The belt still hasn't arrived today. Hope it gets here before the MIL arrives tomorrow. The last time I will ever procrastinate on a gift that I'm overzealous about.
The one in my garage has a belt but it's like, solid. It looks like a round leather belt.
I have literally nothing for anyone this year. My wife and I agreed to exchange nothing this year due to house buying and she revealed she has *a* present for me and I'm borderline grumpy about that even because I really feel *** terrible about not getting anything for anyone even though no one cares and understands we're in the process of penny pinching for house buying and furnishing.
Besides, I normally gift fancy food anyhow and, as tasty as it is, I don't think anyone necessarily "hates" that they're not getting a 10,000-calorie fruit-and-chocolate-and-smoked-meat bomb this year. Sure they'll miss it and the thought of it, but...it is like 10,000 kcal of fat, sugar, and more fat.
...all that said I'm still considering whipping out the ol' plastic and doing a round of little presents at the mall tonight because it's literally driving me insane that I have nothing to give for Christmas.
The belt still hasn't arrived today. Hope it gets here before the MIL arrives tomorrow. The last time I will ever procrastinate on a gift that I'm overzealous about.
looks like some space machinery that eats rapping paper, and then hides when satisfied. good present indeed!
curse you wrapping paper!
I have literally nothing for anyone this year. My wife and I agreed to exchange nothing this year due to house buying and she revealed she has *a* present for me and I'm borderline grumpy about that even because I really feel *** terrible about not getting anything for anyone even though no one cares and understands we're in the process of penny pinching for house buying and furnishing.
Besides, I normally gift fancy food anyhow and, as tasty as it is, I don't think anyone necessarily "hates" that they're not getting a 10,000-calorie fruit-and-chocolate-and-smoked-meat bomb this year. Sure they'll miss it and the thought of it, but...it is like 10,000 kcal of fat, sugar, and more fat.
...all that said I'm still considering whipping out the ol' plastic and doing a round of little presents at the mall tonight because it's literally driving me insane that I have nothing to give for Christmas.
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You can always get her something small regardless.
You can always get her something small regardless.
We'll see.
She's sneaky and didn't let me know she had anything until a few hours ago, knowing full well I likely can't get anything shipped here by tomorrow and that we're both pretty *** hard to shop for in traditional stores.
I'm not going to go blow money on something just for the sake of getting her something, but if I can come up with something thoughtful I'll snag it.
You can always get her something small regardless.
We'll see.
She's sneaky and didn't let me know she had anything until a few hours ago, knowing full well I likely can't get anything shipped here by tomorrow and that we're both pretty *** hard to shop for in traditional stores.
I'm not going to go blow money on something just for the sake of getting her something, but if I can come up with something thoughtful I'll snag it.
Man is t that how divorces start up? Wifey here is your gift... she quite handily rips through the wrapping paper adorning the box holding the gift from her loved one to find... an iou. Get ya next time honey! /double guns. /holster
Depending on the condition, it's not that costly to restore. Wood puddy/filler (if needed), wood conditioner, Minwax (any shade from maple to mahogany). You just need to be set for about three days without weather fluctuation.
You can always get her something small regardless.
We'll see.
She's sneaky and didn't let me know she had anything until a few hours ago, knowing full well I likely can't get anything shipped here by tomorrow and that we're both pretty *** hard to shop for in traditional stores.
I'm not going to go blow money on something just for the sake of getting her something, but if I can come up with something thoughtful I'll snag it.
Give her an IOU (something specific) in a card?
Or cook/bake/alcohol?
This is a good one!
A gag gift that reflects and inside-joke between you two (just so she could have something to unwrap) goes a long way.
It needs to be sanded, resprayed, restrained, and the drawers retacked. It's not in very bad shape but it has been in a garage that has flooded up to an inch or so, so the little rollers on the floor would probably need to be replaced. I can't remember but I thought they were wood.
Well that's sort of what we were planning on doing instead of gifts anyhow.
It's...weird. Bah. Shouldn't have mentioned it. We're a bizarre sort. It's really more not having anything for the rest of the family that's sort of nagging at me. Her getting anything for me just sort of emphasized it more for me.
It needs to be sanded, resprayed, restrained, and the drawers retacked. It's not in very bad shape but it has been in a garage that has flooded up to an inch or so, so the little rollers on the floor would probably need to be replaced. I can't remember but I thought they were wood.
If they're cast iron, a metric butt-ton of W-D 40 should do the trick. You're going to need it anyway to lube the interior of the machine itself.
Sand paper Grade-40 to 60, depending on when the last time it was that it was refinished.
I feel like I'm assigning you a project. LOL! It's relatively easy, though, if you were to do it.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
It needs to be sanded, resprayed, restrained, and the drawers retacked. It's not in very bad shape but it has been in a garage that has flooded up to an inch or so, so the little rollers on the floor would probably need to be replaced. I can't remember but I thought they were wood.
If they're cast iron, a metric butt-ton of W-D 40 should do the trick. You're going to need it anyway to lube the interior of the machine itself.
