happy thanksgiving!
Tutorial: The Goldfish Song
even if you don’t celebrate thanksgiving… you are involved by association… because i am thankful for YOU. :)
i’m with family, so i must be quick. tomorrow i run the dana point turkey trot 10K with my dad!! exciting :)
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
heart.
me
oovret: Week 30
Thank you for answering my trivial questions every week.
Thank you for giving us a song to enjoy every week.
Thank you for allowing us to follow you on this incredible journey of yours.
Thank you for sharing your heart and soul through your music.
Thank you for being such a lovely person.
What are some things you are thankful for?
my family and friends and fans who are all the most awesome, inspiring, supportive people in the world. cute things. yummy things. pretty things. music. sleep. trees. bugs. smiles. my ancestors. being alive.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
The Goldfish Song? Boo. F1rst.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
lol.. i’ll try playing it now
November 26th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Happy thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving to you!
… and all those in Kinaland have a Happy Thanksgiving, vacation or a great day, whichever applies ;-)
November 26th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Happy Stuffing Day!
Have fun at the Turkey Trot!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
its a bit hard.. :(.. i’ll keep trying.. love the handturkey drawing.. :D ive forgotten how we were taught to draw the turkey that way in elementary.. awesome. :)
November 26th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Thanksgiving is not a tradition here in Finland, but I love the idea. Happy thanksgiving to you too, Kina! And to your family and everybody else here!
Btw… I don´t play guitar, but watching these tutorials is always great fun :)
November 27th, 2008 at 12:08 am
i think i’m gonna take the guitar out again and start playing.
well, happy thanksgiving to you, Kina & your family!
hope your day is awesome.
& yes, have fun at the turkey trot.
i think i speak for everyone here when i say we’re thankful for you too kina (& company)!!
November 27th, 2008 at 12:09 am
happy thanksgiving kina!
November 27th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Happy Thanksgiving to you Kina And the whole Grannis family.
also all you Bla(h)gers out there
November 27th, 2008 at 12:23 am
yay! thanks for the bday shoutout =).
and happy birthday meeks!
happy gobbles everyone! and yea,
shoutout to the turkeys. poor poor delicious turkeys..
November 27th, 2008 at 12:29 am
@Ray LaMontagne: Ray LaMontagne!? For reals?? I never pegged you for a ‘first’ commenter…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! And thank you Grannis family for providing such a welcoming community here.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Ah right hand technique…why must you be so elusive?
Interesting video. Sad about teeny bear. Has he been missing since the last time you showed us that drawing in his absence? That can’t be good. I suspect it was…Mama G, in the laundry room, with the crowbar. You know how mothers are about old dirty things…
November 27th, 2008 at 12:44 am
I’d like to wish a happy thanksgiving to all bloggers (us and non-us alike).
Thank you Kina for sharing your music with us, I have only tried using 2 fingers on my pick hand so far, but I will make an attempt at the goldfish song someday soon.
Thank you also for including me in your shoutouts, waiting a whole year for a bday shoutout just seemed an eternity, so thank you and yes you did make my day :))
I’m thinking of getting a cam this weekend so I may make some postings of my own on youtube.
Would you at all be interested in seeing me struggle at one of your songs or covers? I remember you saying in 1 video “if you could only see all the people you were playing for”, it’s not the same but close enough perhaps.
Anyway, if I ever make one I’ll be sure to post it here.
Thank you bloggers for blogging into my life.
Thank you Kina for sharing yours with us.
Thank the turkey for jumping on our plates.
But never, no never thank bill gates.
(not sure where that came from, but its 8am here, cut me some slack :P)
November 27th, 2008 at 12:47 am
aww I think everyone would agree that we are most definitely thankful for YOU, Miss Kina Grannis! =) thank you for brightening up our weeks, you’re simply marvellous :P
ps. love that tutorial, I’ll probably make a cover for you and post it as a response! hehe hope you’re having a wonderful thanksgiving.. We don’t celebrate it here in Australia BUT we do like.. thanking people.. haha
November 27th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
^^V
November 27th, 2008 at 1:04 am
HAPPY THANKSGIVIG KINA!!!(screams in a womans voice)haha!
November 27th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Happy Thanksgiving Kina! I am very thankful for you too. Thanks for sharing your music with us and thanks for being such an amazing person.
<3
November 27th, 2008 at 1:10 am
@ kina do what is your favorite food for thanksgiving?
