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Marcie, the Christmas Iguana.
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8041 – Merry Christmas.
Bro called from his weekly place Boynton.. apparently his friend / resource in points North is in jail on a probation violation, so he won’t be moving there now. He asked for my address to write me and was wondering if there is a place there that he could visit. I didn’t have my local addy handy for him to write to me, but I gave him my work addy… but I did point out to him that he could hang out on my screen porch. There was some sort of domestic dispute taking place outside his place that bled over into the phone. He’s looking for a new weekly rental, because he’s not happy there. He mentioned a girlfriend hanging with him and playing god of war on the playstation. (note this was before his 2am wakeup mentioned the entry prior)
Holiday meme –
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate wins over holiday pancake batter, any day.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Elves wrap, Santa Sets ’em out.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
I prefer multi-colored, but white is nice too.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Sometimes. I haven’t this year.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
Dec 1, usually, but I’ve been neglectful. Just a few candles and cards out.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Traditional morning english-muffin pizzas.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
I don’t have many big Christmas memories as a kid, just a general sense of good cheer, sweet food, time off from school, fun tv and toys. Church was pretty cool, too. No specific incident comes to mind.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
What do you mean? The fact that he works out of Lapland *and* the North Pole? I saw a documentary about finland as a kid that mentioned Santa’s 2nd hangout.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
One at Midnight, or right before bed, depending. not the “big gift” though.
10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
Santa likes sugar cookies, rice milk, and the reindeer get carrots.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love to see it, but rarely do down here in heat-miserville.
12. Can you ice skate?
I used to play hockey all the time, but haven’t skated in years. I suspect it would come back to me pretty quickly.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I liked the model of the goodyear blimp. It had a motorized revolving drum on the inside on which you could create “lighted” messages. (circa 1975)
14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
People actually trying to be nicer to one another.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
I’m easy.. hook me up with christmas cookies and brownies, and I’m your boy. Coffee is nice alongside.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Spreading love
17. What tops your tree?
Usually a star, but sometimes an angel. (Note, my traditions put the tree up on dec 24, and take it down on 12th night, jan 6)
18. Which do you prefer, Giving or receiving?
I enjoy giving more, though I certainly like to get prezzies, too.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
O Tannenbaum
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum!
1 year ago – Westley Willis Christmas, Danny at mangos pic, pirates, games, sci-fi babe pulp covers, Mel is a family-ferry
2 years ago – Katt thinks a smiley looks like Doug, merry merry, testing streaming, green bean casserole
3 years ago – Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas, edbook is awesome, nation states
4 years ago – mistletoe, silly games, apartment dream, Reading The Anubis Gates
5 years ago – Booby talk, coming games
8040 – Bro
Bro woke me at 2am on Christmas morning by calling me on the phone and asking me to look up some woman on the police blotters for Broward and palm beach counties. He claimed that they were going to hit midnight mass and she doesn’t have a phone. She supposedly has outstanding warrants, but I didn’t see any. When I told him that he was calling and waking me up at 2 f’ing in the morning, he barely apologized. I told him to call the police the next time he wanted to do a criminal search, or at least wait until a civil hour to ring me for a non-emergency.
Someone remind me to kick his keister when I wake back up.
8039 – Christmas Cards!
Lovely! I got Christmas Cards from tempestmir, eryx_uk, bubbles3563, and Danny!
Thank you!
Curiosity – Do boys still ask for red wagons, scooters, chemistry sets, lincoln logs and boy scout knives? Is it all consumer electronics now?
Woo! Looks like the Kong Hands got an upgrade!
8038 – hm. Christmas eve, is it?
Captain Cabinets
Trapped in cabinets
can he get out?
will he get out?
‘course he will!
Newt has the uncanny ability to get into the cupboard. I usually don’t have to help him to escape.
Loot gained from co-workers. Cologne, a McDonald’s Gift card, a hip flask and a sky blue t-shirt.
8035 – Check it out now, funk soul brother
Half day today, out at noon. That’ll give me time to pick up something for the momster and wilt.
Get together with kev yesterday was postponed to another day by the server going down. I hope to catch up with him over the weekend, sometime.
