Scotch tape is my nemesis.

I'm picturing Scola as a super hero and the villian as a giant roll of scotch tape.

If it was a giant yellow roll of Scotch tape, it could fight Scola and the Green Lantern at the same time....

My sister tried to give me my Christmas gift unwrapped yesterday. I think. Well, she gave me some gifts, and then a birthday gift in a bag that I'm not opening. I asked her if she wanted her stuff immediately and unwrapped and she was all "No! Special day!" I guess I'm too mundane about stuff.

I hope I have wrapping paper. Hmm.

I need to stop being shameless about eavesdropping on co-worker conversations within earshot, or start being completely shameless. Can't decide which. But at least I don't interject over cube farm walls. If there's no line of sight and I don't know the person's name, it's really very weird.

To you, sure, but No is not for Noah.

OPh, yes, this is T. I just mean that T exercises it even more than Noah. Even when he's shrieking with laughter running towards you.

OK, back upstairs.

I slept very badly tonight, and am also nursing a slight sleeping pill hangover. So I want magic fairies to take me home and tuck me into bed....

It's now 45 minutes after I was supposed to land in Tucson, and I am about half an hour into a hour and a half to two hour shuttle ride from Phoenix to Tuscon.

Wheeeeee

We're having a super low key Christmas, just the two of us (plus Seabiscuit!) for the first time in our house! Two years ago this time we were frantically painting, and our Christmas dinner was sitting on boxes in the sunroom with the kitchen cabinetry in pieces all around us. Last year we were back east. This year, home!

Today is pie day. I have pumpkin pie intentions, but lack pecans for the crust, so am substituting macadamias, which I always seem to have. I always overestimate about pies, though, so if I end up with extra crust I'll also be doing apple. Oh, and banana bread. I need to go start that now.

Tomorrow is a high risk high reward dinner. We're doing goose again, but this time it's wild game. Dave's buffalo-hunting, ammunition-making buddy gave it to us, along with two ducks. I need to do some time on target planning today to make sure it all works out tomorrow. I already have the mashed potatoes done and frozen. Pies today.

That will mean tomorrow is goose, stuffing, sweet rolls, cranberry sauce, marinated veggies (ooh, I need to marinate tonight, too), corn casserole. What else? I could try deviled eggs, too, but I have hard-boiling issues. Ha. That sounded like a pun somehow.

Okay, not so low key in the kitchen, I guess. And it's just the two of us! Hee.

eta: Oh, Perkins, bummer. I wave futilely at you from a couple more hours east.

Oops

Wheeeeee

Who cloned Perkins?

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a virus on my goddamn PC.