@ at the granni clan what do you guys like to look forward to at thanksgiving andat the dinner table? peace,love,and all a good night i am out until friday.
November 27th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Your tutorials are some of my favorite videos. Every time I watch them, I feel like playing right away…although, I don’t have a guitar and I don’t know how to play. lol I can foresee me learning to only play your songs and being happy about it.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Kina and the whole Grannis family…and my fellow Street Teamers and everyone else.
And Happy Birthday to Arch and Meeks!
November 27th, 2008 at 1:23 am
@mojojojo78:
LOL. I had a good laugh at that one, here I am thinking you play guitar… cute.
I have to say watching the videos does the same for me, I am typing with the guitar on my lap and I have had it there since I woke up this morning (I’ve actually played a bit already too, just found out I’m not a morning-guitar-person)
@Alexpham:
We don’t do thanksgiving here (holland), but my absolute fav-meal is the xmas dinner. I am part english and spent most of my xmasss’s in england, and their xmas dinner is probably closest to a thanksgiving dinner we have here.
Big ole turkey, gravy, roast potatoes, stuffing, veggies, trifle.
God life can be good.
November 27th, 2008 at 1:28 am
@avweije: Dang that is so good so i will be eating for you my friend as an honor for Europeans that dont celebrate thanksgiving though i have ppl from france and germany i wish i had some in Holland though there are many vietnamese people there cause i know some and can you tell me how to say Vietnamese people in Dutch thankyou. And i agree with you life is good haha! And i want Dutch chocalate they are the best!
Seriously i am out now! byebye…
November 27th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Hey, I just found you on youtube (and since then have found out that I am a year behind anyone else). Will your album make its way to Australia? Will you? Your pretty amazing by the way, I’ll spread the word down under lol.
<3 keep playing :)
Corinne.xx.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:26 am
oh snap kina. i’m actually playing it. yesssssss this guitar thing ain’t so hard. if i put up a tutorial for one of my songs, will you sing it? haha
cool room. you have nice hands. enjoy your churkeys, everyone.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:47 am
@Aeglos:
I don’t know, but ‘IN’ the lake seems like a plausible enough site backed up with an unconscious slip of possible spoken fact, swiftly corrected so sheepishly and thus remains highly suspicious! dum dum daaaaaaa
@ all
Yay, Ray LaMontagne’s back, wonders whether he has begun another comment record breaking blahg for us:)
@ kina
I’m thankful that you’ve associated all of us, because placed out of context, that means we’re all your partners now and no longer just lovers of <u3
November 27th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Bk @ u;) et H bd
November 27th, 2008 at 6:01 am
@Harold Bareng:
Somehow, I don’t think he can always manage be the 600th one:))
November 27th, 2008 at 6:08 am
@CLS_LURCH:
Pulls door bell, notes floor shaking, looks up, and up, no up some more and says:-
“Ditto and also 2u:)”
& legs it!
November 27th, 2008 at 6:44 am
@dro or ryan:
Editing tutorials could be cool posts!
&
I’m adding ‘Seriously’ to your ‘cool bedroom’ statement, minus the bunk beds, of course, but then again, tis good training for advancing to a four poster for whoever gets the bottom and they’re gr8;)
November 27th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Hey kina. :D
Thanks for the tutorial.
I was wondering if you could view and critique some of my music and videos.
I need some one who will be brutally honest.
I can’t get better if i don’t know what i’m doing wrong. ^_^
Anyways; youtube.com/user/theliamtyler
Thanks if you can help.
It will mean a lot.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:11 am
@ emi
&
@ misa
Did you get a chance to learn how to play cello from double Tut?
+
Did you get to do any singing/anything on this album?
@ kina
&
@ Dr G
Is the ‘Trots’ something that happens because of having so much Turkey at thankgiving, kind of like a purging? j/k
Anyway, I’d best go mix up/eat some drummoch before I get a migraine as it’s gone 1400hours and I’ve not yet ate and titches latest lot of food was starting to look good to eat:))
November 27th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Happy Thanksgiving!!! I am thankful for YOU Kina. Thanks for the tutorial. It was a lot easier than I expected. That and you’re just a good teacher. Loved the tree sculpture emi created. soo pretty.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:47 am
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
November 27th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Hey Kina!
Thank you for being being a sweet and caring person, and an awesome artists! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family.
