Tomorrow is usually the day that is hard for mac, but we had a pretty low key day today and all went well. No one had more than 4 gifts to open and I think I have completely bought in to the movement away from a commercialized Christmas. Next year, maybe only one gift each.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2011: Maybe the even years are better
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. 2011? Room for improvement. Srsly.
msbelle - Dec 25, 2011 4:07:10 pm PST #209 of 408
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
smonster - Dec 25, 2011 5:15:31 pm PST #210 of 408
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Good stuff, msbelle. Glad to hear it. I've been thinking of y'all and wondering how the day went.
Jesse - Dec 25, 2011 5:18:14 pm PST #211 of 408
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
See, this is exactly what I like about my birthday -- it's more of a gradual let-down.
Tom Scola - Dec 26, 2011 6:56:51 am PST #212 of 408
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
msbelle’s secret santa poster: [link]
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SailAweigh - Dec 26, 2011 7:07:46 am PST #213 of 408
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That is so freaking awesome, Tom!! ♥
Theodosia - Dec 26, 2011 7:13:21 am PST #214 of 408
'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"
I'm going to download that and use it as a desktop picture for a while!
Shir - Dec 26, 2011 7:27:33 am PST #215 of 408
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
You guys are the best. Wow.
amyth - Dec 26, 2011 7:27:42 am PST #216 of 408
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Me too! That is the awesomest.
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2011 8:10:44 am PST #217 of 408
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That poster made me tear up in the best of all possible ways.
Steph L. - Dec 26, 2011 8:15:58 am PST #218 of 408
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I want to know whose picture was the heart-shaped pizza. It made me giggle.