Archive for September, 2009

An elephant in a elevator..

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Thanks to the Thia photo blog for the story on world records.

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In an effort to make this adventure we call AlbinoPhant more personal, we have been asked to share some background on our family.

This post will focus on Sarah and Bruce.  The next post will give some background on the children.

You will see that we are just ordinary people. We want to share this extraordinary party with you because it has been a wonderful addition to our family.

Here are few tidbits of information concerning Sarah and Bruce Christensen

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* Bruce sold Amway to Sarah’s mother while he was in high school.
* Sarah asked Bruce to the Sadie Hawkins dance and she wasn’t impressed.
* Bruce was on the scene of Sarah’s first teenage car wreck and did some first-aid.
* Sarah wasn’t a fan of any of Bruce’s high school girl friends.
* Bruce wasn’t paying attention to any of Sarah’s boy friends.
* Bruce and Sarah lived in rival small communities before joining together at the high school.
* Sarah wrote Bruce every week while he was serving on a two-year mission.
* Bruce got a Dear-John letter from another girl and Sarah was happy.
* Sarah re-introduced herself at a church meeting.
* Bruce attempted a first kiss… hit the cars blinker and forgot to remove the seat belt.
* Sarah still continued to date him, even though he seemed like a klutz.
* Bruce asked Sarah for marriage on the Foresthill Bridge.
* Sarah’s parents were upset because she left college just shy of graduation.
* Bruce and Sarah married in November of 1975.
* Sarah made their first home in a 1963 single-wide trailer.
* Bruce worked.
* Sarah gave birth to their first child; born with cancer, requiring many surgeries.
* Bruce started businesses throughout the years.
* Sarah delivered four more children into the world.
* Bruce and Sarah have lived in California, Washington and Oregon.
* Sarah and Bruce watched their children leave the nest to live all around the country.
* Sarah went back to college and got her degree.
* Bruce and Sarah have seven grand children and counting.
* Bruce took a cement mixer to BlogWorld as a publicity stunt.
* Bruce and Sarah are launching a Facebook application that keeps families connected.

The story continues… And we are happy to be writing it together!

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Answer: Optimistic!

We are just Peddling Elephant Jokes HERE

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ANSWER: So he wouldn’t fall into the hot chocolate.

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Thanks to Loppy Ewe for the photo

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Answer: Because they had to pack their trunks.

SAVE these Jokes… Two by Two

Thanks to Strengthened by Grace for the image

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Excellent question…  I had to find out, so I Google’d for the answer…

It seems that there is a group of serious Lego aficionados that have adapted the traditional white elephant gift exchange or Yankee Swap into a Lego brick exchange.

OK… did you know that Lego pieces were called bricks?  I’m of Danish descent and I always thought of them as blocks not bricks.

Oh… did you know that they were invented in Denmark?  Me nether!

I am assuming that the title Dirty Brickster spun from the Dirty Santa gift exchange, which is just one of the many names for this traditional party activity.

It seems that a Seattle based Lego brick group called Sealug are the developers of this gift party.  They use the Dirty Brickster game to exchange Lego brick assemblies and other Lego gear.

This is just another example of how many ways the white elephant gift exchange party can be adapted for fun.

If you review the rules for the Dirty Brickster, you will see that they follow the white elephant party rules pretty closely. Except for the chanting…

When a participant steals a Lego gift, those assembled generally chant “Dirty Brickster! Dirty Brickster! Dirty Brickster!”.

I can see why this chanting rule works for the Lego party, but can you imagine trying this at the White Elephant Gift Exchange?     It would be a mouthful and a tongue-twister.

So, now you know of the Dirty Brickster party and the history of Legos…

What other names have your heard given to the Yankee Swap, err, I mean – Rob your Neighbor.

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Elephant camouflage

Answer: So they can sneak across pool tables…

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Thanks to Pioneer Chronicles for the image

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There are no reminders needed to bring to mind the current economic doldrums for empty nesters and their dispersed children. Money is tight and the cost of travel creates increased restrictions on their regular family gatherings.

Some call this phenomenon “The Tyranny of Distance”. Yes, now distance has become the de facto tyrant of family connection.

When everyone lived close, family celebrations only required setting a time, notifying everyone and then purchasing the gifts. But today, thousands of miles separate us; giving distance and travel costs tyrannical power over each of us.

These economic restrictions have not stopped some  traditional family activities from finding a way around the problem of distance. We still ship gifts to one another and attempt to spoil grandchildren from a distance. We still attempt to connect by phone, webcam, email and social networks. But the rich personal connections are much more difficult to produce in today’s realities.

Distance has challenged our personal closeness, particularly during holidays or other special occasions.
The internet is delivering many great tools to break the grip that distance has placed upon us. Many creative applications are springing up to reduce this tyranny of distance, even while saving family resources.

There is an online version of the white elephant gift exchange that is attempting to breakdown some of these restrictions. It is allowing families to stay connected in a much richer way than ever before in the online space.

This online gift exchange party uses several tools of the social web, and then wraps them into a traditional party activity. Like any yankee swap, Chinese exchange or Dirty Santa party, this online mimic provides a way to share gifts and to connect individually with family and friends through game play comment streams.

New eCommerce systems allow families to shop for gifts and then share those gifts with one another, without expensive travel costs.

Parties have traditionally been the unifying activities for special family events, so these online parties should feel natural, as they are used to stay connected.

Using the web to connect and to share during our special life occasions will become our personal protest against the tyranny of distance.

What are you doing to beat the distance?

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We are big fans of any white elephant gift exchange.. This is a great video of Elephants exchanging soccer balls:

Thanks to Stupidvideo.com for the video

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