Holy cats am I overdue for updating pictures. Let's get to it:

( aaronbenedict's trip to Pittsburgh )

My mother and I eat here every week. This makes me very unhappy.

( Snow, snow and more snow. And also cats. )

It's cold and it's snowy and I don't want to get out of my pajamas, much less venture outside. So instead I'll give you a bunch of December photos. These probably won't be all of them, but it's at least a greatest hits album.

( December )

My Mother has come up with a new scare tactic: OMG! Your house is going to fall off a cliff! She showed up for dinner complete with clippings and photos and everything.

Now here's the best part of the story: My Mother and I went out for Chinese food tonight. When we got our fortune cookies, I got:
Listen to the wisdom of the old.

But she got:
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About an hour after I made my last post, I had a horrible realization: every time I get a parking ticket, it means my car is about to get totaled ( Read more... )

Last night, I went out for Chinese food with my Mother.

Now, many people (Sprout included) like to play that "in bed" game with their fortune cookie fortunes. I'll admit to having done that upon occasion, but it's a game whose novelty really wore off for me around the time I graduated from college. Nevertheless, last night I got the best "in bed" ( Read more... )

There's a tiny little ray of optimism inside of me. You see, everything starts in October.

I think n0thingman is the only person who really understands this, although I've talked with pghwob about it some. I don't know that I could really explain it if I tried, so you'll simply have to take it on faith: everything starts in October ( Read more... )

Well, I see that lilostitch is online, so let's see if I can get my update about tonight posted before she can ...

Today we had a full-fledged traditional Jewish Christmas. First, lilostitch, sillylilboi, BFunk and I all went to see a movie: Memoirs of a Geisha. It was not my first choice of movies (that would've been The Producers, which apparently won't hit theaters in ( Read more... )

Just returned home from the traditional Jewish Christmas celebration -- Chinese dinner -- with ratphooey, lurpy, Aubree, and Ernie.

First of all, the restaurant that we were supposed to go to was closed. Really closed, as in closed forever. Apparently yesterday was their last day. They couldn't hold out for one more day to make that big Christmas money? Who ( Read more... )