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Wednesday WIP

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Oh my. I’m all wrapped up! L has given me a hand with the Santa presents and we’ve had a good laugh while doing so. The ham is cooling, half the potatoes are done (I cheated and threw them in the honey glaze) and other stuff is all ready to go.

WIP wise has been slow; I had to frog about three hours work. Don’t stitch and snooze! But I’m happy with how he looks. Still planning how the others will fit on the fabric but that may well wait until the new year.

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Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends. Hope you create some wonderful memories and have an amazing joyous holiday season.

Achoo!

Two Days to Go!

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annnnd in breaking (surprising) news, I am not ready. Nor are most of the population, if lunchroom convos are anything to go by. However I have empathy for one woman (must follow on Twitter)

The truth of the matter
‘Twas a few days before Christmas & one child was sick/ The other, stir crazy, was being a dick. The carpet was peppered with patches of spew/ There was a feckload of Christmas shopping to do (@CherylBernstein on Twitter)

Simple, yet brilliant.

Christmas Spirits

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Two things for today. One cynical, one warm fuzzy. Both reflect my personality, but I hope the warm fuzzy makes you smile.

The cartoon in the Herald:

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and a story from the Herald:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christmas/news/article.cfm?c_id=1500988&objectid=11377720

…contained a card inscribed with the exhortation “Work hard, have fun, help people” and two $50 bills… Maybe something for a mystery 12 Days next year?

 

Frustrated much?

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Z (whose chore is to keep their bathroom tidy) has a few issues. Mostly with the Screaming Teen and his casual attitude to the bathroom.
This appeared:

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Ironically Z hasn’t clicked that B has the same issue when it comes to dinner plates being left on the bench…

Secret – or not so secret – Santa

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This was totally a success. My recipient is eating a pack of noodles as I type and is so happy 🙂 with both the joke and the gift.

I received this from Sarah P – love the poppies. It’s a DMC kit & I will swap out the aida for linen. #BK546

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My boss is a bit of a jovial round sort of fellow. Hard to buy for, as if he wants it he’ll just pick it up. Equally wary at gift giving time is T, our head of Marketing. Usually she gets crayons and colouring books (regift alert!). But this year F’s very happy with his gift! While T’s is a variation on the theme…

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and I just got a $50 Bendon Lingere gift card from a supplier. Clearly I didn’t work hard enough to p*ss them off this year! Or maybe I did? I’ll never know.

Officially

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I’m 22% nice. That seems awful low!

http://socialsanta.co to check yourself out (you have to have a Twitter logon).

Proper post later on today if I get a (shareable) Secret Santa present. My person will be exasperated – I brought them a plant pot, pottery Sage tag, sage seeds and a gardening notebook (their new hobby) but I only had two boxes at home. One was about 5mm too small, and the other was far too big. I didn’t have much packaging material to make sure it doesn’t get broken, so I improvised.

She’ll also have 20 odd packs of chicken flavoured Two Minute Noodles. As one person said, completely non PC, she’s Asian, she might appreciate them more than the actual gift.

 

 

Deep Thoughts

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Oh so funny. Smile peeps! You all know someone that you could have used a line like this on!

Deep Thoughts

If you’re an astronaut and you don’t end every relationship by saying “Look, I just need space,” then you’re wasting everyone’s time.