I read some advice about how the way to deal with the weirdness of the year is to make some new traditions this year. Which makes sense, I guess. I’m thinking of Chinese and a movie on xmas eve, followed by skype xmas dinner on the 25th. Anniversaries and holidays are tough after someone’s passed away. Tex mex is a…

Yeah I hear. I need a good Irish coffee to get me through BUT definitely putting it off at least a few more days

Did you cook, or buy, anything fun? I made some nice rosemary roasted garlic bread. Crusty and golden, with some nice blisters. We ate that with my dad’s spaghetti sauce, that’s what we always called it. Meat sauce with garlic and onions and red and green bells peppers, I left out the canned mushrooms, because I do…

Shelter Catstravaganza!

Hi everyone,

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! How’s your holiday shopping going? Last minute shopper? I’m usually somewhere in between. This year tho, I successfully managed to do it ALL online. Well, except for a calendar that arrived missing half the photos. Now I just need to wrap everything. Luckily Santa does not wrap the 3 presents he leaves…

Nope. A big no for me on the mullet. I don’t care who it is, there is a better style for them than that. Ugh.

A high school friend had a cat he was very fond of. This cat was his baby. First day back after Christmas break, I surprised him with a “fancy” (for a 14 year old) collar studded with fake gems and new name tag, and a fleecy cat pillow.

Oh, that’d be the six-pack of chocolate-flavoured SlimFast I gave my dickhead cousin for Christmas 2008 when she started whining - whilst shovelling cake into her gaping maw - about putting on too much weight and how it was interfering with her wedding dress fitting, and the follow-up of a pair of cheap silver satin…

It was a white elephant gift exchange with my husband’s family. I picked the safest gift- a liquor bottle, nicely wrapped. I unwrapped it to find it was a whiskey bottle, but emptied and filled with water and a beta fish. We welcomed Jack Daniels to our family and he lived happily for 4 years.

This was an especially bad gift for so many reasons.

Petty bitch that I am, her baby shower gift was a book on raising children with manners.

Petty bitch that I am, her baby shower gift was a book on raising children with manners.

My poor dad was the victim of my terrible taste, unawareness of time periods, and eager enthusiasm at least twice.

I worked at the corporate office of a fairly large company at the time. For our holiday party, which included our partners, we chose names in order to participate in the “White Elephant” gift exchange. I happened to choose someone I thought was pretty fun and funny. For her gift, I gave her a beautifully wrapped,…

Once upon a time, my best friend (a guy, completely platonic) got married. Then I got a real, grown up job. These unrelated events found me trying to catch up to years of generous gift giving from a guy who had a real grown up job for a lot longer. (He got me my first vibrator, which I know seems to make it seem not…

My first husband gave me a CD player, A big expensive toy he knew damn well I didn't want. (I wanted nice, big new bookshelves to house the volumes stacked in piles all over the apartment) I opened it on Christmas day, pasted on a smile for the benefit of the in-laws at whose house we were spending the holiday, and…

My uncle and I have the same birthday. So we always get each other small gifts. When I was in college and had no money, I saw a 3 liter of store brand Dr Pepper called “Dr. Thunder” . We all laughed when he unwrapped it.

Well, there was the time I forgot about an office Yankee Swap until it was time to head to work, it was a very low maximum to spend, maybe $10? So, I grabbed a Christmas mug I had gotten from where else, stopped at grocery store on my way, bought some hot cocoa packets, shoved them there, didn't wrap anything. I got a…

I hate Precious Moments and am afraid of clowns.  So what did an aunt give me? Precious moments clown.