Author: Melissa
2013 Christmas Draw
With only 138 days left until Christmas, I thought I’d do the Christmas Draw. (And it helped I’ve been on the phone since I walked in the door at work and my mind started to wander.
So here’s the draw results:
Jere has Leah
Becky has Justin
Melissa has Laurie
Joe has Catherine
Justin has Tianna
Laurie has Matt
Will has Stephen
Trish has Josh
Catherine has Becky
Chris has Trish
Leah has Will
Josh has Chris
Andrea has Lindsey
Stephen has Melissa
Amy has Jere
Matt has Andrea
Lindsey has Amy
Tianna has Joe
I’ll also email this list out to you all. (If you get this email from a different email address than your preferred email, please let me know what your preferred email address is. Or if you don’t get the email, please let me know as well.)
I made sure no one drew the same name as the last two years, but if I missed something, please let me know.
Please remember the limit is $20, and please try and put some thought into the gift (which MAY eliminate gift cards). And if anyone has a wish list already on a website, please feel free to share (I’ve got a wish list going on Amazon I’m happy to give details for).
Happy shopping!
More Mother’s day Fun
So, was surfing online during a conference call and stumbled upon this article in the CV Bugle about mom.
Enjoy!
Christmas 2012 Draw
It’s that time of year again, to announce the results of the 2012 Christmas gift draw amongst the siblings and spouses. An overwhelming majority of you said they wanted to keep spouses included in the draw, so here are the results of this year’s draw. I’ll also email this list out to you all. (If you get this email from a different email address than your preferred email, please let me know what your preferred email address is. Or if you don’t get the email, please let me know as well.)
So without further ado, here’s the list:
Jere has Josh
Becky has Tianna
Melissa has Andrea
Joe has Jere
Justin has Chris
Laurie has Trish
Will has Lindsey
Trish has Becky
Catherine has Will
Chris has Catherine
Leah has Amy
Josh has Justin
Andrea has Stephen
Stephen has Laurie
Amy has Matt
Matt has Melissa
Lindsey has Joe
Tianna has Leah
I made sure no one drew the same name as the last two years, but if I missed something, please let me know. (Welcome to the Christmas draw Lindsey!) And if anyone needs to pull out of the draw please let me know and I’ll re-shuffle names.
Please remember the limit is $20, and please try and put some thought into the gift (which MAY eliminate gift cards). And if anyone has a wish list already on a website, please feel free to share (I’ve got a wish list going on Amazon I’m happy to give details for). Happy shopping – only 134 days until Christmas!
First look: ‘TRON’ gets animated with ‘Uprising’
“In June, Disney XD rolls out — Light-Cycle style —TRON: Uprising, a new animated series that plugs fans back into the computer world first dreamed up in the 1980s.
The voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Nate Corddry, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman), Reginald VelJohnson and the dude who originated the role of Tron way back when, Bruce Boxleitner.
Uprising takes place between the original 1982 TRON movie — which featured a computer hacker Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) getting taken to a living arcade game of high-tech gladiatorial combat — and the recent 2010 sequel TRON: Legacy that focused on his son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) fighting an evil cloned version of his dad named Clu.
The new series stars Beck (Wood), a young program who leads his family and world in revolution against the tyrannical Clu and his No. 2, General Tesler (Henriksen). Fortunately, Beck has been trained to fight by the top warrior in all of this digitized world, Tron (Boxleitner).
Fans first had a glimpse at TRON: Uprising with a special feature on the TRON: Legacy DVD and Blu-ray, and the series will use a combination of 2-D and computer-generated animation.” USA Today 4/16/12
I’ll have to get Joe to pull out the Blu-Ray and take a look at that special feature.
S. 2109: Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act of 2012
OK, so I saw this the other day and thought I’d bring it to everyone’s attention. I haven’t had a chance to read the actual bill text yet, but from the summary provided, it doesn’t look like this as much of a win for the Hopi and Navajo as it is for the government. The Senate is on vacation until 4/16, but you should let your Senator know how you feel about this bill.
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s2109
Cheers!
Melissa
Way to go Elsie!
OK, so I was killing time at the end of the work week and thought I’d check out the CV Bugle. I searched Freeman hoping to see some comments from Mom about the school board, when lo and behold the first listing was the following:
3/6/2012 1:03:00 PM
Business Files 3/7/12
BAC offers free workshops in March
The Business Assistance Center Verde Division will offer free workshops during March. The first workshop is Beginning Microsoft Publisher, presented by Elsie Freeman from CTS Yavapai College. This workshop will be held Friday, March 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m…
-Philip Wright
Who knew Elsie knew computers well enough to teach Microsoft!
;-p
Kingdom of the Spiders?
This article caught my eye and as I started to read it, it reminded me of Kingdom of the Spiders. I was delighted when the article actually mentions that movie. The last picture is not for the little arachnaphobe that may lurk inside some of us ladies, so brace yourself or look away! I know that picture will show up in my dreams tonight!
Christmas 2011 List
OK, over the Memorial Day weekend, a majority of you said to go ahead and do the name draw for Christmas this year. I’ll also email this list out to you all. (As a side note, after I left XETV I merged my work contacts with my Yahoo contacts and some of the preferred email addresses got jumbled up. Now I don’t know if which of the several email addresses I have from some of you are your preferred email – or even work anymore. If you get this email from a different email address than your preferred email, please let me know what your preferred email address is. Or if you don’t get the email, please let me know as well.)
So without further ado, here’s the list:
Jere has Trish
Becky has Josh
Melissa has Jere
Joe has Chris
Justin has Catherine
Laurie has Stephen
Will has Becky
Trish has Justin
Catherine has Leah
Chris has Amy
Leah has Matt
Josh has Joe
Andrea has Tianna
Stephen has Andrea
Amy has Will
Matt has Laurie
Tianna has Melissa
I made sure no one drew someone from the same household as last year, but if some of you switched and I need to make changes, please let me know.
Please remember the limit is $20. Happy shopping – only 201 days until Christmas!
Merry Christmas!!
Actually, I was just thinking about doing the drawing of Christmas gift exchange names for this year. Does anyone think it’s still too early for that? Let me know if you do – and if you still haven’t sent your Christmas gift to whomever you had this past Christmas, I hope you’ve already apologized/explained why no gift/justified. I’m sure it’s OK and I’m sure you’re forgiven. I know this Christmas was a pretty tight one for a lot of us.
On an unrelated note, I’m afraid Joe is going to win our little contest of which of us will find new employment first. It seems his job skills are in much more demand than those of a good manager. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers! We’ll let you know as soon as anything changes here in San Diego.