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Dec. 12th, 2005 08:31 amSo. This will be my confused attempt at condensing mentionables from the past few days. >.>
Firstly, the cryings for help about fingerprints were due to my sister, nieces and nephews staying overnight at my house, in order to be able to get to Dad's wedding to the girlfriend. ...wow. I have a mother-in-law. ...weird. O.o But, I like Val, so this is cool.
( f33r teh cut-tag of munchkiness! )
Meanwhile, I have recently gotten my debit card (finally!) and am becoming worried that I might go a little nuts. Or that just might be the holidays. But I keep bouncing between 'okay, must control myself and not be going nuts' and ' *gasp!squeee! I should do this and that and get some of those and she needs such and such and everyone needs a fruitcake!'
So far, the self-control is winning. Which is good, as I don't wanna go broke. And I've been at the self-control long enough that going broke would take a small disaster or some serious effort on my part? But still. If I did every shiny thought I've had, I could pull that off. >.>
*watching self carefully*
One utterly unnecessary thing I did go through with, though - go ye forth and drool at the fruitcake! Because I cannot remember a holiday season where we did not get one of these. Grandpa and Grandma used to buy it for us. I got their little flyer in the mail and you can probably imagine my reaction, and then I looked at the prices and thought, dammit. This is a tradition! And I love these fruitcakes, they have utterly spoiled me on any other kind of fruitcake (which are usually lousy fake fruitcakes, in any case - compare fresh fish to canned ;p )
So I bought one for me, to be shared with the little brother some, and the Dad should he notice it and want a piece when it arrives. And another to give to my sister, for her and her kids and the Kevin-Daddy (not-the-husband because they can't afford to add him to the lease yet. XD ... :D ) Because somebody in this family must continue the tradition of giving fruitcake that is edible! ^_^
And now I must get myself ready to take in my rolled change, to begin the holiday shopping in earnest. Or at least half of it - and the other half when I get my next paycheck in on Friday. meeep! @.@
...where is my fruitcake already!
Firstly, the cryings for help about fingerprints were due to my sister, nieces and nephews staying overnight at my house, in order to be able to get to Dad's wedding to the girlfriend. ...wow. I have a mother-in-law. ...weird. O.o But, I like Val, so this is cool.
( f33r teh cut-tag of munchkiness! )
Meanwhile, I have recently gotten my debit card (finally!) and am becoming worried that I might go a little nuts. Or that just might be the holidays. But I keep bouncing between 'okay, must control myself and not be going nuts' and ' *gasp!squeee! I should do this and that and get some of those and she needs such and such and everyone needs a fruitcake!'
So far, the self-control is winning. Which is good, as I don't wanna go broke. And I've been at the self-control long enough that going broke would take a small disaster or some serious effort on my part? But still. If I did every shiny thought I've had, I could pull that off. >.>
*watching self carefully*
One utterly unnecessary thing I did go through with, though - go ye forth and drool at the fruitcake! Because I cannot remember a holiday season where we did not get one of these. Grandpa and Grandma used to buy it for us. I got their little flyer in the mail and you can probably imagine my reaction, and then I looked at the prices and thought, dammit. This is a tradition! And I love these fruitcakes, they have utterly spoiled me on any other kind of fruitcake (which are usually lousy fake fruitcakes, in any case - compare fresh fish to canned ;p )
So I bought one for me, to be shared with the little brother some, and the Dad should he notice it and want a piece when it arrives. And another to give to my sister, for her and her kids and the Kevin-Daddy (not-the-husband because they can't afford to add him to the lease yet. XD ... :D ) Because somebody in this family must continue the tradition of giving fruitcake that is edible! ^_^
And now I must get myself ready to take in my rolled change, to begin the holiday shopping in earnest. Or at least half of it - and the other half when I get my next paycheck in on Friday. meeep! @.@
...where is my fruitcake already!
