Christmas brunch with the Outlaws!
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vulgarweedReza'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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
go_exchange. Because nothing says Christmas like demon/angel pr0n. (Eat THAT, Bill O'Reilly!)
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!)
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Date: 2005-12-29 02:35 pm (UTC)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.