Gina Rings The Bell!

One of those non-milestone birthdays...

I know that I promised Thanksgiving photos and then I wanted to post our Polar Express train ride photos and blog about both. I am way, way, way, way behind. But I do have a few photos that were taken just a couple days ago on my birthday. I'm going with them and maybe eventually I'll get around to blogging about the other two holidays.

Click here to see the party my office hosted and the beautiful new bedding that Gina got me. All my sheets and my comforters have holes in them because I allow the dogs to chew their treats in bed with me at night. Hopefully these new ones will last a while. I think they are really pretty - I love Southwest designs.

The office party had one of my two favorite cakes - Italian Cream Cake (German Chocolate is the other) - and you can see that Jeanett made a Star Trek themed banner announcement over my door. The card they gave me is in honor of my two Bettas that stay at my office - Fire & Ice. I posted it on the door and everyone came by and signed it.

Denise sent me a really cool clock that projects colored stars on the ceiling and plays a wide variety of sounds. She suggested I put it in the Star Trek Shrine, but the window that goes out to the cul-de-sac lets in too much light from the street light near our driveway. The stars are much more vivid in the darkness of my bedroom. Delightful!

Mom gave me $50 which I will be using on our trip to the casino this weekend. We both have a chance to get in the cash whirlwind machine where Mom won nearly $500 last year. My turn this year! She & Gina took me out to eat at Cracker Barrell where I had my usual - a bowl of chicken/dumplins and turnip greens. Yum!

Iris, my friend from Germany, called and sang a beautiful rendition of happy birthday to me! All in all, I felt very celebrated. Thanks everyone!!!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

Kaden and Lori came over today to attend our neighborhood winter festival. I'm way, way behind in posting to this blog. Kaden and Alena had come back in October for the neighborhood fall festival and I thought it was much better organized than the one today. Still, I had a lot of fun.

Most of the immediate family came to our house for Thanksgiving. Lori & Dood took photos then and I'll try to get these up in another post soon.

For now, click here to see us enjoy the snow today.

New Entertainment Center

The Star Trek Shrine is not the only new thing we got for the house. Today we got our new entertainment center. Click here to check it out.
Once we get the money, we'll actually put a new TV in there so we can be entertained! And then a nice new sectional so we can have somewhere to sit while being entertained.
We are definitely a work in progress...

Star Trek Shrine Is FINALLY COMPLETE!

Never could get the guy on eBay to go lower than $85 for Kes. Glad I didn't take that offer, because by being patient I got so much more!!! This guy on eBay had 10 lifesize cutouts for sale and I made a deal with him to buy 4 (or 5 depending on whether or not you count the Klingon Duras sisters as one or two!)

Starting with Lursa and B'Etor from TNG and going clockwise, we now have 7 of 9 from Voyager, Jadzia Dax from DS9, Captain Jonathan Archer from Enterprise, Deanna Troi from TNG, Spock from TOS, and Data from TNG - so ALL FIVE Star Trek TV series are represented. Yes, TNG is overrepresented - but it is my favorite series.

Unfortunately, there was no room left for Captain Kirk from the reboot movies series by JJ Abrams. So he has been repositioned to greet guests directly at the door.

The Triplets Having a Religious Epiphany?

"No," says Zip. "It's just a bug you let in with the dogs, flying around the light."

 

Or is it??????

DS9 Acquired and I am Negotiating Voyager

Jadzia Dax has now joined the Star Trek shrine. She's so skinny! Me? Not so much...

Moved Deanna to the other side because Spock was also in the Science Officer blue uniform. There is a guy selling Kes from Voyager on eBay but he wants $99 - way over my budget. May take a while to get Voyager and Enterprise series represented.