Sand paper Grade-40 to 60, depending on when the last time it was that it was refinished.
I feel like I'm assigning you a project. LOL! It's relatively easy, though, if you were to do it.
Ehh not sure I want to mess with it. There's half a tractor in the way. Yes, half.
Well that's sort of what we were planning on doing instead of gifts anyhow.
It's...weird. Bah. Shouldn't have mentioned it. We're a bizarre sort. It's really more not having anything for the rest of the family that's sort of nagging at me. Her getting anything for me just sort of emphasized it more for me.
Nice, hearty Red and gettin' weird at the in-laws'! Last ditch effort.
Well that's sort of what we were planning on doing instead of gifts anyhow.
It's...weird. Bah. Shouldn't have mentioned it. We're a bizarre sort. It's really more not having anything for the rest of the family that's sort of nagging at me. Her getting anything for me just sort of emphasized it more for me.
Nice, hearty Red and gettin' weird at the in-laws'! Last ditch effort.
I wrapped them myself, cheaper that way and not hard to do.
Only missing preparation is the food for the 24ths evening, that I will start with tomorrow.
Ah, almost every store wraps them for you for free here. Creates long lines though.
What are making?
Germans have an issue with services. It has been getting better in the last 15 years but we are still far behind the rest of the world. The mentality is mainly still trapped in the old Post stations era, when everything was beige, postal worker sitting barely visible behind thick glass being unfriendly without direct human contact and defending their stamps, with waiting times like you would think that every postal worker was just trained for one kind of stamp.
When service is presented friendly and free it fails here. That were one of the reasons wal-mart retreated from Germany with a loss. Greetings at the door or packing service, no one wants that here. It's just way too suspicious for us when someone is smiling for no reason.
As for the direct issue with gift wrapping being free, that mostly goes against the ecological conscience of the majority that has been developed recently (Most shops reacted to that with providing no more free plastic bags for a better image). Just a few years ago shops tried to implement free wrapping, this year I only saw one book-store chain still doing that, rest was paid service not tied to a specific store. I only saw one person actually using that service.
As for the food question, a pasta salad. It has to be cooled for a day before it should be eaten. My family never did a major midday-dinner on 24th, instead we always have a big cold (except for the wieners-and wiener like sausages) buffet like evening dinner after the presents are handed out.
Google gets 3 word sentences correct in 99% of the times, there is nothing wrong with that translation.
I'll be damned. I typed that into google and it came back with my "I will end" or something to that effect, which is super vague and weird. If I'm going to bother learning a language, I want to at least have it right. so I may ask you again in the future.
One of my best friends was fortunate enough to work in your fine land twice in his twenties, and he's been working with me for the past year, so we've been bored on occasion and figured it'd be fun to have a second language.
For the record, I managed to get my wife a little something that would be completely inappropriate for most couples as a Christmas gift, which is part of the reason it's good for her and us.
so dropped about $30 on steam last night
so glad i am not buying family gifts, but one.
also ordered myself a cute d-- figure of amazon as well.
sister is flipping crazy for the past 2 days.
started mostly cause 2 days ago, she didn't like how mom gave her a message and told her to do something herself (xmas decoration)
then tried to hug me, and i told her to wait, cause i was putting the groceries we had just bought away.
so much QQ after that, and haven't seen her out of her room since.
not to sound like a jerk, but I do like the quietness this gave.
this morning, mom asked for suggestions for xmas dinner, steak and potatoes for me, some fish for her and dad, but she had no idea what to give my sister, cause, offcourse, she hasn't been available for the past 2 days, moody as ***, and wont eat any sort of meat-fish-bird or animal produced product (except cheese)
also very deep in this non gmo/organic stupid crap.
"here is a cup of water, enjoy your meal"
>"is this spring water?
".....suuuuuuuuurrreeeeeee let's goo with that"
so yah, not much of xmas spirit this year, glad it is almost over. looking forward to the late night family gathering, to just go hit the wine rack, and prolly pretend to be drunk as *** so people leave me alone.
what do i get for this xmas checkklist?
-something useless handmade with lots of feeling from said person, but mostly just to say they gave somenthing
-a shirt
-movie ticket 2~3
-some horrible cookie box or bad chocolate box from costco
-zelda tri heroes. should i wrap it up for myself?
-cute d-- figure to sit on my desk.
for once, glad I am at work today, even if just a bit.
Edit: As of 2010-10-05 14:48:06 CST, Ni reached 10,000 pages.
Since we all can't be on the same linkshell in game, this can be our cross server linkshell thread.
Like most linkshells, it can be pretty dead at times. Other times it's full of intense conversations about either rl, gear, goals, pokemon or anything else you want to contribute.
We can cover any sort of topic at all, within reason of the forum rules. No real main topic, just a bunch of FFXIAH friends/people coming on and discussing random things.
Yeah Chuu. Bringing you up to speed, Ludoggy is the LS pedophile. I'm the fountain of random and useless knowledge that makes you go "Hrm" with the occasional side of "holy shit he said what?"
