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hummingwolf) wrote2006-12-18 04:07 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2006-12-18 04:07 pm
Happy holidays!
Or at least, happy holiday party weekend! I had a good weekend this time, with many thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyssabard and tlttlotd and various guests. Saturday night was their holiday cookie party, you see, which meant both good company and tasty high-calorie treats (as well as some tasty alcohol people brought in later). Lyssa, as usual, made sure that nobody left her place hungry, even though she did very, very little cooking herself aside from one much-appreciated scrambled egg. There weren't very many people there when the Doctor picked me up at the Metro station, but their hoome and their cookie table filled up rapidly enough. Early in the evening, we sat around watching Gladiator followed by one of the Lord of the Rings movies--or, as someone put it, "A depressing movie followed by pretty elves, who are also in a depressing movie."
Plenty of good conversation during the night, much of it quite geeky. There was also an extremely impressive bit of belly dancing by Lauren, a newly-professional dancer who's also becoming good with a sword. It was a very good time overall, though the relative lack of protein & excess of sugar got to pooraekiy who ended up needing to rehydrate after getting a bit shaky & ill. One of the Ravens there was talking about different high-protein foods he could be fed to make him feel better, and as she listed them, it occurred to me that my body might be much happier if I had some protein too. So even though aekiy wasn't up to eating any food of any kind at that point, lyssabard was kind enough to fix me that egg mentioned earlier, which helped relieve more shakiness than I'd realized I'd had.
Several of us spent the night there after the party, so I went to sleep to the sounds ofmmsword tapping away at his keyboard. We all woke up reasonably late Sunday morning and discussed where we wanted to go for breakfast. The original plan had been for a Mexican restaurant, but except for jarandhel and kyoudai02, who opted to leave at that point, we all ended up going to an Indian buffet. Much tasty food! The chicken dishes in particular really helped perk me up. It's a good thing everyone who was there knows I'm mostly harmless, because statements of "Protein is our friend!" followed by "Our friends are made of protein!" with a manic gleam in my eye might have frightened lesser souls.
After eating, we went with our hosts as they did some Christmas shopping. Yes, a week before Christmas, we went inside a shopping mall. A large, popular shopping mall. And unlike me, the holiday crowds cannot honestly be described as "mostly harmless." Lyssa had plenty of time to get some needed shopping done before the rest of us found a parking place for the TARDIS. We did eventually end up inside the mall, though, so we all got more than our fill of the Christmas spirit--if by "Christmas spirit" you mean that snarling spirit which possesses a mob when everyone in it is desperate to spend all that cash they're carrying around on something--anything!--that might make a halfway decent gift for Uncle Fred.
One thing we discovered at the mall was a Lego store. Dangerous, dangerous place. I didn't have enough money on me to buy anything, which was just as well because if I had had money I almost certainly would have spent it.aekiy offered to buy me some Lego pieces as a Christmas present, but after some major internal struggle, I declined, saying that I couldn't really justify letting people spend money on something so frivolous for me when there are so many necessary things that money could be used for right now. He decided that the presence of that Lego store is a strong motivator for him to get a better job and pay off any debts so he can afford to go back to that Lego store and buy it all up. And if that doesn't work, he decided there's a certain appeal to a life of crime if it involves stealing Lego pieces.
My resolve not to accept unnecessary gifts lasted till after we left the mall, when we drove by a Tower Records advertising Tower's going out of business sale. Um, yeah.aekiy was a sweetheart and bought the CDs I ended up clutching in my pathetically greedy little hands (Martyn Bennett's Grit and Peter Himmelman's Imperfect World). I think most of us ended up getting something there for a nicely significant discount, but I may have been the only one who ended up with anything by anyone they had actually heard of before.
Tired from fighting the crowds at the various shopping centers we'd been to that day, we ended up meetinghasufin and stardansr at Olive Garden for dinner. For me, at least, it was a blessed respite from all the madness we'd encountered elsewhere. Though I wasn't particularly hungry, thanks to all that friendly protein earlier in the day, I did enjoy a bowl of soup and bits of things the others were sharing. Again, good food, good company, even if most of us were more than a bit frazzled.
stardansr went home after dinner, while the rest of us returned to the Doctor & Bard's place, where we took advantage of the opportunity to relax & decompress awhile. After realizing that nobody had remembered to buy some much-needed garbage bags while we were out, the Doctor and I agreed that the best use of his driving time would be for him to drop me off at the local Metro station before going to the store. So I ended up coming home late-ish last night, well-supplied with leftover pasta, pizza, and cookies. After making sure that nothing disastrous had happened in the house while I was gone, I collapsed in bed, listened to Peter Himmelman, and went to sleep.
