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Communications  My best friend and I have now determined that the cosmic impact of our togetherness cannot handle us being in the same area for longer than three days at a time. Any trip that we take together for longer than three days seems to become peppered with oddities and wrinkles that change vacations from relaxing to a series of adventures and misadventures. This past one only confirmed our theory. ( Read more... ) Well I dunno for sure how back yet, but I'm bored at the moment so I am here to share with you the shopaholic's method for acquiring new stuff even during an economic crunch, for only the price of a little bit of your gas tank and a bottle of wine. Step 1. Go through your place and gather up 10-15 items that you aren't using (or wearing) but you just can't quite bring yourself to donate yet. Stuff them in a bag. (Come on, you KNOW you have stuff that fits this description). Step 2. Call your friends and tell them to do the same thing. Step 3. Meet up at someone's house. Bring your stuff. And wine. Lots of wine. And cheese. And hummus with pita bread. Step 4. Give everyone a section of the room or yard to display their stuff. Wander around to the other offerings. Peruse. Covet. Step 5. Draw numbers to see who gets to go first. When your turn comes, offer up the item you think people will want most. Interested parties flap and make lots of "me me me!" noises. Find something in one of their stashes that YOU want, and make the trade! Step 6. Make sure everyone has a turn, then go through the numbers again if you want! After a couple of rounds, open it up to free trading and watch the chaos ensue! Step 7. Open more bottles of wine and admire the new stuff you got in exchange for the old stuff you aren't using. Know that if you get tired of something in a few months, you can bring it to another trading party somewhere down the line. Step 8. Take your new sweater, purse, bangle bracelets, books, shawl, tie-dye sarong and sunshirt home! Wait, no...those are mine! Hands off! Current mood:  giddy.
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down. 2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice. 3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that. 4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label it "In". 5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso. 6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write " Friendship Dues" . 7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy". 8. Don't use any punctuation. 9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk. 10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face. 11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go". 12. Sing Along At The Opera. 13. Go To A Poetry Recital. And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme? 14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area and Play tropical Sounds All Day. 15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In the Mood. 16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom. 17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won! I Won!" 18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!" 19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go." 20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity .. Current mood:  amused.
Once I knew a man who smelled always of tobacco who ate waffles and ice cream for breakfast and who always had a joke Which was never appropriate, but you laughed anyway since he so enjoyed telling it. Once I knew a man who traveled the world and was the Most Eligible Bachelor and never let you forget it. It was his second favorite story, behind the ones about Korea, where he served in the Hat in the Ring and shot the enemy down. Once I knew a man who loved his daughter and his wife but also had two sons reunited late in life. Better late than never, they say. Once I knew a man who grew old and sick, then died. A shadow of himself, growing tired and more tired Until at last he said goodbye, tonight. I hate goodbyes. Current mood:  sad.
If you have need of jewelry for self or gift, please check out my friend's Web site-- Susie Colombo Designs I can't stop listening to this. I love it; I want to eat it and listen to it over and over until the melody seeps from my pores. Somebody make it stop! :::weeps::: Current mood:  enthralled.
So, for now anyway, Elke and I are still planning to head to Hollywood at the end of February, writer's strike or not. Heck, I'm fan number 239 this time...I'm moving up in the world! And now that the nominee list is out, Oscar movie watching begins in earnest. I'm up a little from last year...I had only seen 6 of the nominees at the time that the list came out last year, and this year I had seen 9. The one problem I'm having is that a lot of the nominees seem to be caught in the "not in theater but not yet on DVD" limbo. I'm hoping that over the next couple weeks, some of those films might make a reappareance at some theaters. Last weekend I was able to knock out four more movies on the list: Sweeney Todd, Persepolis, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Once. The music from Once has been in my head ever since. Loved that film. Up next: No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Atonement Current music: Sugarland: Just Might (Make Me Believe). Well, I was considerably under my reading goal for the year, and didn't even get near to touching last year's amount. Not sure what happened this year, I dunno if I was just busy with other things or if I was reading more time-consuming books. Book stats for 2007: 33 books for a total of 12,722 (last year: 54 books) I was a bit surprised by the number of non-fiction books I read this time around, since that's not normally a large interest of mine. 1 re-read (Splinter of the Mind's Eye) Favorites: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Birth of Venus, Marley & Me, The Mistress of Spices Obviously, I'm hoping to beat this year's list by a considerable sum in 2008, but time will tell! ( The complete list back here. ) Here's hoping you all had a lovely holiday. I know I owe call and e-mail backs to assorted peoples (especially my fambly) which I will be taking care of starting tomorrow. Today was a total wind-down, just-for-me day which on the surface may seem to be very anti-Christmas, but which was very much needed. You always hear people say that if you don't take care of yourself, you can't do anything for anyone else, and today, finally, I feel like I had a totally relaxed, unpressured me day. I stayed warm and cozy in my home, I ate light but tasty food, I spent allll day unwrapping presents (just finished a few minutes ago in fact) and I watched movies and played with the kitties all day, with assorted exercise and cleaning house stretch breaks in between. As a result, I'm ready to go back to work for the week, well rested, with my house not necessarily clean but also not totally wrecked, a fridge full of goodies to keep me going for a few weeks yet, new movies and toys to play with as the new year dawns, and a totally freshened brain which fixes the anti-social grumpies I've been having lately. Yay for me days, especially when they truly work. I hope your holiday was refreshing for you, whether spent alone or with 50 other people, or some variation in between. And I love my new snowman hat. Saying it now in case December ends up going by as fast as the rest of the year has and I don't get another chance. I've left some images from my four favorite holiday specials behind the cut as a gift to the cyber friends of my world...hopefully they make you smile. Extra rum in your toddy if you can actually name all four without looking them up, too. ( Read more... ) Current mood:  sleepy.Current music: Burl Ives: A Holly Jolly Christmas. |
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