Best photos of 2005 – Reuters showcase
A Christmas Grow (not as detailed as the others, but still some nifty variations)
Dan’s off with his Mrs. to Connecticut today… visiting his sis and family up there. Janet actually reads my lj once in a while, now… just sent me a holiday greeting in “mouse singing” entry.
Foamy on Christmas. (language warning, rerun from last year, but still jim-dandy.)
mp3 of my current music mashup – via
Check out – Gwen vs. Queen – Holla Back Queen (Fidelski’s Remix), too. Smooth blend!
1 year ago – LD sees the b’s open for cher, nifty poll answers, homeless woods, mel gets very serious, social security, exploding zamboni
2 years ago – Green Guys, Racists, Sea monkeys and my Sweetheart, cs annoyances, FFXI, there
3 years ago – read to me, super glue, grief-stricken squirrel, mistletoe
4 years ago – old English Rudolph, looking at the sky, 9 of wands, aunt jemima creepy, sealab 2021
5 years ago – not french-canadian, angry beavers, a deal link I can’t remember, cookie mah jongg, and an oliveresque welcome, bluebeard
8032 – Cool Yule Day of Winter2!
Newt is a master of stealth. I’ll call him a fuzzy little shadow-slicer.
Kev’s coming by after work today to see the place, kick Newtie-bear around, exchange prezzies, and hang about.
Blackbird’s head on a raven’s torso. It’s subtle.
Newton’s got eyes like two slitted, amber fists when focused on stalking the crinkly stuffed flea of doom.
He sings…
I’m bad ju-ju,
I use voodoo if I choose to,
I’ll harness the powers of evil to abuse you!
which reminds me… The mighty Boosh strikes again!
The Tundra rap:
Whiteness,
Nothingness,
Endlessness
Death
The whiteness of the whale
Pales in comparison
Oh my god!
Who the hell are you?
I’m little Johnny Frostbite moving around
Freezin’ you up freezing you down
Like an icicle
Comin’ in your tent like a cold night scissor bite
Arctic death
Infinite night
They call me tundra boy because
I move like an arctic lizard
When the Blizzard strikes
I disappear like a pipe dream
All that’s left is the gleam
On the tent peg
Boosh, Boosh, Stronger than a moose
Don’t lock your doors or we’ll come through your roof top
Stop look around take your mind off the floor
Because The Boosh is loose and we’re a little bit RAW!
Ice, floe, nowhere to go
Ice floe, nowhere to go
Lost in the blinding whiteness of the tundraaaaaaa!
1 year ago – Mel’s prezzies, Jill good / ADP sucks (both are long gone), tell me meme, No Godzilla, Bush / Scalia / Thomas
2 years ago – RotK w/Dan, 51 successes, gabbed with sedef, Atom feeds
3 years ago – cravings, adoration, sinanju
4 years ago – stray fugitive lotr thoughts, my fondness for orange/yellow foods, rejection letter, where there’s a whip, there’s a way
5 years ago – cards, filters added
8029 – pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
The Monarch, with Henchmen 21 & 24 performing the Dolly Parton classic, Hard Candy Christmas
Just a warning. It’s almost as unbearable as it is FANTASTIC.
Or perhaps you’d rather listen to last year’s gift of Dr Girlfriend and the Monarch performing a sketch, then singing Little Drummer Boy
8028 – Good evening and welcome to Club Numbarharg ee-no
I think I like the Mighty Boosh radio program even more than the TV show. More groovy music, and imagination is an insane sort of special effect factory.
Oh witchcraft. What voodoo rage is this? The black milk, the wet jigsaw puzzle!
random scotto factoid: I prefer the term “noggin” over any other that refers to a person’s cabeza.
Moment of Lyric: mp3
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day in the morning.
And what was in those ships all three?
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And what was in those ships all three?
On Christmas day in the morning.
Our Saviour, Christ, and His Lady,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
Our Saviour, Christ, and His Lady,
On Christmas day in the morning.
Pray, whither sailed those ships all three?
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
Pray, whither sailed those ships all three?
On Christmas day in the morning.
O, they sailed to Bethlehem,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
O, they sailed to Bethlehem,
On Christmas day in the morning.
And all the bells on earth shall ring,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And all the bells on earth shall ring,
On Christmas day in the morning.
