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dchenesChristmas was just about exactly what I needed, and consisted mostly (in no particular order) of:
- Shrimp cocktail
- Silly shirts
- Cocktail sauce with more horseradish than strictly necessary
- Clam dip
- A most excellent hat
- Rooting around in the ornaments box for pompoms and pinecones
- Prime rib
- Waffles
- Three and a half pounds of uncooked bacon
- The Play of Herod
- The Play of Daniel
- The Messiah
- Sharpe's Rifles
- Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
- New gloves
- Three experimental beers and an experimental cider (no winners)
- BLTs
- And many and various other things I forgot
Got back on Thursday and discovered one instance of cat barf, courtesy of Snip, who just can't resist eating too much too fast when she gets several days of food all at once. Lily actually ate crunchies because that was what there was, and hadn't lost any weight.
When I left on the 23rd, there were three items on my list of things to get done before January 2. There are now five things, but four of them are done, and I wrote two of them down today just for the pleasure of crossing them off. The fifth thing is to take everything out of all of the kitchen cabinets, sort through the ensuing mess, and figure out what I actually want to keep. The tube pan stays; everything else, I don't know. I don't even know what all is in the lower cabinets. Muffin tins and ice cube trays, I think.
It won't be a disaster if it doesn't happen now, but it's got to happen before the end of March, because I should use at least one of my Fridays off to declutter the place some. The kitchen cabinets, the bedroom closet, and the office in general all need some help.
Now that the mad rush is over, I went to Brookline Booksmith today and didn't think I was going to get trampled to death, and actually found the second used book I've been keeping an eye out for since last year. I found the first one right after Thanksgiving. And that's why I go to the bookstore almost every weekend. You never know.
I started the Vietnam book, but my brain wants candy, so I'm reading other things until January.
- Shrimp cocktail
- Silly shirts
- Cocktail sauce with more horseradish than strictly necessary
- Clam dip
- A most excellent hat
- Rooting around in the ornaments box for pompoms and pinecones
- Prime rib
- Waffles
- Three and a half pounds of uncooked bacon
- The Play of Herod
- The Play of Daniel
- The Messiah
- Sharpe's Rifles
- Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
- New gloves
- Three experimental beers and an experimental cider (no winners)
- BLTs
- And many and various other things I forgot
Got back on Thursday and discovered one instance of cat barf, courtesy of Snip, who just can't resist eating too much too fast when she gets several days of food all at once. Lily actually ate crunchies because that was what there was, and hadn't lost any weight.
When I left on the 23rd, there were three items on my list of things to get done before January 2. There are now five things, but four of them are done, and I wrote two of them down today just for the pleasure of crossing them off. The fifth thing is to take everything out of all of the kitchen cabinets, sort through the ensuing mess, and figure out what I actually want to keep. The tube pan stays; everything else, I don't know. I don't even know what all is in the lower cabinets. Muffin tins and ice cube trays, I think.
It won't be a disaster if it doesn't happen now, but it's got to happen before the end of March, because I should use at least one of my Fridays off to declutter the place some. The kitchen cabinets, the bedroom closet, and the office in general all need some help.
Now that the mad rush is over, I went to Brookline Booksmith today and didn't think I was going to get trampled to death, and actually found the second used book I've been keeping an eye out for since last year. I found the first one right after Thanksgiving. And that's why I go to the bookstore almost every weekend. You never know.
I started the Vietnam book, but my brain wants candy, so I'm reading other things until January.
