the saga of crazy parents

New email from my little sister:

mommy confused chanukkah with passover. so she was roasting an egg for the first time instead of cheating and boiling it, and i was like "is it going to explode in the oven?" and she didn't know. so she took it out to give it to rosy [the dog] and tried to crack it on the stovetop, and IT REALLY DID EXPLODE. all over the stovetop!!!!!!!

. . . AHAHHAHAHA. They just get weirder.

Meanwhile, I've just had the most vivid nightmare I can remember for a long time. ( Not that it's sensible or, indeed, that scary when you look at it now. )

ETA, new email:

and she bought a shank bone and didn't buy yeast for the challa, so she had to go back to the store!

25 spare Singin' in the Rain icons for sharing

Some of these you've seen before if you're on my friendslist. I just thought I'd like to offer up some spares that aren't doing anyone any good on my harddrive. I haven't shared any icons since guinevere33's and my ex-community vanished. No comments necessary, but credit is.



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happy early birthday to me

perhael made me a Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert badfic comic book for my birthday!

( The Tragic, Emotional Love Story of Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert (Who Are Totally Soulmates, and Also Jon Is a Sub)! )

The hard copy of this (BOUND with little YARN BOWS) is now sitting on my computer being periodically caressed. ♥

bizarrely apropos jewelry

Wax is wearing a silver W necklace that my favourite cousins picked out for me from my maternal-maternal great-grandmother's jewelry box. None of her names ever began with a W - she is an Evelyn - but her mother's name was Wilhelmina. On the other hand, I don't think they made this sort of jewelry in the first decade of the 20th century, and Wilhelmina died before my mother was born. So the source of the W is a mystery, but it's a happy coincidence. Also from the same collection:



I'm in love with the lime green one.