And all the angels in heaven shall sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And all the angels in heaven shall sing,
On Christmas day in the morning.
And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas day in the morning.
Then let us all rejoice and sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day
Then let us all rejoice and sing,
On Christmas day in the morning.
1 year ago – Mel, swan, count & contessa, bk holiday song, abandoned hospital, scared of santa, octo vs mcd’s, net-perv sting,
2 years ago – geourl syndication, desperado with monkeys, narnia
3 years ago – surreal gourmet, amazon links, a/c dies
4 years ago – last minute shopping, blah day
5 years ago – crushing, slowness
8026 – Egads. Only 5 days left?
Sampled a local Chinese food place after work last night. Very tasty, and they do general tso’s tofu.
I remember winning a full set of shadowrun stuff at a gaming convention years ago. Funny thing was that I never really played shadowrun after that.
Day 44. time eroding my sanity. wearing me down. It’s said that the video card should be installed today. I’ll believe it when I see it. Oh the melodrama!
Go build your own South Florida snowman over at the Sun-Sentinel.
Maple syrup on coffee ice cream.
Potato chips on vanilla
French fries dipped in chocolate shakes.
Man, what *won’t* people on my reading list eat? (well, a fourth won’t put pineapple on a pizza.), also a fourth of respondents were male. only looks like a correlation, in actuality, 5 of the 8 pineapple-haters were women, so it doesn’t seem to follow my theory of gender bias.
Also, I didn’t realize that 4 out of 5 poll-answerers would be women! I wonder if ladies are more likely to reply to a poll than men, or if it’s just LJ’s skewing more ot the female population?
Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Wheat Thins are yummy, but not healthy at all. Tasty, pizza-ish chips.
1 year ago – I lift mel w/one hand, video hits, anagram santas workshop, john dee’s crystal ball stolen, christmas meme, baby theft
2 years ago – considering an upgrade, Nigerian magic is weak vs bullets
3 years ago – Ft. Laud facts, Antarctic Life, Muslim Roundup, Bro at his worst finds a stray cat, make a supervillian desktop
4 years ago – Bodyboarding on lava, McMummies, xp patch
5 years ago – Restless, Special Olympics cheaters, wondering about where my parts were pre-me, palm reading
8022 – Come with me now on a journey through time and space!
Got a wonderful hand-made card from ilenebook featuring an adorable rodent playing with berries in a Christmas sort of way.Thank you!
Went to the condo’s Christmas party last night…Not many of the young people attended, but it was nice to socialize with some of the building-folk when they’re not arguing about rules and bylaws. I got off easy on the food aspect, as I brought dinner rolls and such. They had a lot of veggie alternatives to munch on, and it was tasty.
Moment of lyric:
Calm a llama down
Calm a llama deep down
In the ocean blue
Like a barnacle
Sitting in the tight place
Laughing at the monkey arm
Pulling like a china boy
Kara-way
Kara-way
Kara-way noise
Boing si ka semala
Boing si ka semala
1 year ago – salty seas, Christmas toy, year in review, celebrex, anime fans, con folk,
2 years ago – trade invites for play $$, dreams
3 years ago – How to attain old age, got my epidural.
4 years ago – Crime & Punishment, heterodox, evil news, HP question, pooter poop, bagpipe, egoboo, giant bee.
5 years ago – met tarpo and isis, LJ sea Chantey, AOK-ing, Christmas Blues
8011 – It just occurred to me…
Does Santa punish bad or unskilled elves by making them mine for coal?
Or worse… does he punish insurgents by turning them into heating fuel?
8010 –
Yesterday was Monkey day *and* Kong opened. I missed both. Ook. Ook. I Don’t think there were any gorillas in the Narnia movie. Curious.
LJ comments are still taking their sweet time to get to me. I think most of the old ones have made it, but some current ones are still suffering logjam, it seems.
Still no big computer or DSL… what the heck?! C’mon, folks! *whine whine* I should count my blessings.. world hunger, evil dictators and quadriplegics… and I want to play video games. Tsk, Scotto.
Moment of Lyric mp3 Instrumental.
