{"id":424,"date":"2008-12-28T23:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=424"},"modified":"2012-10-09T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T02:09:50","slug":"christmas-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas this year was amazing. I think it was the first time I’ve had a real (where “real” implies a tree and presents and various Christmas-y things) Christmas since early high school. It was nice just being able to do nothing all day and play games with people… and there was lots of tasty tasty food and wine<\/a> (the kind I like) and sweets.<\/p>\n

I also got presents: a nice t-shirt, a photo album with sticky pages, a ton of tasty gummies<\/a>, and one giant spherical squishy shark<\/a> (which is quite possibly the best thing ever). His name is Cat because I have a blue stuffed dog named Poop, and Greg suggested the name so I could tell him to “Eat Poop, you Cat”.<\/p>\n

I also bought myself another $70-ish of card games. There’s starter decks for WARS<\/a>, Rifts CCG<\/a>, Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) CCG<\/a>, and Babylon 5 TCG<\/a>. There’s also a standalone Tribbles CCG box<\/a> (which got some play over Christmas and is a very simple, yet surprisingly fun, game), a box of Hecatomb starters, and 5 boxes of .hack\/\/ENEMY<\/a> booster packs (one of each of the five sets; mainly because I love opening and sorting cards and these were cheap, since I already have a nearly complete set of all 5 expansions). These games should get played at some point, if anyone around here is interested.
\nAlso, I think I am now getting hooked on Nertz–a variant of Solitare that involves players playing on each other’s Ace piles–after playing lots of games of it over this past week.<\/p>\n

Also, someone sent me a fetus-shaped cookie cutter in the mail. This is probably the most bizarrely awesome present I’ve ever gotten, but I don’t know who it’s from. Who sent me this? Thank you!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I have work again. This is going to feel really weird.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow after work will be grocery shopping. I need to get some spinach and mushrooms to make frittata with my remaining eggs. I’ll probably get some chicken to marinate and bake too.<\/p>\n

I still need to post photos from Big Basin and the PPL Potluck party. They’re batched and processed but I’m being lazy in transferring them over to this computer and uploading them. I’ll try and do so tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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