I owe them one embarrassing moment since a few years ago, sm gave dad a massage pillow and said "Since you never touch me anymore!" In front of all my relatives...

Jeeeeeeeeebus. Yes, you definitely owe them a moment. Or nine.

I was gonna quit counseling that year, too, I...didn't. And I've felt no pressure to marry outside Buffistas. Wonder why. I can be frustrated and bitter already. And this way, I get the stereo and the remote.

And this way, I get the stereo and the remote.

And you don't have to cook anyone breakfast. Or clean up their messes. Or wash their socks.

Best of all worlds.

One time, right after they split, my dad sent my mom a postcard and the P.S. was :I've learned to wash my socks. Maybe now I can wash yours? I like to think the way with words came from the other side. And no, I wasn't supposed to know about it. Even I wasn't surprised when she didn't take him back.

Hell, I wouldn't have been surprised either.

Damn. Just read an amazing Buffy/Angel story by Glossina, and now I'm hankering to write my Fifth Thing That Should Have Happened in Sunnydale.

But first I need to write the Fourth Thing, and I have no clue what the Fourth Thing actually is.

And now that the mood's right...Munchkin again.
I've spent twenty minutes staring at a closed door. The Princess and Dru have been shut up in there picking Darla's outfit. Or something. I was thinking vampire ablutions would be shorter, with the absence of sweat and all. But the Princess primps a lot. She's already tried on and rejected three different things.

For a karaoke bar. Do you know what kind of losers go to those things? Whee, forty-seven horrible renditions of "My Way". And at this place, a few won't even be in languages I recognize...well, that's a blessing, anyway Can't wait. But I guess she is trying to meet the people, even if I didn't mean those people.
"Whatever you have on is fine," I say. " Can we get this over with now?"

"I'm not wearing anything now," she calls back.

Predictably, I reconsider my wish to get out of the house...I'm such a cliche.

"Do you have a long overcoat?"

"It's in storage...this is L.A."
Right, because when a guy asks a question like that, he really wants your coordinates. Maybe some longitude and latitude...the weather report. "But babe, you're always cold. I am too...it's part of the undead...uh, package. So to speak. Who cares what it's like outside?"

"If we stand out, we don't eat." she says flatly. I hate that tone, it's her lecture voice. "And you don't want me to look like a freak, right?"

"Just my freak." I say, trying to get back to where I'm comfortable. Dru giggles. I've been trying to pretend she doesn't understand me when I come on like that, but of course she does. Being crazy doesn't make you stupid, and my having the same material since I'm seventeen, with a few more quotes thrown in, doesn't hurt. Can I really face two hundred more years of this? Maybe if I get a new act. Someday.

But for right now, I heave a sigh that would make my guiltmonger mother proud and say "Take your time. I really love this view I get of your doorway...very stimulating".

Maybe she was a princess...I can't imagine Princess Di felled by guilt bombs, even if she wasn't meshugana already. "Never mind I'm a stranger in a strange land here...starting a whole new life that I didn't even know I was starting. I hope that doesn't bother you."

"It doesn't." she called back, simply. She didn't even throw a fit right.What am I doing with a woman who doesn't tantrum? Even Kay would've opened the door and flipped me off by now. Getting sentimental won't change anything, though.
And after all that? She wears the black dress with the cleavage. If she didn't look so amazing, I'd be pissed.

Hunh.

People are making comments about one of the Yuletide stories I wrote, and the comments are making me feel kind of... angry and a little hurt.

I know it's not unintentional, but the fact remains. Authors don't get revealed until Jan 1, and I'm kind of stewing in frustration.

Anybody else had a bad Secret Santa experience?

Last year, I think it caused a big issue in Pop.

I haven't yet, but I am guilty of obsessive checking to see if anyone has said anything, period.

shrift, could you link to it?

shrift, could you link to it?

Well, that's the thing -- it's anonymous until Jan 1, and I don't want to violate the rules. Plus, I know the people who organized it, and I respect them lots.

And I'm not saying that just because they can take me. Although I'm pretty sure tzikeh could. Heh.

I just felt like grumping and ruffling my feathers, and Dana, who already knows which story I mean because she beta read it, is off doing the holiday thing.