I was invited to run the Turkey Trot in Long Beach. I passed on it. Have fun in Dana Point! :D
November 27th, 2008 at 8:37 am
yay!! happy thanksgiving
kina we are all thankful for you and your super fantastic music
u brought us all together and we have awesome friends all over the world now
so thank you ;)
November 27th, 2008 at 8:53 am
@sabafa: But is he this Ray LaMontagne??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddX1FOD1Yx4
November 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
@Alexpham:
“Vietnamese people” in dutch is “Vietnamese mensen”.
people=mensen, Vietnamese is the same, just pronounced differently, it would be something like this:
The “vietnam” part is similar, then “ese” is “ace-uh”, so “vietnam-ace-uh”
Hope all your thanksgivings are good.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Happy Thanksgiving from your friends up north(you know, the people you blame for the cold weather haha juust kidding!)! Thanksgiving was a while ago for us but I’m still grateful to ALL of you(the granni, fellow bloggers, everyone!). So thanks for being awesome and I hope you have/are having a great thanksgiving. Take care <3
November 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
That was a good tutorial for the goldfish song! I knew you had a capo on the 1st fret and I knew the A was tuned to something different, but I didn’t know what exact note it was. Yay, now I can play it the way it’s suppose to be played.
have a good thanksgiving
November 27th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
happy thanksgiving to you kina and your family from your fan down here in texas jess! =] haha i hope you have a great day!
happy thanksgiving to all the other kina fans, =] i hope you guys have a wonderful day =]
<3
Jess
November 27th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
hey kina would you post what notes you play on the piano for the goldfish song?
November 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Happy Gobble Gobble Day!!! =)
November 27th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I am at my cousins for thanksgiving and we r doing kareoke and I wish the grannis daughters were here :) they would tear it up LOL does the grannis household do kareoke together??? LOL I bet kina scores really high. Our kareoke scores us btw LOL
November 27th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
@sabafa:
@arch really!
Ha-Ha, somehow the @arch bit didn’t happen for the link that this is linked to:/
November 27th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
@Kina/family
I’ve just been watching Kina’s Realize cover, and after all this time, it has only just occurred to me to ask what caused the camera to fall, was it a camera attacking snail like had happened to mine?
I think that might have happened because that notoriously over amarous snail fancied his chances with the one he’d spotted in the lens, ie his own reflection!
Oh, if one first finds/plays Kina’s latest video within the blahg, does that then stop the subscription one from being sent, as I still haven’t received it, although I’ve now got one in a new playlist anyway, but something’s amiss, somewhere along the line!
November 27th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
@sabafa been having the same thing happen here most recent vids not showing up in subscription
November 27th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Yey Teacher Kina! Thank you for showing us your room, I love all the artwork by the talented Misses (is that plural for Miss? I hope so) Grannis. I hope you are enjoying your time at home with the family. :)
November 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
@CLS_LURCH:
Thanks for sharing that with me CLS_LURCH, sickening though it is to hear of others also having computer/You Tube problems! I’ve been having that much trouble within my site again that I (and I am being serious) almost deleted my account again a few times since this video was posted and I would have done without hesitation if I only held subscriptions, but I have have lost friends through deleting previous accounts and have been blessed to have kept some over and over again, some have done that until this account had been opened and either haven’t got around to pal up again or have now had enough - if the latter is the case, I don’t blame them, I’ve long ago had more than enough of all the computer strife! A smidgen of the woes being faced can be viewed on my channel, which can be got to by clicking upon the blue link above this text, to be honest though, I think many of the problems are Windows Internet Explorer/Microsoft based!
May computer peace settle upon us before we settle in the ground and get the Heaven issue perfect one for gratis!
Anyway, after reading this, I bet you’d rather I’d only played the good old Thunder and Lighting game at your door earlier on, so don’t bother getting up, I’ll close the door on my way out of here;))
B A N G
November 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
thankful for:
- toilet paper in a public toilet
- gummy bears
November 27th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
thank you for the birthday shoutout! i felt special with the all caps! two weeks crew love for life!
