JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

Welcome to Monday - personally, I’m really glad (and a little surprised) I made it ;o)

This weekend, RR learned…

…there are co-workers you can trust to mix you a drink at the office Christmas party, and there are those you can’t.

…and when those who cannot be trusted are doing the drink mixing…odds are good you are going to be broken…and soon.

…add woo-woo and kamikaze shots to those drinks and…well, you can just imagine…

…to not argue when I say, “I want to drive home, k?” ;o)

Add to that what I learned…

…two beers and three shots before dinner leads to an inability to fully appreciate the butternut squash risotto first course (in my defense, dinner was served at 9:30 and the party started at 7. I wasn’t allowed to bring my knitting so what else was I to do to amuse myself? I turned to alcohol. I’m not proud.)

…having a tendency to drink a lot and throw things at your dining partners leads you to be seated at the ‘kids table’ at the office party. This is not a complaint. Everyone was jealous. Of us. ;o)

…recognizing your…inebriation and slowing your alcohol intake only proves one thing. I’m old. (I still kept throwing stuff though, hehehe)

And finally, something that we both learned a long, long time ago:

…McDonald’s may be gross and disgusting and really, really bad for you - but when you have a hangover, ain’t nothin’ like a cheeseburger, large fries and a diet coke to set all that is wrong back to rightness. Just for the record? RR was in WAY worse shape. No matter what he says.

I’m also very proud to say that I’m still ‘vomit free since ‘03′ ;hehehehehehe

OH and for those Tick fans out there - you are NOT going to believe what I stumbled across…“Java Devil, you are now my bitch.” *grin* You can thank me later ;o)

I know I’m supposed to have a picture of the sky up today however, I don’t have one because between the Sims and Xmess preparations I haven’t *seen* the sky in a week ;o)

SO I shall amuse you with a meme. Bev tagged me with this meme last week - You’re supposed to take the first sentence from the first post of each month in 2006:

January - RR isn’t a tech geek.

February - I saw one of these here and decided to go here and make one of my very own :o)

March - As soon as I finish Odessa I will be starting to knit for this.

April - It starts off small…you buy a little yarn here for a
shawl/scarf/throw and then once you get the hang of the knit/purl and
the increase/decrease action (you know, you get skillz) you decide that you can branch out to sweaters.

May - …and I had my memory jogged…at least partially ;o) (Thanks C ;o) )

June - [No words in this post...]

July - Happy 4th of July, my fellow Americans (a day early…)!

August -

…and some knitting stuff at the end ;o)

September - …and some of you can’t ;o) (spot a liar, that is)

October - I found the effing ‘lost’ Civ 4 and RCT 3 disks

November - Today Dobby is seventeen…going on twenty-five ;o)

December - Remember this? Well, the latest is that Dad is having his operation this morning at 5:30am.

It was fun to go through all my posts (yet time consuming since I had all through December done and my browser froze up. Damn those sites who have flash animation ads - they kill me every time). I’ve included links to the posts for those who are curious :o)

Hope you all are having a good weekend! Tonight we will be attending the Xmess par-tay for the coal mines (aka RR’s work) which should be most excellent - it always is :o)

I couldn’t help myself, I installed The Sims yesterday and now I have a problem.

It is the complete, utter time-suck I expected it to be - and the reason why I haven’t played it since it came out in 2000. I knew I’d never be able to walk away from it once I started. However, all reason deserted me when I found ‘Makin’ Magic’ at Staples for $3.50 (no, that’s not a typo). That led me to buy the Deluxe edition on Ebay (which was *not* from a non-smoking home as they claimed. I can’t even bring myself to read the directions - and the box has been long gone. Holy Stink, Batman.) and…well, you can only imagine where it has gone from there.

I can’t even tell you how many hours I’ve spent staring unblinking at the computer screen over the past two days. I’m too ashamed.

I’m making myself uninstall it and having RR hide the disks until after the Holidays, it’s the safest alternative for everyone.

At this rate I’m not going to have a stocking - but my sim family will be happy, well-adjusted and living in an amazing house…must…walk…away…

Thank goodness I’m not doing the Xmess knitting, eh? I’d really be stuck, then.