So, Tuesday, T-minus two days, where 'T' is Thanksgiving. As with any major holiday, there are a lot of things that need to get done in the days leading up to the holiday itself: cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc. Today, for example, I had a lot to do, many of which was fairly time consuming:

*Write up steel_not_glass's post for fandomhigh (apps are open ( Read more... )

Have YOU updated your amazon wishlist yet?

Since Pemby is dying and rather quickly, shogunhb bought me a shiny new laptop for Christmas. Ummm...early Christmas as I'm playing with it now. Windows 7, fancy specs, blah blah blah technical stuff. It's new and shiny and I love it lots. So far, the hardest adjustment is to the layout of the keyboard. It's higher and to the left of where Pemby's keyboard ( Read more... )

So, today is Thanksgiving--at least in America and for Americans around the world (gives a quick non-Thanksgiving-y shout-out to all my non-American friends--buncha heathens). It is a day we look reflect on all of our blessings throughout the year and in our lives and think warmly upon our nation's history ( Read more... )

I was going to start this by explaining in minute detail the ways 2008 sucked (hospital visits, et. al) or rocked (hey, hey history!) but I decided the best way to celebrate 2008 is to give it no more attention than it deserves. Though I will say:

Congrats to quish and purple_dj! And thank you for allowing me to be a part of your wedding. I still feel honored ( Read more... )

Just had to keep bein' a bitch to the bloody end, didn't you?

In other news, I am unimpressed by snow.

Sure, I've got 5 packages from Amazon that all say "Delivered to the rear door" on the tracking page, and there are no packages at my doorstep, but there's certainly a logical explanation for that. I don't have any mail, our upstairs tenant doesn't have any, maybe the mail is super-late due to weather and sheer volume of mail. That's gotta be the ( Read more... )

We're actually trying to send them out this year. Since I suck at keeping track of things so many of you have moved since I last got your mailing addresses (which, for lots of you, was in '06 to send out wedding invites) if you'd like a holiday card, could you kindly leave your address in the comments? I've screened them ( Read more... )

with the economy as it is, it's just easier this way.

Please don't light me on fire for offending your holiday cheer.

Poll Holiday Gift Giving*GHD (Feb. 2th) is the traditional (amongst my college friends, anyway) non-Christmas giving holiday. Since the winter holidays have a ton of mandatory gifts (family, etc), GHD was when you'd buy for your friends. You'd have ( Read more... )

...Christmas trees are the best things EVAR. For one, they are mighty tasty. I, personally, am REALLY looking forward to dealing with them as they digest spruce needles. Also, in a time-honored tradition, shogunhb and I attached bells to the bottom branches as an Insto-Kitten Alarm. This way, if we hear the jingle-jangle that is NOT Nick Cave, we know the ( Read more... )