Who plans on showing up for the meeting with or without your MINI?

 

don't know yet

 

There might just be a truck chasing you guys again!

 

A Christmas Story House was having an essay contest to write a theme like Ralphie did for Miss Shields's class about what you want for Christmas. The deadline was today and I got one in. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed chaneling Ralphie and his family when I wrote it!!

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]What I want for Christmas this year is the Bernina artista 630 sewing machine with mega embroidery hoop accessory and the Bernina USB stick so I can download stuff from the computer and do some cool programs on the machine. I want this sewing machine because there are a million projects I can make with it. I want to make myself some festive aprons for the holiday season. And I can sew fringe on my lampshades to spruce them up. I am thinking black fringe because black goes with everything. I love making costumes for my nephew to wear. Bunnies are my favorite and my nephew looks so cute in pink. If I make a pink bunny he can wear it for Christmas, Easter and Halloween! Talk about a versatile gift! I was also considering making myself some new curtains for my kitchen. I spend a lot of time in there cooking and new curtains would be a pleasure to look at. I like to make meatloaf and mashed potatoes for my family and roasted turkeys for the neighbor’s dogs. I could also make nice and warm snowsuits with such a fancy machine. In addition to keeping someone toasty, it would also provide cushioning in case a bully pushes the person down. I would make a special hood on the snowsuit to protect the wearer from loosing an eye or being killed by falling icicles. I am getting my husband a bowling ball for Christmas and I would love to be able to make a stylish bowling shirt to go with it using the embroidery hoop accessory. I also want to make quilts to keep everyone warm. It gets quite chilly in my house over the winter. My furnace doesn’t always work. My husband tinkers with it all the time but usually ends up making a smoky mess and swears a lot more than he actually makes progress. I just hope the kids don’t hear him. They pick up everything they hear. Oh fudge, that would be very bad! If they start swearing I would just have to wash their mouths out with soap and I heard soap poisoning causes blindness later in life! But I digress. A Bernina sewing machine would be wonderful Christmas present and bring much joy into my life and into the lives of those that I make things for.[/SIZE][/FONT]

 

A sewing machine? You'll shoot your eye out kid!

 

Then I could sew it back in, or at least sew it shut so my brains don't fall out

 

Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
Mr. Parker: [stunned] *What* did you say?
Ralphie: Uh, um...
Mr. Parker: That's... what I thought you said. Get in the car. Go on!

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] It was all over - I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture?
Hmmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.


Mother: All right. Now, are you ready to tell me where you heard that word?
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master. But, I chickened out and said the first name that came to mind.
Ralphie: Schwartz!



[Mr. Parker reads a side of the box with the prize that he won]
Mr. Parker: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear.
Mr. Parker: Oh, yeah.

The Old Man: Sons of *******! Bumpuses!

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. Though my personal preference was for Lux, I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand... YECCHH!

Mr. Parker: He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Mother: He does not!
Mr. Parker: He does too, he looks like a pink nightmare!

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Getting ready to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep-sea diving.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GA3HPlMhOE

 

 

 

Wont make it, have to work, see you all next year.

 

 

Should be at Panera's but not the house. My son is going for his drivers license.

 

we'll most likely be there.

 

I'll be there. Spawn says she'll attend we will see

We all know BOB is pulling a BOB. How many are attending Saturday and bringing gifts?

From this page:
Me (? Spawn)
Greg Z.
Missy M
Wellzy
Reboopie
280Mike
Fenimor

 

Don't forget about Moose 'n Squirrel...in the truck! With one REALLY COOL gift!

 

Kim, any time you want to pull Bob, you just let me know!

Believe me, I WANT to be there!

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!!!

 

Don't play with guns after you drink Ovaltine, though, you might shoot your eye out.

 

So how was it? Who was there? Anybody take pictures?

 

We got pics...eventually we will post them! There were a lot of people and a big old stupid tour bus parked in front of the house. Reboopie was tempted to hop in and move it for us . Luckily as we left, so did they and Moose got a pic of 4 MINIs parked in front the house And we met someone who drove his green convertible MINI up from Huntington, WV to visit a friend in Cleveland and the MINI was parked near the house too We gave him the info for NAM and he gave me his email to keep posted on MOPID...he said he always wanted to go to Put In Bay. Oh, and his friend gave us his business card...he is a professional Santa in the area if anyone needs one! Lunch at Grumpy's was fun too. Poor Missy kept loosing her gifts in the exchange to others. All in all, it was a really fun day.

Later then night Moose & I went home and watched the movie and made note how things changed. The bathroom in the house isn't the bathroom in the movie and they had the boy's bedroom set up in the front of the house but in the movie it was in the back. What was the dining room in the movie was closed off, and the kitchen is what confused me most...the door we used to enter and exit the kitchen is what they used for the "basement" and there was a 2nd door next to it in the movie connecting it to the dining room and the rest of the house. But that door is gone now. And the stairway is a little different now. Very subtle-I am surprised I noticed it. Kinda cool to see how things changed.

 

So glad to hear it sounds like everyone had an enjoyable time!!! Very sorry to have missed it, but we did win the curling tournament, so it was a enjoyable weekend for me too (although not now, I'm at work!)

I do believe that the interior house scenes were filmed on a soundstage in Toronto (along with many other parts of the movie), thus the different locations of rooms, doors, etc.

 

The school scenes were definitly shot in canada, but I think the house scenes were shot in the house...something to look into?? and I know Highbees was shot downtown in Highbee's...

 

Nice meeting everyone.

My son passed the driving test but failed the manueverability test. Bunch of B.S. My truck can not fit without hitting a cone. Anyone have an automatic mini to loan me? The test is on a hill and he does not know how to drive a standard!

We will try it again in a Ford Focus this Saturday!

Glad the trip worked out. The interior scenes were shot on a sound stage which explains the rearranged rooms.

 

Still waiting for pics

 

Its been a busy week-will get to it eventually! Sorry!