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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Thanks!This year I am particular thankful for the following:
1. I'm not poor.
2. I was born in America and not, say, Afghanistan.
3. I was born in reasonable good health, with decent DNA.
4. The same is true of my kids.
5. I was able to buy a house this year.
6. I now have good credit.
7. I have a nice boyfriend.
8. I have good friends.
9. My family loves me and they make me laugh, too.
10. I have a decent job.
11. I don't have any health problems that can't be fixed.
Yay. Life is good. I give thanks.
Christmas
I'm thinking I'm not going to buy a tree this year, after all, since my kids spend xmas with their dad in even-numbered years. So I'll save the money and spend it on things that last longer.
I thought I wanted to decorate my house like crazy this year, but now I see that it's pretty much all I can do to keep the lawn looking decent for my neighbors. You know? Mowing, edging, raking - I think that's all the decoration I can do. Not even to mention that I haven't knocked down the wasp house yet.
I don't want to staple a bunch of lights up. I especially don't want to take them down again.
Maybe I can buy just a tiny, tiny string of lights, and staple them to the wasp house.
Ha.
Houston Zoo
We went to the zoo today. I had to force everyone - my kids and my boyfriend say they don't like the zoo. What's wrong with them, I wonder. How can anyone say that?
"It's the same animals every time," says my middle son Dallas.
"I know. We're going to check on them and see how they're doing," I say.
I forced them to go and they liked it, after all. Just like always.
My favorite part this time was the octopus molesting the toy boat. Check it out.
If I ever get rich, I'm totally going to buy a membership to the zoo. 6:00 PM #
Comments:
Get the little hangy-hooks you can leave up. Then you can put up lights every year without it being a huge pain in the ass. (I say this because having no house, I want to live vicariously through you decorating yours.)Octopus with boat: shades of Oz, no? It's a tiny little invertebrate prison drama, and the boat is the prison bitch.
# posted by
Nyarly : 5:13 AM
Oh, that's a good idea - the hooks. Doh.
Octopus: Yes! The boat is his bitch! It was funny because at first he was floating around with it, then he ended up with his head gently bobbing against the sand while he tentacled the boat with all his limbs. It was very evocative. I told Tad the octopus was probably supplying the boat with all sorts of thoughts. ("Ooh, yeah - fill all my boat holes, baby!") While the boat was actually thinking, "You know I'm an inanimate object, right?"
# posted by
Gwen : 9:39 AM
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