Sprite's Keeper

Spin Cycle: Pre-set your ovens, cuz here we go!

Can you smell it?

Smells like the first Spinner is in the kitchen!

Kyooty over at Kyooty Center

FInd those recipes and whip up your favorite holiday treat!

Warning: reading these Spins may cause weight gain. Sprite's Keeper and the participating Spinners are not to be held liable for increased numbers on the scale, tight jeans, or double chins. Eat at your own risk. (And enjoy it. Hell, you can start working it off in the New Year, right?)

Spin Cycle: "I've been oh so good this year! Please don't quote me on that.."

"This is Jennifer."

"Hey."

"Hi, babe. How's your afternoon treating you?"

"I got my Christmas gift."

"You got your what?"

"Think Geek?"

"Ooh, that thing is dangerous. How many gifts did I get you?"

"Just one. I was good."

"The watch with the USB?"

"Yup."

"Are you sure you were good?"

"The invoice says I was."

"Merry Christmas then."

"It is what I wanted, right?"

"Shouldn't you be asking yourself that question, Santa?"

"Do you want to wrap it and put it under the tree?"

"Sure, why not? Give you something to open."

"What about you? I know you said you didn't want anything-"

"I still don't."

"How about I wrap a box of air so there's something under the tree for you?"

"Sure, as long as you don't fart before you seal it. Or there will be some automatic coal in your stocking.."

"...Maybe you should wrap it then."

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Have a peak at our other Spinners' wish lists!

Laufa over at Morgan Madness

Kendra over at Life in the Slow Lane 

Pseudo over at Pseudonymous High School Teacher 

Vandy over at The Testosterone Three and Me 

Andrea over at Gathering Dust 

Maureen over at IslandRoar 

Meli over at Randomosity-Mommy Style! 

Jan over at Jan's Sushi Bar 

Mary Anne over at The Stiletto Mom 

Maureen Lynn over at A Chronicle of My World Travels 

Gretchen over at Second Blooming 

Stacy over at Stacy's Random Thoughts 

Laufa over at Morgan Madness 

Patty over at Pancakes Gone Awry -New to the Spin Cycle!

D.M. Wright over at D.M. Wright Books 

Mary Anne over at Miss Mary Anne Sunshine 

Elie Belen over at Distracting Minutia -Updated today! Fresh Spin!

Wicked Step Mom over at Life and Times of a Wicked Step Mom -Updated today! Fresh Spin!

Erin over at The Locals Love It -Updated today! Fresh Spin!

Mama Badger over at Out of the Boondocks and Into the Burbs... -Updated today! Fresh Spin!

So, have YOU been naughty or nice???

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Next week's Spin Cycle Assigment: Holiday Baking

Yes, I know we just did a recipe thing, but heavens, everyone is talking about all the baking they're doing and it's making me hungry!

I ran across Margaret's site Facts from a Fact Woman during RTT and she amazed me with the amount of culinary supplies she had lined up to begin her holiday baking, like 24 lbs of butter. (What on earth would someone do with 24 LBS of butter? I still have a stick of unsalted left over from 3 months ago!)And I got the idea for this Spin Cycle.

I want your best holiday sweets recipe. What do people expect you to bring to the potluck? It can be chocolate, fruit, spice, bundt, just bunt it over here and make us wish we were coming to YOUR holiday table!

That's our Spin Cycle for next Friday, December 18th!

AND......

It's back..

The Christmas Spin Cycle! Or Cyber Secret Santas!

We did it last year and we're doing it again this year!

For those new to the process, it's fairly simple. And it's not due until December 25th! Never know what to get your favorite blogger? Now you do! And this present won't be under their tree, but in their Google Reader!

1. Just email me at spriteskeeper[at]live[dot]com with a list of five blogs that you love to stalk by December 23rd.

2. I will email you back with your Secret Santa subject. (So no one gets picked twice, although it would be flattering.) (This will begin Saturday, December 19th, so things don't get confused with next week's Spins.)

3. Write about them and provide a link so we can discover a new great blog or just rediscover what we like about one we know. Highlight some of your favorite posts and what makes their blog such a wonderful read. (Make sure you let them know if you want to post a picture from their site since everyone is up in arms these days about privacy laws and such..)

4. When you publish, email the blogger you are writing about to let them know they're being honored! (Judging by last year's response, they will love it.)

Again, it's not due until December 25th, but to get in on this Spin Cycle, you MUST email me with your list by Midnight, December 23rd. I will email you back with your pick as soon as I can, beginning December 19th.

See you next Friday for the Holiday Baking Spins! (I am going to need to unplug my oven or bad things will happen to my scale...)

Can you pencil me in for a bitchfest?

I have had the abject (although I OBJECT) pleasure of overhearing (overhearing may be too strong a word considering I didn't WANT to overhear, but my eardrums don't have a selection process when it comes to sound. If they did, life would be a little more quiet and a little less stressful.) a woman dictate her entire holiday schedule to a friend and complain about how many activities her kids were enrolled in and how everyone wants a piece of her time and how this child needs to be somewhere and this other child needs to be thirty miles away somewhere else on the same day and every weekend looks like this until two weeks after the New Year because I and my kids are just that special and let's not forget the cake I made for last year's holiday event and how everyone raved about it and would be disappointed if I didn't make it again and the time and the patience needed and "Oh, I'm so busy! Pity my schedule! Raise your eyebrows in admiration! Bask in my organization! I am IN DEMAND! KNEEL BEFORE MY UTERUS!"

The other woman called her Super Mom.

I smiled to myself as I thought of another title, Super Moan. (I may copywright that...)

So, you will understand why, when Sprite came home asking to be enrolled in a tumbling class because her friend is, on top of the ballet forms and Tumblebus ads and Computer-Tots invite that came with her daily task sheet, I responded with a very polite, if effective:

"Hell to the no!"

Sprite may not thank me in the long run, but my friends will when I'm not raising my voice and whipping out my planner while discussing my extra-cirricular schedules and plans. Come to think of it, John will reap the benefit too from my lack of bitching.

Merry Christmas, honey. I'm giving you the gift of a calmer me.

(By the way, Computer-Tots? John mentioned it may be a good idea since we live in such a technilogically advanced time and kids should know their computers. I reminded him that HE in fact is a Geek and she can learn from him for FREE.)

(Saving him money on computer classes? That's his stocking stuffer.)

(I'd better stop before he tells me where I can put that stocking...)