'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the 'verse ( Read more... )

Yesterday we did an Academic Team reunion of sorts--an alumni match against the current team. Nina, one of my extra little sisters, saw me and ran up and hugged me and said "Sarah, I love you, but go home." ;) We...sort of kicked their asses. Lisa and Joey and Stephanie and I were pretty awesome, and I got to be on the team with Lisa, which was fun ( Read more... )

Yes, it is only the ninth, but apparently today is CHRISTMAS. I got mail this afternoon--the St. Nicholas Day stocking from my mom. Every year she gets us an ornament to put on the tree (which makes a total of something like 109 ornaments among my siblings), and this year mine is Bob Cratchit from Mickey's Christmas Carol, which is possibly my ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS!

LOOK WHAT MY SISTER CHRISTIE MADE FOR ME!


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Five days to Christmas and my Christmas spirit is...yeah, just about nil.

I don't even know why. I love Christmas, I love the tree and the songs* and the snow. *glances out window at bare ground* Well, the tree and the songs* and the finding-of-the-perfect-gifts-for-people.

Maybe that's my problem: I have done no shopping whatsoever. The only gifts I ( Read more... )

Happy Midwinter Holiday Celebration to all!!!

The scarves got finished in time, my hands uncramped eventually, and everything was awesome. XD Lisa spent way too much on everyone this year--she got me Bailey's. And I have like two dozen kinds of hot chocolate to add it to. My cousin-the-mini-me made me a bookmark--she's crazy scrapbooking girl--and ( Read more... )

Every single year, we say we're not going shopping on Black Friday.

And every single year, the ads pour in on Thanksgiving morning, and every year there's something that we simply have. to. have.

This year it's external hard drives--Mom and Dad are each getting massive ones. And I'm getting a couple of pairs of $13 corduroys, because I'm betting that ( Read more... )

I was going to make a long post about the great-grandmother who kept me at work for an extra half an hour, about how her blush had been applied with a paint roller and her lipliner had only a passing acquaintance with her actual lipline, but.

I just finished wrapping Christmas presents. And not too badly, if I do say so myself. We have shiny ( Read more... )

Overheard in Kroger:

Mother: *parks cart in makeup aisle*
Little boy in cart: *reaches for eyeshadow*
Mother: No, no, you put those down. Those are for girls, honey. Girls. You're a boy, remember? Do you want to be a girl?
Little boy: *considers* Yes.

Yeah, that was pretty much the highlight of my day.

In other news, these fics I am writing for y'all ( Read more... )

Today I sort of made the first of my Christmas cards. And then I told Kathy about the Night Before Christmas parody I failed to make last year (which is different from this one, although I still kind of like that one), and she told me I Absolutely Have To Finish It. With caps and everything, just like that.

So in honor of me actually attaining some ( Read more... )