Holiday Shipping

I didn't actually do any holiday related shopping this year expect for my one friend I got a gift for before i lost my job. Everyone else is getting cookies and cakes made by me. So yesterday, I baked all day long (pun intended stoners!). We are sending packages of baked goods to H's mom;s fam, H's dad's fam, H's grandparents and my off again on again "dad", Walt. Walt is also getting some CD's of my college radio broadcasts since he was unable to attend any thing that took place in my life between the ages of 1 and 33 years. You can blame The Monster for that, though...

He's not looking, but Happy 30th Birthday to H !!!

Anywhoo, all that will get mailed out today, by H, and on his birthday. I had all sorts of cool shit I wanted to do for H's 30th birthday. In movie talk after all, it is his "Carosel Day". But of course because I am fundless, he is getting the Two Towers extended edition, which as yet has not arrived in the mail.

Started looking into apartments today. At this point, if we stay in this area we will almost certainly have to move back to Ypsi, where mailboxes get broken into and laundry gets stolen. I've already lived like that for several years, so the very idea of dealing with that again is enough to make me shaking angry. Plus just looking around this swell apartment makes me not want to leave. Honestly, once the dog is gone this place will be perfect. So if any of you know of a suitable roomate for us, do let me know. Our lease is up in August.

( Qualities of a suitable roomate: )

Mercy; Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do
rejoice, and weep with them that weep. You are
a sympathetic sweetheart. But you can be so
sympathic that you can be swayed into a wrong
point of view. You're attracted to the more
troubled people around you because you want to
sympathize with the misunderstood.


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All good things:

You know, I don't often post about how much I dig H. He is perfectly happy to get nothing but hug and smooch for his birthday from me (he thinks he's not getting anything because his gift hasn't arrived yet).
He also doesn't know that I have enough money to rent us some movies and get dinner at Qdoba if someone drives us. I'm looking at you, P. I'm going to try one more time to find marzipan, then I'll have to try to make his favorite cake out of regular almond filling instead. I hope it works. My point is that for all my petty bitching, he is really a great guy and I'm lucky to have him.

I got some lovely holiday cards from Anne and fam, and fyreangel, who must never know how bad I still am at crocheting. So please, no one tell her...
I am pleased that anyone is taking the time to send me cards, even though I made a general announcement that i wouldn't be able to afford to send any out. Truth be told, i could make cool cards myself on the computer. But what is it now? 37 cents or something to mail one damn card! I could buy a bunch of blank tapes for what it would cost to send just 20 cards. And 20 cards would not begin to cover all the people I would want to wish well to this holiday season.

That said, if any of you far away types want to give me a gift, I am desperately in need of paid LJ time to tide me over until I get a job.
LJ would be nothing to me with only 3 userpics and no polls...speaking of polls...time to spend some quality time with my "new" bong The Flux Incapacitator.

Also, I got on the scale today wondering just how poorly I was doing at trying to watch my wieght. As it happens, I am down six and one half pounds!!! I can't begin to tell you how amazing this is, since I've not really been trying, or excersizing. Just shopping better and not drinking soda. I'm not kidding, I ate like a pound of potato chips and 3 butterfinger crisps in the last week and a half. It's insane. This is also the first time since my 21st birthday that I weigh less at the end of a year than I did at the beginning. Seriously, I have gained between 2-10 pounds every year since graduating from college until this year. So I think after the holidays and after my NYE bash, I'm really going to try to start some kind of excersize thing.

I swear, if I could just get a job I might not actually die bitter and alone in a bad neighborhood.

Willy Wonka: the amazing chocolatier!

Last weekend at my place, someone who shall remain nameless asserted that Roald Dahl co-wrote the screenplay for the 1970 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I didn't see how this could posibly be the case, for while Dahl is in fact a sometime screenwriter, I seemed to remember him really hating the movie. And then when I read the novel, I couldn't imagine how he could have turned his novel into that film.

Turns out, I am right!


Take THAT Guernica (and anyone else who doubts the trivia collecting mindpower of wednes)!!

EDIT: I did not mean to bemoan or besmirch the 1970 version of the film. I enjoyed it very much as a kid, and with the exception of that one song the mom sings in the laundry, I still like it a great deal. However, it's tone and themes are very different than those in the book.

*blush*

Hey, thanks to fyreangel for the grand gift of userpics and LJ time. And thanks to whomever that "anonymous" bastard is.

So many userpics...