Measi's Musings

Archive for December, 2007

- I have listened to John Barrowman’s Another Side quite a few times lately. I absolutely adore his versions of Time After Time, Weekend in New England and Heaven. His version of All Out of Love is quite good, too. (Is it just me, or am I hearing his Scots come through on that? Maybe I’m just too used to Russell Hitchcock’s Aussie…) It’s a fantastic album top to bottom, IMHO.

- Took last night off from all things fanfic once I posted the first half of my fic due yesterday. Needed to for my brain’s sake. Getting back to it today. Once I get the rest of the OT3 fic posted and finish up the pinch hit piece I’m doing for OSK, I’ll be taking a writing break for a while. I have cross stitching that’s screaming at me to get done.

- I really need to get my Christmas cards finished and mailed. At this point, folks MIGHT get them by New Year’s…

- I really need to buy something for my dad & his wife today. *sigh*

- My friends list on LJ amuses me, especially the random threads about sex toys.

- It’s sad that I’m excited that Erich and I are buying a snowblower. But I suppose that’s what you have to look forward to when you’re married and homeowners. Goddess, I’m turning into my parents.

- Speaking of Goddess… two days until Yule. I probably should get on thinking about what I’m doing this year.

Again, most likely with little stitching but a lot of bitching, enjoyment of David Tennant in a tux, and Patriots glory…

Erich and I are fortunate enough to have the NFL Network, so we are hosting a Week 17 party at our house for the Patriots-Giants game on Saturday, December 29th, in hopes that the Pats will be going for the history record – or just to watch a damn good end-of-season game.

In addition before the Pats game, I’ll be lugging the computer downstairs so the geeks among us can enjoy Voyage of the Damned, the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special.

There have been requests for one or both of the following to also happen that day, both of which are possible if we plan correctly.

1) Trip to random Pagan store for “supplies.” If so, I’m suggesting Open Doors in Braintree (where I could come to Braintree and pick whomever up at the end of the red line), and then head back to Providence

2) Trip to actual Cross-stitch store, which is in Walpole, Massachusetts

Details…

Place: Casa del Kruegers, Providence

Time: Come on down whenever you’d like during the day. VotD will be shown TBD upon whomever is planning to come (probably 2-ish). The Pats game is on at 8 p.m.

Who’s Invited: Whomever. Just let me know if you’re coming, if you’re bringing significant others, etc., so we can account for space and chairs.

Folks are welcome to sleep over Saturday night, but be aware that Erich and I will be heading up to New Hampshire on Sunday, so we’ll probably be getting up and out of the house relatively early.

Via friends on LiveJournal…

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper.

2. Real tree or artificial? Real tree. I grew up with an artificial one, so now I’m a stickler for doing the whole tree lot tradition.

3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the second weekend of December

4. When do you take the tree down? Anywhere between Epiphany and my birthday (a five day window)

5. Do you like eggnog? Yes, the soy kind with nutmeg sprinkled on top.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? One year nearly everything I received for Christmas was on a Cabbage Patch theme – and I was in pure bliss because it was during the whole craze. I still have the dolls I received that year.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? No.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Either of my parents – because they always tell me they don’t want anything.

9. Easiest person to buy for? Erich, because he normally has a list that’s easy to find.

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I can’t recall.

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A Christmas Story

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Sometime mid-December when I realize I’m now on a time crunch to get stuff mailed off.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? The huge Polish dinner spread at my grandparents’ on Christmas Eve

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear (although I don’t mind either… just no blinkies!)

17. Favorite Christmas song? Classical – Carol of the Bells
Modern – tossup between “Do They Know It’s Christmas” and “The Closing of the Year”

18. Stay home or travel for Christmas? Stay home

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Yes

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? We put a Santa on the top of ours.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One Christmas Eve, the rest in the morning

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Pushy, pissy people who scream about the “War on Christmas.”

via likethesun

Q: “Was it fun being snogged by Billie Piper?”
David: “It’s always fun being snogged by Billie Piper. How could it fail to be? I used to be in a select club – but now she’s done Secret Diary of a Call Girl, I think every member of Equity has had a go!”

I agree with those who think he’s sounding a bit jealous.

I think I also hear someone in a pinstripe suit being smacked hard in the shoulder by a blonde about my height … from all the way across the Atlantic.