Write SOMETHING, fer chrissakes...
Well, it's been a week now, hasn't it? Damn. i guess i'd write more if i was at work...that can wait till next week. It's been an interesting week i suppose...but i may get a bit long-winded (who? me? long-winded??) so i best start right in with the cuts. i realise that if you open one cut, you open them all, but i'll try and put them into topics so you can decide for yourself if they're worth the time/effort.
Red Red Wine: Break Out the Pinot...
XMAS EVENING...THE FAMILY HAS GONE
Xmas eve was kinda fun...a lot of last minute futzing around...but i was getting into it. i promised. Matt's dad isn't doing so hot, so this was going to be a nice, traditional family xmas and i was even going to be nice to his sister who...well, we won't go into that.
And it worked out fine. Everybody came by, we had way too much food (always a good thing) and everybody went away happy. That wasn't my problem. My problem is that my husband is such a wonderful man and got me WAY too much stuff for Christmas.
Y'see, i love giving presents. i love shopping for them and what not...especially for my snugglebear. But i don't like getting them; i don't like people making a fuss over me. That's why i don't like birthdays...not that i'm getting older (i see it more as survival, but that's a story for...say...next October), but rather that everybody wants to make a big deal out of it.
So anyways, we're sitting up having coffee on xmas morning and we open a couple of little things and then i gave Matt the new PalmPilot he wanted and he gave me the new digial camera that i wanted. Due to our finance/employment situation that's been going on for the past two years, i THOUGHT we'd agreed to not get carried away this year. Well, as it turned out, i was the only one who actually kept my end of the bargain. i should have known that something was up when i got home last Thursday and saw this BIG-ass box stuffed in behind the tree (which Matthew has REALLY done a great job on, lemme tell ya!!) He CLAIMED it Jerry was hiding it there for Jeff (the J's from JJ's Clubhouse). i should have known better, but i was so tired from being on the road for two weeks and still dealing with Daddy Ed's funeral last weekend and all...and besides, we had a deal, right? RIGHT???
Well, as it turned out, it WASN'T for Jeff...it was a big-ass Toshiba 46" HDTV!! And that's not all...he also got me that DVD/Surround system that i'd mentioned that i was thinking about maybe getting in the spring or something...you know how THAT works!!
i honestly didn't know how to take it. Here just last week i was trying to juggle things around and was trying to figure out how to pay the property taxes on the cars (note to self: pay property taxes on the cars by tomorrow) and here he was spending all this money on me. i was kind of in shock, i guess. i was a little pissed in my own weird little way. Of course, Matthew had anticipated this (he knows me TOO well...damn him!!) Y'see, while i was off, he had (finally) refi'd his two-family rental, cashed out a little equity and paid off a BIG chunk of the debt we'd built up and then splurged on me. Did i appreciate it? In a word: no. (OK, paying off debt: YES; splurging on me: NO) "We can't afford this now..." "We should wait and see how things work out..." Blah, blah, blah!!
Some people never learn. Look what being all pragmatic and shit cost me this year: i'd been wanting to go out and spend a week with Daddy and He and His boy were going to keep me in bondage and played with the entire time...DAMN, i was looking forward to it. But it was always "...new job...blah, blah...tight money...blah, blah...can't take time off..." And now He's gone and i'll never get that chance again. You'd think i'd learned my lesson by now... But being conditioned for years to be the fiscally responsible one (and having dug myself in and out of debt a couple times) it was hard for me to let go.
But now i'm in my office listening to my new stereo and living large. Damn, i'm a lucky woofer with a wonderful husbear. i hope he keeps me...
Gryphon, Randy, woofer and Matt
gryphons_hole redhochipe wooferstl kiwi59
On Monday, the day after xmas, we got a wonderful visit from the ultrawoofy Jeff (gryphons_hole) who decided to stop off in STL on his way back to Kansas City from Louisville. He has really fascinated me since i recently discovered his LJ, but he is even better in person!! (i know that sounds weird, but you know what i mean and i can't think of a better way to put it) He's just got such a great outlook on life! Our buddy Randy (redhochipe, also new to these environs) came out as well and we all had a great time at JJs (and i STILL don't know what happened to Sam!!) We'll have to get back to KC to meet up again!
Yesterday, i dropped in on a screening of Steven Spielberg's newest "Munich" about the team that hunted down the Black September group that killed the Israeli Olympic team at the '72 games in the eponymous city. i actually remember this happening, so it was a little more resonant. To my pleasant surprise, this was NOT a "Jews=good/Palestinians=bad" preachfest, but a rather human thriller. Are we justified? Are we just as bad as they are? At 2 hours 40, it was a tad long, but never really dragged.
