'Twas the Day After X-Mas...
Dec. 26th, 2010 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse'Twas the day after Christmas and somehow my family is still asleep even though it is AFTER 9:00 am. Of course, I'd still be asleep myself if it wasn't for the fact that I had to get up to move the car for the latest snow emergency. When I was out scraping the car, I lifted one of the windsheild wipers to brush the ice off it, and guess what? It came apart in my hands. Like, the rubber shredded and the various peices snapped in two. No, it is not THAT cold outside. I have no idea why that happened, outside of the fact that the universe is determined to give me car hassles all winter long, it seems.
Speaking of, we've also developed an odd clunking under the car. If they hadn't just replaced struts and such, I'd say that was what it sounded like. Alas, I think that means either something they installed when awry OR something they attached a new part to has finally given way. (The latter seems to happen with old cars... you put something new and shiny on something old and rusty and suddenly the old bit can't cope and falls apart.)
The good news is that we have some vacation still, and I can take the car in with minimal hassle. At least I won't have to worry about getting Mason to school on time. Shawn's work is more flexible. If I had to I could take her in super early and pick her up super late. They don't really let you do that at public school. :-)
Christmas was lovely. As I meantioned earlier, Shawn's big present this year is Internet, but I also got her -- as a HUGE suprise -- an iTouch. Both presents have been a lot of fun for the whole family. Of course, I'm briefly turning into one of those people who Twitter too much (but I assume once the excitement wears off, I'll be back to normal. Don't unfriend me yet. I promise to be better.)
Probably the next best present was one I got from Shawn, which was cookie cutters in the shape of ninjas. I'm planning to use those to make sugar cookies for our kuk sul wan test, as everyone is invited to share in a potluck afterwards. I thought, for good luck, I'd be sure to put yellow stripes on the frosting belts. :-) I supposed I'd better find out the order of colors and stripes so I can make some lucky cookies for other folks too.
Ah, I hear actual movement upstairs. I suspect the family has awoken from their deep slumber.
The other presents/loot I got were a ton of cool cookbooks that Shawn hunted for over the year at various used bookstores, including a fabulous book called HOW TO FRY ALMOST EVERYTHING. Tell me that's not made for me?
Mason, of course, is swimming in LEGOs. Though he did get a cool new DS game called "Super Scribblenauts," which he hasn't tried yet, but seems awesome as you can type in whatever you need, including things like "flying angry pink mouse!" I can't wait to see how it works.
Anyway, I should go hunt up breakfast for my clan.
Speaking of, we've also developed an odd clunking under the car. If they hadn't just replaced struts and such, I'd say that was what it sounded like. Alas, I think that means either something they installed when awry OR something they attached a new part to has finally given way. (The latter seems to happen with old cars... you put something new and shiny on something old and rusty and suddenly the old bit can't cope and falls apart.)
The good news is that we have some vacation still, and I can take the car in with minimal hassle. At least I won't have to worry about getting Mason to school on time. Shawn's work is more flexible. If I had to I could take her in super early and pick her up super late. They don't really let you do that at public school. :-)
Christmas was lovely. As I meantioned earlier, Shawn's big present this year is Internet, but I also got her -- as a HUGE suprise -- an iTouch. Both presents have been a lot of fun for the whole family. Of course, I'm briefly turning into one of those people who Twitter too much (but I assume once the excitement wears off, I'll be back to normal. Don't unfriend me yet. I promise to be better.)
Probably the next best present was one I got from Shawn, which was cookie cutters in the shape of ninjas. I'm planning to use those to make sugar cookies for our kuk sul wan test, as everyone is invited to share in a potluck afterwards. I thought, for good luck, I'd be sure to put yellow stripes on the frosting belts. :-) I supposed I'd better find out the order of colors and stripes so I can make some lucky cookies for other folks too.
Ah, I hear actual movement upstairs. I suspect the family has awoken from their deep slumber.
The other presents/loot I got were a ton of cool cookbooks that Shawn hunted for over the year at various used bookstores, including a fabulous book called HOW TO FRY ALMOST EVERYTHING. Tell me that's not made for me?
Mason, of course, is swimming in LEGOs. Though he did get a cool new DS game called "Super Scribblenauts," which he hasn't tried yet, but seems awesome as you can type in whatever you need, including things like "flying angry pink mouse!" I can't wait to see how it works.
Anyway, I should go hunt up breakfast for my clan.
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Date: 2010-12-27 05:09 am (UTC)Whew. If you ever go to a tournament, or meet more black belts, you'll probably get to see the different uniforms, which I'm only vaguely clear on. (I highly recommend going to a tournament, they're tonnes of fun.)
Now I wish I was testing; those cookies sound really cute! Good luck with the test, and the car. :)