Not much going on at the Zebra residence.  We continue to lead lives of quiet desperation occasionally enlivened by minor illnesses. TDG hit the Wake County library book sale this weekend and came away with a couple of things, I made brownies and tried to figure out what we should take to MA later in the week for Turkey Day ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about putting together a dark/scary/funny Christmas mix.  Since we're not actually Christians, our celebration of the holiday is always a little odd/ironic anyway, and SS and I have found a few songs so far that amuse us.

So far:

Jingle Bells performed by the Crash Test Dummies
Deck the Halls performed by Twisted Sister
Chiron ( Read more... )

If you're on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine... you're on my list, so I want to know you better ( Read more... )

Thank you so much to everyone who helped!

This showed up in the comment thread this morning:

Amex Members Project Update

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I was searching for something in the refrigerator, caught sight of a container full of salad I knew was past its prime, and thought, "I need to remember to delete that."

Delete.  Drag to the trash.  Makes perfect sense, assuming I live in the Matrix.

Somebody told me yesterday that I have sounded too sad here of late.  I will admit that recent events have aggravated my natural tendency to doooom and glooooom, but hey, I'm still able to savor my healthy breakfast of peanuts and Slim Jims washed down with Diet Coke!  (The low-carb options in the snack tray at work are a little, um, sparse ( Read more... )

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After the kind of couple of days that make you look at the glass that is your life and deliberately force yourself to focus on the half that's full, I heard these words on NPR while going to pick SS up from after-school care.

We've got to hold on to what we've got,
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not,
We've got each other, and that's a ( Read more... )

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