I had been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with my eight year old, and for Christmas he got me this:
http://distilleryimage10.s3.amazonaws.com/c44653444e9e11e2bcaf22000a1fbcb3_7.jpg
thank you; obviously, by almost any standard, I am doing phenomenally well, GIVEN EVERYTHING, and I appreciate/secretly make out with print-outs of the avatars of everyone here (even the jerks!).
Have a good holiday, everyone
I was typing something about how this year seemed pretty not-so-great for me, actually: lots of health issues with my parents/in-laws that probably won't get better; another year at a job I hate but I stay at because it makes (barely) enough money for me to stay in my house/feed my kids; just a general anxiety about the lack of control I have over literally anything, and how I feel like I’m one misstep away from everything derailing at any given moment, but then I remembered this was the year I heard Jurassic Park played on the melodica, sooooo: B, maybe B+
Two things, I guess (specific to me) (like everything)
(1) I talked about this briefly with Just Désserts/myfakeironlung and others on Twitter and it turns out Twitter is a bad medium for this discussion! BUT: whereas I generally take Joe Mande retweeting corporations remembering 9/11 (for instance) as a commentary on how weird it is that corporations feel required to say that they remember 9/11, or secondarily how tone deaf corporations are that they don't understand that tweeting anything "sincere" has a subliminal fuck you in it, I also believe that the impulse to retweet is coming from a pretty dark place that is probably destroying us. I meant what I said in the tweet, though: I think Gabe thinks hard about these kinds of issues (lol, "issues") - harder than I do, anyway
(2) I was blocked, but it was a mistake, and now I'm not; also, hellohello27 is not one of my secret accounts ("Chris Trash" is, though, and also "FaceTaco", "Kate" and "Ken Jennings")
Aaaahhh lowest rated; after SO MANY TRIES.
Werttrew, this gets me my EGOT, so if you could dust off the woodburning kit and inscribe my name on the Sacred Tree, and also give me the password to the mobile site that works, that would be GREAT. XOXOXOXOX have a good weekend everyone.
Hey Hotspur! If you are reading this, thanks for photoshopping my head onto Kirk's body yesterday. I was having a bad day and it cheered me up (unfortunately, there's no forum on this site to talk about how your day is)
When I was a kid I stepped in a fire ant hill (fire ants, if you don't know, are ants in Texas and the southeast that are SUPER SHITTY), and the fire ants swarmed up my leg, biting me like a gazillion pac-mans, but I was at a park and also at the park was my first grade square dance partner, and I felt it was wrong to take my pants off in front of her.
It was kind of my Kobayashi Maru
I imagine a lot of hand wringing over whether to bother with this explanatory bracket in the Aykroyd link:
You don’t take advantage of that in the next three or four months, I’ll see you in Australia, where we’ll be selling Crystal Head [Vodka].
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