=)
i leave comments on your youtube video but i am sure it gets lost cuz there are so many!
i wrote
“there is no singer more down to earth than kina grannis… her fans are truly blessed”
i will write all my comments here instead of there LOL since u probably can’t read through all of them! and u read here more?? i dunno! when u go on ur tour, please come through both chicago and fort collins colorado! that is my only birthday/Christmas/thanksgiving/martin luther king day wish hahaha lol
November 27th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
@Alexpham: thankful for you
@arch: and you
@sabafa: and you
@maryanne: definitely you
@dro or ryan: yo you
@FinnFan: et you
@Anonymous: and whoever you are
@g3mini: and you paperclip guy
@corinne: oh hey..and you
@Code2mind: you AND the avatar
@Glenn: you without the mouth
@Natalie D: and sexy you
@gu3ssit: you with the guitar
November 28th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Ok, own up to it, who killed the blahg instead of the turkey?
November 28th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Yarh, me hearties, this ere morsel has been purloined in a sail by snatch incident over on the beached for copper bottoming LaMontagne
“Let It Be Me” off “Gossip In the Grain” will be featured tonight on “Fringe” on FOX, at 9pm.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:26 am
poor ole turkeys
November 28th, 2008 at 11:28 am
hellooooo *echo echo echo*…. hmm, it’s pretty quiet in here. Now I can sing as loud as I can! (hoping no one is in the room) “Goodbye my almost lover, goodbye my hopeless dream…” haha.
November 28th, 2008 at 11:29 am
oh, and happy 35,000 subs!!
November 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Belated happy thanksgiving folks. Hope you’re enjoying the long weekend.
Seeing these tutorials makes me wish I still had my guitars :-(
November 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Happy thanksgiving to all in this blog i love you all!!!we don’t celebrate thanksgiving in france but…i’m happy for you it’s smell like winter now.
Thank you kina for your tutorial it’s nice but i have to buy a guitar now haha,thank you for you little guided-tour in your room (cute)thank you for your smile every week for your twitt (i have lot of fun to read it)thank you for being you and giving you heart your soul and all.
PS:@misa thank you for gravatar’s tutorial last time!!good to speak with you!!!
PS bis to the concerned people i’m searching for the last weeks text about the spelling checker where can i found it!!!(for my english teacher)
November 28th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
@caidalica:
About the spelling checker text: there seems to be some slightly different versions, but here´s one link:
http://soli.inav.net/~catalyst/Humor/spell.htm
November 28th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
@FinnFan: thank you very kind (this blog is amazing one question one response WOW!!!
November 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
@caidalica:
yeh i love this place!! i feel so comfortable here.. even know i’ve never met anyone in person, i can still feel like i’m among friends
great music, great people, a great time ;)
November 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hi kination ppl!!!
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and some time to rest and visit with family and friends. I have a special thanks to all of you for the warmth and friendship you all give to me and to each other.
Also, I am deeply touched by the good wishes from those of you from other countries. You won’t ever know how much it means to us! Holland, France, the UK, Canada . . . we are thankful for your friendship and a chance to learn about you and your traditions.
Well, I am back after an “unplugged” thanksgiving and of course, the first place for me to visit was right here. So happy happy happy one and all.
November 28th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
welcome back everyone who celebrated! I hope all is well and you’re not too bloated from all the food ;).
@thuff7 - you’re welcome. After all, we ARE like one big family here :D
November 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
@thuff7:
welcome back big guy!
November 28th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
YEAH the week-end gang is here!!!!lol
November 28th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
@maryanne:
Thanks, maryanne. Indeed. How are things up there? Anything special for the weekend?
@newbster:
Hiya, Newbie!! How was your Thanksgiving?? Have fun with family?
November 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
@thuff7
yo dudee your back!!! yay now we can get the blog/forum hoppin again!!! kination FTW
November 28th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
@Harold Bareng:
I seriously don’t know, I’d like it to be though, but with no link to prove otherwise, I guess we’ll just have to hope that that commenter would like to prove it to us someday, we’re friendly enough, so maybe it will happen, especially if it is him as it might reap more album sales, etc for him and hopefully some colabs with Kina too8D It might turn out to be an elabaroute hoax by thuff7 to get me back through getting me first and savouring a lengthy stalk/kill because I got him imbetween times:/ay\: does that even dare to compute:? Could even be the Kina/MamaG partnership working away at some mischieveousness level of cookieness, afterall, they’ve both been missing in action a lot and the image has been missing too at times, but it’s all good:) and no TROUBLE:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpD97p7qGzs
November 28th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
@Anonymous: Y not look at the octave and use ears and fingers to guess it till answered, as I’m not so sure that Kina has ever undergone working towards any grades prior and I doubt she has the time nowadays!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
@confused newbie: wow i am touched im first on the list haha!!!! =)
@thuff7: how was the trip o i got myself a new camera! yay!!!
