Pointless Announcements

I ran out of cards, so I'm sending out the 10 I've got tomorrow. 5 of them going to family, the others to Culties.

I bought 10 more cards today and with this I end Operation Christmas Cards 2012.

PETE, address soon.

Aaaaand it's snowing! Probably not gonna last, the earth isn't cold enough.

I bought myself St Nicholas gifts today - two books and a Klimt notebook that I'll use as diary next year.

Couldn't take pictures of the lights today as it was raining, but they're pretty cool. And in front of my University there's a Christmas market and it even has a merry-go-round and if it has ponies I'll go because I've never ever been on one before.

Okay Why lie everyone is going to get late xmas cards I think. I havnt started yet, still moving. But where can i get all the addresses?

If I send them by Monday everyone will get theirs in time.

Help me you guys. How the hell am I supposed to act around my brother's skanky wife who I hate so much when they're here for Christmas? I KNOW I should be nice, but I'm afraid I'm going to have a couple of glasses of wine and start being all passive aggressive with her/them.

Like asking my brother, "So, how do you like being a step-dad?"

I'm awful, and I hate that I hate her so much. What am I supposed to do with this horrible feeling? I never thought they'd get MARRIED. I know it's not about me, okay? I know. But some of y'all know the whole deal with this chick and why I can't stand her.

I want to be happy for him but I can't be. She represents everything I despise in people. She's lazy, WILL NOT WORK, feels entitled to EVERYTHING, is a hypchondriac, IS LAZY, FILTHY, and the worst worst worst is that she left her own little boy. I will never accept her because of that. I don't choose friends in my life who're intentionally shitty to their children. It's not like circumstances arose and she needed help with her kid. She CHOSE to leave him. And now they're talking about starting a family? Christ on a pony.

Did you know that my mother and I have never been inside their house becuase it's too dirty? Meaning, any time we've been in Atlanta to visit, we have to go somewhere else because when we get there to pick them up, they make us wait outside. I know it's cause my brother's ashamed. What the fucking hell, brother?

Is it normal that I'm so wound up about this?

I'm trying not to bum my mom out because she deserves to be happy for all her kids. She was thrilled when I got married, and while she's not thrilled about my brother, she's being positive. I don't want to be selfish and make her feel bad, so I can't talk to her about these feelings.

I'm totally rambling but I just had two cups of coffee and started thinking about it all again while planning my Christmas menu for our guests/family and now I'm all *($&#(*$&(*#&U$P(*$,.

...Punch that bitch in the face and tell her to get the fuck out of your life?
Kidnap and brainwash her into being a decent person.

Explain to your brother your feelings and tell him this isnt a conversation that you are just stating your feelings and you want him to know where you stand.

Cage fight.

Honestly that is a shit situation. Fly me down there and I will act as a middle man? I have no Christmas plans.

Cut straight to: prop me up at the table and let me gnaw vengefully on the turkey bones and heaps of pie, until I'm comatose and smiling forgetfully at the Christmas specials on the telly, while drowning in my 4th tumbler of peach brandy.
The alcohol flows like the river Lethe, at our place on holidays.

or, invite Tuffy over for Xmas. Slip some Viagra and red bull in his egg nog. Sit back, and watch the real festivities begin.

Thanks y'all.

I feel better, this five minutes.

I got handcuffs and a large trunk.

You just suck it up and deal with it as best possible, Alecia.

Drink copiously and and pretend you have forgotten everything you know about her for the sake of getting along while you must for the holiday. Tell yourself over and over and over 'I do not know all the circumstances I do not know all the circumstances I do not know all the circumstances' even if you have to lie to yourself every time you say it and lastly take pleasure in insulting her with jokes that go over her stupid head, if all the others fail. That is what I do.

I know how bad it is with the knowledge that she abandoned her child. I have someone in my life that did that with all four of hers. Not, gave them up for adoption at birth, but abandoned and then willingly let their paternal grandparents adopt them a year or so later when they were all well into childhood. Well into it as in the kids are approximately the same age as mine and this just happened a few years ago. To top it off she has made no fight to be a part of their lives in any capacity. Fucking hard as shit for me to wrap my head around any of it, but, the one explanation she is able to give is that it was for the best for the kids. I just have to accept that and know it is the truth as she lives her life like a teenager that just ran away from home and she is actually older than me. In a way, abandoning then singing away all rights to her kids forever and staying away is the most loving thing she could have done for them as their mother, as backwards as that logic sounds.

Everything isn't always black and white and not everyone can be as amazing and strong a woman as you are, Alecia. Use your strength to breathe and accept what you cannot change and know that you are a bigger person for all attempts at cooperation and getting along.

Also, as I said, don't forget to drink copiously and laugh laugh laugh and grant yourself the right to have pity instead of anger.

Why the hell do I need viagra now?

Christ, I'm not that old. The bits still function.

...viagra is helpful and lovely for all party's involved whether the bits function or not...

haven't you learnt that yet?

Last time I took Viagra I felt like I was melting into this giant pillow I was laying on.

