All sympathies, Karl and family.
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
Fred Pete - Dec 19, 2011 3:56:08 am PST #86 of 408
Ann, that's a ferret.
Amy - Dec 19, 2011 4:51:42 pm PST #87 of 408
Because books.
Secret Santa gift is mailed, yay.
lisah - Dec 19, 2011 4:54:35 pm PST #88 of 408
Punishingly Intricate
Me too! And the P.O. was relatively painless.
Amy - Dec 19, 2011 5:02:21 pm PST #89 of 408
Because books.
I had the nicest guy at the post office. Long day, long line, and he was calm and funny and sweet and patient. I wanted to hug him.
sumi - Dec 20, 2011 4:09:26 am PST #90 of 408
Art Crawl!!!
Erika!
I got Waitress yesterday - perfect. A book full of patterns I want to knit and a good movie to knit them by.
Thank you.
erikaj - Dec 20, 2011 8:38:55 am PST #91 of 408
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
I love that movie(though I don't have one myself...maybe I should) so I was psyched to see it on your list. You're so welcome!
brenda m - Dec 20, 2011 9:33:18 am PST #92 of 408
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
Mine will not be mailed for another few days. A particularly awesome part of it, that I thought had fallen through, is now back ON. But will not be ready until Thursday.
brenda m - Dec 20, 2011 10:18:54 am PST #93 of 408
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
Other happy things:
Big box waiting for me at the office today! (Actually it's been waiting since Friday but I've been working from home for dog reasons.) Yay!
Also, someone left an $85 bottle of wine on my desk. Um, for me, not left by accident. I don't know I've ever had such a thing. I'll have to find a good occasion for it.
Ginger - Dec 20, 2011 10:23:32 am PST #94 of 408
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Can you trade it in for four $20 bottles? I can tell terrible wine from good wine, but the different between good wine and really, really good wine is lost on me. In whiskey, I can tell.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2011 10:34:49 am PST #95 of 408
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Also, someone left an $85 bottle of wine on my desk. Um, for me, not left by accident
Oh, the private sector. I can't even say I miss it, because we did so much public-sector work that nobody had any cash to throw around for fancy holiday gifts.
OTOH, my sister, also in the public sector, spends hundreds of dollars every Christmas buying presents for her direct reports. Every workplace is different, I guess.