We were supposed to be doing a haunted house in our apartment tomorrow, but M unilaterally declared it canceled, a few hours ago (after I'd already spent a good bit of time working on biological and radioactive hazard signs, but thankfully I said something to her about it *before* I went and bought the dry ice)

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 I always plug my name into these when I see them on my flist but I never post them. This one, though, I had to share:


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On Thursday, people started showing up. My Granny, two aunts, an uncle, and a little cousin (the little cousins are mostly second cousins, some thirds, and they range in age from 3 to 9. There are a lot of them and they usually run in packs. Last time they were here they managed to rip down a ceiling fan and none of them will tells us exactly *how ( Read more... )

I'm waiting on food now, so I'm taking a moment to update with holiday type things. I'm at my folk's place, with my immediate family plus Granny, two aunts, an uncle, and a second cousin. The rest of the horde descends tomorrow and Saturday, because the big event in this family isn't on Thursday and doesn't have anything to do with turkey or ( Read more... )

Just finished my baking and will mail out tomorrow. I'm trying to make a card, now. My (mom's) printer is shot and won't print worth a crap, though. I may wind up at kinko's tomorrow. I had a near disaster when I realized someone (probably sister) had gotten into one of my ingredients and ALL BUT LICKED THE BLOODY JAR. *huff* This is what I get for ( Read more... )

I decided, kind of at the last minute, that I'd like to go see The Nutcracker, this year - only the tickets are all sold out, through Christmas. This probably ought to be frustrating, except our annual Nutcracker production (which is amazing, and incorporates a lot of cajun and creole tradition) is put on by inner city kids (coached by ( Read more... )