What Was The Biggest Holiday Hit At Your House This Year?
So, the rumors proved to be true and Santa “Jiggles” Claus left the Secrets a Playstation 3 as a Christmas present this year.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not real comfortable with a morbidly obese octogenarian in a prison beard stumbling around our house while we’re upstairs sleeping. But, I’d likely be condemned by society if I even DARED question the motives of the great Claus. So I’ll just let it go. Sheesh.
The boys are loving their gift, though. I’ve gotta hand it to the fatass, he knows what he’s doing. The old guy hasn’t lost a step, despite being, what, three hundred years old? Wow! Talk about your iron man. Not even Carl Rappaport can compete with a streak like that.
The boys also received four games to go with the console: Beatles Rock Band, Modern Warfare 2, Ghostbusters, and Bad Company. I don’t know much about any of them, except I keep hearing gunfire, occasionally interrupted by “Yellow Submarine,” or Ray Parker, Jr.
Wonder what John Lennon would think about that? I can foresee a situation where “All You Need Is Love” is “performed” in our family room, followed closely by the oldest Secret thoroughly roasting a Russian guard with a flamethrower, leaving only a pile of ashes and a pair of boots. Love, indeed.
The Playstation connects to the internet wirelessly, so we can also hear other kids trash-talking each other. And nothing says Christmas like a gang of prepubescent boys, in Kansas or wherever, screaming profanity through your TV speakers. They all sound like they’re eleven years old, and have the vocabulary of… oh I don’t know… Redd Foxx?
Good times.
And speaking of connecting to the internet, we can now stream movies and TV shows through Netflix and PS3, directly to our television. It is, perhaps, the coolest thing ever. I watched The Ghost and Mr. Chicken on Christmas night, and it was perfect. It looked like a DVD was playing. The picture quality couldn’t have been better. As far as I could tell, anyway.
I also watched a few episodes of Dexter, and I haven’t been as excited about a television enhancement device, since we first got a DVR — many years ago. It’s fantastic!
So, the Playstation has been quite a hit, with everyone in the family. What was the biggest hit at your house this year? Tell us about it in the comments, won’t you?
I’ve got a bad cold, if you can believe it. A great way to end the year. I could feel it taking-hold yesterday, and by ten o’clock last night I had crystal-clear fluid cascading from my left nose hole. Only the left one, for some reason.
Today my voice is unnaturally low, and I sound like that guy in the Statler Bros., way down on the end. The Sickness is dragging me down, too. My energy level has plunged, and I feel like I should be a Civil Service clerk in South Carolina or Georgia, or somewhere else associated with slowness.
The pressure makes my teeth hurt, as well. Know what I mean? I’m not a fan of any of it…
I hope everyone had a great holiday, and all that good stuff. Please don’t forget the temporary price reduction on our blue/gray Evil Twin shirts, to just twelve bucks. You can order ‘em here. They’re a thing of beauty, and will be going back to sixteen dollars on January 1. Now’s your chance to treat yourself, for a change.
And if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go upstairs and enjoy a Magdalena Calzone frozen meal. Today I think I’ll go with the meat loaf, thank you very much.
See you guys tomorrow.
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Ahoy, bitches!
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We also have the WiFi and Netflix streaming now through our new Blu Ray player. It’s going to be so nice not to have to deal with sending the DVDs back and forth through the mail.
The two oldest kids also got a Nintendo dsi. They can access the internet through them and have already set up accounts on Twitter. I’m anxiously trying to find a parental control feature on them. Anyone know how to do that?
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big hit was the new Super Mario Bros game. My boy is still easy to please. yay!
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Santa brought him him a laptop, a Wii fit board, etc. but it was Super Mario that put the most sparkles in his eyes.
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The Peanut got a little ironing board that she seems to enjoy. She also really likes her Mack and Lightning McQueen toys from the movie “Cars”.
A little schizophrenic, I know, but hey, she’s three.
I got a big assed knife from a cousin; it was handy for helping The Peanut open some of her presents.
And from my mother-in-law, a 24 pack of soap. Irish Spring, to be exact.
And that is the sum total of my presents.
