Christmas Tree and Shopping

Yay! More pictures!

Oh, Tannenbaum.

BAM! The cool kids. Each of those glasses make 3D versions of little Santas, stars, snowmen, and the words "Merry Christmas" when you look at lights. Also the flash on the camera. Suddenly a huge Santa flashed in my face just as this picture was being taken. They're pretty rockin'. I'll say that. And we look pretty rockin' in them.

The tree from another angle. Mom and Nina did the decorating. Pretty good! There are now a few more ornaments on it, including two wooden violins, which are my personal favorite.

Crazy ol' Rog.

Isn't this just so sweet and dreamy.

That's right, I did the Christmas toes. That color red is called "I'm really not a waitress." Interesting.

Holly leaves! The woman who did this is the same woman who painted my spider for me. I really like her. I wish she spoke English so I could talk to her.

Oh yes, time for some Christmas shopping at King of Prussia! This is Mom's Manhattan. Dear God, it was awful. At least I didn't like it. But she did. I was wild and went on on a limb with some orange soda. I was really hoping that I'd get carded for the second time in a month (!), but then I had to go ruin it by ordering something any two-year-old can drink.

Nina drinking espresso. I'm so glad I got a photo of this because I'm not sure it will ever happen again. But she was feeling a little lagging that day, sooo.... ergo, espresso. 

It was a seafood place.

Now, I'm sure you were all just dying to see a picture of my half-eaten plate of mushroom raviolis, so I felt obligated to share.

Ginny got some fried clam strips.

And Mom got the fisherman's trio. She had fried clams, fried shrimp, and fried scallops. She said it was awesome. It looked awesome. I can personally attest to the awesomeness of the fries. So after this, I'd like to say that we ended up shopping like mad people and crossing everyone off our lists. I don't know, energy was really low that day. I didn't buy a doggone thing. But Mom and Nina did get several things for various people, so it wasn't a total loss. I don't know why, but the blog isn't letting me write paragraphs anymore, so I'll have to type the rest of this under the last photo in one big block. (Ridiculous! To whom do I send my many complaints??) Tomorrow Brad and I head to Pittsburgh to be with his family for Christmas. I baked these little puppies to take with us. I also ate one and declared it "scrumpdillyuptious." Try them out, you won't regret it. I ended up getting Brad's family portraits of the two of us that the professional photographer took when we had a family portrait at Thanksgiving (she took a few big family photos and then individual family photos). They turned out really nice! After the holidays, Mom is going to buy a cd of all of the portraits so we have them and can just get prints from the local printer, which has got to be like a hundred times less. It actually wasn't too expensive if you called the studio to get prints, but if you ordered from the website it was like 3 times as much. So that was stupid. But it was much less stressful to get them professional photos than actually take the time and effort to make something for them. Next year for sure. Anyway... I think that's about it for me. If I don't make it back on here before the holiday, everyone have a great one and be safe!

Comments

  1. VirginiaDecember 23, 2011 at 2:34 AM

    For the record, that espresso did nothing but make me easily irritated. Boo to coffee!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Evan and Clover and Co.December 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM

    I hate coffee. I do, however, like the phrase, "Ergo, espresso."

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

No, it's just sad really.

So today one girl at work was like, "I'm going online to see who's on missed connections." (We don't really work hard.) She came up with someone looking for a girl named Ashley who's 23, and there is a girl in our office who fits this description. Everyone was sort of fakely excited. And so I said, "I have no idea what you guys are talking about." It turns out that craigslist.com has this link called "missed connections" where you can post an ad looking for someone that you either met in passing or saw somewhere and didn't get a chance to talk to. It's pretty crazy. "Go on," my colleagues urged me. "It's so fun and interesting, you'll get addicted! Maybe someone is looking for you!" At which point I concluded that I should highly doubt that, and if I saw my name on there I'd probably immediately die of a heart attack. They agreed. And since I'm such a hard worker, and also it was the end...
Read more

30 for 30

Well, this is it. Next week, I'm leaving my 20's forever. In a previous post , I wanted to find 30 random acts of kindness to do for my 30th year, based on someone else's idea ( this woman ). Anyway, most of her acts of kindness involved buying things for people she didn't know. Clearly, she has a large disposable income. I don't have a large disposable income, but I do have time and some kind words, so I figured I would donate what I have. I googled some ideas. I almost didn't write about this on my blog, as a lot of the ideas that came up were like, "smile at someone," or "hold open the door for the person behind you," which are things that I do every day without even thinking about it, and even though that totally sounded like a backdoor brag, I didn't mean it that way, I just mean I want to challenge myself to go out of my way to be kinder. I mean, how lame would it be if one of my actual goals was "say good morning to a strang...
Read more

The reality of "Twilight"

Image
Some of you may know that I only recently returned to work, after months of unemployment. That was a glorious time for me, but unfortunately, not what this post is about. When I came back to work, I was shocked to see that a folder was saved in My Documents called "Verity" (especially since the folder called "Verity" on the main drive containing all the instructions I had written on how to do my job was deleted, dang it). Anyway, within this folder I found a really interesting article I had written last year regarding the Twilight craze consuming our nation these days. Since now I have a place to post this, I thought I'd share it all with you. Enjoy! On nearly every news report I’ve ever seen covering the new Twilight series and the apparent mania following thereof, one of the many love-stricken teenagers unfailingly and inarticulately declares the reason for her obsession is “He’s the perfect man!” (Though, to be fair, I have heard, “He’s...
Read more