{"id":1030,"date":"2005-12-03T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/03\/if-you-havent-got-a-penny-a-ha-penny-will-do\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:48:47","slug":"if-you-havent-got-a-penny-a-ha-penny-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/03\/if-you-havent-got-a-penny-a-ha-penny-will-do\/","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU HAVEN&#8217;T GOT A PENNY, A HA-PENNY WILL DO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have Christmas on the brain at the moment. It&#8217;s because I finished doing the house decorating today, with Martin&#8217;s help. All we have left in boxes are the tree ornaments, but we won&#8217;t be getting a tree until the 17th, because tomorrow we&#8217;re visiting friends and next weekend we&#8217;ve got Martin&#8217;s birthday party on Saturday and about 42 million calendar commitments on Sunday, of which we&#8217;ve chosen 3 to attend. I think. It&#8217;s hard to keep track.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started the layout for our annual Christmas newsletter and gotten all my Christmas cards out of the back of the closet, only to discover that I don&#8217;t have enough and will have to buy some more. If you want a card, please email me your address!* 1 more present to mail to the States and still need to buy a few things for Anders and the kids, my brother and Simone, Anders&#8217; dad and sister&#8217;s kids. I really want to get the tree up and decorated, though. That&#8217;s such a long job that it makes me nervous to leave it until so close to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also done some Christmas decorating here at the obiter dictum&#8230;check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~lizardek\">new banner<\/a>! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that I haven&#8217;t really put my OWN wish list into writing for Anders or my family, but I got my Christmas presents early from both my sister and my mom (which, stop with that, will you? It&#8217;s no fun come Christmas morning), and I&#8217;m not sure what I want anyway, besides the fantasy presents enumerated in my last entry.<\/p>\n<p>Other ways it&#8217;s Christmassy around here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Little Drummer Boy and The Grinch have been in heavy rotation on our VCR<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t stop singing Have a Holly Jolly Christmas<\/li>\n<li>Martin keeps asking for kisses under the mistletoe ornaments<\/li>\n<li>Christmoose towels in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizardek.com\/house\/moosebath\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moose bathroom<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Just did the layout for our Christmas concert program (Free! December 8th, 6:30 p.m., MAS 44)<\/li>\n<li>The overwhelming smell of peace on earth and goodwill toward <strike>men<\/strike> all in the air. *sniff* Smell that? Mmmmmmmm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">*liz arde k @ ya hoo .c om<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Christmas on the brain at the moment. It&#8217;s because I finished doing the house decorating today, with Martin&#8217;s help. All we have left in boxes are the tree ornaments, but we won&#8217;t be getting a tree until the 17th, because tomorrow we&#8217;re visiting friends and next weekend we&#8217;ve got Martin&#8217;s birthday party on Saturday and about 42 million calendar commitments on Sunday, of which we&#8217;ve chosen 3 to attend. I think. It&#8217;s hard to keep track. I&#8217;ve started the layout for our annual Christmas newsletter and gotten all my Christmas cards out of the back of the closet,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,27,21],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-calendargirl","tag-holidaze","tag-thisisjusttosay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}