magicpointeshoe:
Athena Bubbles has still not fallen asleep. Four freaking nights in a row non stop bossy canky shrieky toddler who will not stop climbing all over me. I get two hours of sleep while Homer stays awake until 10:30 or so, then two more hours of sleep when she finally decides to fall asleep at 3:30 until Sera wakes up at 5:30 like clockwork. Plus I still have to wrap the santa presents. GAR.

Edit to add: it's a miracle, I get to go to sleep at 2:30!

gatsby9:

Must be Winter.

gatsby9:

I wanted to make Bubble Tea, so we went to the Asian market. But then Joe wouldn't drink his Bubble Tea, so I made it into jello, and it looked like a brain. And Joe ate it up.


I was sporting a new hairstyle, which didn't show up that well in fotoes,



And I developed a wretched care of seborrhea, and rather than wash with the shampoo, I left it on a while. And how I looked, made me think this is probably approximately how I would wear my hair if I were a boy.



So I took some fotoes, trying to look like a boy. But only the aggressive ones seemed masculine... tell me, do I seem like a dude in this fotoe?

gatsby9:

It's my little person:

gatsby9:



Maybe 3 weeks ago Zack and I stayed up really late at his house. And the apex of the conersation was Zack saying, 'Well if you married me you'd x and y and z and be part of a big family.'

Funny he would play that card. Exboy never played it, but it was tempting just the same. Wouldn't I love to be part of a big family!

And then last week, Zack and I had dinner at Bahama Breeze and then stayed out at the Hampton, and when he was telling me a whole big holiday theing, and I was like, Well, why do you not take me to family dinner, he was all, 'We're not married yet.'

Haha, yet!

Where do guys get the idea that everything moves in ONE direction, toward ONE end? Never mind, I know where.

WHY do hotels put mirrors on the ceilings of their elevators? OH, for the picture I am going to take. Next week, I hope.

gatsby9:



Azaleas, you are strange, acid-loving flowers, you bloom in early spring, and then in December?

Kale and pals, you do not surprise me.





Pansies, nice work.



Whoever you are, NICE.

This is the hibaci restaurant guy making an onion volcano, not blooming, but I didn't take a fotoe last time.

murry_duck:

A new set of Paula Deen cookware ya'all! Not really, but yes I do want a set of her cookware.

What I really want is for my family to actually all get along and for my pop's to be home this year. *sighs* Ellii is going to her sister's on Christmas day, and coming home New Years Day, and while I want her to go, I am going to miss having her around.. I want her to have an amazing visit and spend time with her big sister, and do all that sister stuff she misses out on because we live so far apart.

This year is just going to be different, we all know it, and none of us are having an easy time of it. The last few years mom hasn't been able to come home, she was supposed to last year and we all know how that turned out. I feel like our glue is gone, that my sister and I have to be the glue now, and we aren't doing such a great job of it. We are both having a hard time adjusting. Our birthdays are so close to Christmas it's a double whammy.

The realization that I won't ever get another birthday card from her, or hear I love you again just hit me in the face last Sunday, and it hit hard.. I had a great day don't get me wrong, it just hit me where I live as I was sitting in my kitchen and looking at all the cookies and candies I have been making. And I thought to myself "Overcompensate much kiddo?" We always did cookie weekend when mom lived here in Wisconsin, and Jules and I try to keep up the tradition when mom hasn't been able to be here. this year though, yeah it was fun and all, but mom shoulda been drinking Brandy Alexanders with us and making fun of Julie girls cooking skills. Which have come a very long way since she got married and I gave her, her first cookbook! She can out cook me in some ways, and that friends and neighbors is saying something.

I just don't feel all that much in the spirit of things. There has been too much that has gone on this year.

Maybe by next week I will feel better- Finals will be done and I will be able to relax more.

Merry Christmas and Merry Solstice and all that jazz~

magicpointeshoe:
My children were just on tv during the commercial for the disney christmas parade! All of us except Juliet (who was in school) sat the day of filming in front of the watch shop on the curb.