My favorite Christmas movies:

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. The Christmas Story
3. Timepiece
4. The Christmas Box
5. Rudolph

I used to collect the state magnets too!  I was trying to piece them together to make a map of the U.S. but as younger children came along they kept on rearranging my magnets.  By the time I graduated from high school I had visited and spent at least one night in 29 states and stayed an entire summer in Mexico and Canada.

5 scents or aromas that I really love:

1. clean babies
2. a man after he has showered and put on deodorant and cologne
3. fabric softeners--I love walking by dryer vents
4. any of the perfumes in my collection, of course ;+)
5. fruit scented candles or air fresheners  

My five (5) favorite Bible verses:

1. Proverbs 3:5-6 ~ Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
2. Psalms 27:4-5 ~ One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.
3. Psalms 139:1-4 ~ O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
4. Psalms 139:14-18 ~ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
5. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ~ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1. I have four children, and my oldest is 20. 2. Luckily, I look 10 years younger and can lie and say he's my brother. 3. I once dated someone 12 years younger -- but they lied about their age. 4. I like peanut butter on just about anything, celery, graham crackers, vanilla wafers . . . 5. I am an international food fiend, if I can't buy it at least once a week from another culture I will make it.

Hmmm... I'm so random that my whole life could be in this post but...

1.) I read magazines from the back to the front. Always. When I see a story I want to read, I will then go to the beginning and read it.

2.) My 25th marriage anniversary is on Christmas Eve. A quarter of a century with the same jerk...oops guy. lol. I love him. Met him when I was 18!

3) I refuse to eat peas. My father sat me at the table for hours forcing me to eat my peas and I outlasted him. I will NOT eat them but, if they're hidden in soup or something, I will.

4.) I'm going deaf from an inherited hearing condition that robbed my father's hearing at age 23. I am very lucky to have lasted this long with the ability to still hear many things.

5.) I refuse to be sedated for anything. Had kids, teeth pulled, root canal, a colonoscopy, knee surgery (with stuff that numbed the area) and many other things without medication. I'd rather suffer than to have anesthesia or strong pain stuff.

1. I have a niece that is the spitting image of me as a child
2. My best friend's youngest daughter looks more like me than my biological sister does.
3. Four children in my family and I was the only one who inherited my Daddy's Cherokee features (dark hair, dark eyes, high cheekbones and Daddy says the temper of a chief).  The other children all have light hair and skin and green eyes.
4. In 2009 my Christian school's high school graduation will be on Friday, May 29th.  When I graduated from that school it was also on Friday, May 29th.
5. My parents, my sister and one brother were all married on their birthdays.  My oldest brother was married a day before his birthday!  I'm just praying that someday I'll get married but I would rather be a June bride.

1. My first car was a 1967 Pontiac Catalina.
2. My last car was a 1968 Mercury Cougar. Everything since then has been trucks, vans, and motorcycles.
3. I once dated someone more than once, once.
4. Some jobs I've had: Milkman's grunt laborer (which is to say that I got the dubious honor of running back and forth from the truck to the houses carrying bottles of milk and other assorted dairy items. I was 8 when I landed that job.....), paper boy, carpenter's apprentice, electrician's apprentice, dishwasher, logger, ranch hand, guitar tutor, park caretaker, roustabout, roughneck, ski lift assembly line grunt, bass guitarist, gas jockey, fuel dock assistant manager, marina maintenence, rhythm guitarist, drummer, warehouse grunt laborer, painter, computer hardware tech, service & production department manager.
5. There are currently 7 computers in use at my house: 4 PCs and 3 notebooks.

