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It's a Pity Party and You're Invited!

STOP BEING DEPRESSED, STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT. YOU'RE DOING IT TO YOURSELF THIS TIME. YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF EVERY YEAR THIS TIME OF YEAR.

Speaking of Never Getting Married

From

audheim: The Anti-Wedding.

How You Know Sister Girl Is an Adult Now:

"I'd really like a mixer for Christmas."

More Tales of Cleo the Quick Study:

"Which color mixer do you like the best? I kind of like the cornflower, the ice blue, the reef blue--"

"Ice blue."

"--the grape, and the--"

"Ice blue."

"--surf green."

"Ice blue. I would get ice blue."

"Really?"

"It's light, it's the most neutral of the colors you liked, and it'll help the kitchen feel more open than if you pick a dark or deep color."

"Hmm. Maybe I will, then, maybe I'll go with--"

"ICE BLUE."

HEY IT'S A MEME

On the twelfth day of Christmas,

cleolinda sent to me...

Twelve dolls drumming

Eleven blogs piping

Ten biographies a-leaping

Nine linguistics dancing

Eight werewolves a-milking

Seven books a-writing

Six movies a-publishing

Five fa-a-a-airy tales

Four virtual pets

Three movie scores

Two short stories

...and a cloverfield in a sleeping beauty.

By the way, I finally broke down and fulfilled my destiny on this earth:

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In re: to Pity Parties, I didn't get a chance to comment on your previous entry, but wanted to chime in and say "Me too!" Huge network of acquaintances online (only WITH the actual exploding soap), and I spend Friday nights watching "What Not to Wear" with two cats. For awhile, I felt bad about myself like I was being an anti-social loser and OF COURSE I'm never going to meet people/guys like that. And then my hairdresser started talking about how everyone in this tiny southern town is already married/divorced/remarried (to their highschool sweethearts best friend) so it's really not my fault I have no social life. :D 'Course, I'm only 27, so I may be considerably less optimistic about it in another 3 years!

Anyways! Sry for the confessional/comment - really just wanted to wave "Hi!" and let you know I'd been reading since August so's I wouldn't feel like a creepy stalker (swear to god, did NOT oil your LJ's hinges!). :D

Hee. Hi hi!

It's your party, you can cry if you want to. :)

My wedding was planned in 3 weeks, held in my father's cramped living room in front of a small Christmas tree with 15 people milling uncertainly around while a JP did the shortest ceremony she had (which had been lightened by several paragraphs by myself and the Boy - sum total talking, 1 minute) and then we all went to a steak dinner.

It was brilliant. It was relatively cheap. It was fun. And I did not lose my mind or turn into Bridezilla and everyone who went liked my wedding hundreds of times better than the $25000 wedding of a cousin who had gotten married a few months previously.

Rock on, anti-wedding progress!!

Edited 2008-12-03 22:14 (UTC)

Hi, I'm apparently internet stalking you today. Didn't the 'oh, we're too cool for real weddings' tone of that article bug you? They told the bride she couldn't have a gown! Or flowers! If someone had deprived me of my (75%-off, tried-on-in-a-utility-closet) princess dress, I would have punched them in the head.

Re: 'Til Debt Do Us Part...

all-ephemera.livejournal.com - 2008-12-03 22:34 (UTC) - Expand

YEP STILL FUNNY

I'M SAYING

Now all the song needs is Thirteen Meyerpires sparkling! XD

Ugh, I hear you about the "I Now Pronounce You: Adult" thing. First I noticed myself skipping the Toys section of the JC Penny Christmas catalog and going for the clothes/jewelry. Then it was the electronics. Now it's boring-ass practical things like throw pillows and high-tech bathroom scales.

So, basically, you can gauge one's age by what section of catalog-age they flip to, I guess. XKCD should address such phenomena with a strip, methinks.

You know you've arrived at the perfect age when you're shopping for a ball-pen-couch...?

Do you ever get depresseda round your birthday? Not like one of those woe-is-me-I'm-one-year-closer-to-death things, but for no reason?

Also, ~~I totally asked for a mixer, a digital scale, and a swiffer wet jet for Xmas~~. I'm 21, btw.

Well, that's pretty much what's going on now, actually.

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blackdiamants.livejournal.com - 2008-12-04 00:14 (UTC) - Expand

How You Know Sister Girl Is an Adult Now:

"I'd really like a mixer for Christmas."

