User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-23 16:34
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Today I ran the errands I meant to run Friday, and only the west portion of them. I took my color ink cartridge in to refill, cashed my xmas check, got gas in the car, bought a lottery ticket, paid a bill (at a mall no less.. shudder), stopped at Waj and got some pummelos and the Year of the Tiger calenders for my sister, stopped at Office Depot to get ledger sheets, Borders to get a book, Btown Powells to pick up my copy of Mansfield Park and Mummies, then back to OC and pick up the ink cartridge, the grocery store and McD's. To finish it off, went by my sisters and her new phone books havent shown up yet, but I did pick up her mail.

I am home, and now its time to read the paper and just veg. No leaving the house til sunday by my clock. Yeah team.

	User:	sm101
	Date:	2009-12-23 15:36
	Subject:	Ferry Riding Time!!!
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This Sat. Join me at the Edmonds ferry terminal. Ferry leaves at 1:30p (this gives peeps time to wake up and get there). Come one, come all. The more the merrier. Adults are $6.90, Kids (6-18) are $5.55 Whootness!

	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-23 11:12
	Subject:	Herself
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I got a lovely note from Herself this morning, she is back home from the physical rehab nursing home and happy to be in her own house again.

This is the best present EVER! Now, I need to get some flowers sent to Ireland.

	User:	misskalloway
	Date:	2009-12-23 11:17
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	User:	comment_fic (posted by atomic89)
	Date:	2009-12-23 09:35
	Subject:	Wednesday - Time
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	Date:	2009-12-22 23:07
	Subject:	The moment you have been waiting for...
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	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-22 15:50
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other than thinking today is the 16th of Dec and tomorrow is Xmas Eve, I am just fine.. yup.. no problems here.

I have decided that my xmas cards will be in time for the Greek Orthodox Xmas date.

	User:	abe_kroenen
	Date:	2009-12-22 09:18
	Subject:	Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Three: "What are the Odds?"
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	User:	comment_fic (posted by atomic89)
	Date:	2009-12-22 10:55
	Subject:	Tuesday - Solo
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	User:	practicallyfame
	Date:	2009-12-22 02:24
	Subject:	Cuteness
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My roommate just checked the mail from Monday and I had mail -

( little kid handwriting squeeee! )

	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-21 20:38
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so, today its been noodling about in the mess that is my office, picking up and shelving books as it were, mostly playing with books... but, there is carpet in places. And books in order here and there.

	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-21 16:52
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spent some time today talking to my Wicked Evil Stepmommy about yesterday, she is always good about that.

	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-21 14:08
	Subject:	Solstice
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yeah, now the days will be getting longer.

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	Date:	2009-12-21 11:08
	Subject:	Monday: Mistakes
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	User:	practicallyfame
	Date:	2009-12-21 01:39
	Subject:	Ah updates
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	Music:	Rabbits Running

My Yule cards are being sent out Monday. Yeah, you might get yours late. I don't care. It was an awful lot of paper cranes to fold, yo.

Well, we got our "blizzard". About 9 inches here in Boston, and damn it's cold.

Solstice is upon us - I have Monday off of work. I'm planning on doing the last of my Christmas present preparing. I have 3 or 4 gifts for each member of my family. Everything's fairly small - CDs, DVDs, books... but it will be nice to give and to get.

In case was curious about my distinctions:
-Christmas, to this non-Christian, is entirely about presents and family. Giving them to family. The perk of giving them? Often getting them.
-Solstice is about the longest night of the year, the tradition of calling the sun back to warm us, and rejoicing in its return.
-Yule is my word for Christmas and for Solstice, and I interchange it with either frequently.
-There is no significant logic to this, it's just how I use the terms.

Pie is a college graduate, I'm proud. I love him, so much.

Work has been excessively slow. I am saddened, as my paycheck is about 1/3 commission.

Brittany Murphy died. She was only 32. I liked a few of her movies, and this makes me a little sad (not "OMGMICHAELJACKSONDIED" sad, but sad), firstly for her family & her husband but also because she was talented and beautiful and I was looking forward to being entertained by her shining personality for many years in many movies to come.

Somehow this has reminded me - if I were to die unexpectedly, someone please make sure that Lars and Kat get all of my notebooks & diaries and all that - and let them go through and find the good stuff I wrote, the fun stuff, the passionate stuff, the rhyming stuff, and post it on the damn internet or publish it in a book for all to see. Even the embarrassing stuff - preferably the endearing embarrassing stuff. Remember - this is only AFTER I die. K, thanks.

I've been to some amazing little get-togethers lately that make me so appreciative of my community of friends. My friends are freakin' awesome.

This picture was taken at noon on Sunday (at my bus stop). The storm well upon us.



Another update coming soon, I promise.

	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-20 21:41
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today was the holiday meal over at my brothers house, we do one entirely separate event with His Mother as it is, she is so unpleasant and disregarding of anyone who isnt her. She was totally offended that I gave her the 800+ pictures of our China trip on CD because she didnt know why I would do that. Or how to look at them on her computer. You would have thought I gave her a pile of steaming crap from the look on her face.

Gave my brother a chinese liqure, my sister in law the jewelry I got her in China, the nephew got a visual Russian dictonary and crybaby gum, the niece got a Harry Potter coloring book with eraseable crayons (she is in grad school, she needs something fun) a bunch of postits for her job and school and her own stash of the crybaby gum. With the appropriate tacky xmas cards for each person.

They liked their gifts, my niece was thrilled with the eraseable crayons.

We ended the evening by jumpstarting Mothers car because it didnt get parked right and ran the battery down. My brother and I did that together and no one got hurt.. grin.

Today was also the anniversary of my niece's kidney transplant.

	User:	misskalloway
	Date:	2009-12-20 20:11
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	User:	comment_fic (posted by havenward)
	Date:	2009-12-20 12:21
	Subject:	Sunday: Lonely Prompts
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	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-20 02:04
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A friend from high school called me today to let me know one of our classmates died. He was only 9 months older than me, and one of the people I actually liked from school. I pulled up his obit to get his Mom's name so I can send her a card, and discovered his younger brother had died back in '02, totally missed that. Their Mom is a very cool lady, and she came up to me at my Dad's funeral in '99 and told me again why she liked my Dad (long story) .. its the least I can do is send a card. So far she has lost 3 of her 5 kids and buried at least one husband. Not an easy life.

	User:	martianmooncrab
	Date:	2009-12-19 22:41
	Subject:	Day of the Triffids
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a friend sent me this trailer


http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/12/triffid_day_looks_like_the_best_day_ever.php