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I've just made a wassail that tastes exactly like licorice jellybeans.

Now, licorice jellybeans are definitely a love-it-or-hate-it sort of thing. I happen to love 'em. I don't know how this will go over with my family, though -- I forget how many people are pro and con on 'em.

A lot of Christmas standards (please, these aren't "holiday" songs, with a few exceptions) simply aren't all that long. Sure, many of them have obscure additional verses that can be used to stretch them out to the radio standard 3:15 length, but a lot of Christmas songs on the radio are horribly padded out, repeating the entire song twice with an instrumental solo in the middle or something.

My tentative plan for the week is to aggressively wish Merry Christmas to everyone and crotch-gouge anyone who accuses me of Chistianism and/or asks me 'aren't you Jewish?'

It's going to be a good holiday, I can feel it.

Haven't been this excited since I discovered the Chippendales.

Joyful stabbings to everyone, and God bless us all.

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Tags: family

YOU ARE THE____ TO MY _____

Tags: meme
You can reach me at: Donnie
Right now? I'm: hungry

Ah, Christmas Eve in the office. I work it more often than not, especially since I moved to Canada and the traditional trip home is a bit trickier these days. One of the lawyers has supplied pastries and juice for breakfast - delivered desk to desk, even! - and I'm awaiting the arrival of Alvin. It should be a quietish day, even with Alvin here, and we get to leave around one. Edit: Everyone else leaves at one - I'm here until 4:30 in case the batphone rings since Sonia has stuff still to do and has the family Christmas thing.

Why can't work be like this all the time?

I'm calling home today to wish the folks a happy Christmas (it'll be Christmas morning there and I have to get them before they pick up my grandparents to have lunch at my brother's house). Mum called yesterday, but I was stuck at work, meh. seraangel also called, until work got busy for her. One more gift to pick up (for the roomie's mother and stepdad), rent to be paid to the roomie and I'm all set.

And now - coffee!!!

Tags: working girl

Playing catchup. Longer post tonight, probably. Anyway, I know the meme said “YouTube video”, but I like Vimeo more, and I particularly like this video, about the unseen digital ghosts that haunt our world.

Immaterials: the ghost in the field from timo on Vimeo.

This entry was originally published at Black Ink

Tags: badgers and jam

Thanks to akuni for the Ichigo and Renji figurines.

Thanks to kateison for the ShunUki sketch and Christmas card.

Thanks to motokolas for the drawn Christmas card. (Hichigo was insistent that he should be on as many pages as possible wasn't he? xD )

Tags: bleach, christmas, friends
Right now? I'm: cheerful

In the morning, I shall have to figure out what to cut the Pet Shop Boys with. (a little help would be nice, ys)

Right now? I'm: exhausted

I goofed and made the piece wider than my scanner plate, which means that even with some cropping there's shadow effects at the edges where the paper isn't flat against the glass.
( With attempts to remove the shadow with contrast and brightness tweaks )
( No adjustment at all )

Tags: sonic the hedgehog

Tags: embedded video, kirk/spock

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Uh. Technically this is from the same AU as Sunny Day In Metropolis.... (Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have done that meme until the year was over.) Jack and Daniel banter about Dr. Mary McKay. ^^;

( Why Mary Is Not Allowed To Talk To Goa'uld )

Tags: au, fanfic, genderswap, mckay, stargate
Right now? I'm: impish
Listening to: Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan

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( These are the twits I twitted. )

When I was growing up, there was the expectation that one of the local TV stations would be showing the Alastair Simm A Christmas Carol on Christmas eve, and that we would watch it. I used to be scared of the Ghost of Christmas Present, because he was big and loud and a force of nature, and, well, A GHOST. For some reason, the ghost part didn't register with me in relation to the Ghost of Christmas Past, whom I found innocuous and kind of tiresome.

I was terrified of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and would watch that entire section of the movie through my fingers. For years. With great pleasure.

I bet that doesn't surprise you at all, does it?

Now broadcast TV stations don't rerun A Christmas Carol (either the Alastair Simm or the George C. Scott versions), or It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th St., because we can rent them if we want them. Sigh--farewell, childhood traditions.

But here at the WTF Network, we're prepared to fill that lamentable gap with quality, original Christmas eve programming...that might be a little bit scary in places. Okay, maybe a lot scary.

Tomorrow we'll air a very special episode of Shadow Unit: "On Faith," by Sarah Monette. There's no actual only a very little Christmas content, and it's about teamwork and poison rather than misers and Cratchits. But if you want to, you can read it through your fingers.

Because some traditions are worth holding onto.

Tags: fiction, shadow unit, wtf
Right now? I'm: like a kid at Xmas

Dear Leverage DVDs,

THAT WAS NOT CRICKET. Although at least you were apparently having sex with Eureka 3.0, which explains where they were.

I shall indoctrinate my family. ys.

WE CAN HAS TREE. Er. It is being assembled still. BUT IT WILL BE UP. If I can find the lights to put on it. It will be once more into the breach of the closet, shortly.

hrm. I have paragraphs to type up, too.