@evann: hey wat abot me i want to be apart o wait i think i am haha!:D
@avweije: thx for the lesson awesome just give a tidbit here and there i will visit holland nxt summer k?
To all my thanksgiving was awesome food family and all it needed was a cool KINA CONCERT! down in the OC so yea in Fullerton chilling and today went shopping at three malls South Coast Plaza, Westminster, and the Irvine Spectrum. =) HAPPY NERDY,Geeky blackFriday! =) seriously i totally nerded out today waking up at 5am and getting great deals now i will be back soon shall eat and say adieu to my grandparents cause they are going to Vietnam and won’t come back after Christmas. =(
November 28th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
@Alexpham:
yessir you are deffinatly a kination member–we all are!!
how was ur thanksgiving?
November 28th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
@thuff7:
Oh and of course, last but not least, FinnFan from the great Nordic Republic of Finland! Thanks for your good wishes. I hope all is well on your side of the Atlantic!!
We clearly have some “House” episodes to discuss!!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
@confused newbie:
Aw shucks, thank you nubs, 2u2:)
November 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
http://ocarina.smule.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1028&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
Goldfish Song transcribed for iPhone Ocarina! I couldn’t get it perfect, don’t beat me up!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
@Windscale:
Oo that so better hadn’t be a sneaky silent bid for Kina’s black Tak that might not even be up for grabs yet:P but in the interest of camaraderie for a selfish cause, I’m not adverse to you doing a run with her and bringing it back over for me;))
November 28th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Thanks Kina for the tutorial!
@Alexpham:
yes luv u too! :)
I luv reading everyone’s comments… very entertaining
November 28th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
@thuff7:
Yay, there doesn’t seem to have been any deaths through food poisoning reported here yet, so you all must be good enough cooks to not dwindle the Kina fan listing unexpectedly!
Did the meal get the open waistband up salute or maybe even the full monty zip down award?
November 28th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
@confused newbie: aww gee lol thank YOU n00bs!
@thuff7: naw, nothing much happening over here. Well, my dad lives and works in NY so he came home for the long weekend!! Oh and I can’t forget about the snow ;p…. did someone say House? lol
November 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
@Alexpham:
you’re my business partner right??!! of course you’re first!
@thuff7:
great! how was your little vacation?
@sabafa:
aww shucks? you mean shucketh…heh heh.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
@maryanne:
Hopefully distant enough family members for legal hook ups to occur as such unfolding events are so sweet to witness!
November 28th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
@confused newbie:
;))
This time I’ll say shuck, so that I can clam up whilst you bring out some more pearls from your oyster like shell for I’m off to You Tube land as I hear the call of Kina beckoning and stirring within my very soul, so tis away home for me to the dulcet tones of our aeolus, yet classy lassie! Good night and God bless.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
@sabafa:
ha! No need for the full monty, thank goodness! We had a ton of food, but the conversation was satisfying and kept our mouths busy, so the tradition of eating ourselves into a vegetative state was for once foregone.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@maryanne:
Snow??!! How much? What kind?
I can’t get enough snow. Mostly because I love the smell and the way it muffles sound. But I also love it because my fellow Northern Virginians are wholly incapable of handling the smallest of flakes. I love to watch them flounder about so helplessly. The entire metropolitan Washington DC area is hopelessly crippled my a mere 2″ dusting. So even the hint of snow means a paid day off!
“House” is on as I type. But it is not lupus!!!! =D
November 28th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
@Alexpham:
@ConNewbie:
Trip was great. It was 60 in North Carolina after a week of being in the 20’s and 30’s at home. We were totally unprepared and were roasting long sleeve shirts and sweaters while we sat in patio furniture outside. My aunt brought some albums she made of our family genealogy going back to the 1790’s.
AP. What kind of camera?
November 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
@confused newbie: aww gee.. thanks!! i’m thankful for you too.
@thuff7: how was your trip?? did you get to try the pumpkin turnover recipe??
@Alexpham: wow… you did the whole 5AM wake up?! haha… i got to Fry’s at about 9AM & it was so super crowded, but thankfully, the lines moved quickly.
so it’s back to the daily grind… how are you all?????
November 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
@confused newbie: Yup your right buddy well eventhough i have no experience whatsoever haha!