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woohoo! Top Ten!!
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Although the 13 year old is past the Santa stage, he still plays along for additional loot and to appease the five year old. The biggest hit was the guitar (not Guitar Hero, that only teaches you how to pretend to play a guitar) I bought for him. That’s really all he wanted, but he got the extra stuff too. EZ Bake oven was a hit for the AngryWhiteGirl. She immediately baked me a cake that tasted like ass.
Mother in law (Sandra Bullock) bought me a 40 inch flat screen plasma TV. I used it yesterday to watch the abortion of a game between the Colts and Jets. Imagine that, benching Manning for Hermie (Curtis Painter), the elf that only wanted to be a dentist. Motherfucker goes right in there and fumbles while trying to pass it for a Jets touchdown recovery. Then throws a pick. All I wanted from Santa was an undefeated season, the equivelant of a puppy. However, Coach Caldwell, due to benching the starters to “rest” them for the playoffs, midway through the third quarter, with a lead, didn’t even put my puppy under the tree. He took the puppy out into the woods and shot it in the head.
The TV is awesome, however.
ON IPOD right now- “Kiss The Dirt”- INXS
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Top ten!!!!!
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I got nothin’ But we did got to New Orleans for the holiday for drinking, eating, gambling and overall debauchary. Nothing says Christmas like Booze and Black Jack.
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not much goin on at the PAmike household this year…over the last 5 years weve all just gotten lazier and more disgruntled. The youngest of us is 21 so perhaps the lack of little rugrats makes it not as fun for my family?
is it bad that i wrapped(in a box) the money i had in my wallet(minus washingtons, im not a total scumbag) $40, and passed it off as a present to my sister?
I kept waiting for jesus to return, bitch slap me, and promptly return to heaven.
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Grandson got a great air hockey game that was a big hit..he’s 4. I got Rosetta Stone Deutsch.. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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My best friend gave me a sweater. I was hoping for a moaner or a screamer.
But really, A netbook and a ipod touch. Best short gratification thing was a little sock monkey ornament.
oh and a flashlight. I didn’t have more than fifty or so already.
And toooooooo much food. I’ll have to go back on a diet, starting tomorrow of course.
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AWG – funny analogy.
Ron from Niagara – a trip to NOLA, I’d take that! sounds like big fun!
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Jorge: Sounds like mom-in-law is trying to tell you something.
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I got an ipod touch and I’m lovin it.
My kids got one of those battery powered plastic jeep things to drive around the back yard and they love it. The youngest loves this absurdly expensive “thomas the train” set. My wife’s favorite is a wind up wooden carosel thingy that I ordered for her from Germany.
All in all, a good Christmas.
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Good Afternoon Surf Reporters….
The big hit at my house was the present I received. Yes folks, hold on to your hats… I’ve finally embraced 21st century technology and got a cell phone.
Shocking, I know.
Turns out that the few people I actually hang out with were talking to my wife behind my back.
“Get him a damn cell phone so he doesn’t borrow mine.”
“You know, he says he doesn’t have a cell phone, I can see why. He just borrows someone else’s.
“You know what he needs? His own damn cell phone.”
Jeezum Crow, it’s not like I was walking and talking with another person’s phone all the time. Maybe once or 20 times, I’ll admit as much as that.
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Sandy Claws also gave us a PS3…set up Netfix and watched Miller’s Crossing….simply the best. The Angels received Band Hero for the Wii and a Nintendo DSi. I also gave them 8GB memory cards and headphones for their cellphones, so they’d quite with the iPod foolishness. I got a new ceramic knife and a Cabela’s gift card. Off to buy ammo…
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Best thing I got from someone else was a bottle of Bogle Vineyards Petite Sirah. I treated myself to a 46″ 1080p Panasonic Viera Plasma, the week after Thanksgiving, on sale at the Walmarts. Yes, life is good.
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I guess the restraining order I got for Christmas doesn’t look so good now after reading all that. Oh well…there’s next year.
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My oldest rug rat,who is almost as old as me now, got me a JBL On Stage docking station for my iPhone. What can I say? Boy loves his ma…
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AWG: Ain’t that a bitch about the Colts? I wanted to see the game but wasn’t broadcast here.. Instead, we watched the Stillers win but only for all the fuck-up’s the Raven’s had.