I think Zima is implying that I would somewise bang Alicia's new sister-in-law?

Why Would I Want That???

I'll do it!

I guess you can just pray that some jolly Christmas adventure comes along where everyone is changed to a better person and get along after it's all over, with everyone smiling at the tree, camera panning over everyone's face.

My little joke the other day seems to have gotten you nominated for the job.

You're just gonna have to suck it up and take one for the team here!

Or continue to confusedly deflect Sema's attempts to set you up with an awful chick.

>:)Muwhahahaha!!!

You don't need Viagra. Pretty sure your bits work like a well oiled machine...uh, well didn't mean to go there. Viagra is like legalized ecstasy, from what I understand. Just trying to induce some ...initiative? You can imagine the ballerina, as you woo her.
Don't have to bang her, just distract her. And Alecia will reward you with an entire bourbon pie (ie. pie shell filled with desired baked glazed fruit and an entire quart of bourbon plopped in the middle). *You're gonna need to bring a crazy straw for that pie.

Hey if you need someone to get drunk, flirt with strangers and be rewarded with baked good I am your guy.

Amber, I love you. I really do, and I really appreciate what you said.

I'm going to copy/paste that post into a tiny font, then print it and keep it in my pocket when she's here. I'm totally serious.

Haha. I'm glad if any of my rambling can help.

Fix my typo's first!

Yes ma'am

There is one thing - I will not allow her to be rude to my guests and to my kids like she was last year. This is our home and we're welcoming everyone into it for happy family time, so she's got to play along whether she likes it or not (or just stay home).

I got a text from Xia saying Something along the lines of how I will never see her again and how she wishes me well in my life but she can never forgive me. "See you in hell"

so I wrote a poem about it. I am this bored at work. And I sure as shit am not a poet by any means.

Your Drama and your hate is an artform of its own.
So well timed. So thought out.
Nothing you say and nothing you do
is by chance, Not in the long run.
No apology isnt said with a hint of mallice.
No nicesties are said without spit trailing behind
The insult flow and clash
with such blind hatred,
Not even a ballerina could dance so well.

I am left with questions unanswered
that cant just be left to fade
because you are always sparking fights to remind me
Maybe I will get my answers
In that place you always seem to want me to go
SO I look forward to the time
When We have that Dinner In Hell.

That bitch is crazy and these things no longer go in the buzkill or hooray thread because they are pointless.

Good for you for seeing through all that, Noah.

Noah, that bitch be cray. I'm glad you're free of her! You deserve so much better.

Guys, I've been mixing cold and flu meds and alcohol tonight, and yet I feel surprisingly sober (and the best I've felt all week)... this means I'm gonna feel like crap tomorrow, right?

Wow Noah.

I hope she keeps her promise of you never dealing with her again.

I have to go to the store and buy limes and cilantro and tortillas and beer.

Well I totally fucked everything up. I kind of went a little crazy.I'm FUCKING ENTITLED to every once in a while, you know doing everything for everyone else. So now Josh is basically not talking to me.

I was going to hang out with that fellow this afternoon, but I essentially had a nervous fucking meltdown instead and made up some excuse not to see him.

Before he quit talking to me, Josh said, "You need to work on yourself for a while. Fix your own shit." I don't remember how. I've spent the last ???? years of my life focusing on other people and doing whatever I could to help/fix them, I don't know how to fix my own shit. UGGHHHH I'll just start a big fat fucking boohoo thread for myself, mkay?

deathugs for timberly

I went to the store and bought milk, bananas, eggs and pablano peppers. I forgot the laundry detergent dammit.

No thats what the buzzkill thread is for. Vent there everyone hear knows all oabout my fucked up shit.

(what kind of shit office party only goes til 8pm, btw)

Aw, Timberly. That sucks. I hope you feel better.

Guys in bookstores and libraries never make eye contact with me. Not even the ones who work there.

or because you're insanely hot and you read!

People must never make eye contact with you then! Because of, you know, the last reason.

Was that a good line, Mike? I kinda fucked up the delivery at the end but she was still totally into it, I could tell.

Source of a source of a source says that a hockey deal is very likely to be reach by friday. They're mostly left trying to figure out how long the season should be. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST. Unless it doesn't happen, in which case I never said nothin'.

It's cuz I read hideous things that are insanely hot.

When are you leaving on your trip Jaz? I have been meaning to ask but I keep forgetting.

Dec. 18, I won't be home during Christmas. I'll be back right before new year's though.

I wanna go to Hawaii. I am jealous.

I've been in Hawaii over Christmas. Take an umbrella.

I want to go to Hawaii too and I can't wait but this will also be the first Christmas I don't spend with my family so I'm also kind of sad. People keep telling me yeah whatever but I really will miss my family on Christmas day. I feel stupid for taking this trip but I also need it.

I don't mind getting wet. I was told this may happen. I remember it raining when I went too. I'll just stick to a hoodie.

Either they are not good guys or you are not a good girl, by Sema's logic on library pickups.

It can work if you bust on her from here on. Remember, compliments are good as a spice, but don't give your power away.