloween, the costumes, the ability to be whatever you want to be for at least one night. That willingness to believe that anything is possible whether it be fairies, vampires, ghost or alien. Whatever one wants is within their grasp on Halloween. Heck I even have some decorations that stay up all year.

We're not big on Easter since the kids all grew up, but I still do eggs for the grand-babies. And Valentine's day isn't huge either, just small boxes of candy hearts for the kids. Basically, any big holiday is an excuse for a celebration around here and that is always of the good. Get all my family together, a big meal and I'm happy.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday yesterday and that it was spent in the comfort of loving family and friends. We always do our Christmas with my side of the family on Christmas eve and as in the past it was a blast. My future Sister in Law gave me a lovely candle set and some Jewelry. I got the new Nora Roberts book from my daughter, a laptop cooling pad, servings dishes, and remote control organizer from my son and his family, and from my son Alexander I got The Captain's Log, a collection of episodes from all 5 of the Star Trek series. Then yesterday hubby gave me an e-reader, a gift card to Borders and Penny's, season 3 of Atlantis and a whole bunch of candy.

One of the best things about yesterday though was we had a white Christmas. I am 48 years old and can only remember one other time that it snowed on Christmas day and then it melted by noon. Yesterday, it snowed all day and today there is about an inch and a half on the ground and they are calling for more snow today. It is absolutely beautiful. Granted it put a kabosh on the kids and nieces and nephews coming by yesterday as the roads were a bit iffy, so a very relaxing day spent watching the snow, drinking hot Christmas punch and playing with my Cruz reader.

So again, happy holidays to all here and may the remainder of this year be filled with peace, love, good health and plenty of laughter. Hugs you all tightly.

Remember the shiny new futon I put together last weekend? Well, on Monday, I decided to see exactly how big the bed was and to make sure that I had enough room for it opened out. The damn thing broke! The left hinge thingy just snapped right off. So I sent an email to Fingerhut, along with my order number and requested they send me a replacement part. No response, then on Wednesday I finally got a response, item back-ordered, will be sent by October 15th. WTF!!! I need the part now, Sallye and the girls start getting here on Tuesday for DragonCon and I need the bedspace. I called customer service, spent an hour with the idiot child they had manning the phones with her constantly telling me how sorry she was for my inconvenience, but there really wasn't anything they could do. I finally got her to put me on the phone with her supervisor and after threatening to cancel my account with Fingerhut, she suggested that they send an entire replacement bed, I take the parts I need and send the rest back. I made sure that they were paying shipping this time and that I wouldn't be charged any extra since the frame alone is more expensive than the frame and mattress and finally we reached an agreement. The new frame will be here on Tuesday.

Plans for today, putting together the new coffee and end tables that Fingerhut sent. Hope the instructions are a little more detailed.

I finished the final video that I want to enter at Revelcon. It's Jack/Daniel, set to Bon Jovi's "All About Loving You".

I'll have it up on my website for downloading probably tomorrow but if you want to take a look at it, then you can do so at youtube. I hope you enjoy, this one kinda grabbed me about two weeks ago and demanded to be made *grin*