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[halfshellvenus]

Big thanks to all who shared their Sam, Dean, Jensen, and Jared pics with me in this post over the weekend. It was a fandom swap meet, and I've saved off prettiness to replace the pics I lost!

Pimpage, because I know some of my f-listers will be interested in this: Sign-ups for the first SPN femmeslash exchange at spn_fs_exchange are open. Hurry, before you miss

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[thelana]

OMG, those penguin links! *adorable*

[halfshellvenus]

Aren't those cute? The Olive Appetizers are killing me. I'm torn between wanting to cuddle them, and have them march straight into my mouth.

I keep meaning to scan one of the calendar pages from the Penguin Calendar I got last year as part of an LJ gift exchange that pamalax ran. The "July" picture was these two sleek penguins behind their fuzzy, ratty-looking baby, and that baby was NOT cute. It was as if someone had foisted a space alien off on those penguin parents, and they'd never realized. :0

[badboy_fangirl]

What scene in the Blindside are you talking about? We saw it over the weekend. I just wondered what scene you felt was inappropriate. I liked it--it was a very feel-good movie, and it's nice to know that good things happen to people like that. I thought real life Big Mike was really handsome too.

[halfshellvenus]

I just wondered what scene you felt was inappropriate.
Not so much inappropriate as overly intense and scary for Christopher.

It was the scene where Big Mike goes into the apartment of the project drug dealer, and things escalate and the dealer flashes his gun and there's this explosion of anger that winds up knocking over a crib with a baby in it. I just think that will prove to be "too much" for Christopher. I was very pleased that all the drugs/sex were mostly implied and not heavily emphasized, because he really does want to see that movie and if it's too much then I have to veto it.

The pictures of real life Big Mike and the Tuohy family were wonderful-- so expressive, so full of love, such a testament to hope. And he IS handsome, which never hurts a person in the long run!

[badboy_fangirl]

Yeah, that's the only scene in the whole movie that really scared me too--I mean I knew that they guy got drafted into the NFL, so i knew he didn't die or anything, but it still scared me a little. It's so interesting that he could come from such an awful place and just be a gentle giant.

I always like to hear what parents deem too much for their kids (and granted every kid is different), but I often don't even think about it since I've never had to screen for kids. So it's interesting to me.

[astrothsknot]

You're thinking about Xmas now? Amateur. Mother starts in the Boxing Day sales.

Everyone else starts in August.

[halfshellvenus]

You're thinking about Xmas now? Amateur. Mother starts in the Boxing Day sales.

Everyone else starts in August.

:D I generally refuse on principal to start much before Thanksgiving, because it ruins the spirit of the holiday for me.

Bad enough that it wollops the stores here the day after Halloween now (though signs of it are evident in September).

[astrothsknot]

As soon as the ghosts are away here the CHristmas trees go up in the shops. I'm trying to stay out of Poundland, because I can't stop buying stuff in there. I go in for a yoga DVD and come out with about £20 worth of stuff.

THEY WON'T BAN ME. EVIL BASTARDS.

All my shopping's done bar some odds and sods. I feel so virtuous.

[halfshellvenus]

What's Poundland? What do they offer?

All my shopping's done bar some odds and sods. I feel so virtuous.
Wow. Also the rewards of a small family. ;) I have 4 sibs and my husband has 3, and thank goodness the adults "mostly" don't exchange gifts anymore because that is beyond stressful. None of us needs anything or wants anything-- I have a hard enough time figuring out what to get HSH or finding things for him to give me!

So how well HAVE you hidden away that video game for Stewart?

[tsuki_no_bara]

i love the penguin nativity. this time of year i always briefly consider starting to collect odd nativity scenes - i've seen a rubber duckie nativity and a squid nativity - but then i remember that christmas isn't actually my holiday and that might be weird. but the penguin mary and joseph and the three wise penguins are ADORABLE.

the olive penguins just make me hungry....

[halfshellvenus]

Haha! Squid nativity? I'd love to see that!

Christmas is a thoroughly pagan holiday for me, since I'm agnostic, so the only nativity sets I have were given to us-- one to my husband (his family's set), and the other a nearly microscopic set from my sister (c/o The Oriental Trading Company). The Penguin one cracks me up, though.

the olive penguins just make me hungry....
Me too, and then I feel bad for thinking that. :0

[mara_snh]

I'm actually a Pagan. One of the things I remember most fondly from my Catholic upbringing was a nativity scene that my parents bought the first year they were married, in 1946. It had a wind-up music box built into it -- which played "Blow the Man Down"! It was such a riot every year. No wonder I went bad ;-)

[halfshellvenus]

Hahaha! How gloriously inappropriate! I can see why that would be fun(ny). :D

My parents are also agnostic, so Christmas was always a non-religious holiday at our house, but very much a family holiday, with LOTS of decorations.

Well, that was my mother's side of it. My father's side eventually led to the pathetic plastic tree I blogged about awhile back, where eventually some of the branch ends had to be wrapped in duct-tape to keep from falling apart. Nothing says "holiday spirit" like stringing stuff together with duct tape. ;)

[deadbeat_nymph]

Oh my! Did you see that the seller of the penguin Nativity set has hedgehog sets, too? HEDGEHOGS!

And, as always, best wishes to you and HSH during this time. *hugs*

[halfshellvenus]

Wait. WHAT?!?

*rushes over to look*

That might just actually make me cave and buy something. :0

I still have to look at the "Owl" offerings, because both my mother and Lauren like cute owls (though my father spends a lot of his time trying to squelch my mother's love of just about everything, I swear).

HEDGEHOGS!