@evann: super duper chill man my family is fun haha! =)
@thuff7: the red Kodax MX10something it was 89 dollars and in red (stupid target colors)so we bought two one for me and one for a person in vietnam. I have guests over and spent 3 grand just on watches today man they are loaded and also from vietnam visiting for the first time. =) I bought it for trips and concerts “kina’s” haha! Oh at least you guys where cold any snow cause cali just has rain winter season only all we do is go up to the mountains for snow.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
@sabafa: nite!!!! in England
@anyone the attacks in india? huhhuh??? well i think it is stupid!
November 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
@g3mini: yup i am tired though am jacked on caffeine and sugar yay! well it was sooooo crowded and like a mob over here went to frys and bestbuy and target and malls =)
November 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
@g3mini: o yea i am hungry and will eat leftovers.
@evann: oh the blueberry pie was a success it was great with whip cream and vanilla ice cream yum.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
@g3mini:
Hi g3mini!! Thanks, our trip was awesome. Lots of driving (12 hours out of the past 48) but we had a great visit with family.
How was your holiday?? I hope is was great!
I did get the recipe for the turnovers. Now we are home, so we will shop for some seasonal favorites and maybe even a small turkey for our house. The downside to visiting family is not have the leftovers for turkey sandwiches. So I will be making the pumpkin turnovers. We’d be happy to share one with you, but will do so in spirit at least.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
@thuff7: TURNOVERS? are those like empanadas? and i got gumbo receipe from family in Loiusiana.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
@Alexpham:
Hey AP. Yes we lived in CA (Rancho Cordova near Sacramento) We would go up into the Sierras every year around now to toboggan and cut our own Christmas tree. Lots of fun. Then back down to the mild weather.
How long did the guest from Vietnam stay? Where are they from in Vietnam? I don’t think I ever asked you that either. My wife was born in Tra Vinh which is a province in the Mekong Delta. She still has family there. Her aunt built a hospital there, but she is in Philadelphia now and someone else in the family is running the hospital.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
@Alexpham:
g3mini passed along the recipe. They are more like individual pies. But I’ve seen Mexican ones that have pumpkin, chilies and chorizo.
I heard there is a large Vietnamese population near New Orleans. Probably the climate and the fishing is an attraction.
Well, I’m signing out from the east coast. It’s been a long travel day. Good to be home in my own bed!! Night all!
November 28th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
@thuff7: theyare still here but in vegas just to see i guess they got lucky asking the government to come over they were accepted here on their first plea. I am guessing they are up north like Ha Noi. Well hopefully i can cme over there after my college years and help the hospital twice a year well the kids anyway and maybe the old, but how was your kids during your journey? were they asleep or a handful? well usually i am in the car with my little cousins they don’t mess around i just listen and play with them heehee i wish i can meet your kids they seem like angels.=)
November 28th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
@confused newbie: oh… side note… just so you know, i’d be paperclip “girl/lady” lol… NOT guy! hahaha
@Alexpham: ANGRY mob, like in NY. too sad an incident (the walmart associate). & the attacks in india, a little scary & a lot sad. oh AP, you should try the turnovers, & yeah, i guess they are like empanadas.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1813,158173-253204,00.html
@thuff7: my holiday was good… it was another small gathering since family is just too far away. only the 5 of us this time. it was still great. lotsa left overs too… but seriously, i’m all turkey’d out. i’ll do ham sandwiches. christmas is coming around the corner - any plans??
November 28th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
@g3mini: i will get some tomorrow or buy them and make ‘em. o i wish we can have a blog party.
@confused newbie wat do we say tour guides for the LA and OC lol! we can eat in LA like little tokyo and have breaks at tastea lol!
November 28th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
@g3mini thx for the recipe and hopefully i can make it tomorrow and i want akool blog party i will b a guide in LA and newb can be it for the OC we can all eat in malibu for dinner it would be awesome! :D
November 29th, 2008 at 12:45 am
@thuff7:
Now that sounds good until one remembers reasons for being taught that it is more polite to not talk whilst eating include that it is such a waste of food spraying it all over the guests which thus stops the inducement of a delightful food gorge nap through the dizzying mix of almost getting starved whilst also partaking exercise levels of dodging food spray and thus I conclude an alternative vision of your clan gathering from that which was first gained:P LOL
November 29th, 2008 at 12:50 am
@Alexpham:
Many other countries too ap/shrlck hms:P
November 29th, 2008 at 1:37 am
@sabafa: haha!
@g3mini: wish we have a blog party i will be a tour guide once you guys come take you to disneyland and such and confused newbie want to help?
