Last night we celebrated a mini Christmas, since Sym won’t be with us for the holidays this year. I was going to do a real post about it but to be honest I’m in a foul mood because of certain Christmas ruiners so it was coming out really bitchy. I’m going to put it off until I don’t want to strangle everyone.
Luckily the Christmas Elf returned last night so hopefully if I stuff my face with jellybeans I’ll feel better.
You know that thing where two different people post thing on tumblr and they show up one on top of the other with hilarious or clever results That’s basically my favorite thing on tumblr. Here are some I’ve saved (warning: one is NSFW).
Whenever I see these I screencap & post them on my tumblr, which also has pictures of dogs & wild animals, rants, Sailor Moon and Deal with It gifs, and reblogs of cheesy or idiotic things with my own special commentary/more rants. Feel free to follow, or link me to your tumblr, or share your own serendipitous screencaps!
(To learn about the tradition of the Christmas Elf please visit my post from last year)
a couple of choclate coins (classic); red, white and green M&Ms; a mini-book of fairy glitter stickers; a small toy fawn; green apple, pomegranate and cream soda Jelly Bellies; and a note which reads:
dear Symphony,
good job on your room! can you please ask your mom to do a better job on hers?
the Christmas Elf
That note is SO humiliating, but I guess that’s what I get for not keeping my room clean. I think that if I tidy up and Sym keeps up her good work the Christmas Elf just might make a return visit. Also, can we talk about how Symphony, upon waking up to find her shoes full of a bounty of toys and candy, LEFT IT THERE until I woke up and told her she could have some? How is one kid so well behaved???
Today is such a good day! The sun is shining, I only have one kid here AND she’s getting picked up early! This morning she and I went out and walked the dogs and went to the park and just had so much fun. Tonight we’re going for dinner with Taylor’s dad and his partner, which means I don’t have to cook, which is ALWAYS a bonus.
Other good stuff:
Last night was Symphony’s school’s holiday concert, which was pretty weird, funny. I thought we got there early but idk, all the other parents must be huge keeners because the gymnasium was already PACKED! We had to sit near the back so I couldn’t really get any good pictures during the show, but here she is beforehand.
idk why she can’t just make a normal face, like, EVER. Also appreciate Claire in this shot, it’s similar to this one of me. As you can also tell I had to move the Christmas presents out from under the tree after a chewing incident involving a puppy who shall not be named.
After the concert Taylor and I went shopping so I could get a NEW PHONE HOORAY!
You may recall I was having intense screen issues with my old one, and it had gotten to the point where it had been dis- and re-assembled so many times that every time I tried to slide it open the faceplate and buttons fell off! Not good. I used this old HTC Dream for a while but it was pretty bunged up and the battery was totally crapped out. I bought myself a new HTC Desire Z and I love it (in spite of some deranged tweets about all my facebook friends being added to the phonebook you might have seen). I also have a new phone number so if you had my old number you should ask me for my new one!
Anyway I have a bunch of cleaning and chores to do while it’s naptime for my lone charge today, so I’ll leave you all with an alert puppins.
Happy Friday!
I really really think I should be a fashion blogger, based on today’s outfit alone.
1. bedhead hair, no makeup & a t-shirt from Urban Outfitters that I stole from Taylor.
2. PLEAT FRONT TROUSER SWEATPANTS EFF YEAH (also from Urban Outfitters).
3. These socks are THIGH HIGH but I have them scrunched down 1989-style, which is appropriate because they are from American Apparel.
4. DOGS AND CRAZY CAT LADY CAT TOWER ARE THE MODEL’S OWN.
EDIT: In case you were wondering my hair is THIS BLONDE now.
… from THIS (I love this picture btw):
This cat tower I bought for Claire is pretty much the best thing ever, and not just for cats.
Tonight Symphony went with her dad and stepmom to the Festival of Lights at Van Dusen Gardens, and since Taylor is in bed I took the opportunity of ~alone time~ to get some Christmas shopping done.
