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you get anything fun for Christmas? Did you troll the fancy neighborhoods looking at holiday lights? Did you tell your kids the story of the healthcare nightmare before Christmas? Anyone wear a gay sweater?
I have no kids & a husband who’s out of town. My plan is to see Nine, tonight. Christmas is for pop-culture.
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Fun for Christmas – a light box for my photography and a new Darwin Awards book. (There is a raquet – get folks to contribute stories on line – then publish a book.)
Gifts were exchanged last night. Today is a day of being together, doing together and feasting together.
Haven’t opened gifts yet…but I am expecting some Bacon Salt (www.baconsalt.com), because in 2010, I want everything to taste like bacon.
good plan, i’m seeing nine this afternoon! happy friday.
No Kids? What are Scrubs and Emma and Lucy and Molly?
I am planning to wear my schmaltzy snowman flannel shirt today as I travel to WV to see family today–just because.
I am all about pop culture today.
Have a great holiday, Laurie, and everyone else.
I’m watching a Colbert Christmas, trying to wake up and I really want to go see Sherlock Holmes tonight.
Hugs to the kitties!
Okay, here’s my 24 hours. Fly to Chicago to see family. Hustle out to Old Orchard (Skokie) in monsoon conditions so I can go to Macy’s to get a secret santa gift under $10. Drive back out to Rosemont and check into my hotel. Brush my hair. Drive to Westchester in the rain (down 294 to 290) to see extended family. Hang out with kids & aunts & gramma, drop a few f-bombs, and listen to Gramma say racist things and complain about health care — as a woman who is on medicare. Eat copious amounts of food and get acid reflux. Get back on 294 in the pouring rain & drive up to the Kennedy at 9:30 to go to my brother’s house. Get clipped on the sideview mirror in my rental car by a guy who tries to merge into my lane. Go to my brother’s house and eat more food and have passive-aggressive banter with my sister. Play Wii bowling. Watch my brothers kick the crap out of one another on Wii boxing. Leave Portage Park and get back on the Kennedy to my hotel room in Rosemont. Sleep for 90 minutes. Wake up. Come to O’Hare. Drop the car off at Avis — but the car return is on one side of the lot and the bus is on the other and I don’t have an umbrella. I get soaked. Wearing my glasses. Come to O’Hare and my flight is combined with a later flight (ugh) so I sleep at a gate for 60 minutes and wake up to some boy screaming, “I hate this broken airport, Mom.”
NOTICE THAT I HAVE NOT MENTIONED DRINKING. No drinks. Sipped on some wine. That’s it.
So far.
Will be home in RDU around 2PM.
Maybe.
@RMS Those Darwin books are hilarious but now I’m like, “…and then they died.” Hope you enjoy the day!
@akaBruno You have lofty goals, my friend.
@waste Well I’m at the airport due to arrive home a little later than planned. Will probably see Nine on Saturday.
@BZ Oh let’s not forget Lucy and Jake. Happy Christmas to you. Be careful on the roads to WV!
@Minion I have not heard a single review on Sherlock Holmes. Let me know what you think!
Jake! (I feel like Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music when she couldn’t remember the last kid’s name in her prayers.)
Make the best of it Laurie. At least you have a family here that loves ya!
My interesting gift: a Wii game where you play as wolf restoring life to the world through the use of calligraphy. It’s trippy. I also got Ordinary Injustice by Amy Bach, a fellow Roch. native. You should check that out.
“The one thing women don”t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.” – Joan Rivers
@econopete is that Wii game “Okami?” I have it, but haven’t tried it yet.
Me and the kids are home for Christmas across the country for the first time in 7 years! My little one misses her cat Jasper so badly that she called her Dad and asked him if he would give Jasper a Christmas Stocking. Her dad went to the store and got the cat some treats and a catnip mouse and put it in a stocking and gave it to the cat and then took pictures and sent them to her….she was thrilled beyond reason. Note-he would have NEVER done that while we were together!