November 29th, 2008 at 1:44 am
@Alexpham:
You’re welcome and I’ll see you next year! Maybe talk to Kina and plan it when she does a concert here :P
@thuff7:
Personally I think it’s time you learned about the age old dutch tradition of the “vogeltjesdans”.
I will try to find a video or something online for you.
there we go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQL2Cb6_utc
November 29th, 2008 at 1:51 am
@avweije: awesome
@sabafa: haha!
@g3mini: lets have a blog party i cll tour guide and would newb help? LA whoohoo o and guess wat i just saved money on my car insurence lol geico is whack lol!
November 29th, 2008 at 1:56 am
come to think of it, this might be a nice song for Kina to play, while her sisters are doing the birddance behind her :))
November 29th, 2008 at 2:47 am
@ Misa/Emi & Boyfriend/any1interested
Here’s something that might tickle your fancy, but I’ll give a word of caution, my computer would not allow the design kit to be opened, so be careful if your thinking of saving or opening the zip file - its details are shown so you can give it a look over Misa, obviously it’s not shown in their click for it:)
“DESIGN SP ARTWORK
To celebrate the release of Crack the Shutters, SP.com are running a competition to design the artwork for the website only remix version of the single.
The best one will be chosen by the band and will be the official digital single sleeve. The only rule we’re setting for this one is that you need to have Snow Patrol and Crack the Shutters somewhere on the artwork, but otherwise get those creative juices flowing.
We’ve also uploaded a design kit which includes the 7″ and CD covers for inspiration and the required text in our SP font. You can get this by clicking
http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/click/5320075-69101/webbeta.sov.uk.vvhp.net/~universal/Polydor/snowpatrol/CTS_design_kit.zip.
Entries need to be emailed to us at remixcomp@snowpatrol.com by Wednesday 10th December, with the artwork sent to us as a Square JPEG, 72 dpi to fit 350px x 350px.
N.B. Please try and keep the files underneath 2MB’s.
Good Luck
The Eskimos”
November 29th, 2008 at 6:08 am
@sabafa:
You’re killing me!!!! Now I can’t get that image out of my head which is hysterical!
Fortunately (in this case, anyway), the Huff clan is quite long-winded, thus allowing ample time for the others to clear their plates whilst one of us waxes philosophic, yada, yada, yada.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:14 am
@avweije:
Wow, what is most amazing is that apparently, some people in the audience actually brought their own vogeltjes just in case the dans broke out. =D
November 29th, 2008 at 7:46 am
so where is ‘hater’ this week? his/her comments are so terrific :)
@Alexpham:
yumm you just made me wicked hungry!! argg
November 29th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Why thank you, glad you like it, hopefully, if I get used to hearing such responses, I wont feel so bad when I hear it being used along with the rejection of a proposal! ;))
I like to think that death by laughter sounds such a nice way to start ones permanent life:)) So I see that you have an apt family name for one that uses some of its members to distract the main body of it whilst the remainder then doggy bag up those distracted, and, most unfortunate kinsfolk’s food! 8))
November 29th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Good morning lovely people!
@sabafa: mhmm, definitely. btw i like your comments. they are really fun to read.
@thuff7: yea there isn’t not much snow but it was very windy last night so it felt like there were little dust particles hitting your face :D. haha oh man, people still complain about the snow here even after living here for soo long lol it’s funny. haha good thing it’s not lupus ;p. who is your favorite character?
@Alexpham: yes! empanadas are great.
November 29th, 2008 at 9:09 am
@thuff: you play that song in holland and people go crazy, mad folk
@all:
I need some advice, who out there records videos to put on youtube? I got a webcam with mic built in today and just recorded my 1st youtube vid, but the sound is very soft.
What’s a good tool for making webcam vids..?
November 29th, 2008 at 9:27 am
@maryanne:
So the fear of the sight of white seems almost universal. =P
So far, we only had flurries for about 5 minutes which evaporated before they hit the ground, but it was still the lead story on the local news. 8/
Favorite character: hmmmmmm. This could take weeks lol ;-D
That would have to be OTH (other than House). I love them all except Vogler which is a given thx to Chi McBride’s brilliance as an actor.
I loved Amber from the start b/c it was clear that the screenwriters wanted you to hate her as CTB. In hindsight through reruns, she was even more incredible. But she won me over on the speech she gave to House about watching the football game and noticing that the winni