My father hates Christmas for some reason. Well, maybe there isn't really a reason. He turned into a curmudgeon pretty young. It probably doesn't help that he's worked in retail/customer service jobs his whole life and they tend to suck the joy out of almost anything. My uncle is an alcoholic. A "functioning" alcoholic, as in he's been able to hold ( Read more... )

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Now that Brother Adam is getting married, we officially have to share him with his fiance's family. Not that I mind so much. I mean, I miss him sometimes, but then he comes to visit for a few days and annoys me with his Adamness for half the time he's here and I'm like, "Go back to Connecticut so I can miss you again, barfbrain ( Read more... )

So, um, today is my birthday and I got some cool stuff. My dad came over for lunch and we had meatahball sammiches and gigantic cupcakes from Gregg's. Then Momma D gave me my present...well, presents. You see, Momma D said to me last week, she says, "Give me a small list of things you might want" and I did that thinking that I'd get one thing...I ( Read more... )

Oh happy day! I got my new prescription sunglasses today. I've never had a pair before and it's nice to put them on and not have to squint myself into a headache and, thanks to the glory of the interwebs, they only cost me $30. Now if only the sun would come out. Yeesh ( Read more... )

Well, this past weekend was entirely pleasant even though is rained like a beeyotch all day Saturday. Brother Adam, Esq. and his fiance came to town (because he was having Easter dinner with her family this year) and we went out to lunch and general merriment was had by all. I had an alcoholic beverage called a Blue Freeze Pop and it was very blue ( Read more... )

Today Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 80 years old. And you know he would totally be at the inauguration on Tuesday. Holla ( Read more... )

On Christmas day we all spent a considerable amount of time playing Mario Kart for Wii. OMG, I suck at Mario Kart for Wii! I keep forgetting that you have to turn the steering wheel like a regular steering wheel because I'm an old lady who's so used to using old-fashioned-y video game controllers and such. I did get the hang of it for a little ( Read more... )

Two years ago we acquired this little fuzzball who wasn't much bigger than a tiny New England Patriots Santa bear.

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