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I still want a hula hoop
Dec. 28th, 2014 09:33 pmChristmas has sailed on by, and it was all good. Between the whirlwind day trip down last Saturday to gather around the table at the House with the family, yankee swap up some gifts, and just all be together at home for a day, the bell performaces the day after and on Christmas eve (which mostly went without a hitch, and the big stuff came out pretty perfect) and then Christmas Day first at the Chiassons for Christmas Lasagna, then at aersi and verbena76's for fuck-it-I'm-making-a-Christmas-Ham, and lastly with two short people descending on their piles of gifts like starving crazed weasels after an afternoon at their great-grandparents... yeah it was pretty awesome. Those kids made out like absolute bandits this year - if they were the sort of kids that believed in Santa, I'd have made up some silliness about how his sleigh ran smack into a Nintendo truck. Hooray for a Christmas when Andee and Dad have actual money to spend on it, I suppose, lol.
But yeah IDK, I've had such good holidayish things this month with friends and family. I think I needed a little more Christmas than usual this year to offset health stupid and The-Wider-World-Continues-To-Be-Awful-If-You're-Black shit going on this month. :P I'd been thinking about why I get so into the holidays a lot lately because it seems like the very sort of thing I should disdain, but I don't. I think a lot of it is just handed down from Dad, he loved Christmas so damn much. Like, he'd start planning and shopping in July for it level loved it. So some of it is definitely a little bit of that. Another big chunk of it I think was summed up in this recent Cracked article and echoed in the latest Doctor Who special about how every Christmas is kinda the last one. Not to be dark about it, but... yeah.
Anyway - Two last stops on the Holiday train for me - Wednesday esoteric_scribe is hosting a new years eve gathering, and then Thursday I'm throwing a New Years Day movie marathon. NOT Lord of the Rings. Gods. I have survived a New Years Day of Extended Editions once, that's all anyone needs lol. Instead I present 80s fantasy movies! Ladyhawke! Labyrinth! Legend! Neverending Story! The Princess Bride! So some massive housecleaning is in order for the next couple days lol. And then a long dark, cold January after that. Hooray? :P
Healthwise I'm doing reasonably okay. Still on steroids, but tapering down one little pill per week so New Years Eve I get to go down to three. Considering I started with six... yeah. Survived endoscopy prep (it was somehow not as bad this time around), swallowed a camera, and had the film come back... nothing stupid horrible is going on, just a lot of Crohnsy inflammation, according to my GI, so once I taper completely off the prednisone, I have to go back on Humira. Bleh. Meantime eating actual food is still a revelation, though I have to get on top of the extreme munchies if I want to stay in the nice new winter pants I bought myself last month, and a newfound obsession with Gardetto's Special Request rye chips is not helping lol but OMG they are so good. Essentially, you know the random bread chips they have in bags of Chex Mix and how they're the best things in the bag and oh yeah, they're only like five of them in the bag? yeah these are an ENTIRE BAG of just those and they are DELICIOUS. I curse my husband for finding those, lol.
And now for something completely different: if you haven't seen Into the Woods yet, dear fates. "Agony" just by itself is worth the price of admission and I'm still thinking about it and giggling maniacally. But the rest of it was breathtaking, the cuts were understandable (and not much missed) and overall it was just fan-fucking-tastic. I also can't say enough good things about the two kids that played Little Red and Jack, they nailed it. Want to see it, like 9 more times just so I can get that orchestration through theater speakers again.
But yeah IDK, I've had such good holidayish things this month with friends and family. I think I needed a little more Christmas than usual this year to offset health stupid and The-Wider-World-Continues-To-Be-Awful-If-You're-Black shit going on this month. :P I'd been thinking about why I get so into the holidays a lot lately because it seems like the very sort of thing I should disdain, but I don't. I think a lot of it is just handed down from Dad, he loved Christmas so damn much. Like, he'd start planning and shopping in July for it level loved it. So some of it is definitely a little bit of that. Another big chunk of it I think was summed up in this recent Cracked article and echoed in the latest Doctor Who special about how every Christmas is kinda the last one. Not to be dark about it, but... yeah.
Anyway - Two last stops on the Holiday train for me - Wednesday esoteric_scribe is hosting a new years eve gathering, and then Thursday I'm throwing a New Years Day movie marathon. NOT Lord of the Rings. Gods. I have survived a New Years Day of Extended Editions once, that's all anyone needs lol. Instead I present 80s fantasy movies! Ladyhawke! Labyrinth! Legend! Neverending Story! The Princess Bride! So some massive housecleaning is in order for the next couple days lol. And then a long dark, cold January after that. Hooray? :P
Healthwise I'm doing reasonably okay. Still on steroids, but tapering down one little pill per week so New Years Eve I get to go down to three. Considering I started with six... yeah. Survived endoscopy prep (it was somehow not as bad this time around), swallowed a camera, and had the film come back... nothing stupid horrible is going on, just a lot of Crohnsy inflammation, according to my GI, so once I taper completely off the prednisone, I have to go back on Humira. Bleh. Meantime eating actual food is still a revelation, though I have to get on top of the extreme munchies if I want to stay in the nice new winter pants I bought myself last month, and a newfound obsession with Gardetto's Special Request rye chips is not helping lol but OMG they are so good. Essentially, you know the random bread chips they have in bags of Chex Mix and how they're the best things in the bag and oh yeah, they're only like five of them in the bag? yeah these are an ENTIRE BAG of just those and they are DELICIOUS. I curse my husband for finding those, lol.
And now for something completely different: if you haven't seen Into the Woods yet, dear fates. "Agony" just by itself is worth the price of admission and I'm still thinking about it and giggling maniacally. But the rest of it was breathtaking, the cuts were understandable (and not much missed) and overall it was just fan-fucking-tastic. I also can't say enough good things about the two kids that played Little Red and Jack, they nailed it. Want to see it, like 9 more times just so I can get that orchestration through theater speakers again.
