I got my favorite skin cream that Sephora discontinued from Lori and Kat, and Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee from ita, so xmas eve was fantastic. I just had two cups of the champagne of coffees and so that was cheery.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Dec 26, 2005 8:46:33 am PST #5077 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2005 8:47:32 am PST #5078 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am glad some cheer was had by you, dollface!
Kat - Dec 26, 2005 8:53:14 am PST #5079 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm sorry for your blueness Allyson.
-t, did the dog(s?) like the walk also?
Robin, I'm sorry we missed you yesterday, but the inertia of the couch was strong this year.
I have just started Don Quixote and, so far, I'm liking it. What are the odds of that?
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2005 8:54:37 am PST #5080 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
No prob--that's what we figured. We are planning on staying home and cocooning (okay, and cleaning) all day today for the same reason.
Allyson - Dec 26, 2005 8:55:43 am PST #5081 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I was promised some pics of my nephew playing his wee baby grand piano, but alas, there are none. But I will see him in FIVE DAYS.
My dad said he was up half the night assembling various gifts from Santa Gramma and Santa Grampa. Train set, remote control cars, and various noisy things that would annoy a parent but make a grandparent deliriously happy. My dad says the house looks like FAO Schwartz. As it should, I think.
Kat - Dec 26, 2005 8:55:54 am PST #5082 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I am sad to have missed you, though. That was the only downside to the Holiday of the Couch.
Okay, gotta go clean the summer room which is where my parents will be sleeping when they get here. Which looks like it will be tomorrow.
Kat - Dec 26, 2005 8:56:28 am PST #5083 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Allyson are you going in to work tomorrow?
Allyson - Dec 26, 2005 8:58:33 am PST #5084 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yes ma'am. Oh! We have to do the great key exchange on Thursday.
Kristen is coming home the day after I leave, so maybe she can care for Polgara's cats so you won't have to travel so far?
Kathy A - Dec 26, 2005 8:59:07 am PST #5085 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm definitely heading over to NJ for Christmas next year--as much as I love my father, spending Christmas Eve with his wife's family was not as much fun as one might think (I knew about 2/3rds of them, and none of them were too interested in chatting with me except for the two-year-old daughter of one of the cousins and my stepbrother's kindergartner, who gave me a big hug when I got there), and opening presents on Christmas morning also bit when everyone else had a pile of presents and I had a little gift bag and envelope.
Rah.
But, it is a new day, so:
Happy birthday to Jesse, Theodosia, and Rayne!!
And HAPPY KPRINKLE to everyone!!!
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2005 9:06:51 am PST #5086 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh, I forgot to post this--the CUTEST EVER quotes from our friend's just turned three-year-old, First, he showed me a toy which was a figurine of a blonde guy in a cape and told me it was "Mouse Boy." I was trying to figure out what story had a blonde mouse boy in it when his mom said, what's his other name? "Draco Mouseboy," he said.
We were talking about Hanukkah because he had just been at a special kid's event about it at their temple. I was prompting him. "Hanukkah is the Festival of..." "gelt!" he announced with great joy.