Was it an Icehole? Yesterday someone posted a pic of one of those on FB with the caption "Farging Icehole" which is of course the perfect caption.
Correct! But not just normal yeti-pretentiousness. We're talking full blown cooler snobbery of epic proportions: Spoiler
Happy christmas y'all! Drink one for me since I am abstaining for a few days. I shall live vicariously through you and through my brother in law, who I work very hard to get drunk. Cheers!
You have to sit in a high chair because you ran out of seating at dinner? No? Then there weren't too many people there. I've already had my leftover ham sandwiches. They were delicious.
Definitely not overwhelmed by family. A) my brother's family (wife and three girls) came over last night, spent 90 minutes here, then popped smoke. Perfect. We fed them, The Husband and The Brother drank some bourbon, we listened to Elvis sing Christmas (on vinyl), gave the girls entirely too much sugar, and then had an empty house. B) all of my kids are gone. Visiting family/friends for the holidays. C) except for the one brother and his family who live here, my parents live in Texas, other brother lives in Maine, and The Husband's family is (based on his and my mutual decision) unwelcome here. D) it's just been the two of us today. I don't even really know why I'm wearing pants.
Oh man, envy. We decided to skip the ham this year, but I know that I'm going to miss those leftovers. I am day drinking, but only occasionally. I don't want to be in the bag when I watch the Doctor Who Christmas special tonight.
I'm alone. It's wonderful. Husband is handling flag detail for the holidays and so...I'm hanging out with the dogs and listening to Alabama. I could take a nap (and might)...but first I'm looking at Amazon and maybe going to create a baby registry...which kind of freaks me out?
Sigh, because I'm the smallest. Except for my mom. But I figured I'd spare her. It wasn't one of those plastic ones that they then put the tray on--I have some dignity. It was a wooden one, that they pulled up to the table. I'm a big girl y'all! I would like to point out that I was at least sitting at the big person's table. My actions might be immature (I told my nephew his earphones made him look like a girl, he then threatened me with showing my mom the picture of me giving the finger--we get each other), but I haven't been demoted yet.
I am a martinet when it comes to limiting how much family can stress me out over Christmas. We do Christmas Eve with my wife's family, which is pretty pleasant. And then the entirety of dealing with my family is about two hours this morning for breakfast. That's it. Afterwards my wife and I did a movie, chinese food (with a couple of friends joining us), and are now lounging at home.
You have NO idea just how happy I am that I'm sitting at home, alone, with no Christmas expectations to meet. Other than those that I set for myself. If age has taught me anything it's that a REAL Christmas is best spent with your immediate family, without trying to live up to some bullshit Hallmark Christmas storyline. I don't want to see family I haven't seen since last year. I don't want to rush around and deal with crowds. I don't want to have some stupid checklist of shit that HAS to get done on Christmas. I just want to sit back, relax, and do what I want with those that mean a lot to me. If that means sleeping in, getting buzzed off of mimosas at 11am, watching football in PJ's, and just laughing, eating, drinking, and RELAXING, then that is just perfect. This year the immediate family experience consisted of about an hour of video calls while we opened each others gifts. Usually I'd try and be "home" for Christmas, but this year the folks are heading out on a cruise tomorrow, so there was no sense in flying across the country. All in all, it's been a great Christmas. I'm just drinking wine and eating turkey. It's fucking awesome. And speaking of turkey, I made up a simple spicy rub that was fucking tasty... came out crunchy, with some good heat to it... I'm calling it a resounding success.
My wife and I decided a few years ago that the holidays were about what we wanted to do and not about what family expected us to do. The holidays don't need to be stressful. They are what you make of them. So tonight we are sitting in our basement watching reruns of the Simpsons (thanks to FXNow) and drinking Manhattans. This is my idea of a Holiday. Did anyone get any good loot? I got a french press and lots of coffee goodies to go with it. It really is amazing how something that simple can make me so happy.
Enough cash for a new shotgun, a few jackets, a pair of snake boots, some bbq stuff. The best though was when my step-father gave me a display knife from Alaska, and when he tried to get it out of the case -- because it swore it was "razor sharp" and wanted to prove it -- the fucker split his thumb wide open.... Some superglue fixed that, because no one want's to be the asshole going in for stitches on Xmas.
My dad got me a mandolin which was very unexpected. He seemed more pumped about it than I was and I was thrilled. Girlfriend got me an ammo box full of beef jerky. I know right? I also bought myself an AR-15. Better than any of that was being around my extended family. They all get along very well. I never knew that was a rare thing until I got older and I try not to take it for granted. I just wish we could all get together without the hassle of presents.
I can say that I did not get a gun for Christmas. But, I got some decent booze, a lot of practical everyday things and Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky to name a few so it's all good.
So, am I crazy, or was Interstellar kind of a turd? My experience of it and reviews don't match up at all.