Sherlock Holmes is an excellent good time. Not that anyone should doubt that.
So I met the brother's Olympic gold-medalist girlfriend. She seems cool. She's invited us to her Christmas Eve gathering and she and her kids will be at our house for Christmas. It's all very new and exciting.
Operation String Christmas Lights was a qualified success. I'll never be as happy with them as when I had the 18' twisted garland of warm white lights with white wire that I could hang around my living room windows in previous apartments, but two linked sets of 150 curtain lights wrap most of the way around my big central window (coming down to knee level, which would have been the windowsill in the other places) and the green wire isn't too distracting when they're all lit up: [link]
I feel all Christmukkah-y now.
ETA: clearer photograph
Oh! I also heard some CRAZY FAMILY DRAMA, which was good times. Obviously, bad times for the people involved, but I love a good gossip. My Very Religious Cousin apparently brought her boyfriend with when she travelled across the country (to where she's from) for surgery, leaving her husband and kids at home. !!!
So I met the brother's Olympic gold-medalist girlfriend.
Dude!! What sport? Or at least, winter or summer, team or individual?
My Very Religious Cousin apparently brought her boyfriend with when she travelled across the country (to where she's from) for surgery, leaving her husband and kids at home
Um, whoah. Is this a "I'm leaving my husband" or is this a "we are not-so-secretly-anymore poly"?
Is this a "I'm leaving my husband" or is this a "we are not-so-secretly-anymore poly"?
Apparently neither? But totally unclear! I mean, she was sneaking around on the husband, apparently. But now everyone (including him) knows? I don't even know.
One regular husband, one travel-sized?
It's just all so bizarre.
M and I got through the first 2 1/2 chapters of the first Skulduggery Pleasant book
Yay! I just started it as well!
t throws devil horns
TANITH LOW FOREVER.
I am trying to psych myself up to go to a friend's Christmas party tonight. I also need to pack, and do some dishes. But I feel I should go be merry and suchlike...and I think I'd enjoy it while there, but the getting dressed up and looking OK and driving out there seems like such a hassle.