Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Return of Suniverse Part 2 - The Empire Strikes Back

Thanks for all your lovely comments from yesterday's post.  I REALLY MISSED YOU!!!

As I discussed, we had two holiday parties - one for friends and one for family.  Every year, I have everyone at my house Christmas Day.  My family.  My in-laws.  My aunt and cousins. This year we also had my favorite brother-in-law and sister-in-law, plus my cousins' grandmother.  Lots of loving, lovely people.

I also had PMS.

I did pretty well.  I was wiped out and tired and a bit cranky, and I worked Christmas Eve, but I still managed to only fight with the husband once.  Unfortunately, I yelled at him in front of my sister-in-law. 

To whom I apologized.  Profusely.

Not so much to the husband.  He totally deserved it - seriously.  Just take my word for it. 

Oh.  We also fought New Year's Eve.  Way to ring in the New Year, right?  Man, we have difficulty communicating when we're tired.

I guess the holidays are stressful.

[Next year, I plan on being out of town.  Alone.  Except you can join me.]

Incidentally, we actually made plans for next New Year's Eve, because the past few ones have been L-A-M-E.  Literal snooze fests, in that I've fallen asleep anywhere between 9 and 11pm.  Only to be woken up at midnight, because why not?  It's obviously important for me to be alert and coherent when Dick Clark creeps out a nation at the witching hour.

On the plus side of the holiday extravaganza, I also got to use a mandoline for the first time and holy kitchen awesomeness, people.  It's like a miracle!  I want to rapidly slice EVERYTHING.

The one I used was black, but still fucking awesome.
I can't explain how boring my life is now that I've had to return it.  Valentine's Day is coming up.

I also got new dishes from the husband.  Really nice plates that make me feel like I'm eating a nice restaurant instead of in my tiny dining area, bitching about the cat hair on my black cloth chair cushions and trying to ignore the noise of the t.v. blaring.  A girl can dream, right?

Tune in tomorrow, for . . . I'm not sure what, yet.  Something good.

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Speaking of something good - I've got a new post up at Secret Society of List Makers.  All about my health.  Mmm . . . mediciney.

7 comments:

  1. Agreed - Dick Clark needs to retire... or just sit quietly in the background and wave every now and then. I realize the man has had a stroke and I feel for him, but enough is enough.

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  2. Seriously - *love* kitchen utensils. Although, admittedly I try to keep away from the mandolin after almost rapidly slicing through my own hand.

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  3. Sorry about the PMS--that's never fun.

    Nice blog, btw--found you from a Secret Society of List Addicts post.

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  4. oh, PMS - it's like there's a PMS fairy watching you at all times, waiting for the worst possible moment to go "HA! now you will SUFFER!"

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  5. We have plenty of cat hair if you run out.

    I've always wanted a mandoline. I don't cook so I can't justify the expense.

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  6. I was asleep at 9 on New Years...last year too. I know how to party.
    Why did you have to take back the slicing machine? Too much temptation to use it on the husband's goods?

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