So I email brother and SIL with an idea for my mom and brother gets it but I get to tell SIL he did. And they live in the same house. Sheesh. Family.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Nov 29, 2009 5:18:21 pm PST #21935 of 30001
-t - Nov 29, 2009 5:19:12 pm PST #21936 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Y'all should come to Jamaica and eat sweet potato and our range of yams. Whole different world. We don't have either of what you call yam or sweet potato.
I'm in. Never met a root vegetable I didn't like.
I started buying unsalted for baking and then decided I prefer the taste in general. Sweet creamery butter, yum.
Kat - Nov 29, 2009 5:30:29 pm PST #21937 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The risotto, though, isn't sweet. It's still savory. And because of the risotto, the whole dish is creamy. I love that risotto.
msbelle - Nov 29, 2009 5:38:18 pm PST #21938 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have bought 2 gifts this year that other people in my family had already purchased. ugh.
Kat - Nov 29, 2009 5:40:03 pm PST #21939 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I kinda don't want to buy any gifts this year. Not from a scroogey bah humbugy place. But from a I'm exhausted and can't imagine what to get you place. I don't have a lot of people to buy for (my parents, my brother, my SiL, K, and various members of K's family -- dad, sister, brother mainly) but I have No Idea What to Get.
msbelle - Nov 29, 2009 5:43:30 pm PST #21940 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thank dog my family does wishlists. and then I fill out with charity things.
Jesse - Nov 29, 2009 5:45:55 pm PST #21941 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I kinda don't want to buy any gifts this year. Not from a scroogey bah humbugy place. But from a I'm exhausted and can't imagine what to get you place. I don't have a lot of people to buy for (my parents, my brother, my SiL, K, and various members of K's family -- dad, sister, brother mainly) but I have No Idea What to Get.
That's almost always the place I'm at, and I'm not even exhausted!
At dinner tonight, my grandmother was trying to say that books were hard to buy for other people. I was like, Dude. I would way rather have a book I don't like than jewelry I don't like!
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2009 5:47:03 pm PST #21942 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We only usually give gifts to the family members we see on Christmas Day, which means I'm shopping for my sister this year. Probably jewelry from Etsy, since she's already bought half of Amazon and B&N and had them shipped to my apartment.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2009 5:50:44 pm PST #21943 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why would you rather have a book you don't want than jewelry you don't want?
Jesse - Nov 29, 2009 5:52:03 pm PST #21944 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Less guilt about exchanging, and also, I'll read just about anything. I will not wear that rhinestone holiday pin, but also feel bad about getting rid of it.
I just winterized my bed with flannel sheets and electric blanket, and I can't wait to get in!