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Things that are awesome:
- Nine Mountain retreat center and their very laid-back approach to weddings.
- The weather this weekend.
- My family, especially my dad, who composed a sonnet for his toast, and my mom, who fed a houseful of happy people this morning.
- Seeing my eighty-something great-aunt dancing to "Rock Lobster"
- The Velveteen Rabbi, for many reasons, only some of which have to do with this last weekend.
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ltlbird,

wavyarms,

cute_fuzzy_evil,

ethicsgradient,

yaoobruni,

bobsquatch,

rissymonster, and many others whom I have undoubtedly forgotten to add (on account of no brain), for helping so much. I mean, house-elves are saying you guys make them look bad.
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sal_sal, for agreeing with me that the Charlie's Angels bridesmaid picture was an excellent idea.
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thomascantor, because yeah. Damn.

Things that are so incredibly awesome they might just implode:

-

sigerson and

sen_no_ongaku, the newly married couple.

Current Mood: WOOOOO!!!!!

Yes! It's the "

stealthmuffin crams several weeks into one post" post!

( Christmas at home )

( New Year's! and cheeeeese )

( And now... )

Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: "Catherine," PJ Harvey

In about four hours, give or take, I will be getting up, showering, placing a Santa hat upon my head, and heading out to Logan Airport, so that

sigerson and I can go back home for Christmas. So what am I doing awake right now? That's a good question, and I'm glad you asked. I am:

- Restructuring the novel. I think I've got the hang of it now. Really.

- Experiencing some quite lovely schadenfreude regarding a gift I gave some time back. ("Imagine that you are a lounge singer/crooner. Imagine that you have suddenly been struck deaf. Imagine that you bravely continue singing nevertheless.")

- Figuring out what muffins would be best for a New Year's breakfast. Especially considering I'll have to make quite a lot of them.

- Making a grocery list.

- Working till after 9, then coming home and attempting to stuff everything I'll need for the trip home into two small bags. Then staring at the wall a while. No link for this one; just my own bone-weariness paired with an inability to sleep just yet.

Best of the season to everyone. I'll try to post again while I'm home, but somehow I doubt I'll get all that much time on the computer.

Current Mood: ooorg.
Current Music: "Everloving," Moby

Ever thought that Beanie Babies were just too...normal?

Well, my sister is out to fix this. She's been making Frankenbeanies.

Personally, I'm rather fond of my cow/turkey/walrus hybrid.

ETA: She has unlocked the post! Go and see the beauty that is MudPuppy!

My four-year-old* cousin has informed me of two things:

1) she wishes she were a princess, and
2) she wants to be a "tattoo girl" when she grows up.

I wholeheartedly support these endeavors and look forward to seeing them both in action.

*And five-eighths. Gotta be precise about these things.

Current Location: home again.
Current Music: "Butterfingers," Iain Ballamy

thomascantor, I know there's a reason it's called Boxing Day when it's really St. Stephen's Day. And I don't think it's because he was martyred by boxing. Can you remind me sometime?

I am resolutely not thinking about what's waiting for me when I return to Watertown. Instead, I'm thinking about how great these last few days have been. This is family, so of course there are tense moments and misunderstandings, but it's also been like a balm for my weariness. I've almost fallen over laughing so many times since we got here, and knowing this family, it'll continue till I leave.

We're a bunch of weirdos. We sing "Deck Us All with Boston Charlie" and demand to know what's snoo with you. Ribbons are stuck on heads, strange egg concoctions are made and then stared at in bemusement, bad and good jokes alike leaven most conversations. (And to think I got called the weird one just because I made the chocolate snowmen talk.)

I love this family dearly. We'd go totally binkers if we had to all live in the same house again for more than a week, but I love them. Of all the gifts I've received this or any Christmas, the best one has been to grow up in this family, with these people, secure in the knowledge that we love each other and can count on each other.

Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: sal_sal blasting Sith in the other room

Things I learned last weekend:

A fancy dinner is possible as long as you have some form of pesto in the house.
Swim when you can, because it may rain.
Fried oysters taste like fried batter and are consequently not that bad.

And most importantly:
If you are in the house with a 2 1/2-year-old who likes to color, and if you are working on drawings of your own, never never never put your notebook down where she can reach it.

She went straight for Grignr (Dwarf and Ninja's boss). Blotted out his face before I even knew she had the notebook.

At least she only used pencil.

*sigh* Grignr, we hardly knew ye...

(I'm not really feeling recumbent; it just amused me that "recumbent" is given as one of the options for one's mood. Maybe if I were typing on the floor...) ( Weekend in the woods, plumbing issues, and small children. )
In any case, we're back (after a stop by the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough. Such a happy place.) And now for a tasty meal that includes gyoza. ( Stop snickering. You know who you are. )

Current Mood: recumbent
Current Music: "Un Cavalo Non Comeu," Paul Hillier

So I'm sitting at my own happy iFruit, typing away, with a much faster response time than would normally be possible, all because

thomascantor is a wonderful, wonderful man. He's hooked up our computers, which means I can mooch off his DSL line. Mooch!

The trip to Indiana was...well, weird and good. Good because, as

sigerson's pointed out, our younger sib rules. And when she's done, she rules some more. Weird because it was very strange to be home not during a holiday. ( Thoughts from being home. )

In other news, I plan to post a few examples of the comic I've been drawing sometime in the next couple of weeks. Keep in mind that this is stretching the definition of 'comic.' The delay has less to do with creative endeavors and more to do with my lack of web savvy; I know I can get it onto my wso page, but it may take a while, and I also want to make it legible in the meantime.

And now I will go attempt to make scones using sigerson's Scottish scone mix. Or mixed scones. or something.

Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: "Rock Me," Pills, from the Run Lola Run soundtrack

Off for a few days, back to Indy for sal_sal's graduation. (Sorry, cincodemaygirl, we probably won't get much further west than Muncie.) The bags are packed, the sandwiches are purchased . . . mmm . . . sandwiches . . . and the presents are picked. No, sal_sal, nothing that's going to get our bags confiscated by security. You'll just have to wait for your SpinnyBladeofDoom!(tm)

So I'll be off my journal for a few days. Meme when I return; wavyarms has given me five questions, and I do love to hear myself talk. Or see myself write . . . or post . . . uh . . .

Must get offline and revise some before we go. If I get Chapter 10 done, I can be half done by the time we leave!

Current Mood: working
Current Music: "Hotel," Tori Amos

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Baked goods, bads, and morally ambiguouses.

Entries tagged with family

Also, they rule, they rule, they rule, and when they're done they rule some more.

Get in! Get in!

I'm off to go fight Nazis on the moon!

More evidence that this sort of thing runs in the family.

Chase yer dreams, baby.

Boxing Day!

No! Not Grignr!

Sand where there shouldn't be sand

We return to Massachusetts. Prepare the transit beam.

off into the wild corn yonder

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