Your Winter Name is Conan Winter

Let it Snow!

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Angie at Annies Home and her husband celebrate their Anniversary (1/3/11). I hope you both have a wonderful day and congratulate the both of you. Happy Anniversary.

Before making the announcement I want to tell you all how grateful and thankful I am to everyone that leaves a comment on my blog. I really do appreciate it. I am discontinuing this contest so it is in the history books now. Was a bitch keeping track of hence my decision to stop it. I must say it was fun while it lasted. Anyhow, for the month of December we didn’t reach 1000 comments so there is no monthly winner. For the yearly winner all the monthly winners are eligible for the prize. The list of winners is:

Quilly — Quintessentially Quilly!

Congratulations Quilly at Quintessentially Quilly for being the grand prize winner. I appreciate you taking the time to comment here. You have 24 hours from 1:01 pm, HST, January 2, 2011 to contact me by email and choose from the following for a $50.00 gift card:

And as usual, I thank everyone that took the time out of their day to comment. It means a great deal to me.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

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The 12 Days of Christmas, Island Style

I want to say a big Mahalo to all of you that participated in Quilly’s and my little contest. It was our 2nd year as you know, slightly different and we both enjoyed the format this year. So much so that we have already discussed next years contest. Without all of you participating and putting up with our nonsense this wouldn’t have been the success it was. Mahalo to each and every one of you. I also must thank Quilly. She did all the hard work on this and I’m thankful for her love and friendship. She is one of a kind. I could go on and on about her but I wont as I know you get the drift. Mahalo Q. You are the best and I love you dearly.

On another note, if you remember, we have 4 invitations to RockMelt. It’s a new browsing experience. To our winners Karen, Barbara, Kelley, Mar, Karen A., Ria, Becca, Kelly and Cherie, we will be happy to send you one of the four invites. In order to qualify you MUST have a Facebook account. So if you do and want one of the invites the first 4 that email Thom will win the invites. Be sure to include your Facebook Username.

Mahalo again for playing and I want to wish all of you and your families a very Happy Holiday Season and all the best in 2011.

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A Hui Hou

Hootin’ Anni at Hootin’ Anni’s has started her treat fest for the month of October. Mahalo Hootin’ Anni. Much appreciated. Here is number 1 of 5.

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing. Sunday Stealing originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim’s post. (It’s our way of saying “Thanks!”) We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme’s best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let’s go!

Today we ripped this meme of a blogger known as Emily Barton, the Queen ‘o Memes at Telecommuter Talk. We were lucky to find this meme. Emily actually wrote it herself (when do we find that? We’d guess maybe once a year.) We have told Emily that we stole it but we’ve already been given permission. Emily wrote, “Are you reading this? Then the Queen has tagged you. Get on with it.” Thanks, Your Majesty! Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Cheers to all us thieves!

Okay, as we start, what year is it and how old are you? 1975 and none of your business. The KING has spoken.

1. Would your younger self (YYS, from here) recognize you when you first meet? pffft. Why wouldn’t he? A King is a King.

2. Would YYS be surprised to discover what you are doing job wise? Yes.

3. What piece of fashion advice would you give YYS? Don’t trust Queens!!!

4. What do you think YYS is most going to want to know? When do pigs fly?

5. How would you answer YYS’s question? Every time a Queen asks that question.

6. What would probably be the best thing to tell YYS? The answer is always:

7. What is something that you probably wouldn’t tell YYS? Nothing. I have no secrets.

8. What do you think will most surprise YYS about you? Nothing it’s me for goodness sakes.

9. What do you think will least surprise YYS? That I grew up to be King.

10. At this point in your life, would YYS like to run into “you” from the future? I suppose as long as he could get back.

Thank you for playing this week on Sunday Stealing! Please leave a comment or link when you have posted. Feel free to stop back and visit other player’s posts. Have a great week. See you next Sunday!

I was visiting Sistertex at Spacial Peepol and saw this and new I had to get it into a post.

Carmen at Carmen’s Chronicles celebrates her 66th birthday tomorrow, October 3, 2010. WOOT.

