Timelies all!

When I was at Penn(another school with Quakers as the team name), the marching band was introduced as "The undefeated, Ivy League champion, oxymoronic Fighting Quaker band".

Intense Pulsed LIGHT. I think. It might still be a laser. Hell, I dunno. No, I'm taking a stand. Not a laser.

Awww, man. Why you gotta rain on my FACE LASER parade like that? Now I feel ripped off.

Mac, dude. Gift cards are awesome gifts, unless it's like, to a restaurant you would never go to ! There's tons of stuff at B&N!

I am proud of what I got done today, even if I didn't actually work super hard. Ended up watching about half of The American President (love that movie!) while finishing up some filing type stuff. I was super behind--I have now caught up through October, and I figure if I do November tomorrow, and catch up on December on Friday, I will be all caught up and can just finish up December real quick later since there won't be much the last week. That's the plan. We'll see if it happens.

You're a better person than I am

Seriously.

Beau's mother got fed up with her adult daughter last year in early December (they live in the same house) and decided to spend a week in Florida by herself to get away.

Can you imagine? Such a response would be tempting in msbelle's scenario as well.

My mom is watching this "Home For the Holidays" thing, which seems to be famous people singing Christmas songs interspersed with tear-jerker segments about why you should adopt kids from foster care. They just used Queen's "Somebody to Love" with a montage of kids. That's weird, right? I mean, I can't point to anything in the lyrics that's obviously inappropriate, but it's just not the song that goes there.

I dunno, being gracious is a learned skill. Mac doesn't need to learn to be grateful the second he gets a gift right now. He needs to learn that he must ACT grateful to the giver and that you do not complain about any gift. His feelings will take longer to change (and may never--my Grandmother, who grew up in an orphanage, was the same way all her life) but his behavior needs work.

I dunno, being gracious is a learned skill.

Definitely this.

Awww, man. Why you gotta rain on my FACE LASER parade like that? Now I feel ripped off.

I beg your pardon. I was totally wrong! THEY ARE LASERS. They are motherfucking face-peeling-off spider-vein-zapping lasers, and you, having been laser-bitten, will soon begin to shoot lasers out of your pores when you are irritated. It will be like Hulking out, only with lasers. Imagine a combo of the Hulk and Cyclops. If you can learn to control your power, you can make a lotta money. I mean, do a lotta good. With great lasers comes great responsibility.

Poor mac. As frustrating as that must be - and I would be tearing my hair out, I am not a patient person - the getting of gifts must be emotionally fraught for him.

Well he is only getting one gift for Birthdays and Christmas for the next few years. ALso I don't engage.

Today is just a pissy mood day so I basically hate everything.

I dunno, being gracious is a learned skill.

Oh, indeed. What's that saying? Act as you would have yourself be? We can sometimes pretend ourselves into being better on the inside.

ION, here's an awesome story and picture: [link]

Ack. Poor Mac. Poor msbelle.

Seriously.