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

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