Happy Festivus out there to everyone who finds tinsel distracting!

I think I heard this song 30 times today. Someone explain to me again why I made her that CD.

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I love that Sting looks slightly annoyed to have to share a mic with Simon LeBon and, of course, Mullet!Bono.

First tree in the new apartment. It's smaller than trees we've had in the past, but still lovely.


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The benevolent and sagacious Momma D has promised me a ride home if I tell Poppa G the truth about why I will not be going to his house to slam back Screw Drivers and cheese and crackers* on Christmas Eve. I might as well, the truth will set me free...and might have an impact of some sort, but that's not likely. Them peoples is thick I tell you ( Read more... )

It dawned on me the other night that since I no longer have a job I can't use having to work on Christmas Eve as an excuse to avoid contact with my step-mother and half-sister this year. I haven't set foot in that house or even spoken one word to my step-mother since that ridiculously embarrassing evening five years ago and I've only seen my half- ( Read more... )

Except for the one or two times when I'd thought ahead and taken the day off, this is the first time in a long time that I haven't had to work on Black Friday. Fortunately I've never had to be there in the morning for the stupid 6am opening time. That'd be the day. I mean, I can see people lining up early outside of Best Buy or Macy's or even ( Read more... )

I didn't think that I'd like the version of "Lost!" with the Jay-Z rap mixed into it, but I do. Huzzah ( Read more... )

Okay, first of all, my grandparents are adorable. Poppa G and I went over there for lunch today and had a lovely time and got to eat some of the baked goods that I spent all of yesterday smelling (and being tortured by because I couldn't taste any of it!). As of yesterday they've been married sixty years, yes, sixty, 6-0, which is cool and they ( Read more... )

The Monster Mash!

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I was working in the lab late one night ( Read more... )

'Twas a pleasant Easter Sunday 'round these parts. We all went down to Auntie J-A's for dinner (which was yummers) and I discovered that watching two people play Baseball 2K8 on XBOX 360 is almost as good as watching an actual game. No commercials! Brother Adam was the Red Stockings and Cousin Andre was the Dodgers. Brother Adam didn't do so well, ( Read more... )