The only shopping I've done was at the JPL shop (thanks to lori! Best place for spacey or space-inductees.) and...um one book. I've got another on the list. Crap.
Can't we just give goats?
Did you have your own ornaments as a child?
Sorta. There is the silver cat rattle my Aunt Carol gave me (seriously, gorgeous lines.) And there are the handmade picture decos that a family friend made. And then there are the ugly ornaments we made and have fond memories of. Really, "mine" was all about self definition beyond that. There are the swedish dancing dolls, the wooden flat painted angels from the other A family to my mom's, the plaster and cloth Santa that was dad's, the leather angels Aunt Carolyn made, the fugly bean on neon cardboard her daughter did. The slowly decreasing number of leaf-on-blown-egg my aunts made, the spray painted walnut shells. I consider all of these mine. None but the cat given to me exclusively, but all mine, as in my history.
And I'm not even talking about the mini-tree.
Most of the ones I made, my parents have kept, except the ones that were so ugly they'd never hang them! I also have a silver rattle on a ribbon.
We kept the fantastically ugly ones. To hoot like loons the next year. I'm still sad the dog ate my brother's ugly, heavy, INSANE shit-brown bread-dough lizard-thing he made as a toddler. The fucker had to be hung on the trunk, it was so massive.
Now I want to put up my tree (including Mrs. Rabbit who's been broken a million times and is missing one leg, and the ridiculous styrofoam ball one I made one year)! But instead I have to go to bed.
(so I can have v. cold moldable icepacks)
Medicinal peas. Though I am going with the blocky one for rubbing (ouch!) and the gel for the plain icing.
And wishing I had vodka in the freezer for the rest.
Can't we just give goats?
I would deGrinch if I could do this.
Why do I keep reading stuff by Christopher Hitchens? I know it's just going to piss me off.
Christopher Hitchens is a fucking idiot.
ION, I tivoed
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
which Emmett has never seen. After Charlie Brown got to the final round of the spelling bee and lost on the word
"beagle"
Emmett noted: "It sucks ass to be Charlie Brown."
Though he amended shortly after that: "Snoopy is so awesome. He is a genius dog."
My parents want me to have a new portrait taken as their gift. I just got around to making the appointment for that.
I received my first Christmas card of the season today. I haven't even bought mine yet.
So this is the first year Franny's really been aware of Hannukah as a holiday. She's all into the candles. Not that we are doing candles as such; this year, as last year, we're using a Hannukah menorah puzzle to mark the nights. So not kosher I know, but much less likely to lead to fire when Isaac starts to poke at it.
yay! Jilli!!!! Awesomecakes.
ion: gronk. brrr. gronk.
