Bitch, bitch, bitch and whine

[sabotabby]

Let's see...

• It is too early for the Second Cup to be busting out eggnog-flavoured coffee. I can see that sort of thing two days before Christmas as sort of a novelty gag, but it's disgusting and I wish they'd stop offering it to me. Ugh.

• It's that time of year again! That's right -- people are getting all snarky about "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" and there's not even snow on the ground.

• No, that doesn't mean I want there to be snow on the ground. It took me some time to locate clothing warm enough for sub-zero temperatures today. I hate this time of year.

• Hey, you know what else would be nice to have in my apartment? Heat. Maybe enough hot water to take a bubble bath at night, but I suppose according to my landlord I should be happy that the roof hasn't caved in yet.

• Texan Republicans? At my family's dinner? It's more likely than you think.

• rohmie? WTF?

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Okay, so it seems I have some heat now (a wee bit in two out of three rads) but the power keeps going out. Maybe I should light some candles or something.

Comments

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Well, if they added rum, the eggnog flavouring could be excused.

"Gud Jul!" or some such, is guaranteed to confuse people and even offend a few, but they probably won't know why. "A good solstice to you!" has similar effect.

It was up in the upper teens when I was in Denmark - the rain was warm! This is not proper for mid-November.

Can't you get Canuckistani Immigration to keep Texas Republicans out? I mean, don't they automatically fall under the heading of undesirable?

[sabotabby]

Well, if they added rum, the eggnog flavouring could be excused.

Same goes for their Irish Creme (which is gross, by the way), but alas, they are not that cool.

Maybe I can move to Denmark. Sounds nice, other than the rain, which tends to give me migraines. Would they automatically assume I was Christian there?

I don't have an in with Canuckistani Immigration. I only wish. :(

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

There is also of course the Turkey and Stuffing-flavored Soda. You can get that with a selection of other disgusting-sounding flavors in an $11US box at Target presently. My fiance bought it for her sister's boyfriend and he seems to enjoy it.

This utterly nasty-sounding stuff, which I have not myself tasted, came out for the first time last year.

[sabotabby]

Is this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or something? I want my coffee to taste like coffee, or be flavoured like something one would reasonably want to put in a coffee. Not bloody Christmas dinner.

Then again, given the marketing people I've met over the course of my life, I'm not surprised that people are coming up with these sorts of abominations.

[y2kesha.livejournal.com]

http://www.jonessoda.com/files_new/turkey05.html

Brussels Sprout with Prosciutto soda!
Broccoli Casserole soda!
Smoked Salmon Paté soda!
**gag**

but hey, they have Pumpkin Pie soda...you could have that instead of the eggnog-flavoured coffee!

[sabotabby]

*puke*

I don't drink anything fizzy, though.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I was about to ask if the Texans were going to be at your Christmas family dinner. *headthump*

[sabotabby]

Yes, the sabotabby family does have Christmas dinner.

*headdesk*

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

So I did read this properly. You guys are so secular!! *snark*

[sabotabby]

Hey! My mother is married to a guy who almost became a priest! I only celebrate Christmas for my step-family's sake; I never celebrated it growing up.

Of course, the flipside of this is that I tend to celebrate Hanukkah all by my lonesome, since my mom only really did it so that I wouldn't feel left out at Christmastime, being the only Jewish kid I knew. I light candles. Sometimes there are latkes.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

We can make latkes again!

Mmmm...latkes!

The Gentleman could help!

[sabotabby]

Yay latkes!

And I can teach you something cool in Hebrew.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

(Singing) Frosty the Snowman, was a horrible aomination with no reason to be alive...

I've only gone Christmas caroling once, and that's when an atist friend of mine took a bunch of us for a rousin and drunken round of late night Xmas caroling, in the middle of July!

Me likey eggnog though. Maybe not in my coffee. :P

[sabotabby]

Snowmen are creepy.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

The best Christmas caroling I've ever seen was on a snowy, windy, Hallowe'en in Wyoming many years ago.

A group of teen-agers, bundled up for the weather, with red and green scarves, launched into a stirring rendition of:

We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
So give us a treat!

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

I should see Rohmie tomorrow, I'll ask him what's up.

[sabotabby]

Thanks!

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

my super keeps turning the heat off! for awhile, it'll be toasty & warm & then BOOM! rads go off & i have to put on 2 sweaters to keep warm. i already have to put on 2 sweaters to keep warm at work [& i'm fully clothed! can you imagine what it must be like for our clients in their nightgowns!?], so coming home to a freezing apartment is just too much.

then again, i do have hot water & the heat is on some of the time, so i can't complain. y'know there's a city hotline that you can call to complain about landlords & the heat? the bylaw is that it must be 21C in your apartment since sometime in early october.

& i hate snow! hate!

[sabotabby]

It's very weird. The rad in my bathroom was definitely on this morning, but the other two are cold. I can't figure out whether it's because I'm a dumbass and I don't remember which way the knobs go or whether they just aren't working.

I am so going to call that hotline if they're broken. I want to get my landlord in trouble.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Fuck Christmas. :)

[sabotabby]

There are too many pointy things and cold things to make that an appealing notion.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

Rohmie is a top contributor to your blog. Come back! >:O

[sabotabby]

I know. Last time he did this I launched an exhausting campaign to get him back (i.e., e-mailed him and whined a lot). Let's hope I don't need to resort to such extreme measures again.

[jdubbs530.livejournal.com]

It's a balmy 68 here in Southern California, just thought I'd gloat... Gloat, gloat, gloat.

[sabotabby]

Yes, but I don't have Bush as a president. ;)

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Yet...

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

*glare*

[jdubbs530.livejournal.com]

Bush has got to go sometime, but the cold... That's there forever. Well until global warming catches up and Canada is the new southern California. ;)