Poor Aimee. I'm sorry your day is so trying. How much longer do you have to be there?

1 hour, 35 minutes.

G-D effing effers all over the place.

God, I have a zit on my lip that is driving me mental. Also: have brewed a new batch of beer, a half batch of holiday spiced (with dried orange, cinnamon, and ginger) mild ale. Should be interesting!

Also also: Jessica, we took your long ago Trader Joes' advice and are cooking mahi mahi (because for once we didn't have tilapia) in the TJ green Thai curry sauce! And tomorrow I am going to try the new Cooks Illustrated recipe for Thai chicken soup. Exciting! (I hope this portion of this post does not make you want to hurl.) (If so, I apologize.)

We are supposed to go on a "date" tonight to a) return beer bottles b) go to Home Depot for a slider door charlie bar (the locksmith couldn't change that lock) and Bed Bath and Beyond for some scoping out what to spend our shiny new gift card on. One thing: a new travel mug for Nora! (this will be my third one, dammit).

Have done online Xmas shopping for a critical mass of our peeps, so that's good. So, kind of productive. Drained our savings for assorted crap. That sucks. But I guess that's what it's there for.

So we got a labeler. the first thing we are labeling is a bottle of wine for a friend. I do not think it was the purpose for which we bought said labeler.

I made pumpkin bread and wrapped two groups of presents . and figured out what I needed to get . feels productive,

off to a party

My boobs and I feel validated. We thank you all.

P.S. ND and I just bought out Target's holiday section. We now own a fake tree (which I'm trying really hard not to let bother me since I've always been a bit of a tree purist), a ton of tree decorations, a wreath, garland, and way more lights than any two people should own(Note: none of them icicle. I think landlady/backyard neighbor has that covered given that her entire house is covered in them--some of which chase each other. Verra excited icicle lights.). We need to clean before we can decorate. We've decided to rebel and do neither tonight.

Yay rebellion!

Daisy, I hope, most of all, that you are having a smashing time tonight. That's what I notice most when i'm out with friends.

{Aims} I hope the day is better now and that you're out the door and heading for a happy evening.

High school: 9th grade was a normal school. 10th grade was a very small fundie private school. 11th and 12th was a very small school in NE Montanta with a graduating class of 10, and one flunked, but he walked to keep the numbers even.

I'm a tree purist too. I love the real tree, but with the small fry and the cats and the dog it just wasn't a good idea. So, we returned the ugly tree and went to buy the better tree and then I talked Greg into a twice as good tree with the explanation that it was really only spending half as much since we'd already spent the other half... he actually bought that. I think he's less mathy than I am. (Really, I think he wanted to make me happy. At least this one looks a lot more like a real tree.)

I'm a tree purist too. I love the real tree, but with the small fry and the cats and the dog it just wasn't a good idea.

Yep. For us it's that ND's asthma kicks up around evergreen combined with the fact that we will be out of the house from December 16th-26th this year.

So, we returned the ugly tree and went to buy the better tree and then I talked Greg into a twice as good tree with the explanation that it was really only spending half as much since we'd already spent the other half... he actually bought that. I think he's less mathy than I am. (Really, I think he wanted to make me happy. At least this one looks a lot more like a real tree.)

Awww! That's very sweet. Yeah, ND took pity on me and let me pick a nicer-quality tree as well. The ones that are so obviously fake just make me sad.

We got the good guys.

I forgot to say Congratulations to Kalshane! Being a daddy (or a mommy) is quite a trip, but worth it.

Oh yes! Gah! I meant to say the same: good luck and congrats and GOOD FOR YOU for making the very smart and difficult choice of waiting to decided whether or not you want to get married.