Duuuude. Good luck.

icy glass of tea with lemming.

I'm now pictures lemmings taking swan dives into a glass of tea.

CaBil! That's excellent.

Sure, the day I lounge around with not much doing is the day the boards are rather quiet. Well, glad others are having a life.

ION, thanks to the internets, I now have the bulk of my xmas shopping done! Still have yet to step in a store. woot! (I hate crowded stores) O, and ya, I spent way too much. Probably piss the family off, since we all said "we are going small this year". Mom getting a shuffle and a cell phone, sis getting nice egyptian cotton sheets, niece getting spoiled all around. Ahh. The joy of giving.

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Odds are, by the time you read this, you'll be filled with gronk looking for coffee on a shiny Monday! Yipee!

vw bug - omnis, I have an idea for a present. When my mom had surgery a few months ago, a friend of my parents sent frozen prepared meals from Dine Wise:

OK, so I'm ordering for Darla and Paul. I'm doing the gift certificate, and I love what they say (paraphrase) :: The $xxx gift certificate is mailed for free, but does not include shipping of the food. You may want to consider the $yyy gift certificate to cover shipping costs ::

So. Very. Angry.

My previously unmentioned situation with my absentee landlord's son has come to a head. After repeated intrusions into our home (where he does not live), my roommate and I (having notified our landlord) installed new locks so we could have some peace and quiet, without unwanted, unbidden intrusions by this crazed sociopath.

Of course, last night, he basically breaks in and leaves an urgent note for my roommate, asking for him to call her at her soonest convenience.

She responds to this note, calls him, and he blows up at her for barring him access to a house he does not own or live in. And threatens to evict her. On power of attorney that he doesn't have. And our landlord emails my roommate with a bunch of accusations and protestations.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

I'm more angry than I've been in recent memory, and I'm giving notice tomorrow to my landlord that I'm moving out; along with my roommate who has certainly had her share of craziness for now.

Frack this noise. Time to find a new place to live.

Did I mention that I'm far too fracking busy to deal with this shite this month?

SeM, sounds like he's stalking your roommate. It sucks you guys have to be the ones to take on the expense and pain in the ass of moving--but if he's related to the landlord, it's probably the only way to keep that asshole out of your lives.

I hate stupid, icky people.

The only shopping we have left is for DH's family. Which, is HARD to do--which means this is DH's job to figure out and get finished by Friday.

My kids suddenly decided to start waking up earlier a few weeks ago. Instead of 7:30, we are now usually up and around by 6:30. Feh. I haven't adjusted my bedtime to fit that early wake up call yet.

SeM, sounds like moving is your best option. Sorry for the awful situation.

Cash, sorry about the early wake up call. How is your back doing today?

SExM, I'm so sorry you have to deal with this bullshit. Moving really is the only option.

hands Cashmere cup of coffee

Welcome to the early morning shift. I've already done one run to school. Time to wake the second one. Looking forward to Christmas break. Yay for sleeping in!

{{Maria}} Quick recovery to your loved ones.

eta: Hi sj! How is your first Christmas with TCG going?

{{{Maria}}} Recovery~ma to your realtives and calm~ma to you.