My husband gave me 3 bottles of wine, a box of truffles, a box of salted caramels, a jar of Nutella, earrings, and a homemade “gift certificate” redeemable through the end of January to buy whatever I want. This certificate also includes him driving me (and parking!) wherever I want to go to buy whatever I want, and then dinner out.
Yeah, my husband knows his gift-giving shiznit.
Now I’m just waiting for family members to arrive and have already spiked my coffee with Bailey’s in anticipation.
I want to see Sherlock Holmes because Robert Downey, Jr. has been my boyfriend for years. Nine sounds intriguing, but Kate and Penelope both cause me physical pain. Yet, Judy Dench! Dilemma.
akaBruno: Yes it is! It’s a lot of fun if you like the Zelda games. Beware though, there’s a lot of story you need to absorb, and it gets hard!
@econopete I have to get a Wii but I don’t want one as a gift. Maybe I’ll just go buy one.
@HRU Wow, I’m still sad about your divorce but glad you had a good Christmas. Hooray for Jasper!
@H.Aria I think Moulin Rogue was both a fascinating and stupid movie. That’s what I expect to think about Nine. Also, your husband is awesome. AWESOME.
We had a, not surprising, very nerdy Christmas. Our living room was full of misc computer stuffs, new flatware, a little bling for me, cloths and an ipod touch for the step son. The poor cat was freaked out by all the paper and noise, she hasn’t been right all day, poor thing. I got the Super Mario game for the Wii, I’m reliving my childhood, yo.
I did the passive aggressive banter thing with mom, went to the in-laws and came home. The husband and I had pepperoni and ham pizza for dinner and a blueberry crunch for dessert. Christmas dinner ruled.
Next holiday, we are totally going to hook up in Westchester…I’ll introduce you to the brother-in-law and sister-in-law who will make you eat until you bust. Then you must definitely introduce me to Gramma — as a blogger. We’ll have a high old time. Then, we must zip to Oakbrook, where the nieces and nephews will have already secured a table at a chain restaurant that serves dinosaur-sized servings of fatty foods. Quick stop at the TJ Maxx and Marshall’s for last minute lay-away’s and then I’ll drop you off at O’Hare.
@adowling I knew I should have come down. Sounds awesome!
@peopleshark Sounds like a plan. I drove down Mannheim and it’s much better than I remember it. Fewer strip clubs in Stone Park. I would also accept a trip to Von Mauer at Oakbrook.
Spent the day at home with family coming o er to our house. Picked up my mom in the morning to spend the weekend. Taking her to my sisters tomorrow which will be an interesting visit!
We were busy all day eating, drinking and being merry (of course the hard cider helped with that). Wii seems to be popular thus year as I got my boys the Tony Hawk skateboard game and DJ Hero. Both are cool but love the DJ Hero more than I thought I would.
All in all a better Christmas than I had anticipated. Also loved reading everyones holiday tales and sharing in the joy (and pain) of the season. Best wishes to all!
Gots me a Kindle and an iPod. Also went down to Lincon Rd and walked amongst all the tourists and peeps celebrating.
This is my first iPod/Apple Product. Not really impressed so far with iTunes. I think it’s a pain in the ass and hideously slow.
I went through the motions…spent time with the in-laws. Me: first generation Italian and my Christmas’s were full of great food, gifts and money envelopes. My in-laws: NOT ITALIAN AND ALL YOU END UP EATING IS THANKSGIVING DINNER 2. Ugh! I did get cool gifts from my kids, they put a lot of thought into the selection. I swear my mother-in-law searches every discount store to get me a pair of flannel pajamas that I am afraid will combust on the spot. One year they were made of a sponge like product. Next year we will be out of the country. YEAH!
Laurie, you want a Wii? I’m shocked!
Why, pray tell?
I got the H1N1 for Christmas and my birthday this year. I did get better gifts, by the way. Last week is a blur cause it was spent in bed or watching movies between bouts of coughing. An odd assortment of movies I might add. The original Wicker Man and It’s a Wonderful Life all in one day. Also, a version of A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. No Number One to Make it So in that movie! I am back to work today for the first day in a week. I supposedly am non contagious anymore. My husband had to take Tamiflu the whole time he was home with me. I need more rest.