Lots of Tractor Trailers Fly Down My Street.....
1m 2w 5d 0:36 smoke-free, 1,716 cigs not smoked, $334.62 saved, 5d 23:00 life saved
I realize that I'm just wasting time patting myself on the back for the non-smoking stuff, since no one cares, but I keep doing it anyway. Just like I keep looking forward to Christmas Eve, even though I know Jess would rather be anywhere else but here (if it weren't for the presents.)
Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
In November I turned maethor in for running naked in the mall (3 points). Last Tuesday I donated bone marrow to vladtepes in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In April I gave liam_macnair a kidney (1000 points). Last week I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In January I ruled Duluth, Minnesota as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points).
Overall, I've been nice (604 points). For Christmas I deserve an Easy-Bake Oven!
Sincerely,
cthulhumom
So, I am going to waste a lot of my time by making a traditional English dinner. (I'd make a traditional Scottish dinner, but I really would rather save the haggis for Robbie Burns Day; besides, you can't put stuffing inside haggis, since it's already stuffed, kinda!)
Anyway, I'm making roast goose with chestnut stuffing, roasted potatoes (and other veggies), and bread pudding with Chambord sauce. I was gonna make Yorkshire pudding, but I just don't have the equipment (or the room) to be able to steam pudding for hours and hours. Maybe another time.
Dave brought home my presents last night and wrapped them - horribly! I know what most of them are, and they are all for cooking/baking. Dave thinks it's great that he's "making my job easier." I would prefer to have at least one personal gift. I guess that with the exception of a certain CoC book, I'm not getting anything I really want for Christmas. How typical.
He did give me one of the presents last night, as he feels that this will help me prepare X-mas eve dinner: a Black & Decker food chopper. Chops nuts. Anyone see the ironic thoughts swirling around in my brain?
I am even more determined not to go through this again next year. Next year, it's all "Humbug!" and "then let them die, and decrease the surplus population."
It may sound selfish, but I don't even care if anyone is having a worse Christmas then me. I'm tired of thinking of others and getting shit on for it.
"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."
---Denis Leary
Oh yeah, I borrowed this from Chris's LJ. A little farther down, you'll notice that the numbers don't jive; I've cut out the extraneous bullshit.
WHO DONE IT
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? I went to Salem, Mass.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I quit smoking; that’s enough for 27 years.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No
4. Did anyone close to you die? No
5. What countries did you visit? Canada
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? A teaching job, and a steady paycheck
7. Which dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Not one damn day worth remembering, datewise
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Got to run more CoC
9. What was your biggest failure? Still not getting a teaching job
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Let’s see: osteoarthritis and pneumonia; is that enough?
11. What was the best thing you bought? Probably a book
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Tra; she was very restrained!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Dave (of course), and Jess
14. Where did most of your money go? What money? Dave’s went to bills, mostly, and a used truck
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Christmas, as usual
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Happier or sadder? Sadder
Older and wiser? Both, but none the better for it
Thinner or fatter? Fatter, I think
Richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Good drugs!
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Being awake
20. How will you be spending Christmas? Jess & Ethan are coming X-mas eve for an old-fashioned English dinner; Dave & I are opening each other’s presents on X-mas morning. Then I’ll probably spend the rest of the day watching TV while Dave plays games on the computer.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005? I wish
23. How many one-night stands? N/A
24. What was your favorite TV program? Still “ER”
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No, but there are some people who have disappointed me greatly
26. What was the best book you read? Probably Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Hawthorne Heights
28. What did you want and get? Probably books and new slippers, although I had to go out and get them myself.
29. What did you want and not get? A job, my sanity, etc., etc.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Wouldn’t know yet, as it’s not over.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 45 last August, and I probably just watched TV and cried
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If I hadn’t had to get out of bed; or if I'd have found a teaching job
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005? Wearing the same stuff I’ve been wearing for the past 25 years
34. What kept you sane? What makes you think I’m sane?!?!?! (If anything, it was probably all those 2+ hour conversations with Tra!!!)
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Gerard Butler!
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I e-mailed every member of the Senate Judicial Committee to keep George Bush’s babe off the Supreme Court. It worked, too!
37. Who did you miss? Tra, Jess, Hillary, my grandma, my parents, the Teen Cthulhu group members, John Foerst.
38. Who was the best new person you met? Probably Cameron & Chris, but most of the people at the Secret Hideout are standouts.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005: Life just keeps on suckin’
40. Quote a song lyric that would sum up 2005:
Take away the sensation inside,
Bittersweet migraine in my head.
It's like a throbbing toothache of the mind,
I can't take this feeling any more.
--Green Day, Novacaine
2005:
1. go to a party?: Weddings were about it.
