I hope all of you who celebrate the birth of a deity tomorrow have as wonderful a time as those of you who celebrate the late-night breaking-and-entering of a sizable, bearded man.  Make your day of family, food, presents, cabin fever, sugar highs and lows the best it can be.  Those of you far from loved ones this holiday, feel comforted knowing ( Read more... )

All my Christmas cards I needed to mail?  Sent.

Presents for immediate family?  Bought.

Making sure my spring semester is paid for?  Done.  (I called to confirm that they had my student loan on file and checked if there was anything I needed to sign/endorse/do.)

I went to the post office and the bank today.

I'm now putting together Christmas cards and ( Read more... )

First batch of holiday cards are going out today.  Need to go to post office and find out how much it will cost me to send cards overseas.  The deadline to guarantee delivery by Christmas was Dec. 11 (oops), but making the cards took longer than I thought it would.  Have Christmas for the family mostly purchased / figured out.  Just need things to ( Read more... )

And by "awesome" I mean "campy and terribly, terribly funny.  Cuz' that they're terrible."

I'm generally a Failosaurus when it comes to Christmastime.  I don't ever have my act together enough to do cards for the masses, and I'm usually cutting it close to even get gifts for my immediate family.  But I like to try and be generous and show my ( Read more... )

So, last night I was at work, and there was a bit of a lull where there weren't many customers in and I didn't have much to do.  This woman comes down from the second floor (where the lesson studios are).  She's carrying a sheaf of papers.  "Excuse me, do you have a copier?" she asks.  I should have said no, because our copy machine is for ( Read more... )

With less than a week to go before Christmas, I decided that I was suffering from a deficiency of holiday spirit, so I informally dubbed today Christmas Who Day!  I've just finished watching The Unquiet Dead (Zombies for Christmas!  Woo!), and now I've got The Christmas Invasion on (which remains, in my opinion, the best of the official Christmas ( Read more... )

You Could Be a Vampire... If You Had To
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I had a dream that I opened my closet and found a stack of Christmas presents for everybody on my list, already wrapped and tagged.  Then I woke up and remembered I have no money and no time to do Christmas shopping.  *headdesk*