I've also gotten him three games and a stupidly expensive H0ward St3rn t-shirt. I know he's gotten nothing for me yet b/c he keeps moaning 'what do you want for xmas?' and all I say is "all you have to do is look around the house to see what I like." This is killing him as he knows I'm done shopping for him.
He's normally fantastic at picking out gifts for me but I know he's been distracted lately with renovating the kitchen and Q-Tip dying. I don't really care what he gives me this year but watching him writhe is fun.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
A. has some brilliant gift all plotted out, which will make mine look dull. I can tell this because he told me that he doesn't trust my mother not to tell me (with good reason), and also, he's being all smug.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
gah! this is no fun! that makes me just feel like i'm greedy and going shopping for myself. why is he being such a dud this year? is this what marriage is like?
also why are my clients sucking here in the week before xmas. long story itemized:
-our vp office runs an employee recognition program which is now over and therfore time to post winners.-I receive huge crappy photos on Friday, put together page and send to communications dir. for approval.-She then calls my co-worker and tells him to tell me that her sec. will be sending me quotes to add for each winner. grr. will have to change page layout and why isn't she calling me directly, wtf?-this morning she calls and asks where is page. I tell her I haven't gotten quotes.-Secretary tells me she sent them last week through campus mail. Campus mail?!? that shit's notoriously slow and we're building a web page here people, wtf.-Get package of dozens of long applications for the winners.??? Tell them I thought I was going to get a list of quotes to include, what do they want me to do, pick them out myself??-An hour ago am told by communications dir. 'I trust your judgment, please select the quotes."
Again I say WTF?!?!?
Not only do I have to choose content for her but I have to TYPE IT IN. What makes it worse is this woman employs a full-time writer who generates content for us.
I'm tempted to put in something like "y'all n*ggas need to kook up some cokane wif baking soda. ba-caa!"
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
As for gifts and marriage; I don't know, I'm the one who never comes up with a brilliant gift plan, not the other way around. On the other hand, we always have to make wish lists for A's family or otherwise they send really weird stuff (they'll do so anyway, but if you tell them what you want, they have less to spend on crazy stuff). I should also say that some years are harder than others - some years even I get the lightning bolt idea of brilliance. Just not this year, seemingly.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
re work: I can't be gone right now. I missed a lot of time b/c of qtip and it's the holidays. my other coworkers are taking vacation time so I need to stick around. But the university closes on friday until after new year's so that's why I think people are being asses, just hurrying to get things done.
I'm really not sweating g. I honestly don't care what he gives me. I'm one of those dorks who truly enjoys giving more than getting. (I can always buy for myself.)
But I do know his mother, a compulsive shopper/bargain hunter, bought a pair of earrings for him to give me only b/c they were marked down from $500 to $300. I only know this b/c he told me how pissed he was b/c he told her he didn't have that much to spend on one gift b/c of the kitchen redo. I don't even wear earrings and certainly don't want some that are more than he wanted to spend and which he didn't even pick out. I have told him so and I better not open up any fucking earrings on xmas.
haha, can you tell I have a lot of work to do?
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope you don't get any earrings - that sounds sticky! But it sounds like you have warned him away sufficiently.
I am making cookies today that will require rolling out. I hate that part. And I'm doing it again on Friday, only with small children. At least the ones I'm doing today wind up with a tasty filling. The kind for Friday are basically a vehicle for the kids to frost and decorate. Also, I don't want to call my Mom, but I have to do so to get some addresses. BLAH.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
our server's are down so much for getting that page up today.
shit I need to leave to catch the bus. back to therapy today after a month off, hurray!
(oh and to make you minnesotans jealous, the high has been 80 for the past couple of days here in Austin.)
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
And I don't know if it's so much a maternal thing; I'm just compressing my usual Christmas panic and mania into a lot shorter period than normal. Two sets of roll cookies in one week is probably a direct route to the asylum, but I hear they have padded rooms there and that does sound comfortable.
Have fun at your therapy... and stay warm. Ha.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geza T (The GZeus), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry for such a posting frenzy yesterday afternoon. I was late for therapy. :(
I gave in and rattled a list of *general* items I would like for Xmas to G. and re-emphazied no earrings. My top items were knitting/sewing books and new boots. I can't imagine him shopping for any of those things so bet I will get gift cards. (my other item was a mavs jersey but he said 'they don't sell dallas stuff down here.' liar.)
Sara, today the high will only be 71! but it is humid out and I broke a sweat walking to the office. unnatural.
alright, I have a ton of work to do.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm going to need the booze because I know I'm going to do those cookies again. They are the cream cheese sugar sort that you fold up and put jam in the middle. In the middle of making them, I thought I'd just add a few chocolate chips to the jam. End result = awesome.
I hope you get what you want for Xmas Sam... and no need to apologize for posting frenzy. I need distraction from the other stuff going on around me.
GZeus - do I need Cinnamon Dipping Pretzels and I just don't know it yet?
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
So do you want snow for Xmas day or would it be too weird? I'd be happy to have it, but it should go away by the end of January.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
It's been two or three years since we've had a really good (by our standards) snow. I'd like to take the dogs out in it. I bet they've never seen any.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm clueless about leaning tower (although I've driven past it) - It's possible that John, FB, gbx, or M@tt H. might know...
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen is interested in eating your pet. (John Justen), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen is interested in eating your pet. (John Justen), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
BTW, if I disappear for some amount of time from computer-land, that will be due to the impending death of my hard drive.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen is interested in eating your pet. (John Justen), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geza T (The GZeus), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, A. just magically produced a used iBook for me to use. Always marry someone with computer skillz and mysterious computer hardware sources. There's my advice for you all.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geza T Battles Steve Perry for Soprano Supremecy (The GZeus), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geza T (The GZeus), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Dammit I thought today was Thurs. and therefor my last day at work for the year. but it isn't. it's Wed. I'm so bummed.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
wrt names for my sister's baby, "Four" would make more sense.
I'm waiting to hear if FB, subgenius and John conquered trivia last night.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Wrapping was fine, except I suck at wrapping.
I was just thinking that if ILX/HSTNGS thread are going to meet up at Bunny's before you go, we should pick a date; I need to find a sitter if I'm going to get teh husband out of the house.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I pointed out to sis' fiancé that all the men in Bunny's over 50 looked like Bud Grant. 'Cosby'-style sweaters were also a feature. Our party spent at least $100 on pull tabs last night, which was SICK.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen is interested in eating your pet. (John Justen), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
You should have called me!
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Q: Who was the native american actor who played the famous "One single tear" character in the 70's anti-littering campaign?
A: Iron Eyes Cody. Problem with the question is that he was ITALIAN YOU FUCKING MORANS. HSTNGS doesn't truck with misinformation.
Also, I don't give a fuck what rachel leigh cook looks like, so I couldn't ID her in the picture round.
― John Justen is interested in eating your pet. (John Justen), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen is interested in eating your pet. (John Justen), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
And while I'm asking questions, who the hell is the "Nicole" on the front of People magazine and the tabloids? A. and I were at Target this morning, feeling really out of it. (We did know who "Angelina," "Jen," "Brad," and "Beyonce" were, though.)
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link