lyssabard and tlttlotd and various guests. Saturday night was their holiday cookie party, you see, which meant both good company and tasty high-calorie treats (as well as some tasty alcohol people brought in later). Lyssa, as usual, made sure that nobody left her place hungry, even though she did very, very little cooking herself aside from one much-appreciated scrambled egg. There weren't very many people there when the Doctor picked me up at the Metro station, but their hoome and their cookie table filled up rapidly enough. Early in the evening, we sat around watching Gladiator followed by one of the Lord of the Rings movies--or, as someone put it, "A depressing movie followed by pretty elves, who are also in a depressing movie."Plenty of good conversation during the night, much of it quite geeky. There was also an extremely impressive bit of belly dancing by Lauren, a newly-professional dancer who's also becoming good with a sword. It was a very good time overall, though the relative lack of protein & excess of sugar got to poor
aekiy who ended up needing to rehydrate after getting a bit shaky & ill. One of the Ravens there was talking about different high-protein foods he could be fed to make him feel better, and as she listed them, it occurred to me that my body might be much happier if I had some protein too. So even though aekiy wasn't up to eating any food of any kind at that point, lyssabard was kind enough to fix me that egg mentioned earlier, which helped relieve more shakiness than I'd realized I'd had.Several of us spent the night there after the party, so I went to sleep to the sounds of
mmsword tapping away at his keyboard. We all woke up reasonably late Sunday morning and discussed where we wanted to go for breakfast. The original plan had been for a Mexican restaurant, but except for jarandhel and kyoudai02, who opted to leave at that point, we all ended up going to an Indian buffet. Much tasty food! The chicken dishes in particular really helped perk me up. It's a good thing everyone who was there knows I'm mostly harmless, because statements of "Protein is our friend!" followed by "Our friends are made of protein!" with a manic gleam in my eye might have frightened lesser souls.After eating, we went with our hosts as they did some Christmas shopping. Yes, a week before Christmas, we went inside a shopping mall. A large, popular shopping mall. And unlike me, the holiday crowds cannot honestly be described as "mostly harmless." Lyssa had plenty of time to get some needed shopping done before the rest of us found a parking place for the TARDIS. We did eventually end up inside the mall, though, so we all got more than our fill of the Christmas spirit--if by "Christmas spirit" you mean that snarling spirit which possesses a mob when everyone in it is desperate to spend all that cash they're carrying around on something--anything!--that might make a halfway decent gift for Uncle Fred.
One thing we discovered at the mall was a Lego store. Dangerous, dangerous place. I didn't have enough money on me to buy anything, which was just as well because if I had had money I almost certainly would have spent it.
aekiy offered to buy me some Lego pieces as a Christmas present, but after some major internal struggle, I declined, saying that I couldn't really justify letting people spend money on something so frivolous for me when there are so many necessary things that money could be used for right now. He decided that the presence of that Lego store is a strong motivator for him to get a better job and pay off any debts so he can afford to go back to that Lego store and buy it all up. And if that doesn't work, he decided there's a certain appeal to a life of crime if it involves stealing Lego pieces.My resolve not to accept unnecessary gifts lasted till after we left the mall, when we drove by a Tower Records advertising Tower's going out of business sale. Um, yeah.
aekiy was a sweetheart and bought the CDs I ended up clutching in my pathetically greedy little hands (Martyn Bennett's Grit and Peter Himmelman's Imperfect World). I think most of us ended up getting something there for a nicely significant discount, but I may have been the only one who ended up with anything by anyone they had actually heard of before.Tired from fighting the crowds at the various shopping centers we'd been to that day, we ended up meeting
hasufin and stardansr at Olive Garden for dinner. For me, at least, it was a blessed respite from all the madness we'd encountered elsewhere. Though I wasn't particularly hungry, thanks to all that friendly protein earlier in the day, I did enjoy a bowl of soup and bits of things the others were sharing. Again, good food, good company, even if most of us were more than a bit frazzled.stardansr went home after dinner, while the rest of us returned to the Doctor & Bard's place, where we took advantage of the opportunity to relax & decompress awhile. After realizing that nobody had remembered to buy some much-needed garbage bags while we were out, the Doctor and I agreed that the best use of his driving time would be for him to drop me off at the local Metro station before going to the store. So I ended up coming home late-ish last night, well-supplied with leftover pasta, pizza, and cookies. After making sure that nothing disastrous had happened in the house while I was gone, I collapsed in bed, listened to Peter Himmelman, and went to sleep.