5 Random Christmas Facts about Vivasuzi

1. I usually have all my presents wrapped weeks ahead, but this year I have not been motivated
2. I look forward to Christmas Side Dishes since I don't eat meat, but I LOVE Mashed Potatoes and Corn and I hope we have all of those :)
3. I have about 10 Christmas movies on DVR right now, and hope to watch a bunch during my day off tomorrow (and review them!) :)
4. I'm making Punch for Christmas, which I just read is a MUST for Holiday parties, however it's the first time we will have punch for a holiday!
5. I got plans all day on Christmas, the evening of the 26th and all day on the 27th... and this is what I call a Christmas Break :-D

1. I've colored my hair so many colors such as blonde, red, and then back to brown which is my original hair color.
2. I've had my hair super short. Right now, my hair is past my shoulders.
3. I got a spiral perm in my hair a few weeks ago. This is something I have not done in a long time.
4. I have really thick hair.
5. I am surprised with all the things I've done to my hair it is not damaged. My hair is very healthy and strong.

1. I've never turned my dishwasher on.  I sometimes use it to store stuff in if I need extra space for a short time; such as the paper products for the family Christmas party.
2. My ring finger is a size 4.
3. I had my ears pierced in 6, 9, 12th and junior year of college and then the top pierced during graduate school.  I wore three sets and the top one for a few years but now I only wear one pair.  They sets were tiny diamonds, not a bunch of hoops or large gawdy things.
4. I've always wanted a rose or heart tatoo on my shoulder blade or ankle but have a fear of receiving contaminated ink or an infected needle.  I know they are safe but I still have that fear. 
5. Sometimes when I'm in a bikini at my brother's pool or at the beach I will wear a fake belly ring.  I have such a flat, washboard stomach that it looks pretty cool but I would never get it pierced. 

1. I've never worn a wet suit.
2. I worry about my mom while away.
3. I always wear a helmet when biking.
4. I only have a bathing suit with me with a skirt.
5. I have a whole new perspective on Salvatore Dali.

1.  I'm afraid of falling from heights.
2.  Big bugs terrified me up until a year ago, now they're just a little unnerving.
3.  I'm really an introvert.
4.  I'm almost always the youngest person in the organizations which I'm affiliated.
5.  I cry at most Disney movies.

1. We have ants in our trailer for the very first time (:
2. I am so itchy from being bitten by bugs (not ants).
3. I love sunny Florida.
4. We met Susie (some of you know from other places) and Len last night.
5. Going to a flea market today.

 1. I love Snickers candy bars

 2. I am a fanatical cleaner

 3. I love my flowers and garden as soon as Spring starts, I'm ready. And add more things every year.

 4. I love to fish

 5. The outdoors are my favorite place to be.

1. I love potatoes, pasta and rice in that order.
2. I prefer hand/body creams over lotions.
3. I love fruit scents but can't stand musk or woodsy/floral scents.
4. I love to write letters and send them via snail mail.
5. I would love to visit Ireland, Greece, and Australia before I die. 

1-I'm a (dah, dah,dah, daaah) Barry Manilow fan!

2-I don't like having a tv in the bedroom, but we do anyway!

3-I love tulips!

4-When I was a kid, I had a crush on "Egon" from the Ghostbusters!

5-I prefer using a soup spoon as opposed to a regular spoon when eating soup!

Chrissy, I think my next list came come as a result of yours:

1. I also love Barry Manilow and just realized a few years ago that Copacabana is a song about a murder!  I'm posting the chorus from one of his songs on my New Year's Eve blog!

2. I heard that you should not put a TV in the bedroom if you are married.  Therapist say only do two things in the bedroom with your partner (sleep & sex).  I don't have a TV in my bedroom but have been debating getting one because it seems I sleep really good when I fall asleep with the TV going.  I'm single and there's nothing else going on in MY bedroom ;+)

3. I love the Stargazer lilies and Petunias.

4. As a child I loved Donnie Osmond, Ralph Macchio, and Scott Baio.  I watched "Charles In Charge" and always wanted him to be my babysitter ;+) and I always wanted Michael Landon to be my "pa."

5. I prefer using the teaspoons and salad forks over the reg. sized utensils.  My friends love that because when entertaining many times they will run out of utensils so it's nice to be able to give someone the smaller ones without being embarrassed.

