Overview:

Yule was Good.

Had a delightful variety of charming company throughout the day. First yaksha42, then after he left, ralmathon, then the grandparents of marxdarx, and then just ralmathon again, then Clover came, and left, and then Sithkitten showed up with othercat, then they left, then Clover showed up again, and now she and ralmathon have left, and everybody but me is zonked, and I'm headed that way quickly.

I now have a very nice large wooden box to put The Evil Candle^TM in. Pretty ornaments are on the tree. Mama supplied me happily with CD's, and FatherSir gave me a book for finally getting to be a ham [radio operator]. One Ring does indeed rule them all, and I intend to do something or other with those candles. Not exactly sure as to what yet, though. Herbal almanac! Computer! General assorted happiness and good company! Backrubs!

For an after-hours bonus, we also have hysterically crying kids who may or may not have eaten too much of something to be agreeable with them. Also, Yakky got to see a cleaning frenzy at 50% speed, with 150% grouchiness, as my neck hurt like holy fuck and a half. And I mixed powdered clove with almond oil. And I scraped all the wax from that thing [private link for my reference] into one glass cup, to be later melted down into something like the Evil Candle^TM. Not to mention the late-night discussion of skill sets and the odd and unusual that is all too typical around here... living in the midst of it, I don't notice most of these things, though I suppose I would notice their absence...


All in all: Good.

Random Notes:

Must work on unicorn story.

Must work on Book.

Must work on ectogenesis.

Hilarious summary of The Two Towers (contains mondo spoilers)

(Don't say I didn't warn you)

"Aftermaths" (with all due apologies to Lois McMaster Bujold)

Joshua woke up early the morning after the Yule party but not, he saw, as early as one of the guests that had stayed over. He could hear the quiet noises in the living room. He wandered out, new Playstation 2 game in hand, still wearing his pajama pants, and watched her, slim and efficient, walking an ever-widening search pattern around the living room and kitchen, collecting plates and cups and depositing them in the sink with dish-gloved hands.

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Mmm.

Darkside stopped by, bearing gifts and far too many bad jokes for any sane person to contemplate. Not being sane, I was very happy. Sparred. He always has fun with Nephew.

We had a lot of fun. "No, she's busted!"

We're getting more physically tangleable with each other. It's warm and happy. I like seeing him. He smiles when he's talking with me. He saluted, grinning, before he drove off.

I don't see him smile half enough.

Gooshy-babble

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Reproducing this for my own sanity here

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html

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Write, Joanie, Write!

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=azurelunatic&itemid=1241086

Mmmm, candles.

Finished melting down the wax from the thing [same private post] and poured it around two new candles. I brewed the original batch of wax quite some time ago: love, honor, loyalty, fidelity, and a pinch of lust. Myself. That of him that I am able to touch: the encryptor key to his private self. I cannot decrypt... but he gave me his public key. And that I put in to the candle.

This is something long, as long as the friendship.

Crossposting is fun.

I am silly.

Ghaa.

http://www.mosquitonet.com seems to be down, as are the associated e-mail addresses. My Solstice letter to Mama is bouncing. They seem to have some planned maintainence scheduled for some point in the future from the update in November, which may be the culprit.

I'll keep trying to reload their page; when I succeed, then I'll send the letter.

Sounds like a plan, eh?

Interesting...

votania is Working her mother. It's interesting, the topic: the issue of the Salvation Army vs. same-sex domestic partners of employees.

It'll be interesting to hear what Votania's mother says on the topic afterwards.

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Darkside Is Evil.

He gave Nephew Scooby Doo the movie.

He's evil.



Did I mention that I love him?

I have an ass to kick...

...and I believe it belongs to Darkside.

*sigh*

Somebody's going to find crumbs from Scooby-snacks in his Scooby-Doo boxer shorts.

Migods.

She's back.

Oh, and?

Rowan Atkinson! Squeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!1!!!!!!

Two E-Mails

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To: Darkside
From: Azz
Subject: Scooby-Doo?

My dearest preciousssss Darkside:


I'm going to kick your ass.


Love,
She-Who-is-About-to-Become-Very-Sick-of-that-Movie-when-Nephew-plays-it-a-hundred-times-a-day
(aka Joanie)

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To: Darkside
From: Azz
Subject: And yes...

...I admit it... I liked it.

--Loony

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