(as an aside, i'd personally like to recommend this to theevilnub for the HUGE amount of period european and american autos that Spielberg uses in this!!)
Red Red Wine: Break Out the Pinot...
XMAS EVENING...THE FAMILY HAS GONE
Xmas eve was kinda fun...a lot of last minute futzing around...but i was getting into it. i promised. Matt's dad isn't doing so hot, so this was going to be a nice, traditional family xmas and i was even going to be nice to his sister who...well, we won't go into that.
And it worked out fine. Everybody came by, we had way too much food (always a good thing) and everybody went away happy. That wasn't my problem. My problem is that my husband is such a wonderful man and got me WAY too much stuff for Christmas.
Y'see, i love giving presents. i love shopping for them and what not...especially for my snugglebear. But i don't like getting them; i don't like people making a fuss over me. That's why i don't like birthdays...not that i'm getting older (i see it more as survival, but that's a story for...say...next October), but rather that everybody wants to make a big deal out of it.
So anyways, we're sitting up having coffee on xmas morning and we open a couple of little things and then i gave Matt the new PalmPilot he wanted and he gave me the new digial camera that i wanted. Due to our finance/employment situation that's been going on for the past two years, i THOUGHT we'd agreed to not get carried away this year. Well, as it turned out, i was the only one who actually kept my end of the bargain. i should have known that something was up when i got home last Thursday and saw this BIG-ass box stuffed in behind the tree (which Matthew has REALLY done a great job on, lemme tell ya!!) He CLAIMED it Jerry was hiding it there for Jeff (the J's from JJ's Clubhouse). i should have known better, but i was so tired from being on the road for two weeks and still dealing with Daddy Ed's funeral last weekend and all...and besides, we had a deal, right? RIGHT???
Well, as it turned out, it WASN'T for Jeff...it was a big-ass Toshiba 46" HDTV!! And that's not all...he also got me that DVD/Surround system that i'd mentioned that i was thinking about maybe getting in the spring or something...you know how THAT works!!
i honestly didn't know how to take it. Here just last week i was trying to juggle things around and was trying to figure out how to pay the property taxes on the cars (note to self: pay property taxes on the cars by tomorrow) and here he was spending all this money on me. i was kind of in shock, i guess. i was a little pissed in my own weird little way. Of course, Matthew had anticipated this (he knows me TOO well...damn him!!) Y'see, while i was off, he had (finally) refi'd his two-family rental, cashed out a little equity and paid off a BIG chunk of the debt we'd built up and then splurged on me. Did i appreciate it? In a word: no. (OK, paying off debt: YES; splurging on me: NO) "We can't afford this now..." "We should wait and see how things work out..." Blah, blah, blah!!
Some people never learn. Look what being all pragmatic and shit cost me this year: i'd been wanting to go out and spend a week with Daddy and He and His boy were going to keep me in bondage and played with the entire time...DAMN, i was looking forward to it. But it was always "...new job...blah, blah...tight money...blah, blah...can't take time off..." And now He's gone and i'll never get that chance again. You'd think i'd learned my lesson by now... But being conditioned for years to be the fiscally responsible one (and having dug myself in and out of debt a couple times) it was hard for me to let go.
But now i'm in my office listening to my new stereo and living large. Damn, i'm a lucky woofer with a wonderful husbear. i hope he keeps me...
Gryphon, Randy, woofer and Matt
gryphons_hole redhochipe wooferstl kiwi59
On Monday, the day after xmas, we got a wonderful visit from the ultrawoofy Jeff (gryphons_hole) who decided to stop off in STL on his way back to Kansas City from Louisville. He has really fascinated me since i recently discovered his LJ, but he is even better in person!! (i know that sounds weird, but you know what i mean and i can't think of a better way to put it) He's just got such a great outlook on life! Our buddy Randy (redhochipe, also new to these environs) came out as well and we all had a great time at JJs (and i STILL don't know what happened to Sam!!) We'll have to get back to KC to meet up again!
Yesterday, i dropped in on a screening of Steven Spielberg's newest "Munich" about the team that hunted down the Black September group that killed the Israeli Olympic team at the '72 games in the eponymous city. i actually remember this happening, so it was a little more resonant. To my pleasant surprise, this was NOT a "Jews=good/Palestinians=bad" preachfest, but a rather human thriller. Are we justified? Are we just as bad as they are? At 2 hours 40, it was a tad long, but never really dragged.
(as an aside, i'd personally like to recommend this to theevilnub for the HUGE amount of period european and american autos that Spielberg uses in this!!)