Her husband called his sister, aka Beloved!SIL, to tell her that his wife had told their 10yo son that his aunt was giving him $60 for his birthday towards some gift. Just to let her know that the kid was expecting it

Wow. My reactions would have been, "It's sad how soon disappointment comes to childhood these days."

I don't remember who recommended prosecco, but boy howdy I'm glad they did. I'm testing a bottle this evening to see about serving it on New Year's Eve. So, so yummy.

Wow. My reactions would have been, "It's sad how soon disappointment comes to childhood these days."

I think my reaction would be "Ok, I was planning to spend $20 on him, when can you get me the other $40?"

Ah, Calli, don't serve it--no need to share. Just keep it aallll!

No, not really. I just had this mental urge to schnorf all the booze for meeeeee!

Laura, um. I'm glad it's you and not me in your shoes, or someone would be missing a strip of hide. So unfashionable for the holidays. However, I'm repeating the rubber-wood joke from now till New Year's.

((((((Sean))))) Heavens above, love. In that metaphorical way, you understand, not pushing angelic choirs on you. Unless you'd like an angelic choir or two..? I hope to goodness things improve vastly and quick for you.

Also, ((((DJ)))). And Shir, and sister-of-Shir, and everybody's rellies and nears and dears. Bubblewrap for the lot of you!

No, I have not had alcohol this evening. At least not yet. I should remedy that, toute suite. Holidayish things have proceeded apace, if that pace was that of a glacier. We shall be ready for Santa's arrival, oh...Tuesday next, perhaps.

However, what gets done will, and what doesn't won't be marked or missed. So I'm off for a glass of cheer, elevated to all points of the compass to you, my dears, in celebration of your joys, and in hopes for bettermas for us all.

I just bought a little tabletop Christmas tree and some lights!

This would be more exciting if UPS and the Postal Service had managed to deliver any of the gifts I had ordered, so I could wrap them and put them under there! BOO. Somehow, my mailman is still managing to deliver my BILLS, but not the packages. GRRRRRRRRRR.

Wow. My reactions would have been, "It's sad how soon disappointment comes to childhood these days."

::SNORT:: That was actually my first reaction too.

Beloved!SIL did make her brother cough up $40. It didn't make her any less annoyed though.

I am home from picking up the last of my gifts. Stocking stuff and socks and underwear. I have Bobby starting the meat sauce. I'm so glad I started him cooking young.

Wine time!!

{{{Sean}}} and {{{S}}}

I'm watching White Christmas with my mom. The "minstrel" number in this movie makes no sense at all. Every year when I watch this, when I see that they're starting a minstrel number, I expect to be offended, and always just end up confused. During the jokes portion, one of them uses a fake British accent for a little while. It seems like it's trying to kind of sanitize it, take out the overt stereotypes and make it into something "classy," but it just ends up weird. (The costumes are cool, though -- those black suits with red gloves look really neat in Technicolor.)

I'm watching too. I have a soft spot for it. Could be because it was from my birth year. I watched the beginning before I went shopping then came in for a second showing after. Love the Technicolor, and all the leads. Sisters

Sisters! There were never such devoted sisters!

One of my all-time favorite movies! A must every Christmas for me. I can sing every word from Sisters.