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Dec. 2nd, 2005 07:47 pmThe second day of December and already we've gotten TWO Christmas cards! Who ARE these people and why don't they know how to procrastinate? (Actually, one was my aunt who's a grand Ultimate Hostess and loves doing stuff of that nature and was probably like, last friday, "Oh, now that Thanksgiving is over and everyone's left I need to find something to do-- okay CHRISTMAS CARDS!"; and the other was Maria Kubik who is going to grow up to be exactly like my aunt).
I ordered my first two Christmas gifts online yesterday. One for the Matviya-Family-Grab-Bag-That's-Really-a-Secret-Santa (my cousin Matt went on about this for quite some time last year); and the other for my parents. It's exciting! I love finding gifts that you know people will like, and the Grab Bag gift seems JUST PERFECT at least.
I'm frickin' cold at the moment. Man, all that trouble shrinkwrapping the windows and it's still cold.
Anyway, today at work I did a puppet focus group all morning, which was fun, and was actually put on book project ALL AFTERNOON. So I ended up spending too much time on the computer. So anyway, what the heck am I doing back on the computer now, anyway?
"Order of the Stick" rocks. Thanks, Megan.
I WAS going to say something interesting here, but I forget what.
Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
In no particular order:
1. Two words: FRESH FRUIT.
2. When one of your favorite songs comes on the radio when you don't expect it. Well, usually you don't expect it. Sometimes... and this is even better... you'll say, "Boy, I'm in the mood to listen to such-and-such" and IT COMES ON, and that's just REALLY AWESOME, but happens much more rarely.
3. Really great opening lines of novels, the kind that set off a reaction in your brain and you just KNOW you're in for something amazing.
4. When you're with friends or other loved ones and somebody starts laughing about something really stupid but then you start laughing because they're laughing and pretty soon everybody's laughing and the more you try to stop the more you absolutely CANNOT stop and it just keeps going on and on and nobody can remember why you started laughing in the first place.
5. Getting letters.
Oh hey! Talking on the phone with Jason, and it occurs to us to ask NOW for once... WHAT'S everyone doing for New Years'? We've had this issue the past few years of not making any plans until the last minute and then asking everyone we know and they already have other plans of course... we would get exactly two other guests every year for awhile (different ones each time, at that), and last year we ended up with NOBODY, although we were having a Lord of the Rings marathon along with venison stew and everything and it totally rocked-- I mean, WE two had a good time, I'm sure other people might have had a good time too but the only people who said they could possibly come last year (a completely different two people than the other years before that, and now we're not even in contact with them anyway because J worked with them at Gander Mountain) ended up not being able to at the last minute. Anyway... so maybe if I ask NOW we'll be able to find somebody else to gather with?
I ordered my first two Christmas gifts online yesterday. One for the Matviya-Family-Grab-Bag-That's-Really-a-Secret-Santa (my cousin Matt went on about this for quite some time last year); and the other for my parents. It's exciting! I love finding gifts that you know people will like, and the Grab Bag gift seems JUST PERFECT at least.
I'm frickin' cold at the moment. Man, all that trouble shrinkwrapping the windows and it's still cold.
Anyway, today at work I did a puppet focus group all morning, which was fun, and was actually put on book project ALL AFTERNOON. So I ended up spending too much time on the computer. So anyway, what the heck am I doing back on the computer now, anyway?
"Order of the Stick" rocks. Thanks, Megan.
I WAS going to say something interesting here, but I forget what.
Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
In no particular order:
1. Two words: FRESH FRUIT.
2. When one of your favorite songs comes on the radio when you don't expect it. Well, usually you don't expect it. Sometimes... and this is even better... you'll say, "Boy, I'm in the mood to listen to such-and-such" and IT COMES ON, and that's just REALLY AWESOME, but happens much more rarely.
3. Really great opening lines of novels, the kind that set off a reaction in your brain and you just KNOW you're in for something amazing.
4. When you're with friends or other loved ones and somebody starts laughing about something really stupid but then you start laughing because they're laughing and pretty soon everybody's laughing and the more you try to stop the more you absolutely CANNOT stop and it just keeps going on and on and nobody can remember why you started laughing in the first place.
5. Getting letters.
Oh hey! Talking on the phone with Jason, and it occurs to us to ask NOW for once... WHAT'S everyone doing for New Years'? We've had this issue the past few years of not making any plans until the last minute and then asking everyone we know and they already have other plans of course... we would get exactly two other guests every year for awhile (different ones each time, at that), and last year we ended up with NOBODY, although we were having a Lord of the Rings marathon along with venison stew and everything and it totally rocked-- I mean, WE two had a good time, I'm sure other people might have had a good time too but the only people who said they could possibly come last year (a completely different two people than the other years before that, and now we're not even in contact with them anyway because J worked with them at Gander Mountain) ended up not being able to at the last minute. Anyway... so maybe if I ask NOW we'll be able to find somebody else to gather with?
