This is my life and musings and whatever else I decide to write about in a day.
Pure Imitation Maranie
Thursday, December 27, 2001
Just reread the previous post. God I'm an idiot. :-)posted by Maranie on 12/27/2001 10:34:00 PM
OK, so Blogger is back up. This is good. But I'm kinda bummed that it wasn't up last night. I had the entire thing planned out what I was going to say.
I was going to apologize to those who'd had to deal with me directly before, during, and directly after Christmas, as I was in a mood that would not leave. It'd hide and reappear again, and was quite frustrating to say the least.
Then I was going to bitch some more, but it was going to be insightful, witty, funny, or all of the above. Somehow it was going to involve my thinking that "Danke Shoen" was sung by a woman until about 2 years ago. But I forgot the entire rant. So, fuck it now.
One thing I was going to bitch about was the fact that Chip could be in Columbus, visiting with me and Jason, this weekend. But we are going to see Jason's family in Marietta and have planned to do so for some time now. But see, even that's not something I want to bitch over because I am looking forward to the visit, and I can go bug Chip up in Toledo sometime next month.
So all in all, everything's cool now. Plus I got new clothes last night - yay! *happy squeal* Sorry, I'm a girl. Has to be done. I got a skirt that looks cute, and the coolest charcoal grey slacks ever made, and a sweater that makes me look thinner and shows off my boobs without looking slutty. Actually, two sweaters - got it in black and periwinkle. Plus a purple sweater that's incredibly soft and comfortable. All that and I still have $74.62 left on my gift card. Life is good. :-)
posted by Maranie on 12/27/2001 10:32:00 PM
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
OK, so Christmas is, for all intensive purposes, over. TNT has stopped the 24-hour loop of "A Christmas Story" and so another holiday passes.Here's the bounty I'm all excited about, in no particular order:
- New jeans
- Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas on DVD
- The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett, illustrated
- A couple Powerpuff Girls DVD's
- Two Alice in Wonderland dolls with their Chesire Cats (one Disney, the other American McGee. Nice compare n' contrast there.)
- The California Pop-Up Book (not as childish as it sounds.)
- A retro-design toaster oven, chrome
- Barry Ween 2.0, which was over way too fast (need to read slower....)
- Picture frames
- Black socks (hey, I really needed 'em, OK?)
- Nelly Furtado CD
- Gift certificates for Lerner and Victoria's Secret (the latter of the two already put to good use)
- Cash
And a bunch of other stuff too. Plus Brigitte made quite the yummy dinner today. All in all, a happy holiday. Hope it was for you too. :-)
posted by Maranie on 12/25/2001 07:47:00 PM
Monday, December 24, 2001
So here it is - Christmas Eve. Everyone else is with their families or at some party, drinking nog and god knows what else. People are having a good time, and I'm sitting here on the computer while my hubby finishes the Terry Pratchett book I got for Christmas, chatting with one of Jason's friends (why HE isn't out n' about himself, I've yet to find out.) I'm waiting for some of my online friends to get bored with their Christmas shindigs (read: CHIP) and log on for a holiday chat, but I'm thinking that this shan't pan out.Dammit.
posted by Maranie on 12/24/2001 09:33:00 PM
OK, feeling a little better now. This will most likely be quite temporary, as we still haven't hammered out exact Christmas plans with Chien and Brigitte, there's piles of laundry in our living room that ain't gonna wash themselves, and I still need to wrap one more present for Jason. And I can't stop eating my favorite candy, which Mom made for me this year. (It's called Reesie Balls - for the Ohioans reading this, think of Buckeyes only completely covered in chocolate. My mom makes the best ones, they completely melt in your mouth because she's not shy about using ungodly amounts of butter and sugar. YUM.) There's a huge tray of them in the kitchen that I can't help picking out of every damn time I walk by.
Past that, everything's under control.
And I'm going to stop being bitter for a moment to say Merry Christmas to everybody, 'cas all in all I'm pretty damned content right now. I mean, all I can bitch about are very petty little things, annoyances at their worst, so I'd say this means things are pretty good. So Happy Holidays to everyone! :-)
posted by Maranie on 12/24/2001 03:11:00 PM
OK, so we went to West Virginia to visit my family this past weekend, and I've come to the conclusion that Christmas cannot be over fast enough.
Fuck it. Fuck it all. I don't give a shit what I get from whom. It doesn't matter.
This breakdown has been brought to you today by my mother. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" to me like hearing her bitch about everyone she knows and making thinly veiled insults about my weight. Nice to know that all the progress I've made on my mental health can be decimated in two days.
I've been stressed to the point of headache and fatigue. I still have more Christmas food and cheer to go. I don't know if I can stuff one more confectionary into my smile-frozen mouth while wishing Merry Christmas to another person. I think I'll go mad.
At least we made out well at my parents' present-wise (new toaster oven! Alice in Wonderland doll! Harry Potter coins that are legal currency in Great Britain!) and got to see all grandparents, plus my cousin Carmen and my aunt Cathy. Plus we did some shopping, which is even cooler since we also got gift certificates and cash, too. Cannot wait to spend them all on the entire No Doubt catalog (which for some reason we don't own yet) and lots of sweet new clothes.
posted by Maranie on 12/24/2001 12:36:00 AM