Fair Fiance, sillyhead!!

Femme Fatale suits you better.

I found you guys on TT after I got bored with off-season postings on figure skating boards. I'd seen commercials for Salon on Bravo and decided to check it out. When I found the Buffy thread I never looked back ( well, almost never!)

I was thinking about the many times that we get into witty riffs on some topic or other. Two of my favorites were the "Boobular containment" convo about bra fitting and the lightbulb vs candels war.

Yay DebetEsse, you awesome Seekrit Santa!

I have wines from Colorado! I don't believe I have ever consumed Colorado wine before, but that omission shall be corrected soon. Also, you totally cracked me up with your message on the inside box flap. You are a sweetheart, thank you so much.

Also, the mailman delivered the missing part of my package to go to my Santee. Double yay. Thank you USPS.

Dear Santee,

I have grumbled loudly at the US Postal Service people over the phone, but they assure me that your package is (still) on its way, despite the fact that I mailed it on December 18, to be sent Priority (i.e., 2-3 days).

Once you receive it, you might have an inkling as to why it was slowed down so much.

lovens,
Tardy Elf Teppy

She said she remembered mine, from some high school picture, all fadey around the edges; which is better than I can do because I can't remember any.

I totally remember this! I have a very clear picture of that icon in my mind, although I can't remember for the life of me what my own icon(s) looked like.

I remember I found you all on WX just about a week before OMWF aired in Nov. 2001. (I'd gone looking for Buffy articles on Salon and found the TT forums, which had gone pay already but which had a link to the WX forums.) I lurked for a few days, but I could tell pretty soon that I was gonna like you guys. I know I delurked right around the same time as SA, Fay, and Plei -- we were all that late fall/winter, anyway.

OMWF was a good recruitment tool. Brought out the theater majors and musical fans.

So many of you found WX at about the same time I did. I found my way there avoiding television in September of 2001. Of course I assumed everyone else there had been around forever.

How I became a buffista talk always sends me to read the FAQ and Ettiquite pages. I think it's just the season, but they made me a little teary. I love the nostalgia of the FAQ and Ettiquite is just freaking cool.

I am madly in love with the idea that a bunch of smart, passionate, different, experienced people can get together and just agree not to be assholes, and it works.

I lurked/delurked waaaaaaay back on TT's Buffy 4. I got there through This American Life. Sometimes I wander off into real life, but I always come back.

WX alum... Burrell found me and dragged me to your table. Weirdly, I was on TT, but hadn't watched Buffy yet in those days.

Home at last.

Been a pretty good year, overall. I'm about to leave the crazy place and just got back from Mexico.

ETA some more good stuff:

• SF2F. So good to reconnect with some, and finally meet others in the flesh (and what flesh, hubba).

• Hanging out in Chicago with Sail, Kathy, Tom, even once vw.

• Weekending in Denver with Lee and Nicole, (not to mention my sweet barracuda-kitty and Lucy's soulmate Bailey) which was just so wonderful and gave me some much needed decompression at a very stressful time. Upgrading to first class for the trip home.

• Getting soused at a super-pricey wine bar with one of my mom's best friends and one of the most important people in my life. Taking a stretch limo 70 miles on T-day weekend to go to church with same.

• My beautiful Matilda, whom I have not even met.

• Mac, oh bless.

• Doing fake Amazing Race with my sister in Chicago and with my (ex)boss in Mexico.

• New tv, new computer, new Tivo. (New debt, urk)

• After nearly three years in my apartment, finally painting the walls an actual color, and lurving it

• Actually getting off my ass and running some 5ks

I haven't made much progress on the weight issue, nor on the social issues, but I've made some steps, and hopefully will continue on that path. I've let some financial things go recently, which I need to get back on top of, but this new job will help a lot with that. My sister has a better, more fulfilling job. My father is finally taking some minor care for his health. My brother is still struggling with a lot of stuff, and I wish I could help him more, but he's got to pull some things together on his own.

It's not all perfect; it's not even all okay. But I'll take it.

And now, I'm home home home on my own couch with a glass of wine and an entire Box of Vice from Santa Lee - smokes, mojito mix, three kinds of chocolate, and other good stuff. Yay!