> get lamp

(again, DW, sorry for the repeat. gah come the fuck on... crosspost... this is like try number four now.. *annoyed*)

(possible trigger warning: I'm going to talk about the blog post and not the comic, but the comic seen by following the link may be triggering for suicide content, particularly a specific method I won't mention here. I certainly found the last panel more personally disturbing than funny, even granted it is black humor.)


From http://hijinksensue.com/2011/12/05/comfortably-numb/

When you see a commercial that starts with “Doing [insert extremely easy, every day task] is hard! Don’t you wish there was a better way?” DO NOT BUY THAT THING! No one wants it. No one needs it. Stop buying stuff for people just because you think you have to. Make something. Frame a photo of the best day you ever had with that person. Take them on an adventure. Knit a freakin’ scarf. Give them something that doesn’t have a direct monetary value and isn’t available at Best Buy. Otherwise you might as well just write how much cash you were intending to spend on a piece of paper, give it to the other person, take their slip of paper and work out the change owed.

Damn right. I have been trying to edge my family this way for a while. There's hardly anything any of us need anymore and hardly any place to put anything we merely want. I like the aesthetic appeal of gifts under a tree, but a couple per person is surely enough? I am not so great about this kind of restraint when it comes to enotsola to whom I sometimes wish to GIVE ALL THE THINGS, but when my mother asks what I want for Christmas or birthdays I always tell her there's really nothing anymore, and yet she comes up with things anyway. They're not "bullshit" gifts like mentioned in the post - she does actually know what kinds of things I like - but as I said, we're just plum out of room by now. The "bullshit" gifts have tended to come from enotsola's family. I'm glad I am not going there for Christmas anymore because I sometimes got some doozies from his step-dad's family who had seen me, what, twice in their lives? yet apparently still felt obligated to buy me things. His mother has been kind of hit or miss too. I would rather just get a card, honestly, than a t-shirt neither of us can wear or a tchotchke we wouldn't have chosen for ourselves. (The coasters with dragons and Jack Skellington on them have been very useful and appreciated, however.)

Also:

ALTERNATELY: What’s your favorite “As Seen On TV” product to hate? Mine is the “Make a giant cupcake” pan whose commercial starts out with “Regular cake is boring…” NO IT IS NOT. FUCK YOU. CAKE IS AWESOME.

See also others by same user, including "Kidnap the Sandy Claws". Dang. Someone's got a lot of free time, eh?

Some random pictures from Labor Day onward; obviously, image-heavy. ( Read more... )

OH HAY I just noticed. Since Daylight Saving Time now ends on the first Sunday of November, that means that it's November 1st this year. In other words, that magical extra hour you get at 2 AM when the clocks jump backwards to 1 AM will be late on Halloween night. Talk about your liminal times...

starlightforest and enotsola presence @ $HALLOWEEN_OR_SAMHAIN_EVENT forecast:

Shindig of probably lots of weirdos @ Silmemar: 10%

Shindig of mostly kinda normals with some admixture of geek types @ Rabbit's Foot Meadery: 55%

Actual Samhain thingamabop @ Stone City: 5%

Staying home watching The Nightmare Before Christmas and maybe some bad vampire films, answering the door for the 5 whole children who will actually show up to our house, and probably getting drunk: 30%

My mom being at Cynagua Coronet because some woman she knows is getting (SCA-)knighted and she wants to be around for the vigil or the ceremony or both, I forget, and therefore who knows when the heck she will be home that evening which may affect timing and/or possibilities of some of the above plans: 100% Apparently she's not going to the vigil, is leaving hell-ass early in the morning to make it to Woodland (?) for 10 or 11 AM court, and is planning to be home before sunset because she doesn't want to get stuck among people (possibly such as ourselves) going to their evening partying destinations.

I have lost track of the following folks' addresses over the past year due to people moving. If you don't mind me having your mailing address (my main nefarious purpose here is a holiday card), please leave a comment (all screened) or email me at starlightforest(at)livejournal.com.

tyrsalvia/metaphorge
gildowanmama/ashranhgildowan
lady_silverfire
adnara_el
mrlebowski

[Poll #1149943]I'm a "stale and chewy" gal, myself. (Er, you know what I mean.)

ETA: I actually got one "What's a Peep?" answer, so for the benefit of the British (I think she is), and anyone else: Peeps are an Easter candy (although they also now come in other holiday themed shapes too), marshmallow coated in coloured sugar, in the shape of chicks, (flat) bunnies, or (flat) eggs.

Even the website talks about eating them stale, LOL.