Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
What are people doing for New Year's Eve?
I'm hosting my annual low-key New Year's Party, which came about as a way to not spend my New Year's sitting around at home alone. Most of my friends have other, more exciting parties to go to, but I get a handful of folks every year.
This year, my girlfriend is finding a bunch of recipes for fun non-alchoholic drinks so she and my other pregnant friend will have something other than juice or water to drink. It will be odd not having the aforementioned friend drinking this year. Someone else will have to play drunken photographer with my camera, I suppose.
The only sucky part is that I have to work on New Year's Day, though thankfully my shift doesn't start until 11am. I expect I'm going to be incredibly tired that day.
What are people doing for New Year's Eve?
I have four parties to go to (I'm sooooo popular) One's in butt-ass Virginia and has a "theme" I love these people, but the theme parties have got to stop! OTOH, I will be wearing a tuxedo outfit and it's a James Bond theme, so that will be cool.
Two others are random groups of friends, one's expendable if I get to running behind (not that the friend's expendable, it's just that it will be a mob scene and he'll be drunk, so he might not even notice if I make it or not)
Final party is closest to my house and is with my gay boys. So, will have a boy to kiss at midnight, it just wont' mean anything.
Final party is closest to my house and is with my gay boys. So, will have a boy to kiss at midnight, it just wont' mean anything.
I just realized this will be the first year ever I'll actually have someone to kiss at midnight. (My girlfriend, not gay boys, for the record.) Wow.
Skipping in order to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is quester's birthday. Happy birthday, quester! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!
Also, in when-I-don't-have-a-computer-access news, Saturday, the 30th, will be plasmo's birthday. I haven't seen her UnAmerican font in forever, but I hope the well wishes cross the oceans and find her, somehow.
Heh. Somebody here in Chicago stole $50,000 worth of frozen broccoli. They're thinking he might have been confused as to the actual contents of the truck it was in.
Jesse, are you home yet?
Kat, you clearly missed my bitching about being at work yesterday. IOW, yes, I am home.
brenda, I suspect broccoli-loving terrorists. They hate freedom and love broccoli.
Did Almaty used to be known as Alma Ata? That's one of the few places where apple trees grow wild (they're supposed to have first been cultivated there) and the name of the place means "Mother of Apples". This may be all that I know about Kazahkstan.
Happy Birthday, quester!
ION, I came in to work today to find a Christmas card (!) on my desk from my boss. Inside it was a $40 gift certificate to a local brew pub. Color me gobsmacked. He handed out $15 gift cards to a local movie theater to the entire department at our Christmas party last week. It would have been more than enough for me. This extra? I feel a little like I don't deserve it, somehow.
Happies to quester!
Sail, you know you deserve it!
I dedarked in Bitches last night. Greetings to all Natterers!
I'm thrilled for the latest sprogging Buffistas! Kalshane, msbelle and Jessica, congratulations! Any more I'm missing?
