Have a safe and happy 4th of July Figments! And a special Happy Birthday to my bother, Buddy, who turns 16 today. Holy crap, where did all that time go? He is now legal to drive, and I am scared.

It's time for randomness!

Ice has melted enough and it's not snowing right-this-second that I'm going to go do my Christmas shopping. It should be madness, I look forward to it.

Happy Birthday to Michael. Have a good one.

There are cats living under my house, and I'll let them, because this is the most depressing song ever.

Off I go!

Yesterday was Savvy's birthday. On Saturday we threw her a little party, there were only four of us, so we went out to Sushi and goofed off all evening. Yesterday her birthday wish was to go sit in the theater and watch a bunch of movies she hasn't had time to go see, so her and I went to a couple of theaters and I bought her tickets to four movies.

We saw P.S. I love you (and bawled), I Am Legend, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Enchanted. I also bought her dinner. She said she had a good time, and it was nice to just blow a whole day doing nothing productive at all.

Happy Birthday Sav!

Happy Birthday, Savvy. Have a great one.

Friday was my birthday, and of course like every other birthday my entire life it went by unnoticed by everyone. It was, by far, the worst birthday ever.

It is being made up for a little by a couple of people once I got home. Robin came by over the weekend and brought me a 9' Christmas tree and took me to lunch. Today Sav is coming by for lunch and a movie.

Other then the two of them, and one other happy birthday from Tif, I got nothing. No cards, no happy birthdays (not even as Emails or comments), not a single thing. I'm pretty much to the point now that I've decided to never again do anything for anyone else, because I'm so tired of having it thrown in my face how utterly unimportant I am to people who claim otherwise.

My tree is gorgeous though. 9 feet, holy crap.

Happy Hanukkah :)

Happy Thanksgiving, Figs.

The older brother and his fiancée are coming into town tonight for the holiday tomorrow. They'll be staying at my house, which should be entertaining. There are a few different BBQ's and stuff going on around town involving some form or another of family, including a family reunion (that I won't be attending, hah!) at my Great Aunt's house.

As for myself, tomorrow is also my younger brother Bud's birthday, so I'll be wishing him a happy birthday, and then sitting around on my duff with a house full of people eating junk and watching bad movies. A great way to spend the 4th, if I say so myself.

Have a safe and happy 4th Figments. Don't go singeing your eyebrows off your heads, I like you just the way you are.

HotD:

Loud thumping music
Annoying neighbors are fun
Time to call the cops

Happy Birthday Fred. I love ya.

Boyo just went to go pick up his car. Then we're going to unload it and run out to Corvallis to pick up Savvy. Tonight is Miss Tiff's 22nd birthday party. At, where else, a roller skating rink. That's where all the big girls are having their parties, doncha know.

It should be super exciting. I haven't roller skated since like 7th grade. I expect to end the evening with a broken ankle. I'll take pictures so you all can have a good laugh, Figs.

Look forward to it!

Hey Figments, how long do you normally leave your holiday decorations up for? When do you put them up? When do you take them down? I'm always curious about peoples customs and traditions with decorations.

I usually get my Christmas tree on my birthday, the 14th, and then decorate that day and the day after, and then leave them up until about the 6th or so. I plan on taking everything down and boxing it up tomorrow. About mid-March I'll get my spring stuff out. Yeah, I have spring decorations. A whole ceramic village and everything, what's it to you?

I didn't get a tree this year, because I never could find the time to go pick one up with a car big enough to hold it. Although I am kind of sad about the whole not having a tree thing, I'm also kind of grateful. It saves me the hassle of taking it down, getting it out of here and disposed of. For your own future reference Figs, throwing it on the side of the freeway is not disposing of your tree properly, as one slightly angry cute state trooper once told me before he hauled me off to Tree Jail, he wearing nothing but a Santa hat and a stocking over...wait, maybe that's just a dream I had one time.

Not having a tree also means I don't have to spend the next three months impaling my feet on dried pine needles stuck in the carpet.

So, when do you put yours up and take yours down? Would you be willing to come take mine down? I'll give you a nice shiny quarter. Whadda say?

So I'm almost completely done with disk 2 of the first season of Supernatural, loaned to me by Savvy because it's sooo Christmasy to watch while baking. My cakes, biscuits and about one dozen of my cookies are done, and are turning out nicely. I only burnt myself once!

I have about two dozen cookies left (I have more dough then I thought I did) and then all I need to do is let everything cool and pack it up.

This years cookies are topped with the leftover orange chocolate on the cake, crushed peppermint, and sprinkles of course. I'll totally share if anyone wants some.

I need to finish wrapping up presents, but I ran out of paper and won't be able to pick some up until tomorrow. I hate it when that happens, because it makes me feel really behind. I feel like I should have been done with wrapping days ago. I have about six peoples worth of stuff to wrap, and it's killing me. I also need to finish packing my bags so I can get out of here in the morning, but other then that, I'm good to go.

I want to wish all my Figments a very Merry Christmas and I hope your holiday this year is the best it's ever been.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday to my brother Kevin. I hope you have an awesome day!

I promise to post a blog that isn't just wishing someone a happy holiday or something soon. Perhaps this evening, I'll take a picture of my way awesome gingerbread houses and post them. Doesn't that sound super exciting?

Yeah.

Happy Yule, I hope that it's a wonderful holiday for those of you who celebrate :)

Happy Chanukah! I hope that it's a great one for all of you and your families who celebrate it.

Nostradamus and I share a birthday. I wonder if people forgot his like they do mine.

Oh well. One step closer to ancient. Happy Birthday to me.

I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. :)

I've been at relatives since early yesterday afternoon and it's been fun. My brother and his fiancee just got in town, and I haven't really seen them in a few months so it'll be good to catch up with them. I'm on my way over to my moms in about an hour to help her with some cooking.

I did a ton of baking yesterday, and I'm not sure if I'll do any more today, it entirely depends on how much other food is floating around. I might anyway, and bring the extras to the All Day Write-In that's planned for Saturday.

Have a great one Figments!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful (and only) sister Elaine. I love you, keed.

Happy Birthday to Melissa, and awesome friend and even more amazing person. I love you!

Today is Michael's 3rd birthday. Those years just flew right by, it's amazing. Man, do I feel old.