Warm buttered gingerbread is amazing.
Apparently some people think they’re being oppressed if anyone, anywhere, ever, ever intimates that there might be a celebration other than Christmas going on in December.
Io, Saturnalia, I say!
I’ve been hiding my fixes so I don’t look despressed:
http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2010/04/chocolate_blues.html
Not that I don’t enjoy your posts, but are you filling in for Shot From Guns today, or something? 
My boyfriend made gingerbread cookies for Thanksgiving. Really, they were more like gingerbread slabs: big, thick squares with homemade royal icing. Mmmmmmmmmmmn. So fucking good.
I’m like a fungus! Or possibly a virus. A vingus?
Not in a million years*,
but I felt too many posters were not getting any replies. I know I love a reply, so I felt they deserved one, also. Hey, it’s the season.
I did learn something today, I have always heard them called “white elephant exchanges” thus “Yankee swaps” is a new term.
*Note the lack of nested quotes, etc. Geez, dude.
Dear ebay morons: if you’re wondering why your Canon cameras aren’t selling, it’s because you’re priced above retail. McFly: anybody home? :rolleyes:
I’ve been disappointed in grocery store fruitcake these past few years. Find a bakery and get fruitcake from there.
Also, I love gingerbread, but it doesn’t love me…ginger is apparently yet another trigger for my IBS.
Wow, IKEA Woodbridge, could you guys have been any LESS prepared for the Julbord event tonight? When you’re charging $10 a person, it would be nice to have something to serve them besides meatballs and some dessert stuff. Well, to be fair, you did have other offerings but they ran out by 5:30. Having only three small buffet tables with about a foot between them really gave the proceedings that delightful cattle trough feel. And way to go for providing nothing but glasses to pour the steaming hot glögg into. My fingertips are still throbbing three hours later.
I hope this was your first time putting on the Julbord and that you learned a few good lessons on how NOT to do it for next year. Not that I’ll be there to find out. Idioter!
It is twenty-fucking-three degrees out. Why are the vast majority of the coats at the mall lightweight? Some of the signage even says that they’re lightweight. It’s only going to get colder, so why the hell aren’t they selling coats that would actually be useful for the season? I think I’m going to have to drive to LL Bean to actually find a weather-appropriate coat. Dammit.
Oh silly elf! Clothing stores don’t sell clothing for the CURRENT season, they sell clothing for NEXT season! You’re supposed to buy bathing suits in February or March, and you should purchase your heavy winter coat in September. Possibly August. Or at least that’s what the buyers think. They do this so that they can move as much merchandise out this year. The stores don’t want to have to hold clearance sales, and then pack and store clothes, because this year’s fashions almost certainly won’t sell next year.
I wrap up in layers. I have one quite large cloak/ruana, and I usually wear a sweater vest and/or some shawls under it. However, I live in Texas, with only occasional winter forays to colder climates. But you might seriously consider adding a couple of layers on top of whatever you’ve got now.
Except the coats in the stores right now are the same ones that have been in stores since September. Apparently stores believe we’re in for a mild winter, since they haven’t stocked any heavy coats since 2009.
I paid $7 for a very nice pair of pantyhose for Jim’s staff Christmas party yesterday - I think you all know how this rant goes - didn’t even make it out of the BEDROOM before they had a run in them. In other news, my dress looked quite nice, though.
OK, MSNCB, if you keep playing that stupid coffee maker as every other commercial (and I don’t exaggerate) I’m going to turn you off for good. Do you really think that is going to prompt someone to buy that fucking thing?
If the “white Elephant” gift exchange says $20.00 gift-do not go to the dollar store and buy 2 pieces of cheap crap. It is not funny to get that gift and know that you are stuck with it because nobody would think of “stealing” it.
We did that last night, too, and oh yeah, I’m with you on that. It seems like every time we participate in one of these, we shop carefully and bring cool gifts (a kilogram of milk chocolate and a nice hand and foot cream kit this year) and come home with some real crap. We’re planning to re-gift the Shania Twain perfume that my husband got as a gift this year (surprisingly enough, no one lifted it from him). There were a couple of gifts that we (thank God) didn’t get stuck with that were exactly as you said - some socks, some cheap dollar store games, etc. You’ve got me wondering why we participate in them - if I want a handful of cheap socks, I know where to find them.
Old family secret: clear nailpolish will stop a run. (Technically, any color works, but clear is the least obtrusive, especially if you didn’t catch the run before it left your shoe or skirt.)
I forgot about that - I might have been able to catch the run, because it was still right at my heel. Oh well.
Yes, I learned the hard way that while red nail polish is equally effective at stopping the run, it also looks like you bled all over yourself. Se-xay.
Well, at least you could tell people your hose got torn in a knife fight.