tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post7765706426921769581..comments2024-03-26T06:47:57.605-04:00Comments on Get Lost in a Story: How The Grinch Stole My HeartJacqui Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793508141294935459noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-65900112864031039362010-12-26T16:25:42.497-05:002010-12-26T16:25:42.497-05:00I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas weekend....I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas weekend. Mine was terrific with the exception of maintaining my diet... Yes, I know, it's the holidays and there are exceptions. Mine were associated with two huge memories.<br /><br />GRAMMY'S YUM YUM CAKE --This year (of all years) my aunt made my grandmother's Yum Yum cake. I've searched the Internet and didn't find the same ingredients in THIS particular cake with any other definition of a YumYum cake. My grandmother's version is the very definition of MY favorite. It's a pineapple upside down cake with extra everything and pineapple baked throughout the cake, with a basic german chocolate icing (extra everything). Just looking at this gooey monstrosity will make you gain a pound. Calorie-wise...I was a very very bad girl.<br /><br />GINGERBREAD HOUSE --Over the years, my sister, mother and I have had lots of fun baking and putting together a Gingerbread house. It's one of those things we like to do Christmas Eve and then destroy on New Year's Day. It's been a while, and this year...it was huge. And the icing my sister made tasted like Diviinity candy (hard marshmallow cream). I wanted and was forced to help. Got lots on my fingers and heaven help me, had to lick it off. Not to mention popping a candy into my mouth every once in a while. Calories? Oh my. I'll be posting pictures on my Facebook page of this house. It's outrageous and so were the amount of calories I consumed.<br /><br />Let's just say that I hope I'm over this cold (thanks to my hubby for sharing) when the weather warms up for lots of bike riding this week. I really have to BURN some calories instead of consume them this week.<br /><br />~~AngiAngi Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568009648101184027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-23085974704926757392010-12-26T10:45:36.579-05:002010-12-26T10:45:36.579-05:00Angi, what a great post. I vividly remember gettin...Angi, what a great post. I vividly remember getting the Grinch book for Christmas. One of the first gifts I remember, because my older sister was jealous that I got it and not her. And watching the TV special every year after that. <br /><br />The grinch is an awesome bad boy model. :)Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-27460900245591509942010-12-24T21:13:31.768-05:002010-12-24T21:13:31.768-05:00Merry Christmas, ladies!!
Wishing you a wonderful ...Merry Christmas, ladies!!<br />Wishing you a wonderful holiday and a very happy 2011! ;)Marilyn Branthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05303846770348840645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-78894820895903674032010-12-24T12:45:07.243-05:002010-12-24T12:45:07.243-05:00HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
We've opened the first round...HAPPY CHRISTMAS.<br /><br />We've opened the first round of gifts.<br />Grandkids are next...whenever the turkey gets done we're headed down the road, Jeep loaded to the brim (feeling like the Grinch's sleigh after he stole Christmas--hehe).<br /><br />Tim and I actually surprised the baby today. She thought her gift was ... (she may read this) *I win* Kourtney! (for once).<br /><br />~~AngiAngi Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568009648101184027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-3160427623979936202010-12-24T11:54:55.505-05:002010-12-24T11:54:55.505-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Donnell Ann Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943037206984648849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-87314524427428298272010-12-24T11:53:36.825-05:002010-12-24T11:53:36.825-05:00Well said, Jillian. And Angi, thanks for all thos...Well said, Jillian. And Angi, thanks for all those spectacular Christmas memories! Here's to all of us creating new ones!Donnell Ann Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943037206984648849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3417651694294092310.post-30600820771058984752010-12-24T10:51:22.797-05:002010-12-24T10:51:22.797-05:00The Grinch is such a wonderful dark character, iso...The Grinch is such a wonderful dark character, isolated in a cave above Whoville with his two sizes too small heart!<br /><br />I think the character of Lisbeth in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is an amazing example of a very dark heroine.<br /><br />I love it when as a writer/reader I begin to feel sympathy, then root for the misfit, maligned characters. There is something so satisfying in the end, when you can say, "I knew he/she had a great heart!G. Jillian Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606257875353431854noreply@blogger.com