I had crushes on Ralph Macchio and Scott Baio, too! . . . The Scott Baio thing ended when I saw "Scott Baio is 45 and Single!" ;oP

This is so fun! I have had a great time watching you guys. Now, for me...

1. I am a total separatist. I cant have food mix on my plate. Yuck.
2. I am married to a man that is color blind and had no idea I had red hair.
3. My parents let me move to Italy for a year when I was in high school (were they nuts?)- and I still dont speak Italian
4. I have a fear of heights but I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane
5. I secretly want to be a preschool teacher; I love little kids
6. I hate cream cheese, mayo, cottage cheese, and ricotta. I guess I have an issue with white foods!
7. I plan my life about 20 years in advance. When I was 16, I was already planning out the kind of parent I wanted to be! :) (just like my mom)

Those are really interesting facts Jolie.  Thanks for joining us.  We're always having fun or up to something. 

I am the same way about the mixing of food.  Growing up my mother had to use divider plates with both my sister and me because we were so adamant about foods not touching.  We used those divider plates all through high school until one of them broke and we fought over whose went in the trash.

Does your husband have a difficult time color coordinating his wardrobe?

I now have a fear of heights but could dive off a 20ft. board into a diving well when in college.

I taught 4-year-olds for 3 1/2 years.

I won't eat any kind of cheese that is white--it has to be cheddar or American. 

We are kindered spirits Gigi.

Did I mention that I hate coffee?

1. I don't like coffee or diet drinks...yuck!
2. I love cream cheese with cinnamon.
3. I was born in Orlando, FL the year Disney World was built. Disney World opened in October 1971 and I was born in April 1971 so I guess I'm older than Disney World. 
4. I couldn't make up my mind in college what I wanted to study. I first majored in Accounting, then Computers, and then finally Medical Billing. I took a couple semesters of Fashion Designing. I ended up with a computer career.
5. I've been told that my mother and I look like sisters. 

Do you make your own clothes?

The only problem with making my own clothes is I am not really good with sewing them. I design my own clothing on paper by drawing it, which I love to do. If I could find someone to sew it, I would be in business. LOL.

True. If you get  sewing machine through JoAnn's, free classes come with the machine . . . just an idea . . .

I may drink a cup of coffee with lots of sugar and blueberry cobbler Cremora once every 6 mos.  I can drink hot chocolate in the winter like most drink coffee.

1. I am obsessed with coffee.
2. My husband and I are tv nuts... we are catching up on series through the years through the library, plus we have all our current shows we watch. We added it up last night and if we were to watch all our regular shows all the time we would have about 25-30 hours a week of tv viewing to do. Luckily with tivo we don't watch everything at once, and stretch it out over the rerun season and stuff.
3. I hate cilantro
4. I just started dieting once again... i hate it
5. We like to drink

1. I used to make jewelry, but don't have time anymore.

2. I don't really like pork products except for bacon and sometimes ribs.

3. I am 5' 8"

4. April Fools Day is my wedding anniversary

5. I am a Tastefully Simple Consultant

1. I didn't start drinking coffee until 1987. Now I usually drink 2 cups (black - no sugar) on weekday mornings, maybe a cup on a weekend if I feel like makin' it.
2. Contrary to popular belief, I drink very little alcohol these days. From '77 until '97, however, was a completely different story.
3. I've weighed about the same (165 - 175) since 1979. Currently weighing in at 170.
4. I can't recall ever planning anything in my life. I've always been a "fly by the seat of yer pants" kinda guy.
5. I used to spend 4-5 hours a day, 6 days a week standing on a 18" wide 6' long "diving board" 55' in the air, with a belt around my waist cabled to a metal hand rail behind me while leaning out over the brink and slamming 60' foot lengths of 2 7/8" ID steel tubing into big steel elevator clamps that were moving upward at a fairly high rate of speed over and over and over.