Mmm. Jazzy. Also the epitome of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
1 year ago – Mel & Scotto facts, Gorilla Girl, Monkey Day, Massive Frog eats 3-legged dog, Beatles Christmas Records, 7070, Santa hates damn contemporary, bullshit architecture!, I break Christmas bonuses to ADP
2 years ago – spelling poll, pandas, turtles, and a bed of fresh noodles
3 years ago – keywords, Newt likes Broccoli!, Lauderdale cams, bah on bush, gore and grover Cleveland, mh trim, J-lo nose picker, shoe-doodle
4 years ago – holiday shopping, good advice, winter depression folk
5 years ago – moment of RAW, Santa Claus – geek, holidays, donations
8007 – Humpdy hump, once again.
Spent two hours with the condo commandos last night to get a signature on a form that would otherwise have cost me $100.
I figure I got paid $50 an hour to listen to old folks talk about vodka, strokes and building maintenance. Not a bad deal, really. Entertaining.
Critical Miami gets Dooced before he’s even started work. Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to keep a journal with opinions online… I’m glad his old employer took him back.
Kong opens today… I’lll probably catch it this weekend.
I’ve discovered that I’m more than moderately good at juggling… or I was really in the zone yesterday. Newt really wants to chase beanbags.
Moment of Lyric: mp3
We’re a couple of misfits, we’re a couple of misfits, what’s the matter with misfits, that’s where we fit in
We’re not daffy or dilly, don’t go ’round willy nilly, seems to us kind of silly, that we don’t fit in
We may be diiferent from the rest, who decides the test of what is really best
We’re a couple of misfits, we’re a couple of misfits, what’s the matter with misfits, that’s where we fit in!
1 year ago – cravings, pondering atmospheres, vocabulary words, adp ROYALLY screws up, ocular chili, its a wonderful life by bunnies, Mexican tomb of DEATH
2 years ago – Saddam captured, collective nouns, feral children, pod thoughts, tic tacs, and chores done
3 years ago – Lottery-coworker thoughts, Deathrace 2000, my favorite Chang Tzu quote, witch cow, mistaken identity, haiku
4 years ago – pumpernickel, Newt on my long-lost chair, moment of weirdness, wacky news, what we did before toilet paper, coprolite
5 years ago – sickies, FIGHT! game, Rhyme-time
7998 – Just another Manic Mondayyyyy…
Went on a long walkabout yesterday… down Hillsboro to the beach, and then around to the Deerfield mall out on Powerline to see the Narnia movie and get $3.99 all you can eat buffet pizza at Cici’s. Shared a table with a Jamacian lady on “holiday” in the states – I put holiday in quotes, because she was working her vaykay in a child care center. I dug Narnia… the Christian allegory was there, but it wasn’t so heavy handed as to annoy any but folks that got offended at Tron or E.T. for the same stuff are going to bark louder over this.
That said, I quite enjoyed Narnia. The kids chosen to play were well-picked, and Edmund would make an excellent “Kid Miracleman” should someone decide to kick Alan Moore in the ribs and squeeze out the rights to make a movie. I quite enjoyed the CGI, which was smooth and believable despite what I’d heard earlier. I wonder how people that are unfamiliar with the books will do with the talking animals and other remarkable characters in the movie? Some might say it makes for a younger audience, but there are some grim parts that a little kid might not fare so well with, especially in regards to Aslan. (it is bloodless, but still strong content) I might’ve picked another person than Tilda Swinton to play the White Witch in the film, despite the fact that she did a fine job, I kept seeing the Borg Queen (even though Alice Krige is a totally different actress). The movie is as loyal to the story as I remember it (hasn’t been read for years… possibly/probably a decade or more.)
If I had a kid, I’d certainly take ’em to see it over any Harry Potter flick. I may look for the Narnia stuff as Audiobooks.. I suspect that it’ll transfer to listening-stuff better than Lord of the Rings.
Walkabout stats – 12.2 miles, burned 3034 calories. Good thing, considering that I scarfed down a pile o’pizza at Cici’s. I’m glad there isn’t one closer to work, or I’d be in diet danger.
Nose is a little sunburned from being out and about all day. Adds to the “Santa Look”.
Hm. That brings up a question.
I’d heard yesterday that 61% of folks in the USA wear corrective lenses. Can that be true? More than not?