Day 145: Flame
Good food, good folks. [Project 365]
Category: holidays
holidays project 365 (2009) the family
Day 130: Mom and Charlie
Mother’s Day this year entailed a giant box of fried chicken (fifty pieces!) and me sipping on sugary homemade margaritas and watching cable on a big-screen TV for nine hours. I gave my mom a couple of mom-and-daughter-themed books and she was so touched that, the next day, she went and got two huge pink peonies out of the flower bed and brought them in while serenading me with “You Are So Beautiful.” She’s the…
holidays project 365 (2009)
Day 76: Lucky
In the face of all I struggle with, I’ve got so much to be happy about in my life. Foremost, of course, would be my bitchin’ Scotch-Irish genes. [Project 365]
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Day 45: Happy Valentine’s Day
My friends love me and want me to get diabetes and cirrhosis of the liver, which is why they bring me cupcakes* to work and meet me in parking lots to give me cake and then pour me wine and rum later at their houses. The blessings, I just keep counting them over and over and wondering where all the spare change keeps coming from. Much love right back atchall. Love and photos. *Fancycwabs was…
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The stimulus jokes write themselves
Store clerk, in broken English: So, you planning big Valentine? With your boyfriend? Me, in dumb English: Ahhh. Ha. No, not this year. Store clerk: Ohhhh, because of the … recession?
friends holidays project 365 (2009)
Day 23: Presents!
Got home and there was a package from Amber on my coffee table. Inside it? Double hilarity. These books are deliciously depraved and I am enjoying the hell out of them. Relatedly, I seriously need to mail out the rest of my Christmas presents. [Project 365]
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Complete Christmas coverage
I totally forgot that I took these videos on Christmas day. In the first one, my brother’s friend David tries to act like it’s been sooooo long since he played the quads, so he hands the sticks over to Evan. In the second one, you can see (provided you can see anything at all; we played that thing all day and into the night) a pointed lack of children playing the Wii. Also, you’ll notice…
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Wiimas
Most years, when you have kids in the family, there’s that one gift that someone gets that just becomes an instant, ridiculous hit with everyone. My nephews got a Wii this year, and I think the grownups were even more excited than the kids were. (My dad watched two seconds of gameplay and said, matter-of-factly, “We’re gonna have to have one of these.”) We passed those controllers around from morning until late into the night.…
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‘Three years shy of thirty’
For one reason or another, my parents’ house is full tonight: Mom, Dad, my brother, me, my sister, my nephews, and my grandmother. I was originally slated to sleep with Grandmaw, which was old hat after last week in the mountains, but she left her C-Pap machine at home and is snoring off and on and, I tell you what, despite the fact that I am a snorer myself, I just absolutely cannot sleep with…
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Almost … done …
In just a few, I will be joining the shuffling throngs — again — to try and wrap up my shopping. Plopping a “vacation” and a couple of days of sickness right in the middle of December really threw off my timing and I’ve only just now gotten to paw through the bags of acquired knickknacks in my closet to see where I stand on everyone. I feel like I’ve been assembling Christmas gifts since…
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