I got a mixer for Christmas last year. It was the best gift ever. I use it to ply people with baked goods. It's part of the master plan.

I was on the phone with my mom on Thanksgiving day and she was prodding me to send her a list of books, DVDs, etc to get me for Christmas. I look around at my apartment and say, "Well... I sort of just want a vacuum cleaner. A good one."

When did I get old?

i got a mixer for my 22nd. from my husband. it's royal blue; he thought it was plum (fave color: purple) b/c the picture was plum but didn't notice the drop-down menu. oh well. it is my precious and i love it.

this year for chrismukkah i want a digital kitchen scale for weighing my yarn and a donation to sharsheret (http://www.sharsheret.org/) but i'll have to get both for my pwn damn self because no one listens to me when i tell them these things.

I bought myself the mixer. Got it in the flat black so I can paint flames on it just like Alton Brown because... yeah. And surprisingly, I use it quite a bit.

Now, the FOOD PROCESSOR... that was a birthday gift. I begged for it.

I'm old.

But your sister is into baking, so the mixer makes sense. That's why I got mine - mixing cookie dough and cake batter takes a more appropriate amount of time now that I'm not trying to stir it by hand...

my mom got me a mixer last christmas. I got the red. It was a surprise so I didn't choose, but that's probably better because I would have just agonized over all the colors. And eventually settled on red.
Get her a mixer, then you can pressure her into baking you cookies.
btw the link doesn't work for me...

Haha, the best gift I got for Christmas last year was what I told my dad I wanted when he asked. I asked for dish towels. I think it made him sad. (i was nineteen, by the way, and damn remembering that makes me feel old. D:)

On the other hand, asking for things that are actually useful makes me feel a lot less selfish about the GIMME GIMME holiday attitude. Maybe caring about that is a sign of growing up?

But... but what do you do if you don't like the booze? D:

I've told my husband that they way he'll know if I've ever truly left him is if the Kitchen Aid is missing. I got it for my wedding shower, and I loves it so much.

That Edward/RPattz image...is terrifying.

As someone else who's been pondering the purchase of Kitchenaid mixers (yay mixer!) -- check amazon! Cheaper and I think they ship free.

Yeah, we hit Froogle (the ice blue ended up being out of stock) and got it cheaper at sears.com.

Twilulz! OMG, the longer I look at that picture, the creepier he gets. And also he looks like he's either going to have a nervous break down or just cry. Silly sparklepire.

*hugs* to the Cleo.

http://xkcd.com/512/

Oh good! I'm worth at least 2600 lolcats, apparently.

Re: for your funny pictures

word-herder.livejournal.com - 2008-12-04 17:41 (UTC) - Expand

I do it to myself this time every year too.

Which is why that macro brightened my morning immeasurably.

The anti-wedding concept kinda falls apart when you remember you can always just go to City Hall in lay clothes, pay your $25, and be married, bing bang boom.

I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone. I cried pretty much nonstop from 8pm-1am earlier this year on the night that transitioned my last day at 25 to my first day at 26. It felt like I had had the last happy birthday of my life already, you know? Nothing left to look forward to after that.

I helped me when I realized that age is completely arbitrary. Sure, people tell you you're only as old as you feel, but that's a crock, because when it's this cold out, I feel about 80. It's more of a rejection of the need to fufill pointless societal norms.

It will happen for you. That's just the end of it. It will. And I'm not a very optimistic person in general, but I really do believe that whatever you want in life will come to you eventually. Wow, that sounds really new-age and lame. :/ *huggle* Guts and guile, girlie. You'll make it.

Thank you. : )

...and a cloverfield in a sleeping beauty.

Everybody's last line in this meme is unintentional hilarious gold. The visual of this is kind of terrifying.

Mine was "...and a dracula in a christopher lee" which is hilarious in several different ways.

Oh, and I'm getting a desk chair for Christmas.

Edited 2008-12-04 15:28 (UTC)

Aw, man, pity parties all around. I guess it's been that kind of week for a lot of people (myself included). =/

Oh, and I wanted to say, whenever I get in a pity party like that I usually sit down and read offbeatbride.com, because she has a really good way of looking at things, and it makes me happy. =)

Sorry to hear you're not feeling all that well at the moment, I wish I could offer some support other than internet *hugs* but there you go.

If it helps at all, that lolcat you created is magnificent.

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