2. try something new?: Chestnuts. They taste kinda fruity & good
3. have someone change your life?: Met good people, but nothing life-altering (or maybe not life-altering enough!)
4. kiss someone?: Dave
5. tell your family and friends you love them?: Yeah
6. buy something extravagant?: No
7. do something nice for yourself?: Tried, didn’t work
8. do something terribly wrong?: I always do, I just don’t know I'm doing it.
9. move?: no
10. go to a concert?: Yeah, saw Green Day in Manchester
BEST OF THE YEAR:
1. party: Richard’s wedding
2. show: taping of The Red Green Show
3. cd: Green Day, “American Idiot”
4. movie: Ok, I just didn't get to any decent movies. On DVD, I'd have to say "Phantom of the Opera"
5. song: Green Day, “Jesus of Suburbia”
6. experience: Playing CoC again after several years of inactivity
7. concert: Green Day, “American Idiot” tour
8. book: Dan Brown "Angels & Demons" or "The DaVinci Code"
9. month: April (for that’s when Tra comes to visit!)
10. day: The day in April when Tra comes to visit!
HOPES FOR 2006:
1. predict something that you think will happen in 2006: George Bush will blow up the world
2. what do you hope changes about your country?: That someone (other than myself) will finally have a psychotic break and assassinate that goofball in the oval office
3. what do you hope for yourself?: That I either get a teaching job or die in my sleep
4. what do you hope for your family?: That they get off my back
5. what do you hope for your best friends?: That they have a better year than I’m having
DURING 2005:
1. where were you when it began?: In bed
2. did you stay up?: I don’t think so
3. what was your new year wish?: For a job
6. have any crushes?: A few
7. care to mention names? No
8. new friends?: Yes
9. had to say goodbye?: To Jess
10. missed anyone?: Jess, Tra
11. win anything?: Of course not!
12. best place you went ?: Salem, MA
13. worst place you went to?: Canada
14. happiest moment?: Playing Cthulhu every Sunday
15. how was your birthday?: sucked, as usual
16. best present?: New slippers
2005:
1) Was 2005 a good year for you? No year is ever good for me
3) What was your least favorite moment of the year? Every fight with Dave
18) What was your favorite month of 2005? April
19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2005? Yes, to freakin' Canada
21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2005? No, thank god
22) Did you miss anybody in the past year? See above
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year? Remained cowardly
33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2005? "I love you"
34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2005? I don't recall doing so
35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2005? Who didn't?
39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2005 and change something, what would it be? I'd keep Jess from falling on the ice.
I realize that I'm just wasting time patting myself on the back for the non-smoking stuff, since no one cares, but I keep doing it anyway. Just like I keep looking forward to Christmas Eve, even though I know Jess would rather be anywhere else but here (if it weren't for the presents.)
Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
In November I turned maethor in for running naked in the mall (3 points). Last Tuesday I donated bone marrow to vladtepes in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In April I gave liam_macnair a kidney (1000 points). Last week I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In January I ruled Duluth, Minnesota as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points).
Overall, I've been nice (604 points). For Christmas I deserve an Easy-Bake Oven!
Sincerely,
cthulhumom
So, I am going to waste a lot of my time by making a traditional English dinner. (I'd make a traditional Scottish dinner, but I really would rather save the haggis for Robbie Burns Day; besides, you can't put stuffing inside haggis, since it's already stuffed, kinda!)
Anyway, I'm making roast goose with chestnut stuffing, roasted potatoes (and other veggies), and bread pudding with Chambord sauce. I was gonna make Yorkshire pudding, but I just don't have the equipment (or the room) to be able to steam pudding for hours and hours. Maybe another time.
Dave brought home my presents last night and wrapped them - horribly! I know what most of them are, and they are all for cooking/baking. Dave thinks it's great that he's "making my job easier." I would prefer to have at least one personal gift. I guess that with the exception of a certain CoC book, I'm not getting anything I really want for Christmas. How typical.
He did give me one of the presents last night, as he feels that this will help me prepare X-mas eve dinner: a Black & Decker food chopper. Chops nuts. Anyone see the ironic thoughts swirling around in my brain?
I am even more determined not to go through this again next year. Next year, it's all "Humbug!" and "then let them die, and decrease the surplus population."
It may sound selfish, but I don't even care if anyone is having a worse Christmas then me. I'm tired of thinking of others and getting shit on for it.
"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."
---Denis Leary
Oh yeah, I borrowed this from Chris's LJ. A little farther down, you'll notice that the numbers don't jive; I've cut out the extraneous bullshit.
WHO DONE IT
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? I went to Salem, Mass.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I quit smoking; that’s enough for 27 years.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No
4. Did anyone close to you die? No
5. What countries did you visit? Canada
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? A teaching job, and a steady paycheck
7. Which dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Not one damn day worth remembering, datewise
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Got to run more CoC
9. What was your biggest failure? Still not getting a teaching job
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Let’s see: osteoarthritis and pneumonia; is that enough?
