From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Sale! Cheap! Things! For! Next! Year!

December 29, 2006

If you’re anything like me and my mother, we start buying December 26th for the next holiday season. ESPECIALLY holiday themed stuff. Um hello? Cheap. In keeping with the theme and seeing as I only have a few boxes left, I’m cutting the price of my Holiday Cards down to $12.50 a box (shipping included). [...]

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Old Long Ago*

December 29, 2006

In high school, I spent every New Years Eve at my friend Vicki’s house. This was great because all of my friends were in one place, we were at a normal someone’s house so all of our parents had no qualms about dropping us off there for the night, meanwhile Vicki’s parents were always out [...]

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Currently, it’s 34 degrees, but for the sake of this entry let’s pretend it’s 28.

December 28, 2006

Have you ever been walking around and decide that you just have to have oysters? Maybe I’m weird and it’s just me, but I love me a good oyster and crave them from time to time. “Time to time” of course meaning “almost always”, but there is a difference between craving and having. And that [...]

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Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, and Jolly Vacation Days

December 27, 2006

It’s been a long, wonderful few days. I took a much needed, unannounced hiatus for most of this week to celebrate my birthday and Christmas with friends. Saturday I slept in (until 8:00 am!), hung around my apartment and watched a bunch of movies. Around 3:00 I headed down to the Quincy Compound to gather [...]

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Holidays Bring Out The Best (and Red) In People

December 22, 2006

Last night I was standing in the longest line there ever was waiting to buy my very last gift of the season (every time I think I’ve bought ‘the last one’, I remember something else that I absolutely must get). I wasn’t in a rush and everyone was kind of sluggish and not the “angry [...]

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