Now I don’t care who you are, this is too funny. I love getting funny pictures from my friends via email. Every Christmas I get a boat load of holiday photos that I really love sharing here on my blog. They just crack me up!

O.K. the Christmas rush is totally on. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I’ve finally finishing all my shopping and preparations that have needed all of my attention this last week or so. The 21 inches of snow that we got over the weekend made it a challenge for most us to get everything done. The roads are a nightmare, the malls are packed and I’m so done with Christmas shopping at this point.

I’m off work tomorrow, so I’ll be spending the day getting the very last minute odds and ends done and then I’m going to spend the rest of the day on my laptop. I’m still digging around for the best Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resort that I want to spend time at this up and coming summer with a few friends. I had no idea that there were so many Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resorts to choose from, but it has been interesting, to say the least.

I’ve had a few folks recommend some of their favorite Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels, but just can’t make a commitment right now. I really want to have somethings lined up before I see these friends again, which will be right after Christmas. I’d like to have at least one or two of the better Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotel information readily available to present to them, so it’s a good thing I have the day off tomorrow.

I’ll keep you posted and wish you and yours a very Happy Holiday!

This video shows the winner of 2009’s ” Ukraine ’s Got Talent,” Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch. The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $75,000.

She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated. It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears. She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier. This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying good-bye.

 The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million. Kseniya Simonova says:

 ”I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.”

 Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.

As you know I enjoy surfing the World Wide Web. It fascinates me so to be able to peek into other worlds, people’s lives and their towns and some times their country as well, business and personnel alike. Google has a few great translation sites that come in handy, when needed. I prefer looking into things that are basically in our language, you know places from the U.K and Australia they are the easiest and I usually enjoy reading about what is going on there.

The one site that I was looking into was one of their waste management services that is committed to resource recovery and recycling in Australia. I’m a total recycling advocate and am always looking into companies that recycle. When I googled “facilities management sydney” I came up with veoliaes.com and had an interesting read on what they are doing for our Mother Earth and being as green as they can.

I was glad to see that they just recently started their “Clean Up and Out for the New Year” urging to get people to call and talk to them about the range of skip bins that they have available for their customers, to make recycling even easier than it is all ready. If you are provided a bin to put your cans and glass jars in and a bin to put your paper products in then what else needs to be done in order to get your recyclables to where they need to be to be recycled.

I know that I want my kids and grandchildren to live in a clean world. One with trees, water and fresh air. By golly I’m going to do what I can to make sure that they have these things, it’s all good!