#69 Get Well Soon, Mallory! AKA: Ginger Saves the Day Chapters 10-15
You lucky, lucky people. I actually had a free day and don't have anything to do until work tonight so I figured I would snark some more for you guys. Here we go:
Ginger Saves the Day( Ginger saves the day )
They need to start tossing those into the Spy-er/Schafer barn and store them between their frequent uses.
supposedly the promises bullshit has raised one hundred and forty two dollars and fifty three cents
The three cents cracks me up. Who offered that strange amount?
Mal tries to throw herself on her sword by saying the rest of the brood could go and they can get a sitter for her. [snips] Anyway, Mal is pissed Thanksgiving is ruined and for all the bullshit that the monkeys put her through, you would think this would really make them pissed off, but no.
Mal was right. The rest should have gone. Yeah, it would have sucked for her, but it's going to suck more than the other kids are going to blame her.
WHO THE HELL LEAVES THIER KIDS WITHOUT FOOD WHEN THEY ARE GOING ON A TRIP AND THERE'S A SNOWSTORM PREDICTED?
Friends of the same people who thought an 11-year-old is mature enough to be in charge of a younger kid and toddler all weekend, and to allow said-younger-kid to sail a few miles out into the ocean with a couple teens who shouldn't have passed their sailing tests, and without bothering to check the weather forecast.
I sincerely hope those were wrapped individually. Cause it sounds like it was of those things where you scoop the candy that sits out. And that would be gross to give people unwrapped candy
Sometimes yes, sometimes now. Unwrapped candies will always have a lid and scoops to use, and they can be bagged in smaller portions later. This is how I buy my sugar-free gummies.
The ladies decided to buy mysteries, with pictures of cats, flowers, horses, and other crap on them.
Which always sounded like the start of a Lisa Frank cover. When I was a kid when this book came out, I spent a lot of time with older people. I've always loved seniors. Older women almost always loved Nora Roberts and JD Robb (NR's pen name). I hope the books they get are large-print versions.
Can you imagine being the older person getting Velveteen Rabbit on tape?
The toys they picked were actually good choices, even the paper dolls. Old ladies get crafty with those!
Before Mal could get too sad, Sweet Dee hands her some paper and markers to make place cards. Ok, maybe I grew up in a weird household, but we never had place cards.
We did that on holidays just to make dinner feel more special. Even if it was just me, my brother, and our parents, and we were sitting in our usual spots. At my dad's parents' house, they set up a second table so that there was room for 18, and a table was set up in the next room over, the play room (awesome room), for the little kids. It was still a big deal to graduate from that table to the adult table.
My mom's parents' place was a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Dysfunction was normal over there.
They all felt bad about Mal missing the party, so they brought the party to her!
The only nice thing those bitches have done for her after expecting her to slave away while sick.
The FUCK? How in the hell did they attach earrings to a cookie? Is it frozen?
Not hard to pierce earrings through a cookie.
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I would have loved the Miss Piggy Puzzle one lady got....
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JD Robb was the name Nora used to try writing steamer romances. A lot of famous writers use pen names for that stuff, just in case it doesn't sell well, so that the failures aren't tied to them. And if they succeed, then it doesn't matter. :)
When Anne Rice first had the Sleeping Beauty trilogy published, she used the name A.N. Rocquelaire. Years passed before anyone realized she wrote them.
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