Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.

Willow ,'Help'


Goodbye and Good Riddance 2009: So long and thanks for all the fish.  

Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Christmukkah, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering. Oh, and 2009? Don't think we've forgotten about you


§ ita § - Mar 16, 2010 6:07:36 pm PDT #537 of 549
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They are aliens inside of robots, who have traumatised a generation of British children and PBS watchers.


Toddson - Mar 17, 2010 4:36:46 am PDT #538 of 549
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

we are very nerdy (hugs Buffistas, carefully avoiding my pocket protector)


Shir - Mar 23, 2010 1:28:32 am PDT #539 of 549
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I'm gonna do some "I'm freaking grateful" Snowies shopping this afternoon, but I want it to be somewhat fair: I want to send them to as many people as I can, but ugh, don't have much money (esp. after all of the money spent on keeping my dog alive).

But I do have the money to buy and send it to some, and others can get it later.

So, in order to do it somewhat fair: the first ones to email me their snailmail address will get it first. The others, later. I hope that's acceptable with all. I'm planning to send it around tomorrow.

Update: there was once last pack of Snowies there, so I bought other things instead. When it comes to Max Brenner, it really doesn't matter, IMHO. They can do chocolate, regardless to sex, race or taste buds.


SailAweigh - Mar 23, 2010 1:42:34 pm PDT #540 of 549
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I have got the bestest secret santa in the whole wide world!! There was a little peach slip in my mail box last week saying I had a package waiting for me at the post office. I kept putting off picking it up for various really stupid reasons (even stupider once I got home and opened it), but today I swung by the PO and as soon as I got home I tore right into it.

Eeeee! I can haz sour cherry vodka! This totally yummy stuff that Brenda fed me when I went down to visit a few weeks ago that she made herself. I almost don't want to drink it, because it is so delicious and eventually it will be gone and I won't have more. But...it's so good! I will drink it out of a thimble.

And, I got cherry candies (my love of cherries knows no bounds), key lime cookies, cheese cookies, a gift card for Starbuck's (my coffee budget will love you forever), and a bar of sea vegetable soap from Lush. Everything is so yummy tasting and smelling!

Thank you, Brenda!! You're the bestest.


brenda m - Mar 24, 2010 3:15:50 am PDT #541 of 549
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Awesome! I was so excited when I realized I had another bottle - glad it made it intact!


SailAweigh - Mar 24, 2010 4:04:56 am PDT #542 of 549
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Indeed, it did. I was so happy when I saw the "fragile" on the box with your name, because I was hoping beyond hope it would be the cherry vodka. If that had been the only thing in the box, I still would have been over the moon!


Kat - Apr 02, 2010 3:44:15 pm PDT #543 of 549
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

So does this get closed now? And all the people who didn't get a gift remain ungifted?


javachik - Apr 02, 2010 3:52:32 pm PDT #544 of 549
Our wings are not tired.

Good question. I know some of us volunteered to give gifts to those who never received.


brenda m - Apr 02, 2010 4:19:35 pm PDT #545 of 549
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I did a back-up Santa! But I don't think I've seen any other posts about back-ups. Suzi can maybe tell us if it's worth waiting a bit.


Jesse - Apr 02, 2010 4:23:01 pm PDT #546 of 549
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

No, the thread is supposed to be closed regardless. Nilly "Sunnydale Press" Nov 14, 2009 10:03:28 pm PST