Tracking Santa and Holiday Greetings

[vixen101485]

I was checking out the Norad site for Meghyn and noticed this year they have a number you can call to find out where Santa is at. IT IS A REAL PERSON! Too cool. We were expecting a recording. Love it, and the guy we got was totally into it and told Meghyn she needed to be into bed so Santa will come. LOL
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.htm

ANYWHO....Happy Holiday Greetings to all the SGTers. Hope your celebrations are magical and stress free (mine will be since my mom is 2 hours away... HEHEHE)

[Whazzup]

Great web site, Vixen! I forwarded it to everyone I know who has kids, after I checked it out thoroughly myself, of course. Santa was in Uzbekistan when I checked on him. :)

[vixen101485]

But you gotta call them....too fun. We told Donnie's dad (who portrays Santa in his area of FL) he needs to call and say something like "I am a 60ish old man and my wife who is my age is worried Santa just wont make it to their retirement village this year" and see how they respond. LOL

[Whazzup]

Okay, I'm game, I'll give it a try. Will let you know when they say. :D:

[Whazzup]

Okay, just got off the phone with Kelly at Norad. She says Santa is some country I can't pronounce in Russia and is on schedule. I told her my husband was concerned about Santa's whereabouts, and she asked where we live. When I told her Florida she said not to worry, Santa should be overhead between 9pm and midnight tonight! Well shoot, that means I have to go to bed early if I want presents delivered, since he's not going to drop down the chimney while I'm sitting there waiting for him while watching reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond.

[vixen101485]

ROTFLMAO....you really called, how funny. Wonder what they thot of that. Probably not the first.

Do you mean you wont be watching "A Christmas Story" over and over and over on the one channel that is repeating it back to back for 24 hours straight? LOL

[hobie16]

Well shoot, that means I have to go to bed early if I want presents delivered, since he's not going to drop down the chimney while I'm sitting there waiting for him while watching reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond.

We don't have a chimney so Santa will have to slide down a palm tree on the side of the house. I'll leave the back door unlocked but closed. Otherwise a centipead will sneak in.

[Whazzup]

We don't have cable so I only get to watch Ralphie shoot his eye out over and over if I shove the DVD into the slot myself. Don't tempt me - I have baking to do.

Kelly just jumped right in there with a dialog and said I need to tell my husband to go to bed early tonight. She was quick and witty - maybe I should have told her about SGT.com - she sounded like she'd be a great addition.

Hobie - please don't let any of those nasty reddish-brown multi-legged horror-show-starring beasties get into your house. They supposedly like to hide in decomposing vegetation or under old wood or whatever, so I can't figure out why they would crawl up the interior wall of my single-frame unairconditioned home. Maybe I should have paid more attention to my housekeeping. :D:

[hobie16]

Hobie - please don't let any of those nasty reddish-brown multi-legged horror-show-starring beasties get into your house. They supposedly like to hide in decomposing vegetation or under old wood or whatever, so I can't figure out why they would crawl up the interior wall of my single-frame unairconditioned home. Maybe I should have paid more attention to my housekeeping. :D:

Terminix is the best $350 a year we spend. They come out every three months and treat the inside and outside of the house. If we do see 'peads they'll powder the planted areas.

My wife did find one in the kitchen this morning. He was doing the Terminix dance.

[Whazzup]

If that centipede was doing the Terminix dance I'll bet he was really jivin' with all those legs! :)

I found out several years after we left Hawaii that the house we lived in, and sold for a huge profit, got infested with Formosan termites and the owners didn't get it fumigated and the termites did so much damage they finally had to have the house torn down. There's a mobile home on the lot now.
When my son was in the Army and traveling TDY to Korea he had a short layover in Hawaii so he rented a car and drove out to visit the old neighborhood. He said it was so sad to see the yard all overgrown and a trailer parked there. We really liked that house and we had a beautiful vegetable garden behind it. There was a small concrete koi pond and when we cleaned out the koi pond we used the old pond water on our corn and other plants and everything grew like crazy. We once had a sheriff's department helicopter hovering over our corn patch with someone checking with binoculars to see if we were growing pakalolo (marijuana) along with the corn.