Traditional Haul Post!
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bloodyrosemccoyI know you were all sitting in suspense all of yesterday saying to yourself, “What did ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
padparadscha get for Christmas?” Well, I am sorry to keep you waiting so long, but here it is—the obligatory Christmas Haul Photo Post!
First, the wearables. Earrings from Harold’s (alas for that store!), from Haroon’s, and a spiffy hat so I can confuse people even more with my amazing color-changing mood hat.
A moment’s silence now for my nice old boots with the embroidery on them, for they perished in the Annual Holiday Disaster. But these are quite cool, so I am sure I will survive.
Maybe.
All this snow came down just since last night—eight inches. We’d had seven inches accrued before, but it all blew away on Christmas Eve—yes, it blew away. The weather outside has been, dare I say it, frightful.
But! I don’t need the boots right now. Instead I’m wearing my fluffy Muppetfur slippersocks.
(Also pictured: Steve the Christmas Crocodile. Say hello, Steve.)
We can sit inside and watch DVDs! All of which come from twisted minds.
And the most twisted of all—a tragic tale of death and woe, aka March of the Penguins. It makes me weep just to think of it! And it apparently makes Laurel swoon!
After watching this movie, my sister and I end all penguin sightings in movies or whatever with “And then most of the penguins will die.” I can’t figure out why this movie was so damn popular, because Morgan Freeman’s relentless reiteration that most of the penguins are about to die is really depressing.
I don’t even know what this is, but I got it for Christmas as the weirdest addition yet to my mermaid collection. I keep trying to figure out why she needs a bra.
Laurel recovers from her swoon to model her new dress from Carpatina.* My pretty little woodfairy looks so cute!
She may get a lot more dresses too, because look at this! I finally have some patterns to go by that I didn’t totally make up! I may even be able to do complicated stuff! I’m sort of ridiculously excited about this.
And the fanciest thing of all—the Blue-Rose! Biggish (15” screen) but lightweight Toshiba with gaming capabilities and fast running time and fewer psychological hangups than the old Bhelliom, which is still convinced that it has never heard of this “Microsoft Word” business. It’s also not nearly so beat-up. I am hard on technology. You know those commercials they had a few years ago about how they were testing laptops for durability by dropping rocks on them, or lobbing them over cliffs, or whatever? I was who they had in mind for those.
So! I have satisfied your burning curiosity, I am sure. Off to play with this new computer. My brother gave me Portal, and maybe now I can also play the space level in Spoar! (Another failing of the Bhelliom.) If you never hear from me again, you’ll know why.
*Carpatina’s a weird company. When you read the catalog blurbs for pretty doll costumes it’s always highly romantical and oriented around meeting a handsome prince or knight or something, even though the kids are supposed to be like twelve or thirteen, and just to drive the point home they recently dove headfirst into Uncanny Valley. (Warning: creepy doll pictures back here. Seriously, these dudes look like the hapless green guy from Animal Planet’s The Most Extreme. You know, the one who’s always getting his eyes enlarged to the size of graprefruits, having 400 babies, etc..) Also their stuff fluctuates between actual quality and Some Doofus Made This And Put It On Ebay Quality. It’s weirdly schizophrenic.
padparadscha get for Christmas?” Well, I am sorry to keep you waiting so long, but here it is—the obligatory Christmas Haul Photo Post!
First, the wearables. Earrings from Harold’s (alas for that store!), from Haroon’s, and a spiffy hat so I can confuse people even more with my amazing color-changing mood hat.
A moment’s silence now for my nice old boots with the embroidery on them, for they perished in the Annual Holiday Disaster. But these are quite cool, so I am sure I will survive.
Maybe.
All this snow came down just since last night—eight inches. We’d had seven inches accrued before, but it all blew away on Christmas Eve—yes, it blew away. The weather outside has been, dare I say it, frightful.
But! I don’t need the boots right now. Instead I’m wearing my fluffy Muppetfur slippersocks.
