Year End Meme: The first sentence of the first entry each month of 2009

January:
NEW YEAR'S FEAST OM NOM NOM.

February:
Last Sunday I did this meme! And since my flist is awesome, you guys figured out almost all of the pairings I used ( Read more... )

 Home from a weekend with my mom and the boyfriend with new library books, Christmas presents, and a cold. It figures that after two days of lying on the sofa reading comic books and watching Iron Chef and Law & Order that I would be getting sick now, just in time for all the stuff I have planned for this week with various family/friends.

On the ( Read more... )

 So, after we finished eating ourselves stupid on tamales (OM NOM NOM SO GOOD), we - meaning me, my dad, my aunt, my uncle, my uncle's wife, and their sprog - piled into my aunt's pick-up truck to drive around the city and see the luminarias. Less than a minute after we left the house, this happened:

UNCLE (in the passenger seat): You know, just ( Read more... )

Seven Songs For Christmas

1. Silver Bells - Bing Crosby version Relient K version
This was always my favorite Christmas song when I was a kid. I don't know, it just makes me think of New York City in the winter, and giant Christmas trees, and passing people carrying Christmas packages home, and all that.

2. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day - ( Read more... )

After reading everyone else's entries last week on getting snowed in all down the east coast, this morning I woke up to this:


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 Living in the dorms, I always worry about the protocol for listening to Christmas music early in December. Because I love Christmas music, deeply and, given that I'm not actually Christian, kind of illogically (especially since all my favorites are the traditional religious carols), and in my family growing up, December 1st was fair game for ( Read more... )

In keeping with the bold American tradition of pissing off as many people as possible, to commemorate the birth of this great nation we spent the evening setting off fireworks in the middle of the street. When cars drove by we shot off bottle rockets at them. Nothing caught on fire, but it was a close call a few times ( Read more... )

Happy Fourth of July, people in Minnesota! After eight months of political wrangling, posturing, and lawsuits you finally have a senator (a really funny looking senator!) to represent you. And you got to be a case study of totally how a contested election should be handled, even if Norm Coleman was a dick about it. Have a cookie ( Read more... )

NEW YEAR'S FEAST OM NOM NOM ( Read more... )

It's a few minutes to go, but in a few minutes I will be eating shrimp toast and toasting with non-alcoholic sparkly beverage, so:

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S! HAPPY 2009!