Never seen it, kinda by choice. I thought every family has seen a Christmas Story like 10 times, you break it out that moment you are all getting ready for like, Christmas Family Carnage? Like, when everyone is taking their attack poses?
Maybe it's just my family. I do know ONE thing my family did at Christmas that is probably rather unique... My mom is in love with that movie, "Priscilla Queen of the Desert?" It has her home town, Broken Hill in it (been there and it is EXACTLY like that only more boring) and it has MUCH (probably nowadays) inappropriate gay adventure, singing and dancing..... My mom is in love with gayness as a concept and when Adam Lambert was on American Idol and I took her to the concert she was almost EXACTLY as excited as the fat teen on the other side, waiting for the winner and well, I was afraid between the two of them I was going to get SQUASHED in excitement? (I also wanted to say to both of them, "You should play in your own league...." but like, I didn't because they were so HAPPY.)
My mom ALSO got 4th row tickets and I was like, "Oh right, she always did that at the Kennedy Center, too, so I was like, "Hmm... get some ear plugs." (This was her first "Real" concert" and she was like, "Why." So I was like, "Never mind," and just brought a few extra pairs.) She was like, "WHY do they do this?" I was like, "Mom, I ain't got no clue?" She was also indignant of having to stand up despite being in the fourth row, and I was like, "Mom I have no clue, it's a CONCERT." Actually it is one of my favorite "my mom" memories. She was so cute, she desired an Adam Lambert poster but she was too embarrassed to BUY it so I had to obtain it for her I was like, "Yeah, I want that one on the left the gay runner up?" The guy knew exactly who I meant.
In an odd reversal of fortune, I felt like all the parents taking their 9 year old homemade signs to see their "contestant" it was adorable.
Heh. But yeah, Pricilla Queen of the Desert is TOLERABLE the first 6 times or so, but there was one year where we ALL rebelled we were just like "NO MAS." It was hard, but we HAD to do it.
I never saw the American version I was not sure I could stand to see Patrick Swayze play gay when he had been mimicking straight for so long.... Plus it got RATHER bad reviews.
Like, I am not a movie person, I like shows, there is more to commit to, something about the 2 hours format no longer does it for me. IDK why. I am also one of the few people who agrees with Tolkien in his assessment that the Lord of the Rings biggest flaw is that it was not LONG enough
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Then again my favorite novel ever is Infinite Jest which is like over a thousand pages with most of the major plot twist happening in TINY footnotes and the end is the beginning. Not to everyone's taste.
BUT despite that LENTHY intro of nothingness, well, (see why I like the book) I had my 90 day evaluation with my boss (I think?) it was weird, he sort of riffled through my incomplete file and then handed me a blank one and uh, TALKED about my performance? It was weird? I was like, "Do you not have a 90 day eval for me?" He said something about emailing me one but IDK? I was just like, "What?"
Anyway he seemed to think my imaginary 90 day eval was "satisfactory" or whatever in most places only like, except for one where I had like, "Two" occurrences of dissatisfaction in the realm of communication where like, he wanted to count the day after my ER thing. Only it's outside the first 90 days so he can't actually, etc.
Then the husband wanted to get my all wheel tires on. He did that. I had an alignment, new rims, everything. It drives really different but it still pulls to the right. You would think "huh, that's just Anna, " but it's not. IIRC even my kid curbed it (on the right) the first time he drove it. ALL my body damage and running off the road has been on the right (I guess to be fair that is what you kinda want) but well it's better but it's not gone.
The tires are gnarly. There is no doubt it will improve my snow experience they almost FAILED the tires at inspection due to baldness LOL.
Oh then I got a bladder infection. It came on suddenly. My husband had switched soaps. That is the first thing I ask when I get like 2 of those in a row. Sigh. I was like "NO! You may not switch scents!" The one cool thing about my insurance is like, they have a tele-medicine service so disinterested (and free) I think I could call and say, "I need a pound of ......" and they would prescribe it. They sent me to a non participating pharmacy with no drive through as "closest" and it sure was in DISTANCE But not time but I did not even CARE by then.
I think if I were able to get one and only one abx prescribed the rest of my life it would have to be Macrobid. HAVE to.
Okay, sorry about my boringness. I need to assess all my vapes today and try some new flavors especially "white coffee." Also my regular vapes need attention.
I am tired.
Anna
Although I’d rather skip straight to spring. 