(Also pictured: Steve the Christmas Crocodile. Say hello, Steve.)
We can sit inside and watch DVDs! All of which come from twisted minds.
And the most twisted of all—a tragic tale of death and woe, aka March of the Penguins. It makes me weep just to think of it! And it apparently makes Laurel swoon!
After watching this movie, my sister and I end all penguin sightings in movies or whatever with “And then most of the penguins will die.” I can’t figure out why this movie was so damn popular, because Morgan Freeman’s relentless reiteration that most of the penguins are about to die is really depressing.
I don’t even know what this is, but I got it for Christmas as the weirdest addition yet to my mermaid collection. I keep trying to figure out why she needs a bra.
Laurel recovers from her swoon to model her new dress from Carpatina.* My pretty little woodfairy looks so cute!
She may get a lot more dresses too, because look at this! I finally have some patterns to go by that I didn’t totally make up! I may even be able to do complicated stuff! I’m sort of ridiculously excited about this.
And the fanciest thing of all—the Blue-Rose! Biggish (15” screen) but lightweight Toshiba with gaming capabilities and fast running time and fewer psychological hangups than the old Bhelliom, which is still convinced that it has never heard of this “Microsoft Word” business. It’s also not nearly so beat-up. I am hard on technology. You know those commercials they had a few years ago about how they were testing laptops for durability by dropping rocks on them, or lobbing them over cliffs, or whatever? I was who they had in mind for those.
So! I have satisfied your burning curiosity, I am sure. Off to play with this new computer. My brother gave me Portal, and maybe now I can also play the space level in Spoar! (Another failing of the Bhelliom.) If you never hear from me again, you’ll know why.
*Carpatina’s a weird company. When you read the catalog blurbs for pretty doll costumes it’s always highly romantical and oriented around meeting a handsome prince or knight or something, even though the kids are supposed to be like twelve or thirteen, and just to drive the point home they recently dove headfirst into Uncanny Valley. (Warning: creepy doll pictures back here. Seriously, these dudes look like the hapless green guy from Animal Planet’s The Most Extreme. You know, the one who’s always getting his eyes enlarged to the size of graprefruits, having 400 babies, etc..) Also their stuff fluctuates between actual quality and Some Doofus Made This And Put It On Ebay Quality. It’s weirdly schizophrenic.
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Date: 2008-12-27 02:26 am (UTC)As for my haul, I got awesome biking gloves, a set of dish towels, tiny bottles of alcohol, and a bag of groceries. My parents are weird. And my brother didn't get me a present, since we were mostly snowed in for the past week. Damn Oregon and its lack of snow preparation!
Happy New year and such!
Liz
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Date: 2008-12-27 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-27 07:09 am (UTC)Dish towels! Hooray!
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Date: 2008-12-27 02:41 am (UTC)Worship of the only pattern book YOU WILL EVER NEED.
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Date: 2008-12-27 02:51 am (UTC)Why yes, I've eaten half a bag of 75% off holiday candy in the last 10 minutes. How ever could you tell?
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Date: 2008-12-27 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-27 05:56 am (UTC)And yes, I cry inside every time he brings his big fluffy foo-foo dog into the clinic, because I have to look him in the (creepy, dead, horrible) eyes to talk to him. And sadly, he's a very nice person. Just SCARY AS ALL HELL.
GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY AAARRGH
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Date: 2008-12-27 06:38 am (UTC)DOLL. DRESSMAKER! Enjoy the world of sewing like a smart person! That book is sexy.
I love that pose of you with March of the Penguins.
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Date: 2008-12-27 06:44 am (UTC)*ahem*
Date: 2008-12-27 07:07 am (UTC)And yes, I have several photos posted featuring me in like hats.
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Date: 2008-12-27 07:06 am (UTC)I tried to do a sad puppy-eyed look but I just looked sort of pissed. So I went with melodramatic.
That hat seems like you and I have no idea why.
See icon.
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Date: 2008-12-27 07:09 am (UTC)... duh.
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