Christmas brunch with the Outlaws!

[vulgarweed]

Reza's, of course. Cooking is for...well, for people who aren't us. (Though Greg DID make an awesome chicken paprikash from his old family recipe straight from Romania for the two of us last night).


Weird Aunt Vulgarweed says: if giving a copy of the Rosemary Sutcliff kids' adaptation of the Odyssey (with the Alan Lee illustrations) to a four-year-old is wrong, I don't wanna be right.


We have a new coffeemaker. There's a lot of chrome on it. It looks like it should have an odometer. We gave our ten-year-old, leaky, wheezy old one a back-alley burial with honor. ("Well done, thou good and faithful servant.")

I have sleek new boots (size 6 - either this vanity sizing thing is getting out of hand or my feet are shrinking. They've always been small, but that's ridiculous), new pajamas, and olive-green velvet jeans. Greg has his History of the Persian Empire book, the LOST Season 1 set, Revenge of the Sith, and cologne. We both have a beautiful Balinese calendar that my mom was sure to let us know she bought on the day of that latest bombing not very far away.

Oh, and my dad, master of the useless but hihgly entertaining gifts, has discovered the joys of the Noble Collection. Mom now has a replica of Harry Potter's wand. I have a votive candle holder that's a replica of the top of Gandalf the Grey's staff.

And to all a good night! (And Happy Hanukkah to thems that celebrates it).

Now I have to do my pinch-hitting duty for go_exchange. Because nothing says Christmas like demon/angel pr0n. (Eat THAT, Bill O'Reilly!)

Comments

[runcible.livejournal.com]

Speaking of GO Exchange, are you going to do the guessing thing?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think we are. So get ready!

[runcible.livejournal.com]

::happy flail::

[aphrodeia.livejournal.com]

More pr0n from vulgarweed... it really is a Merry Christmas! :D

Cheers, m'dear. We've all survived another holiday.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Slainte!

It'll be sekrit pr0n, but I have no great illusions about my capacity for mystery. :D

[holzman.livejournal.com]

I'd love a copy of that paprikas recipe.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. It's very yum. When he's done rehearsing I'll ask him if he'll share. :)

[corporal-katz.livejournal.com]

Because nothing says Christmas like demon/angel pr0n.

Heh. How true. I spent the rest of my Christmas day reading it... *is going to Hell*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Your ICON! Bwah!

*is going to Hell*

I'm not. It's nonsmoking space.

[corporal-katz.livejournal.com]

Hee! city_of_dis made it. :D

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

velvet jeans sound pretty fabulous!

and who wouldn't want a candle-version of Gandalf's staff-top?

xoxoMary


ps. I am back in business for any pinch-betaing, by the way!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

They are fabulous! And so is the candle-holder. It's a lot bigger than it looks in the catalogue.

Well, perhaps I shall send something your way if my writing goes well tonight. :)

[jadegirl.livejournal.com]

Vanity-sizing has gotten *way* out of hand, I used to wear size 9 shoes, now 8. *rolls eyes*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Drives me nuts. I never know if anything's going to fit anymore. I knew it was getting batshit when I discovered that Old Navy thinks I'm a size 4. I mean, yeah, I'm a little bit on the scrawny side, but that's absurd. (My mom would be like a -2.)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

(I should clarify that's for clothes, not shoes.)

[seasidestarlet.livejournal.com]

Weird Aunt Vulgarweed says: if giving a copy of the Rosemary Sutcliff kids' adaptation of the Odyssey (with the Alan Lee illustrations) to a four-year-old is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Hee! I tried to talk my mother into buying my six-year old cousin a big thick book of illustrated Shakespeare plays, but she absolutely refused to. The first chance I get, I'm so giving that to a child as a gift. :)

[fyrdrakken]

The Noble Collection is a blast if you've got that kind of money to toss at it. (No Potter goodies, but I got a Phial of Galadriel with part of my birthday money in October -- though I think I actually went with the New Line Shop because they had a free shipping deal going on at the time and the item price was the same.)

And the shoe thing -- Monday I was ordering new steel-toed boots and they went by UK sizes and I was remembering that my docs that fit best are UK size 4 but the rest of my steel-toed boots are 5s because the size range didn't go down to 4. Except that the site was showing a US/UK conversion and I went, "Er, UK 4 is US 6? Umm, I think one of my feet is a size 7 and the other is 6.5...," so I went with size 5. Better to be a smidgen too big and wear an extra pair of socks (especially in winter) than a bit too small. So either the resizing thing is transatlantic, or you're not the only one overestimating her foot size.