Shower visitation
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Nothing in particular
I peeped out the shaving mirror (which I obviously don't use) in the shower today while taking a quick soak in the hot water, and I noticed that there was a rather mutated looking yin-and-yang sign on it. It wasn't much bigger than a thumbprint, and it wasn't clearly defined, but I could see the 2 halves and the dots within them.

I looked all over the mirror for other nifty signs, but the only thing I could find was a typo'd spelling of my name. Silly presences, my name is not that hard to spell.

Not that this means I'm going to be all Buddhist now and start charging people in orange robes cash to come and ooh-ahh at my bathroom. I just thought it was neat.

The holiday thing
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Life in Texas
It started out as holiday hell.

See, originally I was perfectly happy to host turkey day here at home with the assumption that we would be able to haul our happy asses down to Lamesa and do the xmas thing down there. I wanted to take it easy, keep the decoration thing to a minimum, and actually get out of the house for a while. I like it down there - the hubby's ma has a really neat place.

It didn't work out that way. First, I'll repeat a bit that I've already told a handful of people so you can see where I was here. See, normally around a week or so after T-giving some little switch gets flipped internally and I'm all about getting the house cuteyfied for xmas. Tree, garlands, ornaments - the whole deal. It didn't happen this year. I didn't want to wrestle a half-dozen boxes out of the shop, fight with the damn tree to get it upright and not looking like a pile of plastic and wires, and just generally stress about the house looking good.

But we had to host here anyway. I didn't get any say in the matter. It also didn't help that my random urges were insisting on me doing decoupage instead of housework. So big surprise I had to have a few screaming bitch fits at the hubby to let off some steam - maybe one day he'll figure out that being my only human contact out here means he has to deal with my occasional psychotic break from reality.

Where was I? Oh yeah, holiday hell...

I had dinner planned about a week in advance, and was smart enough to get the chile verde recipe from my mom before we went shopping. And said shopping happened on Friday, so very last minute. I also had to get presents situated for shipping out (I believe they arrived by now, but not by xmas) and all that kind of jazz. Didn't do the cookie thing this year because I just didn't have the energy for it. Plus, to make sure xmas was as difficult as possible, I was totally unable to sleep Friday night - probably because I didn't have everything done to my satisfaction - so I slept through our guests arriving on Saturday.

And yet, despite all that, xmas was fine. Perfectly grand. I got my wish in that we kept it simple - we hit the chinese joint in town for xmas eve dinner, just a couple gifts to distribute on the actual day, and we played chicken foot until everyone was ready to go. Nobody even noticed that the house looked like hell, and everyone seemed perfectly fine with the presents coming out of a decorated wash tub instead of from under a fake tree.

So now I have another mess to clean up, but no real urgency to do get that done. I have only 1 box of decorations to put away. I have a nice pile of cash to buy my own presents with (because I'm a picky little bastard and hard to shop for). And I have a lot of blessings in my life to be happy about.

Plans for new years? Not a one. Chances are the hubby and I will watch some ball drop on tv, maybe get a little drinky buzz going, and I'll stay up all night being cold and doing basically what I'm doing right now.

Happy Holidays y'all.

But first, the quiz mania!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Various webshit
I have a few things to post here, but I haven't yet gotten them quite organized in my head. So I'm cheating and throwing down some quizzes. But this time, to be quirky and fun (riiiiight) I'll actually add something in the way of commentary.

So here goes - quiz mania!

What knife?
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Various webshit

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy

In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh. You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum. Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho

Luvs the Hubby
Mood:  crushed out
Topic: Life in Texas
So we get this so lovely solid freeze here for 2 days straight. I peeped out the back door around noon on the 1st day and the cat trough was still a solid block.

Normally this would be total dread - me bundling up, finding gloves (hopefully), and hauling my ass out to break ice on the cattle tank. Except me and the Hubby had already rolled a sheep tank under the no freeze spigot we had put in some time back. Now I just gotta trek a ways out and turn on the tap. Aw yeah, much better.

Now the only heavy labor is scooping cotton seed for the critters. Well, that and the treadmill.

Lag
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Nothing in particular
A month already? Eeesh.

The holidays have taken over my life for 2 holidays. And of course I am procrastinating my ass off on the impending xmasage.

Can't imagine why...

DOOM-A-LAY got her like Inuyasha got Kagome
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Brain candy
So get this, the bro-in-law hit a windfall at the tables and send the hubby some cashage for his tax bill. Along with all that he slips in an extra c-note for yours truly with instructions to take the hubby out on a dinner date and to blow the remains at the store of my choosing.

So today was date day, and let me tell you it was all good. Double good, indeed, because my purchase of choice was the Danger Doom album that [as] has been pimping the fuck out of for weeks now. The Mouse and the Mask is fucking awesome. Listened to it all the way home and laughed more than once. The beats are tight, the bass is bumpin' - all I can say to get across how excellent this chunk of music is, is this:

YEEEEEEEAAAAAH!

It rocks, yo!

Candy peddler
Mood:  party time!
Topic: Life in Texas
This would have been posted earlier if the hubby's cam-phone-thingy was nice and liked to cooperate. But no, it's evil and should be spanked.

Anyway, had a nice time freaking kids out and making them do tricks for candy. Okay, only one trick, and a lame one at that - "Say trick or treat." I literally had at least 5 kids totally speechless when they saw me.

Pics inside, if you dare...

No I am not procrastinating
Mood:  cool
Topic: Various webshit

Your Brain's Pattern

Your mind is an incubator for good ideas, it just takes a while for them to develop. But when you think of something, watch out! Your thoughts tend to be huge, and they come on quickly - like an explosion. You tend to be quiet around others, unless you're inspired by your next big idea.

Sweet little babies
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Nothing in particular
Oh look, isn't this just so precious?

More adorable preciousness inside...