My sweet boyfriend got me all kinds of goodies. Lots jewelry and Harley stuff. His parents gave us money and we immediately went out and bought a new Blu Ray as my DVD player shit the bed last week anyway. I needed something to play my new workout CD’s on to whip my ass into shape again. This is no “Sweatin to the Oldies” mister…nosiree! I got the P90X and the 10 minute trainer by the same dude. By spring, I’ll be ripped. HAHAHAHAHA
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I got a beautiful engagement ring for Christmas. Now it appearss that everyone thinks we are supposed to be planning a wedding. Hmmm. We’ll see.
AWG- i tied on a real good drunk last night watching that game!! i was swearing like a dock worker.
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Tilly: Congratulations! Then once you’re married you’ll be asked when you’ll start pumpin out the babies. Trust me. It never ends..!
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AWG and bikerchick…check out this quick read on the game…http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/28/week-16-morning-aftermath-bengals-face-a-dilemma/
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Overall, the best gift reception in our house was the cell phone for our 10 year old. I was against it, but was overruled somehow, if you can imagine. Since then, it hasn’t left her sweaty grip, so I might be changing my mind about the whole thing- until its whereabouts become unknown in the near future, that is.
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Yeah NOLA was very cool………… from I can remember. I think we bought dinner for a bunch of strangers. Who the fuck knows. Really, I drank so much one night I felt like the “Hangerover “movie where someone slipped me a roofy. I don’t remember shit. But wife today said she found video on her i-phone of something that I took. I don’t even remeber taking the video??!!
My liver thanks me for coming back to the frozen tundra of Western New York
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thank you Bikerchick!!! we already have 3 children from 19 to 3 so we will not be having anymore of those.
There will someday be a wedding but what the heck is the hurry I say! I mean apart from my fear of damnation and his need for dental insurance there isn’t much point.
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Oh well…no link but the gist is they laid down like the Bungles may do next week to mess with the wild card scene. A few things hinge on the Jets losing. I don’t follow football at all but an intersting stragatigy I would think. Let the Jets win to keep the Steelers out.
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dto: Good one!! But I don’t think the Steelers will be going anywhere, regardless!
Tilly: Yeah, sorry…I guess chitlins are out of the question, lol. Dental insurance is much more important. Need good teef.
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I got some clothes, a dvd, the Bengals in the playoffs, and a girlfriend.
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T-STORM where did you find a girlfriend for Christmas? i have a friend who really needs one of those and if they didn’t sell out maybe i could get an after christmas deal for him??
Bikerchick- yes good teef are very important he may someday need to chew his way out of restraints or something.
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Tilly – Congrats! And you’re right, no rush. My husband and I got engaged when I was 29 (he’s 5 yrs older than me) and we got married when I was 42! We didn’t want to rush into anything, either.
Bikerchick – which DVD is that? I’m VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEry interested!
The ENTIRE family decided to go gift free this year, except for the chillins, of course – of which we only have three (NOT OURS) but my mom, always the rebel, just couldn’t do it. So I got five hundred bucks from my mom and the husband got $250. Only thing I’ve purchased so far is a pair of Uggs to replace the ridiculously ratty pair I currently own. I think I saw my husband shed a pollution commercial Indian style tear while they hit the trash. Good times.
Happy Monday, Surfers!
Hey, what’s everyone doing for New Years? We got nuthin’ so far, so we need a little help this year.
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I bought PS3 a few years ago, and if it exploded into flames I’d be at Best Buy before the molten plastic solidified getting another one. If you get PlayOn, you can stream media straight from your computer, as well as Hulu and a handful of other providers.
(get the wireless keyboard, the text entry scheme used by Sony with the game controllers will drive you batshit crazy)
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I got 2 pairs of slim fit jeans (hard to find these days), some socks and a $100 gift card to Lowe’s for paint, etc for my soon-to-be new living space at a friend’s house. Utilitarian xmas this year. Maybe next year I’ll get some cash and stock up on more ammunition or related craziness.
