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We’re having a quiet night at home, a nice dinner and bottle of wine followed by raiding and various game playing activities. Fallout 3 is on the kid’s machine at the moment and the hubby is probably not going to make it til midnight.
I am bordering on wanting to sleep, having finished off most a the bottle myself, but then, raiding in less than a coherent state is pretty normal….
Hope everyone has a safe night, see you all next year.
I’m copying this from the official WoW forums, because it’s too good to get lost in the shuffle. Credit to Koronis on the Zul’jin server for giving us this lovely bit of entertainment
Every Toon
Down in Azeroth
Liked Winter Veil a lot…
But the Lich King,
who lived in Northrend,
Did NOT!
The Lich King hated Winter Veil! The whole Winter Veil season!
Now, please don’t ask why. Only lore geeks know the reason.
It could be that Frostmourne had corrupted him outright.
It could be, perhaps, that he suffers from frostbite.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that Jaina broke his heart in Westfall.
More: Read the rest of this entry…
My brother and I both said “we should wait and do this later” he went as far as telling my dad not to call, and to wait until Sunday to even discuss what we’re all going to do.
I just got a call from dad…they’re heading to my brother’s tomorrow and cooking there, and planning to bring everything to our house on Sunday afternoon…
This is after we all said no, let’s wait.
So….
Tomorrow, I have to completely clean my house and get everything ready to deal with this shit, and then pretend that I’m happy and festive while the husband hides unconscious in the bedroom because I seriously doubt he’s going to feel much better than he does tonight. I do not for the life of me understand the way my dad’s brain functions. We have all said let’s wait on this and yet he’s on the way regardless. In the last 10 years, I have come to despise the holiday season. There is nothing happy or fun about it, it’s stressful, rushed and a royal pain in the ass because I always feel like I’m not living up to someone else’s expectations. I didn’t even bother with a tree this year. None of us really thought about it. The kid has no interest in helping to put it up, the cats climb in them and I end up pulling it down the day after anyway. I’m sure I’m going to get a lecture Sunday about the fact that I have no decorations up at all.
I don’t think one bottle is going to cut it this weekend.
Let me see if I can get everyone up to speed in under 2 minutes. Husband went to dentist on Tuesday for a toothache, which turned out to be a cavity. They opted to also start a deep cleaning ie scraping everything off the teeth beyond the normal pain involved in a normal cleaning. He’s had a reaction to the anesthetic or is dealing with a minor infection which has put him out of commission. So, no family xmas stuff in the land of Alabama this weekend. My dad is attempting to suggest that they bring everything here and we go along with the original plans. OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!
That got stomped on quickly as the husband is in no shape to deal with anything and will probably be in bed for the next 2-3 days sleeping through this crap. There have been no fewer than 3 calls back and forth with my brother, who is trying to keep dad from doing his normal panic at not having things go to plan. There’s a possibility that we’ll head to my brother’s on Sunday, it will depend on how thing go in the next day .. however my dad is already making plans to do it.
I love my family, but I really don’t want to deal with them through this. The whole idea of moving everything here because my husband can’t travel is totally fucked. He’s sick, he feels like shit, and he’s probably going to sleep through the weekend….this just isn’t sinking in. All my dad is hearing is Family Xmas plans are not what they were, how do we fix it now!….
I have a bottle of Jameson from my birthday earlier this week…it’s most likely going to be empty tonight. I bought the kid ready cook stuff, so he’s good to play games and goof for the night which is fine with him. I’ll update over the course of this and let you know how it goes.
so far…
3 calls to Dad …oh god no don’t come here…
3 calls to brother… oh god no don’t let him do this shit….just breathe…..
it’s only 2pm…this started at 10am this morning
This was one of those patterns that jumped out at me. I had been sitting on the yarn for some time and couldn’t decide what to do with it. The pattern was featured in Spin-Off, the Summer 08 issue along with an awesome gallery of examples in all different types of yarn.
If you don’t have access to the mag, you can get the pattern at HeartStrings Fiber Arts
The yarn itself is some hand spun that I did with some roving from Hello Yarn, which was one of my first attempts at a lace weight. It’s uneven but that’s part of the beauty of it now.
Thanks for the comments, hope this gives the rest of you some inspiration to try it with something you have lying around.