Top 5 TV Commercials of 2011

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Sheila

It is somewhat unusual that I watch commercials, thanks to my DVR. But sometimes, I do. And these are the top 5 that caught my attention and made me slow down my DVR just to watch them. There isn’t much of an order to these other than the order I thought of them.

1) Santa + Siri
I think I showed this one to about 5 different people, just in case they had missed it.

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2) Darth Vader Volkswagen
Stagg has the music as a ringtone option on his phone. I can’t hear it without putting my hands up like the little kid. He won’t make it my ringtone, though, since it probably wouldn’t be that flattering to me to the casual observer. Ah, well.

3) Allstate Mr. Mayhem – GPS
This is a great series of commercials, and I think this one is my favorite.

4) Citi Thank You Points Vacation
Love how this turns all the things women buy before a trip on their head. Girl Power!

5) Google Chrome Dear Sophie
Can’t watch this without getting teary. Its like a Hallmark commercial on steroids.

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Sheila

Happy 2012!

May it be happy, healthy, joyful and wise.

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Elves

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Sheila

This year, we’ve had two of Santa’s elves come to stay at our house and keep a closer watch on the girls. In addition to making a comment recent comment about how much they dislike the sound of whining, they have been having a little fun around the house.

Ginger and Merry Anne, as they told us their names are started off by bringing us an inflatable snow globe. Of course, since they are elves and a little mischievous, they blew it up in our kitchen.

Next, they hung from the fan and helped make the girls breakfast.


They made snow angels in powdered sugar on the counter, which really was a mess to clean up.

Last night, they took over a game of scrabble Katie and I had been playing while I cooked dinner and played the game themselves. It is hard to see in the picture, but all the words played on the board have to do with Christmas (Christmas, angel, merry, wonder, Jesus, jolly and star)

I resisted the elves at first. They have been visiting some of the girls’ friends for years, and we’ve always wondered if we would have come to our home, too. I was not entirely thrilled when they came that first morning, but they have become a welcome addition. The girls have resisted getting out of bed much less since Ginger and Merry Anne started visiting, since they want to get downstairs to see what they did overnight. There is still fighting and whining, but I think it might be just a little bit less because they know that Ginger and Merry Anne are telling Santa what they see and hear in the house.

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Wet Behind the Ears

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sheila

So, I started swimming again. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but just got back in the water last week. That was a really scary hurdle. I was nervous that I would chicken out. Or that I would get to the pool and people would laugh because I don’t look the way in a bathing suit that I would like to look. Or that I would get halfway across the pool and not be able to make it to either side. There was a good bit o fear, but I swallowed hard, wore my suit under my clothes and went for it. No one looked twice at me, and the workout went better than I had anticipated.

One other thing that had been holding me back was that I didn’t know what to do. I swam in high school, but there was a coach telling me what to swim, how long to swim, how hard to swim, how much I could rest and everything else. After a little searching, I found a site that gave me steps to go from 0-1 mile in a week. OK– actually 700 – 1 mile in 6 weeks. I wasn’t sure if I could swim 28 laps right of the bat, but the structure helped boost my confidence to try.

Not only was I able to do the 700, but I threw in another 300 just to make it an even 1,000 yards. The next day, I bumped it up a little more and added a few laps of kicking, too. This week, I noticed that my shoulder was a little sore, so I cut my workout short after the prescribed 900 yards for week 2. Of course, I tossed in another hundred of kicking. All the way home from the pool, I wished I was still swimming. Man, I loved that.

Also? This means I get to cross off #14 of my list.

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