I hope you have a wonderful birthday and I wish you many many more my friend. Have plenty of cake and ice cream and I hope you get tons of presents HBD!!!

Yesterday, well actually today when this posts, Jingle at Jingle celebrated her 42nd birthday. WOOT.

I hope your birthday was very special and that it was a wonderful day, you got plenty of presents and that you have many many more. HBD

And guess who won? Me, Myself and I. WOOT!!! How cool is that? I would like to say a big Mahalo to Alice for holding the contest. It was great fun and I look forward to more of them. Thanks again Alice Much appreciated.

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A Hui Hou

Your Zombie Name is Eye-for-an-eye

Braiiiins!

When I got home from work last night there was a package waiting. I opened it and here is what was inside? Boy did I score or what?

A big Mahalo to Hope at The Road Less Traveled for sending me these videos. I very much appreciate it and that was so kind of you to do that. Mahalo my friend.

What: Hawai‘i Warriors (1-1, 0-0 WAC) vs. Colorado Buffaloes (1-1, 0-0 Big 12)
When: Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010
Time: 1:30 p.m. MT / 9:30 a.m. HT
Where: Folsom Field (53,613); Boulder, Colo.
Television: Live nationally on Fox College Sports with Steve Physioc (play-by-play), Yogi Roth (color), and Samantha Steele (sidelines).
Radio: ESPN 1420 AM will carry the game live with Bobby Curran (play-by-play) and Robert Kekaula (color). Don Robbs, Chris Hart and Gary Dickman host the “Countdown To Kickoff” beginning at 9:30 a.m. HT, and also the halftime show. Neighbor islands can listen live on KNUI on Maui, KHLO in Hilo, KKON in Kona.
Audio Webcast: Available on espn1420am.com
Live Stats: Available on cubuffs.com
Series Information: 2nd meeting. UH leads 1-0.

Larisa AKA Cherie at CíEST MOI TROIS sent the following in. Spike very much appreciates it Mahalo xoxox

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

It’s Friday. Independence Day is July 4th here in the US so for those that celebrate I hope you have a great long weekend. Yeah this is me but can you imagine a pink house? pffft

Don’ believe me? CLICK HERE or watch the video below.

I forgot to post this information from Bill at The Old Fart’s Blog regarding the first photo being used. This is more information for Portrait of Words – #30 ~ Instructions. Thanks Bill

“The one of the Medal is from the Royal Visit to Canada by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth {The Present Queen’s Mother} in 1939. Mum was given the Medal to wear in Honor of the Occasion and the medals were passed out in School. If that Helps you and all the writers that will be playing.”

Sylvia at Sylvia From Over The Hill sent this in. Mahalo Syliva. Much appreciated

A drunk walks out of a bar with a key in his hand and he is stumbling back and forth. A cop on the beat sees him and approaches, “Can I help you Sir?”

“Yessh! Ssssomebody ssstole my carrr”, the man replies.

The cop asks, “Where was your car the last time you saw it?”

“It wasss on the end of thisshh key”, the man replies.

About that time the cop looks down and sees the man’s wiener hanging out of his fly for all the world to see.

He asks the man, “Sir are you aware that you are exposing yourself?”

Momentarily confused, the drunk looks down at his crotch and without missing a beat, blurts out….

“Holy s**t! My girlfriend’s gone, too!!

Well my blog is either loosing steam or it was my two weeks away but we didn’t make 1000th Comments last month. So we trudge on and Juliana remains on the side bar until the 1000th commentor for July is reached. And no the June prize doesn’t carry forward to July. I’m cheap, what can I say. Thanks for all your comments. I really do appreciate it

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

Congratulations Juliana at Scabiosa Trenta for making the comment. I appreciate you taking the time to comment here. You have 24 hours from 11:55 am, HST, May 26, 2010 to contact me by email and choose from the following for a $15.00 gift card:

And as usual, I thank everyone that took the time out of their day to comment. It means a great deal to me. For all rules please CLICK HERE. Mahalo.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

Congratulations Sylvia at Sylvia From Over The Hill for making the comment. I appreciate you taking the time to comment here. You have 24 hours from 10:30 pm, April 21, 2010 to contact me by email and choose from the following for a $15.00 gift card:

And as usual, I thank everyone that took the time out of their day to comment. It means a great deal to me. For all rules please CLICK HERE. Mahalo.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

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With 39% of the vote my picture took top honors for Kailani’s April’s Photo Contest – What Easter Means To Me. You can see all the results by clicking here. And congratulations to A Silly Mommy of 2 Silly Girls. for being the random winner.

