My family's stupidity has thankfully been relegated to not understanding why I'm a vegetarian and my dad asking me why I didn't love Jesus. @_@
― tanuki, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
60% of the household currently consisting of eight humans and two dogs are zonked out for Christmas naps.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Stevie, if you ever need help disposing of a dead relative, you can call us 24/7. We'll even help you clean up afterwards. :-)
Na he always gets me iTunes gift cards that I load up on new apps with.
― Stevie :-D, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
north jersey, bored out of skull
my parents have said "you mean you DON'T own a TV?!?!" at least three times so far
― silvana mangano, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
have been given a crock pot : /
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
cmon, no shame in a crock pot.
i got all of my holiday visiting done over the last week or so during a series of road trips, and now i can do whatever i want today because i have already visited everyone and had every holiday conversation i need to have. today i will cook, eat, drink, read, and chill. at home.
― league of women voters, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
oh i am not ashamed of a crock pot; it just seems like the sort of thing that i will never use, ultimately leading to disappointed expressions on maternal faces
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Turning a crockpot to good use takes grit and determination. The nice thing is that you can have supper waiting for you at the end of the day. The bad part is that is just shifts the food prep to a different time, instead of making it any easier.
Try making soup. Soup is the miracle food of winter.
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Crockpots are excellent for mulled wine and keeping a vat of hot chocolate at just the right temperature - ladle it out into a mug preloaded with rum/peppermint schnapps/Baileys/kahlua/etc. I also have made apple butter in mine, though it admittedly took days and days.
We opened presents last night at the assisted living place where MIL resides and am seeing the grandspawn into hyperdrive currently. Interspersed with long phone calls to everywhere. My ear hurts.
― jaq, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
My gut tells me mookieproof isn't a big purveyor of mulled wine.
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
It's so hard to tell on the internets. Nacho cheese and bean dips too, but a crockpot-full is a lot of dip.
― jaq, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
― Stevie :-D, Sunday, December 25, 2011 7:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol my racisty uncle bought me grindr premium
― judith, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
where are you at judith, i can never work out where you're from
― Never translate German (schlump), Sunday, December 25, 2011 1:22 PM (4 hours ago)
recently im in london but home with the parents is ireland
― judith, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Na he always gets me iTunes gift cards that I load up on new apps with.― Stevie :-D, Sunday, December 25, 2011 7:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmarklol my racisty uncle bought me grindr premium
He did not
― Stevie :-D, Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait you were making a funny! NEVERMIND
― Stevie :-D, Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
haha i actually like mulled wine, but i don't suppose i purvey it, no
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
friends >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> family
the 27th, when i return, seems so far away
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i might need to have my sister killed
― judith, Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
We all stayed in separate rooms surfing the internet/watching TV.
― More hoes than Alan Titchmarsh. Yes folks, it's the s-dog, AKA (snoball), Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Have not been to any relatives' "house" during the relatively (haha) minor Jewish holiday, but will go to the parents' for regular family dinner tonight. This will involve approximately 13-17 minutes of walking in each direction. I have some confidence that an Ansel Adams wall calendar will be waiting for me. There may also be jokes and/or grumbling about one or more Republicans, and discussion of theatre and other performing arts in New York and/or London. As it is not baseball season, no television will be watched. Any computer issues will be mine and resolved by my Dad.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
Decided against a two-hour trip each way to spend time with my mother and her husband and my grandparents (they're not old and I'll see them later this week so I don't feel bad), stayed in all afternoon by myself reading and listening to music, then my brother got out of work early so he came over and got a bit drunk, now vegging out with the telly on and a bag of chocolate - this has been the best, most stress-free Xmas ever, definitely doing this every year from now on.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
waiting out niece's latest tantrum/meltdown (imaginary friend won't let her snuggle with Dumbo)
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
imaginary friend needs to be shot imo
― sean doily, Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
captain morgan + eggnog is making things rather more tolerable
― tanuki, Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Made an ocarina. Concerned about low level of booze consumption today. Half-attempting to watch Watchmen but I think I may give up.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Sunday, 25 December 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
mookieproof I will trade you a block of scrapple (my parents sent me six blocks of scrapple for Christmas) for your crockpot.
We stayed in Chicago. Jesse is here. Pork roast is out of the oven and Brussels sprouts and potatoes are in process. I always miss my family when we don't travel for the holidays, but I would be pretty bored and wishing fervently to be back in Chicago if I were there so.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 25 December 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
I got bad indigestion from my aunt's casserole; I just crop-dusted the living room three times until my crazy uncle left, :D
― remy bean in exile, Sunday, 25 December 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
my mom called me on the phone 2 say bad santa was on comedy central
― j crunchwrap supreme, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
we're watching a kirk cameron movie about how terrible it is to get divorced on CMT.
yaaaaaaaaaaaay!
― Z S, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
my mom suggested that we watch roseanne instead...it actually convinced dad!
