The Rian Doppleganger Dr. Lorimer Found

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/fashion/30online.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Santa Keppet

Reindeer Narrisch

Hobblings Gaming

Hobblings Gambling

1 Hour After Keppet's Departure

1.5 Hours After Keppet's Departure

Warmth

Possible Truths

"We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup."

- Elf

Moving Along

Possible Truths

"Presume not that I am the thing I was."

- Shakespeare

Triumph

Wherest One Feline Treads...

Stylish New Cat Bed

Notice the Paucity of Felines.

Blurrily Rian Questions Everything I Thought I Knew About Life

To Cheat Or Not To Cheat?

http://www.everythingkitchens.com/nescoroasterovens.html

New York

Whilst Blissing in the local coffee house this morning, Rian glimpsed a red head with a bumper sitcker tuck to her laptop:

John Stewart for President '08

This made Rian nostalgic.

Yip Gobble

Ye gods of small fishes. Rian has just volunteered to DO Thanksgiving. Fourteen people. Including two Hobblings.

I am not sure if I can even squish fourteen people into the Abode.

Narrisch shall have to eat in the basement. Keppet can hang like Spidey in the attic.

Help.

Possible Truths

"1. Yama: Rules of Social Behavior
Practising nonviolence (ahimsa), speaking truthfully; integrity of thought, word and action (satya), exercising appropriate sexual control (brahmacharya), behing honest; realizing that things outside yourself will not provide you security and happiness (asteya), being generous; shifting from ego based to spirit based (aparigraha)."

- Maharishi Patanjali

Window One, Framed

Sleigh Bells Ring

Tonight Rian is taking Someone Else's mother to a champagne 'reception and 15 percent off sale' at the local nursery/Christmas boutique. Apparently one must come with invitation in fist.*

Oddly, Rian finds this prospective Adventure nearly as exciting as an evening of dancing at the local gay bar with two wild and lovely Antipodeans. I do, however, suspect that the sales creatures will not be wearing plastic penises.

I am beginning to suspect that Rian is a Christmas Glutton.

* obviously Rian has been spending too much money at the local nursery.

Things Learn(t) On A Snowy Day

Things Rian learn(t) today:

1. How to drain a boiler. One should turn off the gas and water first.

2. How to diaper a leaking radiator and thusly keep it dry all night long. The triumph must be that 'dri-lok'.

3. That the Wraeththu waif Rian has been glotzing in ceramics is only 16. (Ye gods of small fishes, I am going to Hades.)

4. That wood stained in below freezing weather will not dry...and will not dry...and will not dry...

5. That Williams-Sonoma sells premade cocktail frosters.

6. That Aidan has secretly been feeding Flat Freddie the foods he (Aidan) does not like.

7. That Rian's guilt about not doing NaNoWriMo this year has faded Very Quickly.

8. That typing in coffee houses makes Rian feel, oddly, like Byron. Shall I bow and flirt?

9. That Mickie Rae has 458 words but no excerpt. Put up an excerpt!

and

10. That a Dear Friend has rubber band ball envy.

eta:

11. That Rian really, really, really, REALLY misses chocolate.

So Rian Will Remember

Rian’s Blue Slushee

1 shot of blue Curacao
1 shot of Absolut vanilla vodka
Crushed ice
Glass: Cocktail

Shake in cocktail mixer and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with strawberry. To be consumed while chaised.