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I got a remote starter for my awesome Challenger which I have to drive in the sheiiiity weather.It is my daily driver so I have to drive her in all weather. My husband hated the gift I got for him as usual! I just keep on trying , but strike out every year! We had snow all day today which was not predicted by our awesome weather people here around Cleveland! I have rear wheel drive which I am realy not used to….Just go slow…that is my motto..
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Um.
I am all set for this surgery that has been postponed twice now…
Yep, you guessed it…it’s now set for December 31st.
So, I’ll be recovering on New Year’s Eve.
Y’all drink for me, now…ya hear?
Have a Happy one!
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Stephanie – Good Luck and best wishes with your surgery. I hope everything comes out OK!
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I gave the best present this year, for my D.
He has been a huge fan of Stuart Wood’s Stone Barrington novels for years. Stone Barrington drinks Knob Creek.
He’s always wanted to try it.
In a wrapped box there was a wrapped bottle of Knob Creek and a wrapped copy of the newest Stone Barrington novel. It’s been 4 days and he is still grinning.
We have the PS3
I am most proud of the Dexter viewing.
You just reminded me to cancel Showtime now that the season is over.
THANK YOU! Calling it in now!
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Yes, Stephanie.
I will raise a glass in your honor.
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Oh! And for some reason
Season One of Sons of Anarchy
was like THE GIFT all of the guys got this year.
Go Peg!
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I just can’t get into the update, Jeff, and am kinda’ bummed. I was REALLY looking forward to a Nancy, Nossy, Sunshune and Mumbles Christmas update. Ah well…
Later, y’all
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Good luck, Steph.
I’m right behind you for January surgery. At least you can tack it on to “2009 Sucked”. I have to begin 2010 with it.
2010 is gonna be my year, dammit!
And, Steph, there’s nothing like a champagne/painkiller cocktail to ring in the new year! Good luck – I’ll hoist one for you!
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You need to follow up The Ghost and Mr Chicken with a little Shakiest Gun in the West. Good Stuff!
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The big gifts this year in the Bear’s Den were a lot of things that go bang. Brother got a crossbow, I got a 9mm to match the .45 from last year. Old man got a sawzall and my mother ended up with a big kitchenaid mixer, which she’s asked for since we were kids. Now that we all have grown-up jobs, we can afford stuff like that. Also made out like a bandit for the old bachelor pad, got some sweet art and a giant clock that has deer heads on it for the man cave. Wish I’d have asked for a snowblower now…stupid Ohio weather.
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I got a digital candy thermometer, AND a remote digital probe thermometer just like my hero Alton Brown uses. Also got a couple of t-shirts made of some miracle petrochemical based fabic that are so smarmy that when I touch them with my moisture deprived fingers, feel like velcro. Also got a pair of sweat pants in a style that was last made popular by TV’s Greg Brady back in the 1960s.
Biggest hit for the family was a box set of “Keeping Up Appearances” DVDs.
Biggest non-gift was going out to my truck to go to work on Christmas EVE and finding I had a dead battery. So, I had to drive the wife’s Toyota Matrix to work, and got it high centered and stuck in an 8 inch high snow drift. Grrrrr!
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cilnt,
this is so none of my business, but is this the same wife from the moolah days? You know why I’m asking.
jtb
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clint,
transposing letters in your first name makes it look like some kind of female body part. No insult intended.
I was just listening to a little Mose Allison, and I heard one of my favorite ex-millionare songs: “If You’re Goin’ up to the City”.
If you’re goin’ up to the city
You better have some cash
If you’re goin’ up to the city
You better have some cash
Because people in the city
Don’t mess around with trash
And then he hits ten or twelve of those Mississippi chords and blasts off.
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I loves me some Ghost and Mr. Chicken have had the dvd for years.
Atta Boy Luther!
