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Happy New Year!

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(It’s still the New Year, isn’ t it?)

So, hmmm.

Houseguests have come and gone, the Main Distractor has come and stayed, and a fair amount of water has seen the underside of the bridge, I guess, since last I posted.

The snow in the previous post is just now going away (!!!@!@@!). Christmas was v nice (he got me a WII!!! so not only do I has a we: we has a wii! and my units got me a digital camera, yay! and the Dude gave me a wee Minox, too.). New Year’s was v tasty indeed (Parkside!!). He pranged the Wee RAV and he’s paying for the de-prangization, too, which while fitting is also nice of him :) . My loaner is a tiny little Suziki AWD hatchback. It’s kewt. But I feel short.

With the departure of the lovely houseguests, and the start of the work year, life has calmed down in some ways and ramped up in others. Work is v v busy. Cohabitation is sometimes stressful, but the exponentially increased cuddle-availability goes a long way toward making up for that :D

We’ve been commuting together given the snow and ice situation (which is finally abating; I should be able to start riding Enzo again next week) so I haven’t yet heard the proverbial HI HONEY I’M HOME! but I’m sure it’s forthcoming :D

In any case. Still alive, and all is well.

So OK

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Just over two weeks to go till Christmas, and I expect I’ll have even less time upcoming than of late, so I figured I’d better update a bit.

The Main Distractor made it through a few weeks ago, no drama. Two-year permit. The job title was a bit off but close enough for jazz and the nice lady who processed the paperwork. My dad was around that weekend and we all went to Parkside to celebrate and it was marvelous. He’ll be arriving in 16 days. I’m beside myself :D .

One of the internet friends the boy met last year in France is also moving to Canada, arriving Tuesday. He’ll be staying in the (recently relocated) spare room till he finds a suitable apartment for himself and his wife, who will arrive later in the month. Looking forward to having him here as well.

Had lunch with Shanny on Friday and she and Nic will be over for brunch tomorrow (oh, must buy OJ) for general holiday get-together and keep-in-touch. Lise and Carey and Metta passed through town last week also, and I got to see them briefly and meet the gorgeous babe. The Dude will be through en route to and from New Jersey for work in the next week as well. We all know what all this company means: lots of cuddles for Choobie! :D .

I put up a small and somewhat wonky little Christmas tree, since the Main Distractor will be spending a few nights here before we head up to Sun Peaks. We’ll have our own tiny tree :D .

In moving the spare bedroom upstairs (for two reasons: one, comfort of guests in colder weather if not in hotter; and two, creation of a Man Cave space for the MD to keep his stuff and have a space of his own in the alien landscape), I have lost my study, and now have my computer desk out in the living room to the increased squishiness of furniture. In a way I don’t like it because it’s out in the middle of everything, but having a more streamlined setup at the moment, with the powerbook instead of the desktop, and a USB hub that I got for a really good price to keep everything humming along, is working. I’ve also set up my wireless keyboard and mouse, which is a relief indeed after the laptop keyboard and track pad thing, On the other hand, it’s so…plugged in that it’s functioning not at all like a laptop. But that’s OK.

My microbusiness got a query from a big company, like BIG company, that would have conceivably had enough steady business for me to, like, buy some new clothes or go out to dinner or something. But they seem to have lost interest, as I haven’t heard from the guy in a couple of days. I think he thought I did that full time, but of course lacking lots of nice big corporate clients, I don’t. Oh well, it’s his/their loss as much as mine, I suppose. He may come to realize that the 24-hour type of turnaround I can offer is not impossible to work with, it’s just a small mental adjustment.

Today’s agenda includes some Christmas and grocery shopping, hair appointment, and more vacuuming (welcome my friends to the chore that never ends).

Happy holidays and whatnot, everyone!

and back again.

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So the Dude and I went to town this morning. We got some Yokohamas on the RAV, as the old Bridgestones are apparently now hard to come by.

Then we went to Future Shop, where I saw the camera I will next make my own, once I find it at a price I can afford. I see all you DSLR people snickering at me, but it’s really all I need, and the menu system works for me, and with luck it will survive when I drop it as I am bound to do.

Then we went to the mall and I got a couple of things for the Dude’s birthday, and some (Tigi! yay!) hair products for the new ‘do (as soon as I can take a picture of it, I promise I will post; the ones from last week are so bloody pinky/orange that I don’t want them here. Of course this place is pink, isn’t it…I may rethink that). Got some underwear on sale, got quite depressed roaming through the mall, hearing 12 year old kids talking about their gift cards. Grasping, evil little things that they are, with far too much cash.

Went to Costco. Went to Canadian Tire, where I found another gift for the Dude and a hat for my mum and some anti-fogging stuff to help with the often steamy situation in my Vespa helmet. Some steam would be good right about now: Sun Peaks is dry as ever. My hair looks good though :p

Got the Dude to grill the ribeyes, I made Lyonnaise potatoes from the Galatoire’s cookbook I got for Christmas, and made a simple tomato salad with balsamic and EVOO. Bottle of Church & State Syrah, nice.

Christmas morning.

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I’m not quite sure how, with 364 days to prepare, this household can spend half of Christmas Eve and most of Christmas morning (it’s coming up on 11:30) wrapping presents. Hi people! we won’t get to breakfast until dinner time at this rate, and I want my Champagne!

Also, from what I’ve glimpsed about the place, I’ve already received approximately half of my presents at Christmases past. Hi, thank you, but you gave me that book last year. I enjoyed it, thank you. But I do not need another copy. Does this make me ungrateful? I think it’s more about shaking my head at the fact that it’s a desperate grab for something to give, here, I need to have this much stuff to give to you, and never fucking mind if you want/like/need/already have it, I have a need to have this kind of Christmas, and give you this much stuff, so this is what you will get. Also spending three hours wrapping a bunch of stuff in a bunch of stuff that will be in a trash bag in approximately an hour is just…sad. There’s a value when it’s all sitting under the tree for a day or week or something, and you can admire it, but when there will be approximately 2 minutes between the last present going under and the first present being opened…not so much. And we don’t even care enough to take a photo.

Bleah. And wait till you see the slippers! >_<


Updated Christmas evening: Lots of stuff, only 7 repeat gifts, and the slippers, while beyond weird, are growing on me. :p


Merry Christmas.

Oh and this whole WordPress thing where it thinks it knows the format I want better than I do? BITES. Fuckin styles can blow me.