Ugh. $266 if I want to change my flight to fly home tonight. But if they cancel for weather tomorrow, well, sucks to be me and they won't give me jack.
Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!
'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Dec 25, 2012 8:11:46 am PST #5591 of 30001
Consuela - Dec 25, 2012 8:20:23 am PST #5592 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Merry Christmas, Buffistas!
I went running with my sister & nieces & dogs, and while we didn't get too wet (it's rainy here), I'm freezing. Now huddled in my bathrobe while the house warms up. Then back up the hill to help get the turkey in the oven, and do gifts.
I already got my best gift, I think: a nice bottle of Glenfiddich from my sister. Last year she gave me Glenlivet, and I only finished the bottle over Thanksgiving.
DavidS - Dec 25, 2012 8:21:20 am PST #5593 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh meara, that bites.
We had an excellent Christmas dinner (duck for me and Emmett, cioppino for the women folk), and slept over at EM's house. Christmas morning was very sweet with many handmade gifts and thoughtful ones.
Emmett's comment (in a tone of wonderment) upon receiving his cool new GG Bridge sneakers, "I said I liked them and you got them for me!")
hippocampus - Dec 25, 2012 9:00:39 am PST #5594 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Happy Holidays for those as celebrate!
What's fun: friends and family. Happy kid.
What's not: the relative who made jokes about kids still believing in Santa in front of HPF. Relatives also wanted to be here for present opening, so we agreed to fend her off until 9am from everything but Santa presents. They showed up at 11am, expecting breakfast.
I am zen. Really.
Dana - Dec 25, 2012 9:04:20 am PST #5595 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Merry Christmas, y'all. I am preparing to open my yuletide story.
-t - Dec 25, 2012 9:16:38 am PST #5596 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In the words of my favorite Thinkgeek wrapping paper, Have a Satisfactory, Non-denominational Capitalist, Wintertime Gift-giving Season!
Liese S. - Dec 25, 2012 9:30:59 am PST #5597 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I would pony up, meara. I heard they just upgraded the winter storm warning to a blizzard warning in Indy. I know you have family so you wouldn't be stuck at a hotel, but the aggravation might be worth that price.
Connie Neil - Dec 25, 2012 9:41:31 am PST #5598 of 30001
brillig
Happy Christmas, all. It snowed amazingly yesterday, and enough sun has poked through to mostly melt the roads and walkways, which is all I ask of winter in Utah.
Sadly, my stomach doesn't seem to handle grease too well anymore, so the Christmas morning bacon is not the unalloyed delight it should be.
Beverly - Dec 25, 2012 10:03:25 am PST #5599 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Merry Day, 'ffistas! I know you're all dying to know that the candle clips have been found, and the tree will shortly be bedecked with Actual Candles.
Coffee and breakfast (Bob's eight-grain cereal with walnuts and craisins, num!) have been had, and the fire is currently crackling, courtesy of Netflix. There may be movie-age later. Or just napping and dozing and reading by the fire. Our snow is liquid, but the sound of it falling makes the fire all the cozier.
Hot chocolate, tea, or cranberry juice mulled with spices later. I love easy decisions with positive outcomes no matter what.
meara - Dec 25, 2012 10:09:54 am PST #5600 of 30001
I would pony up, meara. I heard they just upgraded the winter storm warning to a blizzard warning in Indy. I know you have family so you wouldn't be stuck at a hotel, but the aggravation might be worth that price.
It would be, maybe, if I hadn't already spent $600 on the flight plus a night in a hotel in Houston. I would've easily said yes for $100. But my sister suggested I tweet them, and they were useless at first ( though they did respond that all the flights were full). I responded that delta and southwest were already allowing people to change flights and suddenly they responded "can you be there in time for the 345 flight to Chicago? A seat just opened up" and bam, I am at the gate awaiting boarding. Fingers crossed this goes as smoothly as it should.