Tasha_Tuk’s Neighborhood

How effin sexy is Donnie Wahlberg. ::drools::

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• 01:28 Its 1:30 am, i need to go to sleep. The couch is my bed tonight, because I'm lazy. The bed is too far away. #
• 08:56 Listening to the new jay-z album.... Its good for xmas music right? #
• 12:21 Couldn't decide on lunch... ended up with a hot dog and a salad from 7-11... that's totally healthy.... #

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It's a sunny, warm Christmas Eve down here in the antipodes.  We have guacamole and salad to prepare tomorrow morning and presents to wrap after Petra's gone to bed tonight.  But apart from that we are pretty damn organised.

I can't quite believe that the year is ending already.  2009 has run away, disappearing in a rush of relocation and renovation.  It's been a full year, and in some ways, a difficult one, but it has given me great pleasure as well.   People have died and others have been born.  There have been accidents and engagements, illnesses and parties.  Travis has had pneumonia, been made redundant from one job, and acquired another one.  Petra has changed from a toddling, gurgling baby into a climbing, dancing, talking little girl.  I am learning how to make my way in the world as someone's mother while still retaining some sense of my own identity and purpose.

Dunedin is fabulous.  I love having my own house and yard.  And I'm really enjoying having so much of my family around.  All in all, life is good.

Merry Christmas everyone.  And a happy healthy prosperous New Year.

• 23:58 @megancanale twitpic.com/urg8m - cute!! werent you blonde before though? or am i just spacey... #
• 09:20 @alice1059 it always sounds like he says johnathan steelemoore, cuz he says "more with bj howie and erica" so fast. #
• 10:01 My berry is working again, i feel so much better now! #
• 10:01 @megancanale twitpic.com/ut8p5 - oh em gee thats too cute. #
• 10:18 @molliemoon yah I woke up to 16 crap emails, I felt better (: #

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On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me ...

12 ships to plunder,

11 cannons firing,

10 crewmen leaping,

9 sharks a' swimming,

8 rum-filled bottles,

7 lusty wenches,

6 jolly rogers,

5 gold doubloons,

4 eye patches,

3 earrings,

2 wooden legs

and a parrot for my shoulder - Arrr!

Towards something more seasonal.

It took:

30000 plus lights
130 extension cords
Over 8000 feet of control cable
Programming time: don't ask.

Most of the neighborhood used LED lights this year, so they are using 1/10th of the power as last year.

What do you get when you mix a Christmas Light show with Guitar Hero? Christmas Light Hero!

Song is "Cliffs of Dover" by the incredible Eric Johnson.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Patricia Brennan from Yale University is trying to encourage male Muscovy ducks to launch their ballistic penises into test tubes.