The end of the musical advent calendar is upon us. Are you sad? You shouldn't be sad, it's Christmas!

The last couple of songs are both seasonally and geographically appropriate for me. The rest of you can enjoy New York vicariously through people singing about it!

Thea Gilmore - December in New York

Stars - Fairytale of New York

My fortune cookie today said "use your instincts now." my instincts now are all saying go to bed, Dani, and I think that's very sensible of them, especially considering I think I promised to stand a kettle from 10 to 2 tomorrow because I am stupid.

The meme that is as much a holiday tradition as hanging stockings now: the wishlist.

( da rules! )


( my wishlist, 2009 )

11. Sleep. If you have any of that extra just laying around, send some my way, would you? Cause I think I ran out.

I stood a kettle at Tops for an hour... and now all the kettling is done. No more stress for my mother! The only thing left to do is count the last kettles, and that can wait. She's going to take a nap... she deserves one, really.

Bookbyte sent me my first payment for my textbooks. $37 isn't bad for a marked-up science text, but hopefully I'll be getting like $150 on the other three books. I'll find out in a couple of days, I guess!

My coat and hat and scarf all stink like cigarette smoke. Now that I'm not smoking any more, the smell is like twice as offensive as it was before I was a smoker. I'm really glad I quit for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because now I don't smell like that all the time.

I'm not so sure about going back to Plattsburgh. I really would like to see everyone I missed the first time, and spend more time with people I did see, but I also want to see my great-grandfather and my new second cousin and my aunt who lives across the country who I hardly ever get to see any more. Driving up to Maine isn't exactly a thrilling idea, but being there won't be so bad.

I have been getting crazy anxious about stupid little things lately. Especially driving. Every single time I'm in a car I think it's going to crash. I don't know what set this off but it's really a pain in the ass being scared so often over something so completely out of my control. I wear a seat belt, that's about all I can do besides refuse to get in a car and live the rest of my life within walking distance of home.

Tonight Mom might watch Enterprise with me. She said she thinks Scott Bakula's attractive. I honestly don't have an opinion about him yet, but I'm sure I'll form one quickly enough.

I will probably do the year's-end memes some time today or tomorrow... no, probably not tomorrow, I'll be too busy with my head stuck deep into the Yuletide archives. xD

So I got down to 50MB of free space on my C drive a couple hours ago... that's fun. I've spent the time since then deleting programs I don't use any more (and playing Farmville alllll day, not gonna lie) and reclaiming space megabyte by painful megabyte. Then I realized that I only need the most recent Java update, so I'm in the middle of deleting all the old ones. That's a good gig's worth of space right there.

I can't even imagine how much worse my situation would be if I'd tried to install Sims 3 on C and not T. Thank god for extra hard drives, seriously.

Speaking of extra hard drives... it's been one year since I got my terabyte drive, and I have filled 300 of 931 available GB. Soooo... give me another year or two and I'll need another one! :D

I'm giving Dennis my 60GB iPod for Christmas. Kind of an auxiliary present to the sweater I got him with intent for the holiday. The iPod thing was kind of a spur of the moment offer, and god only knows how long the poor thing will last in his not-so-careful possession, but I hope he gets a lot of use out of it. I still have a lot of downloading to do to fill it up for him. Lots and lots of rap music. Like I know anything about rap (besides, uh, I like Jay-Z and Kanye is a punk but he makes good music) or most of anything else he listens to... at least I have the classic rock angle covered already!


Did I mention my littlest sister got arrested? Yeah, that happened while I was in Plattsburgh. She slapped some girl in the face and the girl called the cops. I really think Rachael's going to do some jail time at some point in her life... she has impulse control issues when it comes to taking shit from people. Just like Dennis has control issues with his mouth when he sees a police officer. He's been arrested six times in the past six months! For little things like noise ordinance violations, not for anything violent or horrible, but still... that's a lot of arrests. I'll just stick with the two I've got under my belt and keep it low like that.

Ah, my family. We all mean well. Really, we do. I don't know what happened between what our parents tried to teach us and how we turned out... they spent too much time with God and not enough with my sisters, that's the simple truth. Going through the Salvation Army Training School while they were too young caused a lot of these problems. That doesn't say anything about me, though... I'm a product of too much internet too early in life, perhaps. xD


My brother's pit bulls are terrorizing the cats. Well, cat. Butcher lived with the pits last summer, so he's not intimidated, but Oreo freaks right the fuck out. The dogs just want to play, they're so sweet, really.... but Oreo don't play those games. Or any games, really. She won't even play with Butcher. Uppity bitch kitty.

xD I don't even know, I think I meant to say something about the holiday when I started this post but it's gone now.

I couldn't find my traditional Azumanga Daioh Christmas picture, so instead I give you this:




In looking for the image I wanted, I came across all the muse secrets I made... and man, it kind of hurts how much I miss playing some of those characters. I almost want to write about a couple of them now, but nobody would read it. not that that's a valid reason not to write it, anyway.

The blind old guy who works at the Salvation Army gave me a Christmas present: a pair of crystal bells with crosses on the tops.

...so far this Christmas I have received bells, books, and candles. Who's up for an exorcism?