 shitton of furniture… well, it’s getting old being so cramped.
- Be a better friend and hang out more often. Visit family more frequently. Build up drinking tolerance, learn to milk goats, spend lots of time gardening at mom’s farm, go out to Happy Hour more frequently, organize more parties and dinner nights, go fishing a lot more with Dad, etc.
- Talk to Danielle on the phone at least once a week, because holy shit, that girl is GOOD TIMES. Seriously, if you aren’t internet-stalking her, you are goddamn retarded.
Quit smoking. Fell in love. Not in that order. Moved in together. Built a patio. Didn’t go to the gym as much as I should have (see: “Fell in love / Moved in together.” He taught me how to sleep in!) Quit drinking daily coffee and switched to tea. Found a farm for mom, negotiated the sale, helped her move in and begin her retirement. Dropped the ball on a shitton of other stuff, but fuck it, I was busy this year. Lost a dear friend to Lung Cancer (see item #1). Quit my second job. Baked a lot of cookies, coffee cakes and casseroles. Spent a lot of time laughing and being happy (see item #2).
December 27th, 2005
This is a list of things I purchased for Christmas, and a list of people that I purchased them for. Mix-N-Match! Answer in the comments! Winner will be sent a gift of my choosing (see below), at some point in the new year!
1. A boot-scraper!
2. A Toothbrush! Sonicare!
3. $40 in Regal Cinema Gift Dollars!
4. A really awesome lightly-watched Sony Trinitron TV!
5. Some booze!
6. Not a damn thing!
B. My dad
C. My mom
D. His sister
E. His parents
F. YOU! And my brother
In breaking news, I buy the worst xmas presents ever. Almost as bad as my mother, who bought me three blankets. Because, you know. I am obviously freezing to death here in Richmond, Virginia, AKA “The Tundra.” (She bought me three blankets last year. And the year before. And three years ago. Ad nauseum.)
I bought myself a new cell phone on a new carrier (so that I could make calls, you know, from INSIDE MY HOUSE), but I bought a Razr phone, and I’m not impressed with it. It’s nice and thin, groovy-looking, but the menus are not intuitive, and the cameraphone totally sucks. Sadly, I think I’m gonna have to give up the new hotness for something with better reception, a vibrate function, a reasonably half-decent camera, and a more sensible menu. And that I can actually hear when it is ringing. Man, obviously there is a lot wrong with this phone. It’s a shame it’s so damn sexy.
PS: if you drink tea, have you tried PG Tips? This nice black tea is so good that Allen totally pinched it from his momma’s cupboard, and we have been drinking it nonstop ever since. I hope we can find it here in town. It is delightful with milk.
December 24th, 2005
I know you are all fucking bad-ass and shit now, even though apparently I’m the only one who remembers Dead Alive, but dude, was it really necessary to make King Kong THREE AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS LONG?
I killed myself, I took my time gettin’ reborn, and they were still in the goddamn JUNGLE.
FOR FUCK’S SAKE, DUDE.
PS: CW, eat a wang.
December 22nd, 2005
I just saw that I have a reader in South Africa and two in the UK! Hey y’all! Greetings from the Capital of the Confederacy!
Don’t forget to add yourselves to my totally awesome frappr mappr! You know I get a secret glee out of this kind of shit.
I have a lot of driving to do this holiday season, in my very-generous-time-off-package. I’ll be making tamales tomorrow with my mom (pork, chicken, and bean-and-cheese), and then we’ll be going to Roanoke to see the BF’s family, then we are headed to Delawhere to see my Dad and then the BF is playing a New Year’s eve thing in Fredericksburg, so OMG SPENDING HOLIDAY IN CAR.
I send my love to all of you this day, the first day after Winter Solstice–such a day to celebrate! Longer days! Even those of you who think I don’t see you! I do! I’m like Santa, or Sinter Klaas or something! I SEE YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING! And me and Rob’s baby are totally coming to kick your ass*.
* Just kidding. But go tell Rob you want him to 