I suggest you hide it in a giant cake shaped like a baby.
That would be awesome and I want pictures. . .
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2012: If the world doesn't end, I'm going to need a note
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. 2012--better luck next time.
sumi - Jan 04, 2013 4:27:45 am PST #229 of 274
Art Crawl!!!
msbelle - Jan 04, 2013 4:51:35 am PST #230 of 274
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Lee - I flaked out last night. maybe tonight.
Lee - Jan 04, 2013 5:14:14 am PST #231 of 274
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Okay!
smonster - Jan 04, 2013 11:46:38 am PST #232 of 274
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
That package road tripped with me from NOLA to NC - I had hoped to mail it earlier but things were just too hectic.
quester - Jan 04, 2013 5:12:50 pm PST #233 of 274
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
It was worth waiting for.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2013 8:02:00 pm PST #234 of 274
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So--my wrapup. 2012 was a year where:
- I spent as much on medical care as I got paid in my first post-university job. As a programmer (I am going to be challenging some stuff--I need a msbelle, I think). Rating: :∧⊂ :∧⊂ :∧⊂
- My mother went into remission from cancer (sweet protector of all things tiny, so she did--she's better now, clearly, on the Christmas 6 months after her all clear than she was 10 months before her diagnosis. She's even seeing a physical therapist top help her general posture and strength, because she was drawing in on herself when she was ill, and physically as well as mentally. Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥
- My family came together--for different things. My mother's illness, my sister's 40th. Just, in gneneral. Rating: ♥♥♥
- My head still hurts and I'm faced with experimental surgery not even explicitly targeting the headaches, and it's invasive and scary and I don't want to hasten the singularity this way. Rating: :∧⊂ :∧⊂ :∧⊂ :∧⊂
- My job: I cannot have complained and exulted more about it. No, I have idea how to work the things that aren't in my job description, but they're letting me do more and more stuff, and every time I get yelled at, I go back in with a conciliatory business-related plan of some sort to make that not happen again. It's draining, but it's rewarding. Rating: ♥♥
- The closest around me seem on an even keel for love, jobs, and health. Rating: ♥♥♥
amyth - Jan 05, 2013 6:42:04 am PST #235 of 274
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
When I got home from work yesterday, there was a notice on my door that there was a package waiting for me at the Post Office. I just picked it up, and it was from my Secret Santa, Shir! Yay!
I got a lovely shawl (perfect for me, who is always freezing in my office), an adorable silver charm bracelet, a cookbook all about cuisine from Jerusalem (can't wait to try some of the recipes!), some coffee-flavored swirled halva, and some delicious-looking chocolates. Thank you so much, Shir!!!!
I'm a little worried about my Secret Santa package. I mailed it before Christmas, over three weeks ago, now. At the risk of outing myself, it did have a ways to travel, but I hope it's just in transit, and not Lost Forever. Giftee, I hope it gets to you, soon!
Shir - Jan 05, 2013 10:47:25 am PST #236 of 274
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh, yay! So glad it arrived!
The book is Jerusalem by Ottolenghi and Tamimi, and wow. I heard a lot about it, but the minute I saw it and read a bit I understood the hype and immidetly wanted to buy copies for all of my friends abroad. The way they write about the city through its cuisine is simply marvelous.
And a note for my secret Santa: the address I gave is my parents' address, and they didn't go to the post office since Monday (car broke down). It should have arrived, but most likely I just didn't get the notice about it. I hope I'll have it this week!
Shir - Jan 06, 2013 5:24:12 am PST #237 of 274
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh! I've been told that the package arrived, and waiting for me at home.
Can't wait to get it in person, but it will take another 3-4 days before I'll open it.
Atropa - Jan 06, 2013 5:05:39 pm PST #238 of 274
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
2012 was weird in that it wasn't what I'd call a great year, but 2011 was so awful that 2012 positively glows in comparison. So I'm just going to concentrate on the good stuff:
- I got a new job as a senior tech writer for a company that is VASTLY different in corporate culture than my previous employer. Supportive managers! Career development! People repeatedly telling me I'm good at my job! At some point I will stop being mildly freaked out by this.
- I stopped the hellacious antibiotic routine I was on for the Lyme disease, which made my newly-developed gluten allergy go away, and it looks like I'm bouncing back from the year + of illness.
- I had a couple of huge breakthroughs in therapy. Actual emotional health (instead of maintaining a really convincing act of it) is weird. Good, but weird.
My big goal for 2013: finish the novel and send it to my agent. I'm hoping to get that done in the first few months of the year.