Traditions are traditions. Also included are The Ref, Bad Santa, Die Hard 1 & 2, Christmas Story, and we like Elf. My daughter loved Home Alone but I don't.
At the airport beginning the trek back home. I already want to strangle two chicks getting hammered in the bar that are the final two holding up their flight. No-fly list their asses, I say. They just think its funny. Scored an upgrade to business class for the red-eye, though, so that's awesome.
I just got back from Li'l Bandit's winter orchestra concert, and something funny happened. When his set was over, he was looking for me in the audience, and I heard a girl behind me say to her friend: "Oh my god, there's Li'l Bandit!* He's soooo gorgeous!" *She didn't actually say "Li'l Bandit."
I got an e-mail at work today informing me that since we are going to a new pay schedule the following will happen: On January 8th, I will get a one week paycheck instead of the 2 week check I was expecting on that date. On January 15th I'll get another 1 week check. On January 22 when I would normally receive a two week paycheck, I get nothing. On January 29 I get a two week paycheck. If you do the math, that leaves a week's pay unaccounted for. They basically gave me two weeks notice that next month I'm going to get to juggle my finances to accommodate the fact that my income is going to be short 1 week of pay next month. Fuckers.
When my daughter and I were rewatching ROTJ last week, she was squeeing over the ewoks. I did that when I saw it for the first time as a girl. But now all I could think about is that meme.
I am absolutely sickened by people on Facebook. All this Star Wars talk and nobody has mentioned the far superior Spaceballs. We need to start a social media campaign to get Rick Moranis involved in Episode 8 and Force Ghost John Candy. In other news, HISTORY. Study it out: Why, yes, I have started drinking. Tito's martini with Lillet and a lemon peel. Later, I get to go drunk Christmas shopping.
I like to think that you are imagining yourself like this: In other news, I am stocked up on wine and have two growlers from a local brewery in the fridge. Oh, and Bailey's, for when I feel like turning ordinary beverages into adult beverages.
In other drinking news, I have finally found some Blessed Guulden Draak in my new* hometown. See if you can guess what I've been doing? EXCELSIOR! *Not exactly new, lived here years ago, but moved back recently.
My wife braved the crowds of people last night to grab me two (the limit per customer) DogFish Head Higher Math Very much looking forward to one tonight.
I'm sick of folks telling me "Just go buy some new pants." It's not that easy. I'm 6 foot fucking 7 inches tall. I don't just walk into a store and find a wide selection of pants in my size. "Well just go to a Big and Tall shop" they'll say. Yeah? Have you ever been in a Big and Tall shop? They cater to the former, not so much the latter. There are a lot more fat people then people my height. Yes, they do have pants that will fit me, AFTER I pay the extra money to have them tailored to fit me. I don't like paying $200 for a pair of pants. "Then go to Goodwill, my brother got an awesome suit for there $20." Your brother is 5'9". You know how Goodwill gets their inventory? Dead old people. How many people do you see my height? Let alone 70+ years old at death's door. It makes me want to punch folks I tell you.
I feel your pain, Toytoy, and I'm only 6'0". I'm very particular about my pants, and yes, I do find them in my size (33 or 34 waist by 34 length), but they usually aren't cut the way I want. The best for me are black Dickies double-knee work pants; I've been wearing those exclusively for the last 10 years. But when I find my inseam length, it's usually with a 40"+ waist size. When I find my waist size, it's with a 32" or less inseam. I'm not going to pay $20+ to have a $25 pair of pants altered. So whenever I find a pair of Dickies that are my size, I always buy them, even if I have enough pants at the time. It sucks, but I'd rather have to deal with this than be short and/or fat. In other news, I'm PLANNING on printing my own Christmas Cards this year, but I'm having some pretty serious technical issues. First, after spending a couple of hours getting the pictures for the cards framed up on the page for printing, it turns out that they were saved under some weird format (ODG) that NOBODY CAN OPEN. I found a way to convert them to Jpeg, but then when I opened them, there were margins around all of the pictures! I tried fixing it, but once again, they saved under that bullshit ODG format. So I converted them again. And once again, THEY HAD FUCKING MARGINS, WHICH FUCKS UP THE FRAMING ONCE THE CARDS GET FOLDED. Does anyone have any advice? For the record, I don't have MS office ( I tried a free download last night, but it didn't work, and I tried a few times) or Photoshop. All I have is a laptop with FUCKING WINDOWS 8. Is there a shittier OS than Windows 8? If I can't get this done over this weekend, everyone's cards are going to be late. Just so you get an idea, here is one of the cards: Spoiler
Picking up my new diesel F-250 right after I get back from this gun show. Yes people, some Texan stereotypes are true.
Went to Victoria's Secret last night*. What a wonderful store. Smelled so clean, women shopping for thongs, cute staff, soothing music. All this place was missing was a beer tap. *Yes, I was trying stuff on.