I picked up stuff for Taylor…
And for Sym…
Sym put this mini-gift under the mini-tree for me!
Also, something REALLY weird happened- I came home from shopping and there was already a present wrapped up under the tree!
How mysterious! I should leave my webcam on so I can catch these sneaky pets in their holiday sneakiness.
Anyway I really love wrapping presents. I like picking out all the paper and tags, and even the act of wrapping (in which I’m actually professionally trained) is fun for me. I always like to ~coordinate~ the wrapping, so this year I’m using plain red paper and white satin ribbon, both from Paper Source, and tags from this ADORABLE gift tag set from Galison, all purchased from Room in Order.
They are so cute I wish I had more gifts to wrap! I guess I’ll just have to do more shopping 🙂
Our new tree, all decorated up! Since it’s bigger than the old tree I was worried we wouldn’t have enough ornaments, but we definitely do! Every year I like to buy a couple new ones anyway, and this year I was all about white birds.
I’m not sure why these two little white birds are right next to each other. I haven’t done any ornament rearranging yet (AMAZING I KNOW) but if I do this is what I’ll change.
Symphony had to climb on Taylor’s shoulders to put up the star- she was VERY ANXIOUS about being up that high and clutched on to his hair until I pried her fingers free. She managed to get the star up without further incident.
I haven’t done much other decorating around the house. I need to find a good spot for my nativity scene, and last year i also decorated some of the light fixtures. Symphony put out something though.
Our collection of Perler bead snowflakes in the window.
She made the penguins at school last year and the Christmas tree at her grandmas house.
We had lots of snacks and ordered pizza, but here is what I made: cherry chip mini-doughnuts from that weird cake mix, glazed & with red sprinkles; and golden cupcakes, white cake with vanilla frosting and gold sprinkles.
Symphony wore this very festive shirt from Zara. She actually asked me to take this picture for lookbook, haha!
I wore a grey tank top (SHOCKING!) and actually did my hair (ACTUALLY SHOCKING!).
Taylor wore a dog.
KIDDING. This picture is from last week. My husband has a penchant for putting dogs in his sweaters.
Georgie practiced looking innocent and then later she found a bird ornament I missed when I was going through the decorations box and chewed its head off most gruesomely. It’s been predicted that it will not be her last Christmas transgression.
Rich and Jenn were also here but I didn’t get any pictures of them, except one weird one of Jenn when she’s bent over decorating and just looks like a black blob, and Rich staring creepily from behind the tree when Sym was putting the star up, so I’m not posting those. I need to get better at capturing these precious memories, for real. Anyway, we drank tons of wine, ate an entire bowl of salso con queso and watched Scrooged, a movie I haven’t seen since I was a kid and which was a lot weirder than I remembered! Symphony didn’t want to watch it so she just watch Powerpuff Girls videos on youtube and then went to bed, but since we aren’t spending Christmas together we’re having a mini-Christmas next week, and I think that’ll call for a viewing of Elf in our traditional Christmas pajamas (note to self: buy Christmas pajamas).
I just gave this blog a quick makeover for the holidays, I hope everyone likes it.
This screenshot really doesn’t do the awesome terribleness of the animated header justice though, you should really go check it out in all it’s tweening glory. While you’re at it you could also update your links/subscriptions to http://unicornpara.de if you haven’t yet. I mean, if you want.
Anyway. Now that I’ve wasted time with this silliness I am going to go clean clean clean the house (which Taylor already started doing, hooray), bake up a storm and stock up on sparkling wine because tonight is CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATING NIGHT 😀 !!
It’s almost 1 am but Georgie is ready to party. The raccoons are outside and she’s worked up into a big frenzy about it, so I don’t think I’ll be getting to bed any time soon.
Tonight was Taylor’s office Christmas party, but as we are both sick we ended up not going. Instead we curled up together on the couch and watched tv, and I sewed. He decided to work from home tonight as well, so it’s like I get bonus husband time! Even though I should really go to sleep, it’s nice just knowing he’s here 🙂