My in-laws? Got me a fuckin' KitchenAid standing mixer! How rock star is that? I will have that thing till I am 100. I can't wait to bake some shit. Who wants to come have a baking party with me?!
Nice! I really want one...
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Dec 26, 2010 3:23:11 pm PST #13119 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Jesse - Dec 26, 2010 3:24:35 pm PST #13120 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, nice Xmas!
So, Comcast is literally my only non-dish option, apparently, so they don't give a shit.
beekaytee - Dec 26, 2010 3:25:21 pm PST #13121 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Rockstar, indeed. Good in-laws, every homemade biscuit!
Strix - Dec 26, 2010 3:30:19 pm PST #13122 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Technically, it was a combo present for D and I, but I will use it and he will reap the rewards.
D got me one of those Shark steam mops, which sounds terribly unromantic, but warms the cockles of my Virgo heart. We have all hardwood and 5 pets, and this thing dries immediately. We also got some money, and we are seriously thinking Kindle.
Jesse - Dec 26, 2010 3:31:45 pm PST #13123 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You have to call on the phone to actually cancel, so maybe those folks would make me a better offer, but meh. Stupid monopolies.
beth b - Dec 26, 2010 3:34:43 pm PST #13124 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I wonder if you can tell them you are considering dropping the tv part and going to internet only
javachik - Dec 26, 2010 3:35:49 pm PST #13125 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Jesse, you know, they told me the same thing when I used chat again about 6 months ago. I literally logged out, tried again the very next day, got another agent, and got back down to $80 or so (internet and non-premium cable) after threatening to just plain cancel.
ALL I watch in real time is sports, and half of that is on Comcast Sports Network. I get too much joy out of baseball to completely get rid of cable. I tried the MLB network on the Roku but unfortunately I'm blacked out of anything I want to watch. (It works great for Steve in Philly, though, since both of his teams are elsewhere - Philly and SF).
Jesse - Dec 26, 2010 3:38:12 pm PST #13126 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I will try again!
DavidS - Dec 26, 2010 4:14:10 pm PST #13127 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm back from TJ's where I ran through most of $125 worth of gift cards.
But now I have Jameson's in the house.
Plus a bunch of the yummy easy treats (brie en croute, crabcakes) as well as staples.
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching The Age of Believing a TCM documentary about the live-action films at Disney. I hadn't really thought about how much those movies were still around in my 70s childhood, as the Air Force Base theater showed them all in re-release, so I saw In Search of Castaways, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues and Darby O'Gill and Bedknobs and Broomsticks and all that on a screen.
They had interviews with all the child actors - Kurt Russell, of course, but also intereting to see Hayley Mills (still very cute) and Karen Dotrice (the young girl in Mary Poppins. As an adult she's a dead ringer for J.K. Rowling.)
Jesse - Dec 26, 2010 4:15:18 pm PST #13128 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Snow day tomorrow!! Do you think stores will be open? I kind of hope not, for the employees' sake, but will be looking to get out of the house at some point...