Kungfu is the LS nutjob, spouting super random things that are usually sexist, until Savvy or Alyria comes into the room. Then he's a classic case of sexual harrassment. Rumaha is also true to the second part; we're wondering about his sexuality though.
Daj is Ludoggy's gay lover. Not much else is known about this Asuran. Tairo is kinda new, but since is a female and Alyria's lesbian lover, she fit right in real quick.
Celene(F) and Rowland(M) are more of the shyer members, but often say things that are witty, have a good pun and sometimes cause three page discussions. Celene hates when people hit on her. It doesn't stop them from trying.
Krizz is just social and likes to kill time here during work Tbest is about the same, except tends to be a douche to guys and affectionate toward girls.
Alyria is the most social female, gets groped a lot without provoking it by others, and Tairo ends up stabbing people for it. Cai is just a barrel of lols, I might be gay for him. If I wasn't straight.
Not sure about Citag, s/he's new. Kiriyu is just an in-out kinda person. Says one thing every three days that every guy makes a big fuss over. Ludoggy gets really defensive since she's asian and underage (might be 18 now).
Artem is the wayward soul that makes you ponder the meaning of life by constantly reminding us life can suck. But he deals, and so do we. About the same for Savannah, except people are more "AWH!" to her because of a vagina involved.
Dasva is the ex military man (as is Krizz but this doesn't apply to him) who hates the world and plots a way to destroy most of it.
Number2 is kinda like a mix between Cai and I; never bashes, likes to laugh and has odd avatars. His current suits a lot of the convos this LS gets into. Barti is most well known for his moustache. He gives mousatche rides for a fee. I'm missing a few people but whatever. CARRY ON!
Luelle Smells.
Roster of FFXIAH Ni (as of April 1st, 2010 Pocoyo avatar craze)
Happy b-day ls.
Heres my lame gift to AHLS, since Row is lame and took away the OP, I made my own!
Haseyo/Bignose: He's got a bigass nose, Leader of the RL avi revloution or some junk no one gives a crap about...crazy about his asian pop/rock bands and is a closet pedo. AKA LAME
Dameshi: wont level his sam sub and is a lolblu, LAME
Citag: Doesnt put out, Really lame
Dasva: Uses Chu as a cover up for his desire for me greased up and naked on his bed, Lame.
Rydiya/Bra+Panties: Secret lesbien, doesnt wear bra+panties, like to knit and other old people stuff (bingo)
Pikachu/Chu: Hi Chu, I love chu
Kryee/Socks: Noms on socks, wears the sam red pair everyday and frequently sniffs her arm pits.
Cheyne: Domo origoto, Mr Roboto...I think he's gay.
Urial: SOCCER IS LAME AND YOU'RE LAME.
Thundars: LOLCANADIAN
Spence: LOLFRENCHCANADIAN
Enterius/ghost: He's a ghost...he'll say something witty to me later.
Ixe: Ducky face and cant seem to get a straw in her mouth (can get other things in there though)
Mairah: She cool...lame
Bart: Full times OPO-OPO, free mustache rides otherwise LAME
Sav/Mango: Field trips, yay!
Aly/thatgreenmodthatwillbanmeifIsayanythingbad: *tapes*
Woody: You're not Italian...no tea for you.
Sectum: My apprentice...loves asian girls, loves to cook...he's awesome. put me in a story where I wasnt a pedo and that'd cool
Rum:STOP RAIDING MY BASEMENT AND TAKING AWAY MY GIRLS GAWD. Long Islander...lame
Valencea:Wont tell me the color of her undies, you lost the bet...no we cant get married...NO MEANS NO
Kojo:Open pedo...he likes scat, ewww
Tohsou: I think he's a pedo with a girlfriend as cover up, lame.
Kiriyu/strawberry: Lurk Less post moar! I see you what you are doing!
Krizz: Mohawk guy #1
Triet: Mohawk guy #1...wait
Bloodbathboy: The Hulk
Kungfuhustle: AH%DUE%$JNSRGHSRHHEYHEHSA Y%HEDHGSR EAT AHUYY DONKEY NUTS
Celene: Quit...Canadian...who the hell quits?
Tbest: MIA
Eternaltriumph: Where the hell has he been? Is he gone cause he got pussywhipped or something? Whatever...
#2: GOD...I miss him /cry
Luelle/otherlu: The Other Lu.
Zekky: Quit, kicking ass, raped me :\
Krystale/Girlwithpiercing: Magnets stick to her, Toke Canadian, hawt...she's 15 right?
Marzbarz: NINJA
Rowland: All your Pocoyo are belong to...him
Weewoo/Tool: He liked Asura and wont admit it.
Miemo: Has a mithra avi c.c
Kalyna: is a girl right? right? oh...lame
Gimmeurselables: TOO MUCH BOUNCE...TOO BIG, EWWWW
Sagittario: Lame elf whu runs around in a diaper subligar
Ludoggy: Faggot
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Luelle's (And Citag's too!) birthday present
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