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Post Yule wrap-up

Whew! Glad it’s over! All in all, we had a busy fun weekend. Thursday I hosted my dinner party which was smashing, if I do say so myself. Here’s what I served:
Champagne
Layered Shrimp Dip
Cabernet-Shiraz
Field Mix and goat cheese salad
Creamy wild mushroom and roasted poblano soup
Standing Prime Rib (aka Roast Beast)
Grilled asparagus with creamy hollandaise (my recipe)
Roasted cauliflower with pine nuts and golden raisins
Boiled then roasted fingerling potatoes
Honey ginger carrots
Sauteed onion, grape tomatoes and baby peppers with balsamic vinegar reduction
Reisling Eiswein (courtesy of David)
Cookies and baklava from the German Bakery

I thank Ben, Dave, Allen and Dani for making it a great evening.

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iBook Goodness!!

I’m blogging to you this evening from my fabulous new iBook from my darling husband!

It’s for Yule, but since he’s on the couch nursing his sore balls from today’s vasectomy, I told him to go ahead and bring it out. I’m SO STOKED!! This is a great system and it’s working GREAT!

I had a feeling he was gonna get me a laptop for Yule and when I saw the box, I knew. His doing fine with the minor surgery the frozen veggies are doing the trick! LOL It’s really no big deal – compared to the wisdom teeth earlier this year, this is nothing.

We’re here in the living room watching Sleeper Cell and surfing. We’re borrowing an Airport card from his buddy at work. We’ve got to put more RAM in this thing and get our own airport, but other than that, this is a sweet little ‘Book. It’s an 800Mhz and he got an awesome deal on it off of ebay.

Yay! ::does the happy dance::

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The pressure! The pressure!

Yes, I’m being Tweak this week. I’ve got so much crap to do and NO time to do it. ACK!!

I have to say, I’m glad the damn gift exchange fell through. I’m so torqued up that it wouldn’t even be fun at this point. Damn! And I was doing so good, too. Fear and Loathing Redux.

People have irritated me to the point of distraction and that’s most of the reason for my angst. I just don’t get how so many people can be SO completely slack. It’s disheartening and it’s making me frustrated. I’m busting my ass to make sure the gift exchange happens and the dinner happens and the gift giving happens and all the rest and it seems that no one even gives a big shit one way or the other.

I know Nick gives a shit, but everyone else? Not really.

It’s a sad day in Fairy Goth Mother land. A sad, sad day.

:-(

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Annual Fear and Loathing

Can I just say how much I’m sick of the scene or lack thereof here? I cannot stand the Decatur Clique and I want to remove myself from it ASAP. The Decatur Clique has once again shown its collective asshole to us and I’m DONE. Last time I checked, High School ended back in the 80s. Grow the fuck up. This Clique is the oh, you’ve pissed one of us off, so you must be shunned. I feel like I live in Heathers.

The NOLA crowd is great, I love you guys, but you’re very far away. It’s not like I can run over and have a quick cocktail after work or anything. It’s a big to-do to come visit there or for you to come here. You know what I mean. I wish to the gods you were closer in, but you are not. :-( Our only close in friends are preoccupied and not very sociable right now. We hardly ever see them, so they aren’t a lot of help. We feel very isolated and we live in a town of millions!!

For fuck’s sake, there has got to be some cool peeps IN TOWN somewhere. We canNOT be the only “normal” people who like a little freak on the side in this fucking town. By “normal” I mean people who have jobs, pay their bills, live like normal people but are freaky on the weekends. There has got to be some people who share our interests and do not live in communes, are not hiding from the law, who have a car, have a home, pay their bills and are basically sensible humans but like to party. Aren’t there??

It certainly doesn’t seem that way. It seems like we are the only people in this stinking pit of a town who can balance a normal life and some freaky tendencies without being total drama whore losers: aka, the Decatur Clique.

I’m so over Decatur and everyone I want to hang out with living in the fucking ‘burbs I could just die. ARGH.

Is it too much to ask for friends who are close, normal, accessible and FUN?? Is it too much to want to be OUT of the goddamn Decatur rumour mill? Dammit, I am so OVER IT. It’s a fucking good thing I love my man and we’re best friends or I’d be a complete hermit fer sure!

JUST DAMN!

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From Think Geek

TeeHee! This is from the Fortune page of Think Geek:

The apocryphal acronym you thought you knew!
My Secret Damned Obtuse System?
Master’s Serenity Demands Obsequious
Servitude?
Malarky Sucks Dinero Outta’ Society?
Malefactor Stiffs Dummies On Software?
Monopoly Survives Democracy’s Obligatory
Stupidity?
Macintosh is a system. Windows is a shell.

Heh! I’m so happy to be a geek!