I want to say a big Mahalo to all of you that took the time to go and vote. It is very much appreciated. It couldn’t have won without you and it means a great deal to me. I also want to thank Kailani for hosting this monthly contest. Thank you.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

Gattina at Writer’s Cramps is hosting this week’s Fun Monday. Because of that I decided to play along. I so enjoy her witty comments and she cracks me up on almost every one she makes. So I want to play just this one week. You can see all the rules at Pensieve’s blog.

This week seems like a simple one. Direct from Gattina’s blog comes the following:

So for better or for worse here goes mine. I very rarely use an umbrella. I rather bitch about getting all wet than break out the old umbrella. Besides as you can see below, I have three and all are in the back seat of my car always. And the other big one. Well take a look.

Umbrella's in the backseat of my car. Useless....

Bent big umbrella

Better view of the big umbrella

Hootin’ Anni at Hootin’ Anni’s I can’t begin to thank you enough for helping me out. You see I asked her if she could come up with two badges for this blog for my other two blogs I have so all people have to do is click on them to visit. Well she did and below is what she came up with. Mahalo Hootin’ Anni. You are ‘da best I tell ya. MWAH!!!!

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

Congratulations Karen at Kcinnova’s World for making the comment. I appreciate you taking the time to comment here. You have 24 hours from 12:41 am, March 19, 2010 to contact me by email and choose from the following for a $15.00 gift card:

And as usual, I thank everyone that took the time out of their day to comment. It means a great deal to me. For all rules please CLICK HERE. Mahalo.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

You Are Happy

You are an inspiring and uplifting person. Your positive attitude has taken you far in life. It’s important to you that everyone gets along. You can’t stand confrontation. You are outgoing and friendly. You naturally put people at ease just by being around. You want to make the world a better and happier place. You are willing to work hard to make things better.

Hootin’ Anni at Hootin’ Anni’s awarded me the Beautiful Blogger Award. Mahalo Hootin’ Anni. I’m very grateful and humbled by this award and your thoughtfulness means a great deal to me.

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Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

Last week, Harriet at I Am Harriet, well maybe now it’s known as Harriet and Friends, did a post I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie/ There’s nothing left to talk about unless it’s….huh? and she posted Billboard.com 50 Sexiest Songs of all time. Well the one I thought should be the number one came in at number 44. Pffft… George Michael and his song I Want Your Sex has got me moving this week and I think should have taken the top spot. Click on the Billboard link above to find out what is number one. I was totally shocked. Enjoy.

By the way, this is Ultimix version. Of course the original, which you can view HERE cannot be embedded. So if you want to see it just click that link.

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Sharika at YOU ARE NEVER ALONE! has awarded me the Happy 101 Blog Award. Thank you so much my dear sweet friend. That is so kind of you. I really appreciate it. Since I have this award already I will direct you to the original post which is HERE so you can see what makes me Happy.

Mahalo Sharika. This means a great deal to me and I so appreciate it.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

And SOME BIG NEWS!!!. Sorry Quilly that I didn’t think of this last month. Beginning this month I’m am adding a $15.00 gift card as a prize for the 1000th commentor. But the fun doesn’t stop there boys and girls. On January 1st of the next year all 1000th commentors for the previous year will be put in the Random Number Generator and the winner will be awarded a $50.00 gift card. WOOT!!!!

1. All Monthly Commentors will be entered into the Random Number Generator in monthly order and a winner will be picked by said Random Number Generator.

