Lazy ramblings
My dear friend John gave us season one of Veronica Mars on DVD.
miatuc gave us a nice bottle of wine (lots of nice wines were given at our party, but most were drunk right away. This one was safely stashed.)
We gave Mutti a giant book of New Yorker cartoons, a gift certificate to iTunes (since she's becoming such the pirate, we thought we should encourage a little bit of legality), some nice products from Bath and Body and also "Airplane!" on DVD (her favorite comedy, and featuring your very own blow-up co-pilot.)
We gave mom-in-law a gift certificate to Target (she just moved from a house to an apartment), some mysteries, some nice Bath and Body products, and some maple syrup that we brought back from Massachusetts.
Oh yeah - hubby's girlfriend* gave me a karaoke machine. So I'm thinking whyvette and supergoober should come over some time and we can watch John Cusack movies, and then sing 80's tunes until dawn.
My sister Jenny gave us beautiful ornaments for the tree. My oldest sister sent us a generous check, as she always does. And my Yurt Sister (LJ entry explanation is forthcoming) sent us homemade cookies, which my husband, having seen the conditions of the yurt and their friendly attitude toward dirt and bugs, have politely refused to touch.
Had a nice lunch today with our lovely former neighbors, a wonderful gay couple that mom-in-law has adopted as "her boys" (pretty sure they're the first gay people she ever met), and going to dinner tonight at the stately mansion ("brick ranch" my ass, with 7' doors and about 7 bedrooms) of a lovely lesbian couple that mom-in-law is on the verge of adopting as "her girls". Our circle of friends in Decatur has provided quite the diversity education for a woman who was the original Coal Miner's Daughter in Appalachian Kentucky with only an elementary school education. It's fun to see her becoming such a passionate advocate of gay rights, based on the fact that she now knows and loves some gay people. She has a non-nonsense approach when it comes to loyalty to people cares about. Hubby's best friend, aka "Super Jew", gives her the best arguments against anti-semitism - because she likes him and likes his family. Hubby inherited this loyalty (and discrimination was never a factor in his personality, unless you count his intolerance for stupid people), which is one of the many things I love about him.
* Not real girlfriend. We're not poly. But he likes to tease me that she's his girlfriend when I'm traveling. Luckily for him she A) is slightly scared of me, B) really likes me, and C) has recently fallen in love with a cool guy of whom I approve. So the teasing is mostly acceptable.
miatuc gave us a nice bottle of wine (lots of nice wines were given at our party, but most were drunk right away. This one was safely stashed.)
We gave Mutti a giant book of New Yorker cartoons, a gift certificate to iTunes (since she's becoming such the pirate, we thought we should encourage a little bit of legality), some nice products from Bath and Body and also "Airplane!" on DVD (her favorite comedy, and featuring your very own blow-up co-pilot.)
We gave mom-in-law a gift certificate to Target (she just moved from a house to an apartment), some mysteries, some nice Bath and Body products, and some maple syrup that we brought back from Massachusetts.
Oh yeah - hubby's girlfriend* gave me a karaoke machine. So I'm thinking whyvette and supergoober should come over some time and we can watch John Cusack movies, and then sing 80's tunes until dawn.
My sister Jenny gave us beautiful ornaments for the tree. My oldest sister sent us a generous check, as she always does. And my Yurt Sister (LJ entry explanation is forthcoming) sent us homemade cookies, which my husband, having seen the conditions of the yurt and their friendly attitude toward dirt and bugs, have politely refused to touch.
Had a nice lunch today with our lovely former neighbors, a wonderful gay couple that mom-in-law has adopted as "her boys" (pretty sure they're the first gay people she ever met), and going to dinner tonight at the stately mansion ("brick ranch" my ass, with 7' doors and about 7 bedrooms) of a lovely lesbian couple that mom-in-law is on the verge of adopting as "her girls". Our circle of friends in Decatur has provided quite the diversity education for a woman who was the original Coal Miner's Daughter in Appalachian Kentucky with only an elementary school education. It's fun to see her becoming such a passionate advocate of gay rights, based on the fact that she now knows and loves some gay people. She has a non-nonsense approach when it comes to loyalty to people cares about. Hubby's best friend, aka "Super Jew", gives her the best arguments against anti-semitism - because she likes him and likes his family. Hubby inherited this loyalty (and discrimination was never a factor in his personality, unless you count his intolerance for stupid people), which is one of the many things I love about him.
* Not real girlfriend. We're not poly. But he likes to tease me that she's his girlfriend when I'm traveling. Luckily for him she A) is slightly scared of me, B) really likes me, and C) has recently fallen in love with a cool guy of whom I approve. So the teasing is mostly acceptable.