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.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
sarameg - Dec 05, 2007 6:04:38 pm PST #5896 of 10001
Jesse - Dec 05, 2007 6:08:50 pm PST #5897 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Cass - Dec 05, 2007 6:26:54 pm PST #5898 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
(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.
Hil R. - Dec 05, 2007 6:50:18 pm PST #5899 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Why do I keep reading stuff by Christopher Hitchens? I know it's just going to piss me off.
DavidS - Dec 05, 2007 7:30:46 pm PST #5900 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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."
aurelia - Dec 05, 2007 7:41:00 pm PST #5901 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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.
Burrell - Dec 05, 2007 7:43:19 pm PST #5902 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
hippocampus - Dec 06, 2007 2:43:15 am PST #5903 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
yay! Jilli!!!! Awesomecakes.
ion: gronk. brrr. gronk.
Emily - Dec 06, 2007 3:03:15 am PST #5904 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Huh. Two-hour delay again. I'm not sure why, but I'm not going to look this gift horse in the mouth.
Do wish I'd made more coffee, though.
Theodosia - Dec 06, 2007 3:19:11 am PST #5905 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You know what I like about showers? When you've put the shampoo in your hair and let it rest for a few minutes, which makes it cool off some, then you duck your head under the hot hot water and you can feel the trickles of the suds washing out. That's a lovely feeling.