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Hello, everyone:-) It's the holiday weekend. Today, as I type, it's CHristmas Eve; tonight kicks of Hanukkah. In a week, we bid farewell to 2016. (Who else wants to kick 2016 in the a** on its way out? Show of hands?)
Whatever your faith, plans, inclinations, etc., may you have a peaceful, happy weekend, full of love and safety.
Now, I have to go to my parents-in-law, to drop off presents, so we can avoid spending actual Christmas with the in-laws. PIN irked Hubby a little too far. He's boycotting any gathering with *her* until she invites *me* to her (new bigger better) house. Where I dn't want to go anyway.
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Trivia: Police reports of domestic violence don't, in fact, increase that radically at the holdiays. However, the fact people have electric knives to carve turkeys leads to more *severe* incidents.
Trivia: People who have a knife block on their counter are more likely to be stabbed than those of us who keep knives in drawers. Easy access, apparently. So, like, if someone flips out at me in my kitchen,t hey'll whisk me to death.... Or break a wooden spoon on me. Seriously, is that weird to think about, or what? "Gee, what on my counter is a potential lethal weapon". OK, not weird for *me*, but for many people, it is.
Bizarre Tidbit: Firebowls now come as propane fire bowls! Which is.... a giant bowl of propane flames. Which makes it a decorative, non-useful-for-cooking patio grill. Soooo.... Yeah. I have a firebowl for our screened-in porch. I have lots of dead twigs, and hate a half-used tank of propane lurking around. I need a safe way to have fire so Hubby can have his Christmas Eve roasting-on-a-real-fire fantasy (his food is roasting, not Hubby), and the fireplace is in the Flea Zone, and if there's a stink of burned vegan hot dogs, I'd sooner it was outside anyway.
Oh no. Hubby has an early present for me! Gotta go!
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Leo
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Today (August 8) is INternational Cat Day. Don't click away! International DOG day is August 26! Both were created to raise aweareness and funds for the well-being of critters. We have many such dayts, to the pint that every day is like an old Catholic saints' day calendar: Take your pick!I'm home, obvs, and still ill. Left calf and foot not great after a tangle-fall, but i'll live. Just can't...
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I'nm exhausted. This doxycycline thing has ripped me apart and I'm eating crackers and water. I can't take (anything) or eat (anything) except saltines and toast and maybe unbuttered watery mashed potatoes. Are we sure the cure isn't worse than the possible disease?!?!And a week to go. ***Fun cures that WERE worse than the disease:ARsenic. Popular against STDs, which just compounded misery...
On that note, this day has mostly been a success because of her. We've been extra, extra in love today. A lot of private moments telling each other how happy and privileged we still feel to have each other in our lives. We often take time for things like that - putting our love and appreciation for each other into words. Come February, it will be six years since we first met, and our six year anniversary is near the end of summer.
We had lunch cheese gourmet with my parents and sister. Not great, but it could have been much worse. Because I grow tired of people quickly, I then excused myself for a while, and later we came back to play Pictionary with them. My mother slipped up and said she wanted to team my partner and myself against "the real [Last Names]." I mean that she called herself, my father and my sister the "real" family. "I was thinking the real [Last Names] against..." And then silence as her head caught up to the wine running her mouth. Yes, I know I'm quite different from all the rest of you, but some subtlety is nice.
I got what I asked for in the Secret Santa pool. Now I have a little, water resistant shower speaker that I can sync to my phone with bluetooth. It will make showering more enjoyable when I can distract myself from the energy that showering drains.
Hope everyone had some merriment today!