FUCK YEAH MOM
― Z S, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
Ya I was wondrin' abt you dude. Is it just you 3 again?
― Stevie :-D, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
yep, we are hanging out. luckily it's everyone's bedtime in about 30 minutes so we should be in good shape then.
i saw you got a $100 gift certificate to a bike shop. that's pretty awesome! what are you going to get?
― Z S, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
That is a good question! I already got the pedals and foot straps I wanted secondhand from a friend, so I'm getting new handlebar tape and idk what else. Rear cargo rack maybe? STEVIE D ARE NOW FIELDING SUGGESTIONS
― Stevie :-D, Monday, 26 December 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
I stayed home alone for the first xmas in aaaages and Im really glad I did. LOL Melb actually had a white xmas day, cuz the city was hit with a MASSIVE FUCKOFF HAILSTORM that destroyed cars, flooded ppls houses, total crazyness.
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Monday, 26 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
Hardcore Pawn is on the tv, which is much more of a horribly classist show than I remember.
5-year-old nephew is practicing his reading Dick & Jane aloud and doing a good job.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 26 December 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
bout to celebrate jewish christmas w/some friends: dim sum and a movie, baller
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 25, 2011 9:16 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
12 hours later, it was a magical christmas
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 26 December 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
feeling u
― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Monday, 26 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
it was p epic, somehow snaked a table at sold out dim sum, mi5 ghost protocol, nachos and my 1st glance of the new nba season accidentally walked into weirdly packed green bay bar, unprovoked near bar fight, champagne, japanese home cooking, drinking at all venues of course, and now for real nba action, thank you santa
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 26 December 2011 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
Home in MI, went to coooold beach yest w brother to drink beer and look at rolling green waves and tossing beach grass and dunes and trees in touch of setting sunlight. That sight is good for what ails ya.
Today was mega-dose of family, plumb tuckered out now. Wine, beer, ilx, freezing hands from smoking outside.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Monday, 26 December 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
My dad totally ate my raw kale salad, biggest score of week tbh!!
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Monday, 26 December 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 26 December 2011 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
omg so glad to be home now
― river wolf, Monday, 26 December 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
sooooo hammered and happy after hangin at BFF's place playin dominoes.q
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 December 2011 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
3rd year in a row of Christmas just the two of us. Kind of like it but actually missing the family a little this year. We are surprisingly sensible at not overeating/eating the bewildering amount of chocolate in the apartment, when it's just us. Watched Dr Who & Pirates of Caribbean 4 and did a lot of cooking.
― kinder, Monday, 26 December 2011 06:23 (twelve years ago) link
just went over to my dad's house for the first time in like five years. it is a fucking sty. there's an issue of the economist from 1997 sitting on the steps and it seems at least plausible that the bathtub has not been cleaned since then.
i'm not even a neat/clean freak, but i don't understand how these ppl that raised me live this way
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
i found my dad's "congratulations for winning the 1956 [town's name] chess tournament" certificate under a pile of my mom's shoes. does that make you feel better?
― league of women voters, Monday, 26 December 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
a) that's awesome -- go dad
b) i don't think you realize the full horror of these environments! i would take pictures but i didn't bring my camera plus i'd feel guilty sharing photos of my parents' squalor with the world
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
My parents live in a small but 3-bedroom (plus guest attic room) house with my younger brother. My mum mentioned some time ago that they were casually looking for a *bigger place* but couldn't find anywhere. All the rooms are filled up with junk and I am so so desperate to get in there and just chuck it all out. When I was back there last year I was trying to cook in the kitchen which has a lot of counter space yet it's ALL filled up with rubbish except this one tiny square. Example: A letter rack full of those return envelopes you get with bills. I laughed and started to chuck it out but my mum said dad wouldn't let me. Even if you want to keep such a thing, WHY on the kitchen counter?! It's not quite crazy hoarder level but I think they just don't see it. Even in the living room you can't sit down anywhere without moving a bunch of stuff first.
― kinder, Monday, 26 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think that qualifies as hoarding
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Monday, 26 December 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
my dad isn't much better though - I've found things around the house that I distinctly remember putting into the garbage can, only to be rescued at the very last moment by my dad
the macbook air sister is generally a delight
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
smoked bowls and walked around
http://photos2.crosscountryadventures.us/albums/2010/July/6_canyonlands/IMG_6447.jpg
― nuhnuhnuh, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
bought this book:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416SNAW7R6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― nuhnuhnuh, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. That's the Needles, I presume? Chesler Park?
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Where is the thread for checking in from your own residence which has been commandeered by occupying holiday forces?
― zat you, wrinklepaws? (James Redd), Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
it got Occupied
― William (C), Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
james redd and the hungry holidaying blecchs.
― estela, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
They are all so happy, so full of holiday cheer. Trying to restrain myself after the umpteenth adjectival use of "pretty," prohibited by my sixth grade schoolteacher, is some serious I, Robot wrestling, interiorwise
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link