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Dec. 31st, 2022 09:18 amI had this plan where I was going to do a year end retrospective and it was gonna be glorious. Yeaaaaaaaaah, that ain't happening unless I decide to do it on my days off. As it is, let's catch up in non-AG stuff, shall we?
*offers Double Stuf Oreos found à la Claudia Kishi*
While everyone else in the country was freezing their tits off and possibly getting snow or ice or something, we spent the cold snap freezing our tits off. One of the pluses of the shower having a persistent drip is that it makes dripping the faucets very, very easy. Huzzah! We also lucked out on the water situation by not living downtown where they were under a boil advisory and possibly worse. We nearly made it through the whole thing relatively unscathed until Mums picked me up... Wednesday morning, I believe, and asked me to look at the windshield. Yeah. The last bitterly cold morning of the snap and it caused a break from basically the passenger side to almost the whole way across. The earliest they could come fix it? Today. The one day they've called for rain pretty consistently for the last two weeks. Ugh.
Christmas was pretty laid back, if you ignore Mom burning herself trying to get the turkey out of the oven. Widget was in NC with his mom, sisters, and the girls' father's ex girlfriend and mother to their stepsister. I think I have that right. What's funnier is that woman is also friends with Cass through an entirely unrelated set of circumstances. When people say Charleston is the biggest small town, they fucking mean it.
Anyway, back to Christmas. My brother came through on the gifts. When I sent him my list, I didn't mean for him to buy all of it, but he did. I'm guessing because maybe he considered one of the things to be more for Mom?
In any case, I asked for, and got: lightbulbs for my bathroom vanity, windshield wipers for the car (el-oh-fucking-el, had I waited just a couple of days later, that would've been included in the repair job), and a bottle of Kahlua Especial. Apparently he braved Total Wine on Christmas Eve and the great crash of their credit card machines for it. Mums gifted me the 25th Anniversary of Spice World, the album, and I'm considering my Little Earthquakes graphic album a Christmas present too. Oh, and Mom scooped up a LOL Tween Cherry BB from work for me. 70% off!
Widget said he looked for and couldn't find any MH in store, and I believe him. I haven't found any when I've gone looking and it's most vexing.
Mom and I rode around the neighborhood on Christmas and looked at the pretty lights. My favorite was the house that had a Santa type on one of their porch rocking chairs, but the head was a jack o lantern. :D
Oh, and if we backup to Christmas Eve at work, I'm guessing the cold kept a lot of people away because after a certain point it was nearly dead. Unfortunately, that meant that we had like six people who would not leave and they were definitely stealing. One went out the backdoor with a cart full of stuff but since I had to alert the shiftlead who was ringing up one of the couples who would not leave, he had time to get away without anyone seeing exactly what else he had. Sigh. I do not expect tonight to be so chill in any form.
Time for a mini retrospective of things I've watched over the year. And by watched, I mean these are all shows because I skew more TV than movie most of the time.
( Gifs to make things more fun. )
Top 2 books according to Goodreads and giving them 5 stars AND remembering them off the top of my head.
The Ex Hex by Erin Stirling manages to give Halloween vibes and live up to the hype. Plus, talking cat!
She Gets The Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick if you want YA to make your heart sing. It's a split narrative book and I loved both characters equally. Do you know how often that happens? NEVER. Love it! And it came out in 2022, too, so there you go.
Off to pop my grape juice and booze in the fridge for tomorrow. Happy New Year and be safe!
*offers Double Stuf Oreos found à la Claudia Kishi*
While everyone else in the country was freezing their tits off and possibly getting snow or ice or something, we spent the cold snap freezing our tits off. One of the pluses of the shower having a persistent drip is that it makes dripping the faucets very, very easy. Huzzah! We also lucked out on the water situation by not living downtown where they were under a boil advisory and possibly worse. We nearly made it through the whole thing relatively unscathed until Mums picked me up... Wednesday morning, I believe, and asked me to look at the windshield. Yeah. The last bitterly cold morning of the snap and it caused a break from basically the passenger side to almost the whole way across. The earliest they could come fix it? Today. The one day they've called for rain pretty consistently for the last two weeks. Ugh.
Christmas was pretty laid back, if you ignore Mom burning herself trying to get the turkey out of the oven. Widget was in NC with his mom, sisters, and the girls' father's ex girlfriend and mother to their stepsister. I think I have that right. What's funnier is that woman is also friends with Cass through an entirely unrelated set of circumstances. When people say Charleston is the biggest small town, they fucking mean it.
Anyway, back to Christmas. My brother came through on the gifts. When I sent him my list, I didn't mean for him to buy all of it, but he did. I'm guessing because maybe he considered one of the things to be more for Mom?
In any case, I asked for, and got: lightbulbs for my bathroom vanity, windshield wipers for the car (el-oh-fucking-el, had I waited just a couple of days later, that would've been included in the repair job), and a bottle of Kahlua Especial. Apparently he braved Total Wine on Christmas Eve and the great crash of their credit card machines for it. Mums gifted me the 25th Anniversary of Spice World, the album, and I'm considering my Little Earthquakes graphic album a Christmas present too. Oh, and Mom scooped up a LOL Tween Cherry BB from work for me. 70% off!
Widget said he looked for and couldn't find any MH in store, and I believe him. I haven't found any when I've gone looking and it's most vexing.
Mom and I rode around the neighborhood on Christmas and looked at the pretty lights. My favorite was the house that had a Santa type on one of their porch rocking chairs, but the head was a jack o lantern. :D
Oh, and if we backup to Christmas Eve at work, I'm guessing the cold kept a lot of people away because after a certain point it was nearly dead. Unfortunately, that meant that we had like six people who would not leave and they were definitely stealing. One went out the backdoor with a cart full of stuff but since I had to alert the shiftlead who was ringing up one of the couples who would not leave, he had time to get away without anyone seeing exactly what else he had. Sigh. I do not expect tonight to be so chill in any form.
Time for a mini retrospective of things I've watched over the year. And by watched, I mean these are all shows because I skew more TV than movie most of the time.
( Gifs to make things more fun. )
Top 2 books according to Goodreads and giving them 5 stars AND remembering them off the top of my head.
The Ex Hex by Erin Stirling manages to give Halloween vibes and live up to the hype. Plus, talking cat!
She Gets The Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick if you want YA to make your heart sing. It's a split narrative book and I loved both characters equally. Do you know how often that happens? NEVER. Love it! And it came out in 2022, too, so there you go.
Off to pop my grape juice and booze in the fridge for tomorrow. Happy New Year and be safe!