checkin in w/ the sandbox for the holidays from your parents'/relatives'/in-laws' house

I honestly think I have broken one of my molars from grinding my teeth this weekend. Calling the dentist tomorrow.

my family was split across two locations for xmas and i got a desperate report by text message from my closest ally in place a informing me they have suffered disharmony which was avoided entirely and thankfully and a bit surprisingly here at place b.

my mom seems committed to doing everything with time-saving modern technology, even though it never saves time. it's like watching the pentagon buy a $1500 screwdriver.

she is sending me a box in the mail. but her palm pilot, for some reason, refused to wirelessly print to her printer. so she plugged it into one laptop, which wouldn't recognize it, then succeeded with the second. at which point she managed to print out my name and address on a piece of paper, which she taped to the box.

simply writing the address by hand? inconceivable. after four days of this i am turning into the lex.

oh mookie, how much longer do you have to stay there.

13 hours, 25 minutes!

13 hours, 22 minutes!

glad estela avoided disharmony, sad about mookielex

Had a fight w/bf last night over what kind of pasta sauce we were to have for dinner. I threw an honest to god tantrum because he refused to let me cook the one I wanted, even tho he was also insisting he'd do the cooking and I could relax and sit down. WTF is wrong with me :( I am a grade-A moron.

dammit. post got eaten.

Looool mookie. Oh man.

Went to the Oak Ridge Museum of Science & Industry with Mom. Neat place, but you could tell it was last updated in the mid-90s. Renewables were seriously underrepresented tho they had a big ol exhibit about coal.

That may have more to do with the funders than how au courant it is.

Yeah. On our last (first and only) trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in 2006 or so there was a brand new exhibit about coal! Is awesome! Forever!

And there was a little exhibit about solar energy that was mostly broken so you'd try to light the bulb with solar energy and it would barely work or not work at all while AWESOME COAL ALWAYS was huge and shiny and function and you could ride in a bulldozer.

MOSAI is precisely what I had in mind.

i'm out! (well, i'm ion a train)

my mom had me install voice recognition software on her computer before i left. i thought it was going to be for learning a language, but no -- it's just to control the computer, because mouse/keyboard is apparently too inefficient. so *next* year when she's trying to print out my address, she'll have a telemarketer headphone set on and be yelling PRINT MOOKIE'S ADDRESS at her computer.

also i learned that the main reason she still has a landline is that she's afraid she wouldn't be able to find her cellphone at any given moment. given the state of her house, this is a very reasonable concern.

I am glad you are free!

i am envious. i am getting mad cabin fever. twenty minutes after arriving late on christmas eve, my sister (who i haven't seen in almost two years and who barely "hi" when i came in the door) turned up the volume on the television as i told my mam about my journey home. she was watching a michael bublé christmas special.

is this the macbook air sister or the other one?

the other one

the macbook air sister is generally a delight

smoked bowls and walked around

http://photos2.crosscountryadventures.us/albums/2010/July/6_canyonlands/IMG_6447.jpg

bought this book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416SNAW7R6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Wow. That's the Needles, I presume? Chesler Park?

Where is the thread for checking in from your own residence which has been commandeered by occupying holiday forces?

it got Occupied

james redd and the hungry holidaying blecchs.

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