11. What was the best thing you bought? Probably a book
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Tra; she was very restrained!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Dave (of course), and Jess
14. Where did most of your money go? What money? Dave’s went to bills, mostly, and a used truck
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Christmas, as usual
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Happier or sadder? Sadder
Older and wiser? Both, but none the better for it
Thinner or fatter? Fatter, I think
Richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Good drugs!
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Being awake
20. How will you be spending Christmas? Jess & Ethan are coming X-mas eve for an old-fashioned English dinner; Dave & I are opening each other’s presents on X-mas morning. Then I’ll probably spend the rest of the day watching TV while Dave plays games on the computer.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005? I wish
23. How many one-night stands? N/A
24. What was your favorite TV program? Still “ER”
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No, but there are some people who have disappointed me greatly
26. What was the best book you read? Probably Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Hawthorne Heights
28. What did you want and get? Probably books and new slippers, although I had to go out and get them myself.
29. What did you want and not get? A job, my sanity, etc., etc.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Wouldn’t know yet, as it’s not over.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 45 last August, and I probably just watched TV and cried
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If I hadn’t had to get out of bed; or if I'd have found a teaching job
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005? Wearing the same stuff I’ve been wearing for the past 25 years
34. What kept you sane? What makes you think I’m sane?!?!?! (If anything, it was probably all those 2+ hour conversations with Tra!!!)
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Gerard Butler!
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I e-mailed every member of the Senate Judicial Committee to keep George Bush’s babe off the Supreme Court. It worked, too!
37. Who did you miss? Tra, Jess, Hillary, my grandma, my parents, the Teen Cthulhu group members, John Foerst.
38. Who was the best new person you met? Probably Cameron & Chris, but most of the people at the Secret Hideout are standouts.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005: Life just keeps on suckin’
40. Quote a song lyric that would sum up 2005:
Take away the sensation inside,
Bittersweet migraine in my head.
It's like a throbbing toothache of the mind,
I can't take this feeling any more.
--Green Day, Novacaine
2005:
1. go to a party?: Weddings were about it.
2. try something new?: Chestnuts. They taste kinda fruity & good
3. have someone change your life?: Met good people, but nothing life-altering (or maybe not life-altering enough!)
4. kiss someone?: Dave
5. tell your family and friends you love them?: Yeah
6. buy something extravagant?: No
7. do something nice for yourself?: Tried, didn’t work
8. do something terribly wrong?: I always do, I just don’t know I'm doing it.
9. move?: no
10. go to a concert?: Yeah, saw Green Day in Manchester
BEST OF THE YEAR:
1. party: Richard’s wedding
2. show: taping of The Red Green Show
3. cd: Green Day, “American Idiot”
4. movie: Ok, I just didn't get to any decent movies. On DVD, I'd have to say "Phantom of the Opera"
5. song: Green Day, “Jesus of Suburbia”
6. experience: Playing CoC again after several years of inactivity
7. concert: Green Day, “American Idiot” tour
8. book: Dan Brown "Angels & Demons" or "The DaVinci Code"
9. month: April (for that’s when Tra comes to visit!)
10. day: The day in April when Tra comes to visit!
HOPES FOR 2006:
1. predict something that you think will happen in 2006: George Bush will blow up the world
2. what do you hope changes about your country?: That someone (other than myself) will finally have a psychotic break and assassinate that goofball in the oval office
3. what do you hope for yourself?: That I either get a teaching job or die in my sleep
4. what do you hope for your family?: That they get off my back
5. what do you hope for your best friends?: That they have a better year than I’m having
DURING 2005:
1. where were you when it began?: In bed
2. did you stay up?: I don’t think so
3. what was your new year wish?: For a job
6. have any crushes?: A few
7. care to mention names? No
8. new friends?: Yes
9. had to say goodbye?: To Jess
10. missed anyone?: Jess, Tra
11. win anything?: Of course not!
12. best place you went ?: Salem, MA
13. worst place you went to?: Canada
14. happiest moment?: Playing Cthulhu every Sunday
15. how was your birthday?: sucked, as usual
16. best present?: New slippers
2005:
1) Was 2005 a good year for you? No year is ever good for me
3) What was your least favorite moment of the year? Every fight with Dave
18) What was your favorite month of 2005? April
19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2005? Yes, to freakin' Canada
21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2005? No, thank god
22) Did you miss anybody in the past year? See above
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year? Remained cowardly
33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2005? "I love you"
34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2005? I don't recall doing so
35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2005? Who didn't?
39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2005 and change something, what would it be? I'd keep Jess from falling on the ice.