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12884. Ms. No - 12/23/2004 11:43:37 PM Ooh, good stuff, Jude. I've got streaming Radio Paradise going. That's my preferred work listening. 12885. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 12:43:46 AM Bob LOVES Sirius. He doesn't even watch tv, except for Seinfeld reruns. 12886. PsychProf - 12/24/2004 1:34:46 AM Arky...Good choice of TV...Happy Festivus to Bob. Buy him the recently offered DVD's. 12887. Ronski - 12/24/2004 4:25:17 AM arky,
Are you in the part of the state that got snow? 12888. angel-five - 12/24/2004 5:44:33 AM I managed to completely sucker my GF into wrapping all the presents this year (all but two, which were necessary to convince her that she should do the rest).
I love this time of year! 12889. angel-five - 12/24/2004 5:47:39 AM To be honest, she does do a marginally better job than me, and is much quicker at it. But you know how these things are, the key to success in a relationship is to get other people to do the work while you relax on the couch and verbally assist them.
12890. woden - 12/24/2004 5:51:51 AM Yes, we know that trick, when you don't feel like doing something around the house, offer to do it once, and execute the task with the skill of a palsied baboon.
It was worth it to see the look on your face when you said "do you want me to wrap these for a while" and I said "yes, as a matter of fact I do."
12891. woden - 12/24/2004 5:52:41 AM P.S.: Gold and metallic blue and silver and christmas tree paper don't match. 12892. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:35:59 AM Thanks Prof! I put the bug in Mose's ear to get those for her dad. Guess we'll see Christmas day if she took my suggestion. If not, my parents gave us some Christmas cash so hopefully we can find them next week. Don't know if you heard, but my parents won a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Never having ridden one there was no way they were keeping it, and they finally sold it a few weeks ago so they felt like having a green Christmas. Easier for them, and we appreciated it. 12893. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:37:32 AM Hey Ronski!
We got 1/2 inch, maybe and it's still really icy. Supposedly it was quite a bit more north of us. Little Rock got hit pretty good, I think. They said 4-6 inches in parts of the state, which is a lot for us. 12894. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:40:32 AM My tactic wrt wrapping presents is to start out doing such a crappy job that someone--usually Mose--grabs the project right out of my hands in disgust and finishes it.
This year we exchanged presents at my parents this evening because it was the only time we would see my niece, whose birthday is today. So I was going to be smart and put everything in a Christmas bag and just hand stuff out of the bag. Typical my luck and Wal-Mart crap, the bag busts out just as I get upstairs in their house with it.
12895. woden - 12/24/2004 5:22:53 PM One thing that A-5 would not want to get out is that yesterday, while he was home with a low-grade fever, he cleaned the house, did a whole lot of laundry, went shopping nad prepared a delicious dinner.
We're not spending the holiday together. A-5 wants to be home with his Dad, who might be having a hard time this particular holiday. I feel obligated to see my family since I didn't see them on Thanksgiving.
We're going to have our own celebration next weekend, and have already googled the most humane method of killing lobsters. 12896. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:51:08 PM I've discovered after 23 years of bliss, 21 of them married, that it all tends to work out in the wash.
The upcoming weekend sounds nice. We were going to have a handful of friends over next weekend for New Year's Eve, but we're both just tired, so we'll probably ring it in by ourselves, which I always enjoy anyway.
That reminds me, last year I did the stupidest thing. We had no plans, but I saw a friend of ours in Wal-Mart and made a sarcastic joke about the tons of people we were having over for New Year's Eve. I didn't think any more about it. I never thought that I, of all people, didn't clearly convey sarcasm.
9:00 that night--just Bob and me--and the doorbell rings.
I have no idea what they must have thought--probably that we had a really major flop of a party. I never mentioned that I had been joking or said another word about it. 12897. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:51:46 PM I'm sure, too, that they figured it was no surprise that the party was a flop, seeing that we had no food, no decorations, and hardly any alcohol. 12898. Magoseph - 12/24/2004 7:14:29 PM Well, have you, everyone of you, finished now what you were supposed to do for the rest of the year? I mean, are you ready for the holidays? 12899. Magoseph - 12/24/2004 7:18:33 PM As far as we're concerned here, we are spending Christmas' Eve and Christmas' day together at home. 12900. judithathome - 12/24/2004 7:58:20 PM Hey, that sounds like a great idea...it's what we're doing, too! 12901. PsychProf - 12/24/2004 8:45:26 PM Tonite we spend with my youngest son and his wife, then off to Florida. My oldest son and his babe are in NC with her family. Merry Cristmas to all my old friends here...I started with the Fray in Dec of 1996...so I guess that is 8 years...fine cyberyears. I wish you all happiness, and good health...thanks for your frienship, and listening to me rant, providing so many new experiences, and insight into your lives.
Prof 12902. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 8:55:43 PM You're a dear, PP, and we love you.
I didn't realize you started so close to when I did. A lot of us came in around that time, it seems.
Have a very safe and fun holiday. 12903. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 8:57:22 PM Mags, once I got my paper done 4:30 AM Wednesday and sent it to be edited my holiday started. We may not do Bob's family's holiday until after Christmas because Little Rock is so icy that part of the fam still can't get out of their driveways.
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