As soon as I picked up Rebekah’s candle to bring it in here, the wick disintegrated in two, and sunk into the pool of wax. *sigh* It was wonderful while it lasted–a homemade coffee bean candle in a grey mug, quite cozy.<\/p>\n
Merry belated Christmas. Now for my fourth (!) annual update…<\/p>\n
It was the first time I hadn’t spent the night before at home; in other words, I stayed at the apartment until Christmas morning, then drove over at 8:30 or so… Everyone was already up of course–especially David, who was very up and excited, and had already staked out his spot in front of the tree for the distribution of the gifts. I received a funky-looking clock for the wall, a nice set of flare nut wrenches (tools), a dual 500W halogen work lamp w\/tripod, bunches of clothes (a good thing), a set of big bowls, several utensils for the apartment, a George Foreman grill, two tickets to the flight exhibit at the NCMA, Zooropa<\/i>, Pop<\/i>, the Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape<\/i>, and a Norah Jones cd. I was very happy and grateful. I told my relatives the fact that I have an apartment now must making gift-giving a bit easier… They agreed. Living in a bachelor pad means we don’t have quite a few amenities that most of you might take for granted. We do have a plunger, though (inside joke; ask Donald).<\/p>\n
Paul and David came over later on and we watched The Boondock Saints<\/i>, and while the movie has great music, I can’t vouch for the quality of the rest of it, except to say that it is<\/i> somewhat thought-provoking about motivations and reasons for extreme acts. Great nuggets of completely over-the-top acting, too. Gary Oldman would feel right at home in this film. Oh yeah, and the f-word and its variants were used 246 times throughout the movie (courtesy imdb.com). I learned some new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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