Right now? I'm: chipper

Tags: monsters

Musician/writer Christine Hart felt it necessary to preserve this Twitter exchange from earlier in the year:

I have just been informed via the power of Twitter that I’m on io9’s 2009 Science Fiction Power List, alongside, um, Lady Gaga. Actually, it’s kind of an interesting list — and an interesting, if peculiar, concept. Doubtless, by the time you read it, the comments section will have filled with snark. But the article itself is worth a read (not least because it includes Lady Gaga. I think even Bill Gibson was talking about that last video).

I’ve just been informed that Bleeding Cool will be broadcasting all through Xmas Day.

Me? I will doubtless still be ruminating on the fact that five minutes ago I was selecting children’s books for my daughter, and that apparently with the passage of no time whatsoever I am now wrapping a MOCK THE WEEK: UNCUT DVD for her. Not sure how she went from Maurice Sendak to Frankie Boyle yelling "cunt" overnight, but suddenly she’s 14 and arguing with me over rap/rock, guitarists and what the best track on the Florence & The Machine album was. It’s brilliant, frankly.

(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)

Just a quick note to wish all a very happy, safe, peaceful and fun holiday sason,no matter what (if anything at all) you celebrate.

May the great bird of the galaxy smile upon you.

-Old man

Right now? I'm: hopeful

( Books of Note: Love and Capes #12, Iron Man vs. Whiplash #2 )

   Dave Van Domelen, "You know, in my HEAD that sounded SWEET. Out loud it sounded kinda CREEPY." "NOW you see why I vetoed us writing our own vows." - Crusader and Abby, Love & Capes #12

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http://www.thesixsmiths.com/wordpress/?p=318

Tags: anti-christ, carols, comics, satan, sixsmiths, webcomics

I set up our new Christmas tree, and then went to the kitchen to start dinner. When I wanted back to the living room a few moments later, I could see the little tree framed against the window, and outside it had begun to snow. Big, fat flakes floating down in the streetlights, speckling the highway and swirling under the bridge.

♥

...or something like that.
Lifted from poisonivory.

In the order they were written:
( FORTY-NINE fics this year?! Holy crow! )

Tags: fannish, fic-related, meme, writing

I am on the verge of becoming a habitual coffee drinker.

... I disgust myself.

It's at moments like these that you have to seriously reassess your life's choices and one's general decision-making paradigm.

On the other hand I got to use 'verge' in a sentence. SO I suppose it all breaks even in the end.

I had to bring Alvin some documents over to Old City Hall court and I wound up staying for the hearing of the motion. Talk about deja vu - Canadian Provincial Offences Courts are really not that different to Magistrates' Courts in Victoria. The main differences being the wearing of robes (I'm kind of glad I didn't have to do that!) and the lack of our handy computer system that would allow magistrates to make their orders on the screen and then allow the clerk to print them - none of this pesky photocopying of endorsements. But yeah, I have to admit to feeling the vibe again - I used to enjoy being a court clerk, provided you kept me out of civil and traffic court. And paid me better.

I'm hanging out for the end of the day now. Despite my best efforts at getting a reasonable night's sleep last night, I didn't, so I'm tired and a bit meh. Sleep deprivation always makes my mood drop, and I had a tough counselling session too. However, I only have an hour to go and then I can head home and maybe nap for a bit before embarking on kitty bathing/claw trimming.

Tags: kitties!, working girl
Right now? I'm: tired

Don't you feel sorry for him? Feel sorry for him. FEEL IT.

ETA: Oh, right, icons don't carry over from DW. Here. Feel sorry for him.

Tags: gip
Right now? I'm: amused

• YouTube – Grandstream GXP 2000 -Call Forward -Activate
  This will be irrelevant to everyone reading this, but I will probably need to refer to this at some point in the future. Sorry to have wasted everyone else's time.
  (tags: phones callforwarding)

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

Tags: linkdump

Morning begins with mom knocking the door, then immediately opening it and starting a conversation, waking us up (then literally just backs out, closes the door and walks off as I complain at her rudeness)...

Dad opens a parcel addressed to me (but at their address), realises it's for me, then tell me what it is, thus spoiling the surprise Kirsten planned to be her Christmas present to me, leaving her frustrated and upset...

Corben may have swine-flu and, in conjunction with my trick-shoulder (which is in a bad way after dragging huge present-laden bags up-country yesterday) wakes me up every 1-2 hours last night and covers most of us in vomit on various occasions...

Sitting in the dining room, talking to Kirsten on MSN because I have to work and she has to study and the rest of the house is not particularly conducive to either...

Yep, it's Christmas with my family!

I say all of this with a wry smile - it's heavy-going, but it's good to be with my family, no matter what they're like, and better still to have Kirsten here, and get to see in Christmas with the nipper.

I'd love to pretend this wasn't how they advertised adulthood in the brochure, but I'm from the midlands, where this is considered the deluxe package :)

hoooooboy :)