I'm so sorry about the stress on top of stress, sj. Much ~ma for you and yours.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Dec 23, 2012 8:12:54 am PST #24247 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
omnis_audis - Dec 23, 2012 8:20:34 am PST #24248 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
SJ, tons of comfort ~ma for you and yours. Hopefully traffic is kind, so you aren't too late to the TCG family festivities. I would think they would forgiving of tardiness. If not, give em coal!
beekaytee - Dec 23, 2012 11:34:10 am PST #24249 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm so sorry sj. I echo o_a's wishes for comfort ~ma to you and yours.
sj - Dec 23, 2012 11:40:59 am PST #24250 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks everyone. Your support makes everything a little easier. It is going to be very strange not to be with my whole family on Christmas Eve, but at least my uncle seems to be stabilized for now. I have now baked brownie, baked ricotta cookies, and made the sugar free peppermint bark. Now I need to glaze the ricotta cookies, make the sugary peppermint bark, pack, and finish wrapping gifts.
beekaytee - Dec 23, 2012 11:49:46 am PST #24251 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
So for today, I've made an enormous pot of chicken veg stew...visited with some of my favorite neighborhood buds and...nothing else!
Blergh. I so wanted to be more motivated this weekend.
Oh, and I treated myself to a nice manicure. It really is pretty.
sj - Dec 23, 2012 2:28:56 pm PST #24252 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We gave up on going to the beach tonight. We finished baking and we're watching Love Actually while finishing up wrapping. We'll head out early tomorrow instead.
le nubian - Dec 23, 2012 3:29:23 pm PST #24253 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Geez sj. I was hoping he was on the upswing. More 'ma headed your family's way
sj - Dec 23, 2012 3:32:57 pm PST #24254 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, le nubian. I think he set himself back by insisting he be let out of the hospital for Christmas.
askye - Dec 23, 2012 3:53:12 pm PST #24255 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Cute Nephew story:
Mom and bro just got a tree today and were set to decorate it. My dad is up there too and they were getting out the ornaments and the lights and Mom plugged in the lights to test them. When E saw them lit up he said, "I have an idea. We can put them around and around the tree." (that's a paraphrase he said something cuter which I forgot). So Mom and Dad said "that's a good idea!" Not letting on it was the plan all along. And so E held the bundle of lights while Dad put them around the tree.
Also Mom , bro and E just moved in with bro's GF (this has been in the plans for awhile) and E was a big helper. He kept finding things to put in the "delivery truck" and even packed his night night and Soft Monkey that he sleeps with every night so they'd be ready to move first thing the next morning.
He kept saying "come on guys, I have to put (whatever he found} on the delivery truck!"
erin_obscure - Dec 23, 2012 4:34:13 pm PST #24256 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
{{{{sj}}}} that just sucks.
My favorite call today (in addition to all the various partner agency and alarm company employees being all cheery and 'happy holidays!' which is a nice change of pace) has been from a very nice Nordstrom employee. She had a bunch of packages shipped to her home address and some jerk stole them. That's not the good part. The good part is that the dumb thief took them to the store where she works to "return" them for cash. The clerk doing the "return" thought it was a little sketchy and copied his ID. So she actually knows exactly who it was and there's a paper trail. Kudos to Nordies!