Okay, by the numbers, now:

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1) When you get e-mail asking if you're okay because you haven't posted in a while, it's time to post. (Thanks again for asking, though.)

2) Kristi heard back from the "Peanuts" folks. No she may not use Charlie Brown and Marcie on the homemade wedding invitations, because Hallmark will get all cranky and litigious. She's sorry she asked.

3) I was a model of Shopping Efficiency last night, hitting six stores in an hour and a half, including the grocery trip from purgatory. All my work friends are covered now (no, Colleen, I'm not handing out any hints), as is my Mom. I've only got one-maybe-two more things to get Kristi, and I'm expletive-deleted done. (Wow, and it's not even a day with the word "Eve" in it. Dare to dream!)

4) I love my mom-in-law dearly. She is a kind, loving, generous and wonderful person, and I am eternally glad to have her in my family. So I swear to you, I didn't really mean all the things I was contemplating doing when she used my Wusthof-Trident paring knife to scrape the Triassic-era blackened gunk out of her stove. Honest.

5) Is it just me, or has living in England given Tori Amos a bit of an accent?

6) Abbey's dance recital is going to be exceptional, assuming that her throwing up tonight is an isolated incident. (No, not at rehearsal.)

7) My mom will be arriving in 39 hours. I'm looking at the state of this bedroom. Oh, dear...

8) At work today, I had four different managers come up to my desk within the space of an hour or so, to ask me things that honestly could've waited. I wonder if the fact that I was writing cryptic crossword clues at the time had something to do with it.

9) I only have one day off next week. They offered to give me another day off, but I refused. Jeez, I really am greedy.

10) I really should go see what Nik is screaming about downstairs. On the other hand, since he had me up at 4:30 this morning, maybe I should leave this one to, oh, pretty much anyone else.

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[paganmommy.livejournal.com]

1. ::waving::
2. Damn them and their contractual obligations or some junk. :/
3. Go YOU! I am all done too, go ME. The trick is to confuse all the other shoppers by smiling at them and acting as if you ENJOY letting them run into you. Something about xmas spirit. (bah)
4.=============8-O She can't be allowed to live. There is nothing about her that can possibly make up for using your baby on the stove of all things, what was she THINKING?????????? Doesn't she know what a butter knife it for God's Sake??????
5. Haven't heard her speak in a while, maybe she has been taking tea with Madonna.
6. Throwing up clinches it. As Web used to say (my old theater teacher) "being nervous means you care, if you aren't nervous, I don't want you here". She will be awesome! Just don't feed her before the recital. ;)
7. Throw everything you don't need this weekend in baskets or boxes and toss them in the basement or some other place she won't look in. Wash the sheets, dust and vacume. Yay.. pretty room. :)
8. You need to keep some work type stuff near by to cover the fun stuff with silly boy. And yes, it is deceitful and yes it is lyings, so what?
9. That was just silly.
10. Go to bed, you aren't the only adult in the house. :)

*hug*

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

1) Back at you.
2) Further proof that Hallmark is EVIL.
3) Xmas spirit, my heinie. (Actually, I think it's kinda fun.)
4) Let me tell you about how she used the chef's knife to hack apart a raw acorn squash by sticking in the blade a bit, then whacking it against the countertop. I nearly passed out.
5) Actually, I hear it when she sings: hers A's have become slightly elongated, so "land" now sounds just a bit like "lahnd".
6) Wasn't nerves, I fear: she threw up all night, and stayed home sick today. Bleagh.
7) I'm trying! I'm trying!
8) I did. Didn't work.
9) It went like this: "Hmmm, do I really want to spend a few hundred bucks in overtime wages just to stay home on a Friday while Kristi is working?" I don't.
10) See #8.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

(Wow, and it's not even a day with the word "Eve" in it. Dare to dream!)

Ah, but it's Christmas Eve's Eve's Eve's Eve's Eve's Eve's Eve.

[paganmommy.livejournal.com]

4) Let me tell you about how she used the chef's knife to hack apart a raw acorn squash by sticking in the blade a bit, then whacking it against the countertop. I nearly passed out.

I can't HEAR you! LALALALALALALALALALALALALLALALALALA

5) Actually, I hear it when she sings: hers A's have become slightly elongated, so "land" now sounds just a bit like "lahnd".

Oddly, right after I posted I threw in a new CD of hers and it is ALL her talking. Geezus does that gal like to gab. I was kinda hopin' for, well, you know, music and all.

6) Wasn't nerves, I fear: she threw up all night, and stayed home sick today. Bleagh.

Oh dear! Is she feeling better? *hugs to all involved*

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase Peppermint Patty: "Recursion, Marcie, will turn your tongue into a carrot stick."

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Yes, Tori talks and talks and talks and talks and talks. And yes, Abbey's fine. And it just occurred to me that you could swap those two around, and still make sense. Hm.