2. Commentor must have a valid website and/or blog that can be verified with a valid email address. In addition, you must have made at least 10 comments on my blog. If when the 1000th comment has been made and you have not made at least 10 comments, the next person in line that has made the required 10 comments will be acknowledged and rewarded the prize. I don’t mean to be rude or anything, well maybe I do, but I want to have fun with the regular participants of this blog. It’s my way of thanking them. And believe me if I see 10 comments from someone that I don’t know that says I’m here for the contest or crap like that, those comments will be deleted and I’ll move on. It’s sad that you have to do this kind of thing when all you want to do is have fun with the folks that want to come here and not just come here for a prize.

3. Void where prohibited, taxed, etc. Winner responsible for any and all taxes and or fees assessed with being declared the winner.

4. By participating, you agree that I can share your comment in a future post, and mention either your username or first name, avatar or likeness, and mention your blog or website by name.

5. The Monthly and Yearly winner will have 24 hours from the time of the post to contact me so we can work out the particulars. You can use the Contact form on my sidebar.

6. The winner will be able to choose from the following:

Now if one of these doesn’t work I’m flexible. No comment from the peanut gallery on that last statement either ya hear? We can work on getting another choice. But I would like to keep it to these four if possible.

7. If for some reason we don’t have 1000 comments for any month, that prize will be added to the next month until a 1000th commentor is reached.

Congratulations Nessa at The Chrysalis Stage for making the comment. I appreciate you taking the time to comment here. You have 24 hours to contact me by email. And as usual, I thank everyone that took the time out of their day to comment. It means a great deal to me. Mahalo.

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

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I hope you have a wonderful day, get plenty of presents and that all your dreams come true. Happy Birthday my friend. Me Ke Aloha.

Mahalo Hootin’ Anni at Hootin’ Anni’s for the wonderful card. I’ve just been waiting for this day to use it. I really appreciate it.

I wish my family and all my friends, your sweetheart, family and friends a very Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope it’s safe, happy and healthy! Have a great day. Me Ke Aloha.

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I want to send a special Mahalo to Tom at Carson City Florist for the beautiful arrangement that I had sent to my Mom for Valentine’s Day. She loves them and that’s all that matters. Mahalo Tom. Great work once again. I really appreciate it

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou

Your True Passion is Art

You feel most alive when you are creating or appreciating art. Art truly feeds your soul. You love expressing yourself artistically, and it’s likely that you dabble in many creative activities. Even when you aren’t channeling your inner artist, you enjoy brainstorming and collaborating with others. You believe the world is what you make of it, and you want to make it as beautiful and interesting as possible.

My sister-in-law Jane celebrates here birthday today. WOOT!!! Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear Jane. Happy Birthday to you. I hope you have a wonderful day sweet one. Love you lots.

Happy Birthday Jane

Hootin’ Anni at Hootin’ Anni’s birthday is today as well. YEAH!! Hope you have a wonderful birthday my friend. I wish you many many more. HBD!

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Lyn at A Blog In The Rough has awarded me the Happy 101 Blog Award. Thank you so much my dear sweet friend. That is so kind of you. I really appreciate it. Since I have this award already I will direct you to the original post which is HERE so you can see what makes me Happy.

Mahalo Lyn. This means a great deal to me and I so appreciate it.

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London which used to have gallows adjacent. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung. The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ”ONE LAST DRINK”.

If he said YES it was referred to as “ONE FOR THE ROAD”

If he declined, that prisoner was “ON THE WAGON”

So there you go. More bleeding history.

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “Piss Poor”. But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot they “Didn’t have a pot to Piss in” & were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”

Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, “Dirt Poor.” The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold. (Getting quite an education, aren’t you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: ”Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old”.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “Bring home the Bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around talking and ”Chew the fat”.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning & death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or ”The Upper Crust”.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of ”Holding a Wake”.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, ”Saved by the Bell ” or was considered a ”Dead Ringer”
And that’s the truth…Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

So . . . get out there and educate someone! ~~~ Share these facts with a friend like I just did! ! !

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

A Hui Hou