Quick not-well-arranged photo update. Great day - and we're not done partying! - off to Uncle Ed & Aunt Beverly's now. How lucky are we??

We had a nice Christmas Eve - kicked things off with a sing-along at Jake's school, then set up our luminaries out in the street. Delivered Swedish coffee rolls to the neighbors (also a rousing rendition of Rudolph)

Mom & Dad, Dave & Sophie came to dinner, after which we watched Santa's progress around the world online, and tracked it on a new globe that was a gift from Gramps & Kathleen.

Dessert was great - we even left some for Santa. :)

I'm out of drugs, and I have a cough that is killing me. Roommate offers to help but notices I'm almost human today.

S: Are you coming to the pharmacy with me?
K: Er... hrrmmm... is it cold?
S: Yes. It's cold.
K: *dawn breaks* Oh, right. December 23.
S: Yeah. Ho Ho Ho... Ho Ho Holy shit it's cold out.
K: *trying to hold guts and stitches in place while hysterically laughing* You suck!

Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow ow.

Later she determines she's in the wrong profession, and ought to be a hospice nurse.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tags: amusion, h-bomb
Current Music: don't get around much anymore

You *can* let the children watch TV the whole time, but you should know that they will definitely rat you out sooner or later.



It took me a few minutes to parse out the picture -it's a drawing of our TV on its media stand. haha.

A favorite Hanukkah gift this year was a "Gnome away from home" - a small gnome who likes to travel.
He comes with his own little passport, which intrigued the kids.

Here, the kids send him on his way:


Anyway, we have confirmation that he has arrived in Stockholm to celebrate Christmas with Auntie & Uncle Magnus and family there. Maybe some pictures will roll in. The gnome doesn't have a blog, so I'll post on his behalf if I get them.

Yet more cute baby pictures; this batch off the SLR rather than the years-old point&shoot or the phone camera, so some of them are even “good” in an objective sense.

Click here for more.

(Small warning: there’s one hilariously disturbing pair of images in there.  I’d say more, but it would spoil the surprise.  Don’t worry, it’s not the crowning.)

Crossposted from: blahg.blank.org

Tags: eyeblinks, ipsie

supply captain is having a 20% off sale on everything thru 12/30. they've got pretty good prices on their paracord anyways, so if you're looking to stock up on 1000' rolls of neon yellow or whatever, you might want to check it out.

i'm still trying to figure out if i need a few 100' hanks, so i'm not stepping up yet to try and share shipping costs for local folks.

via solarbird: an italian singer wrote a song to sound like english. and it does. except it's not english.
video! with choreography!

To the best of my knowledge, these are all legitimately released online for download.

paul oakenfeld's goa mixes (silver and gold) is available for download. It looks like they've got some other stuff, too.

demovibes downloads. (i haven't listened to these yet to see what i think of them, but they came recommended via someone on mefi.

and if you haven't encountered Pomplamoose, check them out. You might want to start with their clever and adorable cover of beyonce's 'single ladies' or my favorite things from the sound of music. Or their seasonally-appropriate original always in the season.

Fighting off a sore throat. Cranky. Not very clear-headed.

Woke up today around 11-something in the AM, which was nice. Fell back asleep, fighting off this cold that's threatening to take over my throat like a giant fungal bloom straight out of the X-Files.

Finally crawled out of bed around 3pm. Ran errands with the BF for a prescription, comic boxes, food shopping, and a Christmas tree.

Came home & made a late lunch, then started cleaning the living room so that the tree would fit. Filled TWO short boxes with individual comics and one BIG plastic bin with graphic novels, all of which were just lying around my living room. Yeesh. Finally made enough room for tree after the BF pointed out that while he was thrilled I was cleaning up my comics, I wasn't actually working on clearing the space where the tree needed to go. Oops. Shifted focus, cleaned that spot in 10 minutes. Duh. Glad I got some of the comics clutter under control, though. (Meanwhile, the BF figured out what was wrong with the snow blower and fixed it, then made yummy chicken pot pie from scratch.) We brought the tree in and set it up in the stand. As usual, we bought it from the kids in Foss Park, where the money goes to school programs for the Somerville School system.

I even did a load of laundry! Hot shit!

Didn't manage to socialize with anyone today, though.

I'm working on Arisia stuff again this year, helping with the Pros(e) Nest, and it's reminding me where I was exactly a year ago and I don't feel like anything has improved. I'm still paralyzed with depression. I'm still broke (though my parents just sent me a very generous donation). The house is still a pit. My life is still aggravating. I thought I'd be a little better by now and while I'm not in as bad a place as I was last year, I'm not in a good place.

Dammit. ( Thoughts on 2009 )

Ok, maybe things are a little better. But it doesn't really FEEL like it.