Tagged by Thaihoney!! :-) The lovely and talented …

Tagged by Thaihoney!!

The lovely and talented Chariya (aka Thaihoney) tagged me, so I must rise to the occasion. Here goes:

Five items in my freezer:

- A pie crust that I didn’t use on Thanksgiving

- A few pieces of chicken, complete with freezer burn

- Frozen homemade chicken soup — made from scratch by yours truly for those unexpected illnesses

- Lemon bars — bought from Whole Paycheck (Foods) that the BF didn’t especially care for, but that I refused to immediately throw away.

- Cafe du Monde coffee from New Orleans that I keep for guests because I hate coffee

Five items in the closet:

- An endless supply of candles

- A bin simply marked “hardware” that contains all of the odds, ends, and electrical cords that I have no idea of what to do with

- A bin full of yarn for my fabulous knitting creations

- A bin (can you tell that I’m big on bins?) full of toilet paper — because you should always have a healthy supply of TP!

- A labelmaker — to mark the bins, of course!

Five items in the car:

- A kitchen knife (although I don’t know why)

- A three gallon tin of cheese popcorn that I don’t dare bring into this house lest it end up permanently adhered to my ass

- An emergency kit that contains hairspray, hair ties, deodorant, lipstick and tampons (yeah, so what if it’s TMI?)

- A rolling pin. (I found it the other day, and I’m having a REALLY hard time remembering why it’s there. If anyone knows, I’d be happy for the hint.)

- A pair (or three) of comfy shoes

Five items in my purse:

- My new Coach wallet (that I received for Christmas from my friend, C. Thanks, girl!)

- My work ID

- My Blackberry (alias “the ball and chain”)

- My beloved Treo

- My Ipod (Yep . . . ALL ABOUT the technology)

Five people that I tag:

- Jen

- LemonySarah

- Dragonslayer

- The illustrious “Dina Vaginelli“

- Any other blogger that’s checking this out

Thanks, Thaihoney! These are always fun.

Christmas . . . Is over for another year!! Yay!!…

Christmas . . .

Is over for another year!! Yay!!

Actually I had a pretty good Christmas. I can’t complain. I did my typical drop-offs on Christmas Eve, and did my own thing on Christmas, which I loved.

Hung out with the BF, saw a movie, dropped by a friend’s house. It was low pressure, and a lot of laughs.

My parents didn’t really get me gifts. They never do. My mother doesn’t even bother pretending that she’s going to get me anything. My father tries, but he gets me weird gifts, like books that I’ve never heard of, and will probably never read. Of course, I take the hit and pretend as though I love them which, while it makes him happy to think that I love his gifts, it doesn’t really do much to correct this behavior.

He’s really good when I tell him specifically what I want . . .and I’m talking specific down to the SKU, just so that he won’t screw up. The problem is that sometimes I like to be surprised. Although, when it comes to my father, I think that being pleasantly surprisedf by a gift is just a pipe dream. He doesn’t seem to do well on his own.

I got them fabulous gifts. I got my mother tickets to The Color Purple, which won’t be here for a while, but I bought them well in advance. I got my father a Bally’s health club membership. He likes the one in Hyde Park because he went there for a few months while he was rehabilitating his shoulder. Of course the Hyde Park Bally’s is allegedly a “special club,” which means that it costs more. I don’t really know what’s so special about it. I hear tell that it’s considered to be special because of the pool and tennis courts. But maybe they also give you a piece of a towel, or perhaps they actually clean the locker rooms. Whatthefuckever. Just one more reason for me to spend more money. But it doesn’t matter because he loved it. He was there this morning, in fact, activating his membership card, excited to get started on his fitness plan. He’s so cute.