Obligatory end-of-year mumbling

admin | December 31, 2009

Like any other year, 2009 was a mix of good and bad, some really good and some really bad. Here’s how I started this year, and I think it’s a decent way to end it as well – Tomorrow, I’m going to start a new feature, which I’ll hopefully be able to keep up with, [...]

Merry Christmas, Cousin Andre

admin | December 25, 2009

Or, Why I Love Peter Ustinov With A Love That Will Never Die. This is a clip from a movie that is traditional in our family, We’re No Angels. It’s about 3 convicts on Devil’s Island near the end of the 19th century, and how they fall in with a good-hearted family on Christmas Eve. [...]

It’s Christmas Eve! Yay!

admin | December 24, 2009

This is similar to what happens in my house every year, although the cats are not chasing chipmunks, but each other. From McSweeney’s, Letters to Santa written by Shakespeare characters. Got some lovely fat snowmens and Bonus!Ewan! from Gayla yesterday — thank you! Today’s quote — “It’s Christmas Eve day! Both an eve and a [...]

Hoppy Holidays

admin | December 23, 2009

I fully intended to send out Christmas cards this year, even if I had to resort to recycled ones from previous years. However, the Post Office frowns on recycled stamps, so the snail mail cards ain’t gonna happen this year. However, please accept this thing I made last night as my holiday greeting to you [...]

One lump of coal for Bauer

admin | December 22, 2009

I gots more cards! Yay! Fat Santa and Christmas cookies to put on my fridge from Karita, and a sore-looking angel from Onci. Thanks, ladies! What’s In My Head Today? Yesterday’s quote was from The Simpsons. Today’s quote – “This is one Santa who’s going out the front door.”

Brrr

admin | December 21, 2009

It was 38F when I got up this morning. I realize that’s practically balmy for some of you, but for us down here, it’s effin’ cold. Some highlights from my weekend: Saturday morning, the phone rings. Me: Hello? Collection agency dude, from India or Pakistan: Hello, is this mumble-mumble? Me: What? CAD: Is this mumble-mumble? [...]

Polar bears and penguins!

admin | December 19, 2009

Which I received in the mail yesterday from Wyn and Alex, respectively. I think I startled a couple of my neighbors hanging out near the mailboxes by saying (rather loudly) “Alex! Yay!” when I pulled the first envelope out. Can’t mistake that lovely, sprawling script. Thank you, my lovelies! And in that same spirit – [...]

Dangerous Wands

admin | December 18, 2009

“Where you think you at, bitch? Hogwarts?” In other news, I got a Christmas card from Inya! Yay! It’s beautiful, but I’m afraid some of the doodads didn’t survive the sorting machine intact. It’s still beautiful.

We have car!

admin | December 16, 2009

From the makers of the painfully honest mobile home ad – I am intensely unmotivated today. I need to fix that. What’s in my head today is something I can’t find anywhere on the internets, so I guess it’ll have to stay in my head. Today’s quote – “I’m selling used cars, do you know [...]

If the taun-taun sleeping bag isn’t for you

admin | December 15, 2009

Then perhaps the Millennium Falcon bed might work. (Pictured Princess Leia not included.) On a somewhat related note: What’s In My Head Today? The Whos never sounded like this Yesterday’s quote was from Pushing Daisies. Today’s quote – “It’s your Millennium Falcon, you and Chewbacca can do whatever you want. Me and Princess Leia will [...]