Happy Holidays!

Hey everybody! We survived the holidays. :-)
I took Mary to Crossville yesterday and dropped her and her U-Haul full of stuff off. She had a great Christmas and enjoyed all of her gifts. Richard and I loved our presents as well. All in all, it was a pretty good holiday.

For those of you who like musicals, I might recommend Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter. Okay, I should qualify that, for those of you who like musicals about serial killer barbers, I would recommend it. It's a great movie. Tim Burton does his usual great job with the scenery and the characterization, making it a perfect fit for such dark subject matter. Add an alien to the blood, gore, and showtunes and it might just be the perfect musical. But I guess maybe they've already done that with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

This post brought to you by Mrs. Lovett's meat pies . . . .

Star Sighting at Puckett's

The nice folks at the Herald invited me to their Christmas party. We went to eat at a nice little local restaurant called Puckett's. And guess who was there? Sheryl Crow. She was giving an interview to Glamour magazine. I mostly got to see the back of her head, but caught a glimpse of her face as we left.

Puckett's is a cool place. It's a meat and 3 with healthier choices on the menu (salads, chicken, sweet potato fries :-) Okay, so maybe sweet potato fries don't quite fit in that list, but they are tasty. They also have a stage and at night they sometimes have dinner concerts. A lot of the country music stars who live in the area like to play there. I think Wynonna Judd even did a video there at the Puckett's in Leiper's Fork at one point in her career. And because they serve hamburgers, Richard will actually eat there with me.

As for the other stars I've encountered: I've also seen Wynonna Judd at the mall and Jo Dee Messina at McAlisters. I was a block away from a reported Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban sighting and on the same street with Tim and Faith at the Christmas parade once :-)

Wall Graphics

My friend Anri sent me this neat link for ideas for decorating Mary's room. The things you buy stick on the wall, come off easily and are not permanent. Cool huh! I like the dots.

Here's the link:

www.modernwallgraphics.com

Happy Face Spider

If this little guy can look so jolly, how can he be scary?
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Packing Paper!

We bought a cheap scanner for the home office and it came with a ton of packing paper.
The packing paper is now strewn all over the living room (Richard says it looks like some kind of experiment in modern art gone awry) and the cats love it!
They are making little kitty tunnels and ambushing each other.
Tilly and Cleo are taking turns jumping in the box.
This morning, Cleo tried to hide in the box and Libby got on top of the lid
and jumped up and down on her. But it was all in good fun :-)