Happy Sneezy New Year
Jan. 1st, 2003 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperThe holidays always happen in a scattershot fashion around the Murkworks, spread out between the Solstice, Christmas, and whatever common day we can achieve when we're all back from our various travels for the exchange of house presents. This year House Christmas fell upon the 30th, following the return of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mamishka and spazzkat from wanderings elsewhere.
Tally of loot given:
Tally of loot received:
All around a nicely pleasant evening despite the fact that the other thing I got for Christmas was a stupid COLD. I woke up with a sore throat on this past Saturday morning, had a sore throat again on Sunday and was just in general pretty logey and having occasional chills and queasiness. As is often the case with me I slept extremely badly, which helped contribute to the exhaustion. Got up on Monday morning with the thought that if I was up to it I would go to work, but realized I wasn't up to it, so I emailed in sick and then promptly zonked out on the couch until around 1pm. Went to work yesterday, but only managed to make it through the day thanks to Dayquil, and zonked out again when I got home.
And wound up having to miss New Year's Eve atkathrynt and llachglin's house, too. But I didn't want to inflict my plague-ridden self on their house, not to mention I didn't feel much like stirring far from the couch. So I stayed home and rested, and come 11:30 or so set a fire in the fireplace and held the Ritual Burning of Things That Suck. R. came up to join me.
It is now 10am on New Year's Day and I have been up since a quarter to nine, which is a signal that I am indeed ill because under ordinary circumstances I wouldn't budge voluntarily out of my bed on a day off until at least eleven. It is all gray and dreary outside, too, exactly the sort of day on which you want to be curled up under a blanket.
Fortunately, I have a blanket.
Happy new year.
mamishka and spazzkat from wanderings elsewhere. Tally of loot given:
- Game Cube and Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee game to Paul. We are having great fun with this, not only because you can be all the monsters from the Godzilla movies, but also because one of the fighting arenas is downtown Seattle. I haven't even played this thing myself, but am massively amused by watching Dar and Paul throw downtown Seattle buildings at each other. Or, for that matter, other monsters, if they're in melee mode. Hehehehe.
- New head on her djembe for Mimi. The Fremont Drum Shop did a good job on it and it sounds rather better to my ear, though granted I am not too terribly versed on the fine points of drums. But I'm glad we have her djembe back, I've missed it in jam.
- Silky red robe for Dar. Mmm.
- Gift certificate for the Mac makeup counter at Nordstrom's for new housemate R.
- Tea for Mimi.
Tally of loot received:
- Lilo & Stitch on DVD from Dar for Solstice.
- Lilo doll from Paul! She is very adorable, and can waggle her head and hula skirt when you move her arms up and down, and she says things and plays hula music. but what really charms the hell out of me is that she smells like cocoa butter. Mmmmmm cocoa butter.
- Gift card for $60 at Barnes and Noble from Paul. Whoot, book spree!
- Weird Al Yankovic DVD from Mimi, with a recording of one of his shows from the concert tour she and Paul and I attended. Hehehehe.
- Elvis CD from Dar, which is apparently the only way to get a recorded copy of the nifty re-mix of "A Little Less Conversation". I would not have actually bought it myself on the grounds that I already have every single other song on it, but well hey. ;) It was a cheap CD!
- Nifty electronic guitar chord frob from Dar! This thing is pretty cool, it has a touch-sensitive screen and has over 4,000 chords in it. You just poke it it till you find the chord you want.
- Super-deluxe extended version of Fellowship of the Ring from Paul as a joint gift to me and Dar, the boxed set version that comes with the bookends. Only one problem: the damn thing was missing its first disc! DOH! ssha says that she's actually heard rumors of a whole shipment of these things going out with various problems, so perhaps we got one of that bum shipment.
All around a nicely pleasant evening despite the fact that the other thing I got for Christmas was a stupid COLD. I woke up with a sore throat on this past Saturday morning, had a sore throat again on Sunday and was just in general pretty logey and having occasional chills and queasiness. As is often the case with me I slept extremely badly, which helped contribute to the exhaustion. Got up on Monday morning with the thought that if I was up to it I would go to work, but realized I wasn't up to it, so I emailed in sick and then promptly zonked out on the couch until around 1pm. Went to work yesterday, but only managed to make it through the day thanks to Dayquil, and zonked out again when I got home.
And wound up having to miss New Year's Eve at
kathrynt and llachglin's house, too. But I didn't want to inflict my plague-ridden self on their house, not to mention I didn't feel much like stirring far from the couch. So I stayed home and rested, and come 11:30 or so set a fire in the fireplace and held the Ritual Burning of Things That Suck. R. came up to join me.It is now 10am on New Year's Day and I have been up since a quarter to nine, which is a signal that I am indeed ill because under ordinary circumstances I wouldn't budge voluntarily out of my bed on a day off until at least eleven. It is all gray and dreary outside, too, exactly the sort of day on which you want to be curled up under a blanket.
Fortunately, I have a blanket.
Happy new year.
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