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Knucklehead: Here’s the link for Tony Horton’s 10 Minute Trainer. It is FANTASTIC! And he will kick your ass in 10 minutes….NO SHIT!
http://www.Beachbody.com/10MinuteTrainer
I was flipping through channels a couple weeks ago and landed on the infomercial for it. Ordered it immediately. I taught classes in all this bullshit for over 20 years with certifications in…step, kickboxing, spinning, weight training, and owned my own gym for a while. I got so burned out I quit everything about 6 years ago and haven’t done a fucking thing since. Now, I’m ready to get back into it. This is a no-bull, light a fire under your ass, workout. One of the best I’ve seen. Get it. It’s worf it!!
By the way, I also have the P90X. It, too, is fabulous but you need a lot of room to do it…which I don’t have at the moment. It also takes MUCH more time to complete. An hour to 1 1/2 hr. per workout too.
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CitizenX: OOOOOHH! Sons of Anarchy! Our favorite! (of course!). I’d DO Jax on the Court House steps in front of my mother! He is hot as fuck. heh heh.
Stephanie: Hope all goes well for you. Sux to be laid up over the holidays. Just like Knuckleheads said…indulge in a little pain killer drink-y poo. Add a splash of cranberry juice to that champagne. That ‘s call a Poinsettia. In the summer we call that drink a Petunia. YUMMY!
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Steph – good luck with the surgery. I had an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy and had to have surgery on Dec. 31 1996. I begged them to let me go home that evening, promised I would poop sometime in the near future and they let me leave! I had one small margarita in bed and promptly passed out! At least I wasn’t in pain!
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I got the Lego Millennium Falcon (the big $500 one) which is what I really wanted, and really didn’t think I’d get on account of not being that nice. So I’m happy but not sure where I’m going to find ~30 hours to construct it.
Our 15 month old pumpkin seems most happy with a box of plastic toy fruit, not he ride-on dinosaur or indoor jungle gym… oh well.
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TILLY – congrats on the engagement and good on ya for waiting for as long as you want. That’s a luxury that every couple should allow themselves.
Good luck, Stephanie. Give us a yell as soon as you feel up to it.
debra – what did you get for your husband that he hated? just curious.
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Limey, sounds like you and the Translucents have a lot in common, with the Lego thing. Hopefully you don’t also rub your weenis in public.
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Thanks everyone for the well wishes. I will let you know about the nuptials. Someday……..
I too got my hunny a gift he hated. I bought him some fancy pants (while still manly of course) shoes from Aldo. I am trying to get him out of the work boots. (No they really don’t go with everything!) he HATED them so back to the old drawing board. MAybe Wolverine makes a nice shoe.
Stephanie- good luck and I highly recommend the pain killer- cocktail route. How i got thru a terribly painful dislocated jaw. Of course that is how some of our celebrity friends wind up dead so be careful!
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There’s nothing quite as nice as downing an opiate painkiller along with a bottle of wine. The only drawback is that most opiate painkillers these days also contain acetaminophen (Tylenol), which will destroy your liver when combined with alcohol. And, of course, you need to limit yourself to just one pill, lest you drift off into the neverending nap. But give me a Tylenol-free opiate painkiller and a bottle of fine red wine, and life is sweet.
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Just got an email from the STATE, stating that they are installing an even more stringent blocker this week so that we cannot go to websites that are NOT of company business. Hopefully, I can find a backdoor into this thing, or I will not be here much. Anyone else have this gestapo like tactic thrown at them lately? How did you get around it? Going here is the best part of my suckass day.
Took back every one of child bride’s gifts that she hated at lunch today. Now have $211.04 in my pocket. Anyone want to go to dinner?
On IPOD right now- “Broken. Beat and Scarred”- Metallica
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@Swami Bologna, if I find one of the ~5300 pieces is missing I will scream like a Translucent being rectally cleared with a spoon.
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Alice, My husband is a constant drinker, coffee, water, beer, you name it. Our freezer is furked up so we never have ice for good ice drinks. I bought him a portable ice maker.He was like shocked with disbeleif when he opened it. Then I knew I blew it.
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disbelief that is
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I got a lot of great gift cards to places, a bunch of cool pottery books, and a hand mixer to replace the stand mixer that, after 51 years and three generations, finally shit the bed. The new one will probably be shot within a couple years, but whaddaya gonna do?
Congrats Tilly!
Good luck Stephanie!
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