We're ordering cookie basket gifts for DH's direct reports. I don't think the company gives bonuses for Christmas--but they do have annual bonuses in the spring based on company performance from the previous year.
I would be feel very badly if DH's group bought him a gift.
I'm giving the cleaning lady a gift card for Christmas because I don't know her that well but I want to give her a little something to say thanks for her hard work.
I thought that was quite funny when I first went to Boston, and all the 'Irish' Boston people were drinking Black and Tans and thinking how Irish they were. And I had to point out the flaw in their naming logic there.
We order this drink as a Half & Half.
all the 'Irish' Boston people
What, ridiculously romanticized and inaccurate stereotypes of the home country? Say it aint so! (Signed, "Celtic," as in the basketball team, pronounced SELL-tick, and used as a noun.)
(I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan. I don't know his middle name, but it might be Blarney.)
The coffee is much harder to duplicate.
Not the drip coffee. That seems to be as easily replicated as the tea.
Doesn't matter though. I still go and get them to make a Green Tea Lemonade for me. Just not this month.
Not the drip coffee. That seems to be as easily replicated as the tea.
Except when you seem to suck at making coffee. Like myself.
Going online and clicking through to pay my bill is about the same as writing a check.
It's the mailing of said check that tilts it towards online bill pay for me. Do I have a stamp? An envelope? Do I remember how much the bill's for? Can I pay it from my desk at work?
Okay, all that other stuff tilts it too.
Black and tan always triggers the deliberate Jamaican mispronunciation of Lacatan which is a sort of banana. And when I think of mixing stout and stuff I think of mixing stout and ice cream which is really nummy and I wish people would stop looking at me funny about it.
I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan.
Said child is actually named Keegan Shaugnessy (sp?). A boy. Keegan is his mother's maiden name. He's 6 or 7 by now.
Stout is a disgusting beverage, see §5409 re: coffee.
Stout is a disgusting beverage, see §5409 re: coffee.
Tom Scola, while extremely loveable, is a freak
ita, I really like eating chocolate with stout, and I can totally see stout and chocolate ice-cream being yummy.
