oh, and haha, my mom just told me that because my youngest bro is having some bad kidney problems (ok, not the haha part), the doc gave him a bunch of demerol! demerol christmas! ah, but not for me...
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost to laurel - yeah, i would think that if you're looking for a gay wingman, that working in publishing is pretty ideal! i have never really had a gay friend designated as 'wingman' though and i really don't know how i feel about the idea of that or 'wingman' in the first place
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
My family drinks together now! My mother is a little afraid she's turning into "a lush" but it only takes equiv of 1 drink to put her away so it's a moot point.
― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 23 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
the strict marm i remember from my teenaged years is gone and there's a nice old mother living in my house. also it makes me sad that my dad is definitely not a middle-aged guy any more, that he's crossed often into ornery oldish guy years.
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
-- nuneb
same, also source of free hand-me-down computer components and gadgets
― v (sleep), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
re. kids dressed as lambs on christmas services:
me (simultaneous): my friend kate was dr....dad (simultaneous): in the paper, a la...
[pause]
dad: can't you be quiet when i'm talking?me: oka -- mom: he was talking!me: fine, go ahead, don't make a big deal.dad: (sarcastic) no, we really all wanna hear about kate. we all wanna hear what you have to say.me: okay, don't be rude.dad: alliwasgonnasayisakiddressedasalambfellasleep.me: cutemom: you shouldn't interrupt.dad: he doesn't care what anybody else has to say.me: omigod, just get over it.dad: i already am. (big fake smile)me: all you do when you make a big deal is get people upset like you just got me, now i'm all pissed and i'm gonna storm out.
(i storm out)
― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― PPlains (PPlains), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 24 December 2006 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302874262.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― baccarat heads spice pushka underdog official texas holdem bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 24 December 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 24 December 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Sunday, 24 December 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Sunday, 24 December 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo (milo), Sunday, 24 December 2006 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Sunday, 24 December 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 24 December 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link
road trip!!!
or are they back in NJ for the holidays yet?
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 24 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
okay i am squeeing at a kitten and a boob
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 24 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 24 December 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Sunday, 24 December 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
um, correct me if i'm wrong, wouldn't this be your uncle?
― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
ian, he is just drunk. thanks, though.
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 24 December 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 24 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (harbl), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
my brother has been sending me camera phone shots of himself on the bus to t0fin0 hahai am going to send him shots of my (failed but delicious) gingerbread men (nb. not in shape of men. at all. i think sugar cookies will work out better tho.)
i'm having a pretty good christmas without family (have already had one turkey dinner, one fondue dinner, one dinner+pass-out-on-friend's-couch, and tomorrow is big christmas do.) but i miss my family, truly.
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Rrob, I wd miss your family, too! What's the youngest doing? Anyway, you had FONDUE! I saw instructions for raclette in catalog yesterday and WHOA HI DERE MOLTEN GOODNESS.
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
youngest bro is surfing and pretending his kidney issues aren't as bad as they actually are, oh yeah, and going through crazy break-up (they own a house and cars together! i don't even know how that happened) by starting relationship with new girl (she is nice though, i am told)
i'm catching up on eps of the o.c. and degrassi tng
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian (orion), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Mom's fam is the crazy drunk oirish side w/rap sheets and drug problems, and they're still pretty fucking squee. some serious bummerz, though, maybe to be detailed later. most involve heavy medical problems and people's ears getting bitten off by town psychos.
speaking of squee: i heart the kittenboob. but that's probably because i love both kittens and boobs and am jealous of the kitten.
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link
-- chaki (chaki.tim...), December 25th, 2006.
wrong; i did.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DONT CLAL YOUR POPS AN IDIOT HIS COCKFUCKING MADE YOU
wrong; i'm adopted.
buhsides, my dad isn't dumb. he's great and we just annoy the holy living shit out of each other.
― remy bean (bean), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Parent's purchase of a new laptop earlier this year has surprisingly reduced the amount of IT support I'm called upon to do.
― More hoes than Alan Titchmarsh. Yes folks, it's the s-dog, AKA (snoball), Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
signed mom up for fb
― river wolf, Monday, 26 December 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
-dad, by far the most computer illiterate person in my family, has surprisingly become pretty deft w/ an ipad
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Monday, 26 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
-showed parents where the disc goes in their new blu-ray player.
-helped dad figure out how to turn on and put treats in cat toy ball.
a pretty low impact christmas for the parental i.t. dept.
― sarahel, Monday, 26 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
- told Dad that if people ring him from India saying they're from Microsoft and can tell his computer has errors again he should just hang up and not run anything they ask him to
- he complained abt old software not running in Win7 and I nearly volunteered myself to try compatibility mode, but decided it would take too long, so I just said "mm, how annoying" and went home instead
will probably just email instructions about compatibility mode instead, so I don't have to hear an hour-long story about what he wanted to use the software for before he tells me what it is (and then spends another hour looking for the installation CD)
― brony island baby (case spudette), Monday, 26 December 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
― river wolf, Monday, December 26, 2011 9:33 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
just had 20 min phonecall about how to work facebook
― river wolf, Monday, 26 December 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
No computer fixing necessary this time but did have to explain to family and friends what blogs are, why twitter and facebook both exist, and why anyone would use such worthless heinous services.
― ledge, Monday, 26 December 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Likewise - didn't need to tech support but did give a detailed description of how to set up a Twitter account, follow people, how to RT, what the social graph looks like from a graph-theoretical perspective, what hashtags are...Dad was very interested in all this though we both know full well he will never even visit twitter.com.
― sean doily, Monday, 26 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
• reset mom's wifi password since she couldn't remember it and had been running her iPhone on 3G for 10 months.
• the tv's sound system was "hissy" because the actual television's volume was jacked to the top, but the stereo was plugged directly into the cable box. Fixed by turning the volume down.
― clay, Monday, 26 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm thankful that neither of my parents has shown any interest in social networking sites.
― More hoes than Alan Titchmarsh. Yes folks, it's the s-dog, AKA (snoball), Monday, 26 December 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link