Count me in for listening about all the ways the other DIL and her family blow along with criticisms re: me, my career and my family. In-law Time wheeeeeeee! Call me crazy, but I think that I rock, my parents rock, and I like my job. A lot. I don't really give a shit if they appreciate any of it. This is only 1 out of 365 days of the year that I have to deal with this shit.
Anyone buy, or seen/played with, one of the Star Wars BB-8 droid toys? There are two out -- a Target one, and a Sphero brand one. Looking to buy one online as a gift, and trying to figure out which one would be better. Read all the reviews, but just seeing if anyone had any experience...
You know those hover board things that are super popular this year and have been catching fire? Yeah, FUCK those!! My nephew got one. I stepped on it and the fucker started having like a seizure, threw me off like a girl who accidentally gets it in her ass.
One of my buddy's took a unique family portrait this year: He's an awesome dude, but he's got a weird sense of humor.
I spent Christmas Eve with my mom and her husband and his two boys. Apparently there was some drama between one of the boys and his dad before I arrived, but during my time there everything was nice and peaceful. My 69 year old mother got a little tipsy and decided she liked Arch Enemy, except for the vocals - she couldn't comprehend that it was a woman singing. Today I went over to my dad's and it was just me, him, and his wife. The biggest issue I had was trying not to eat the pasta he just made that was hanging from a drying rack. Old habits die hard.
Got back today after being in Orlando. We spent a couple of days at the two Universal parks walking our legs into bloody stumps. The Harry Potter stuff was goddamn fantastic and the other stuff was a lot of fun. Great parks. The weather was almost perfect - overcast and breezy. We also hit Downtown Disney last night (oh I'm sorry, it's now called Disney Springs - BARF). That place was a fucking zoo. We could have avoided the crowd if we just did Planet Hollywood since it was right next to the parking garage, but we also wanted to get sundaes at Ghirardelli. Not gonna lie, I had mine wolfed down before the kid was even halfway through hers. I'm not big into sweets anymore, but that hot fudge flipped a switch somewhere. Glad to be home, I am all sweatpants and couch surfing and waiting on pins and needles for the Doctor Who Christmas special.
WTF? San Diego police search for 400-pound bearded woman suspected of stabbing man http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/2...man-suspected-stabbing-man.html?intcmp=hplnws
Those things suck. Hover boards are supposed to hover in some way, yes? Not act like a Mini-Me Segway scooter with a ghost in the machine. I've already seen a hundred clips of people getting annihilated on those things, they are the Pogo-Ball of this generation. It would be safer to make your kids ride Bodacious. I would love to write honest ad catch phrases for it. "Hey folks, have you ever dreamed of the opportunity to slam the back of your skull through sheet rock at the Speed Of Fear?"
Merry Christmas fellow TiBers! Today was a great day. Last night was better - I got engaged. Very happy! I hope everyone else has had a wonderful Christmas as well.
You know you're getting old when people ask you how Xmas was and your response is "fantastic! My son had a blast!!!" Merry Xmas fuckers.
Once you have kids that's what it revolves around. Being in our thirties, my wife and I, as she explained to her friend: "Just Went out and bought our stuff we liked, didn't buy cards, and never bothered wrapping it because there's no point to any of that shit." But our daughter didn't like that and wants us to open gifts along with her next year. Her drug of choice as always was Playmobil, the best toy ever made. Collectable, nails-tough, educational, not an eyesore, easier to put together than Ikea furniture, insanely detailed (including functioning light and water fixtures) and its German so in some way it also has evil backing it. My daughter has the entire makeshift-town of it now, including a campground added today: ...Also it hurts much less to step on than Lego. Lego as a kid was the cat's ass, endlessly fun and imaginative. As an adult it is barbed wire. The broken glass scene in Die Hard. They could tile the fucking Space Shuttle with it, so we've taken measures to steer her clear of it.
My son is about a year and a half so this year he actually understood the concept of opening presents instead of just playing with the wrapping paper (though he did like the boxes very much). He quickly gathered that the adults were the ones who gave him the gifts, so he started going up to every person bigger than him and saying "more." Our living room is now covered. A play house, slide and climbing wall, work bench, bbq grill, all kinds of riding four wheelers and lawn mowers and tractors. The kid is obsessed with watching me work with tools and doing shit outside so I guess everyone figured he needed my outside crap, inside. My OCD wife is going insane. I pray the next one is a girl just to calm her the fuck down. She hates when I come inside wearing boots that she thinks might have dirt on them. One redneck husband is enough, the boy might push her over the edge.
San Diego is now safe from stabby Sasquatch. 400-pound, bearded woman arrested for stabbing man, running away http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/400-pound-bearded-woman-sought-san-diego-stabbing/nprQs/
They found the bodies of the last two missing people back home. 6 fatalities in the county. JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) -- The death toll from this week's storms in Mississippi has climbed to 10. According to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, two bodies were found Saturday morning in Benton County. All the deaths come after tornadoes that touched down on Wednesday
What did I get for Christmas? Stuff for the house and kitchen. 3 months after our wedding where we had a registry filled with stuff... For the house and kitchen...