drink: dirty vodka martini
music: Aerosmith

"I'm major in love, but in all minor keys/'cause falling in love is so hard on the knees"

Christmas was a blast. While the presents under the tree were few in number, I enjoyed the company of my famiy. We ended up playing this game called the game of Things or something like that. You have to put in a response to a writing prompt and everyone has to guess who wrote what. We really went to town with this and ended up with belly laughs. For example: Things you would like to try - my grandfather wrote sex,to my grandmother's dismay - Burn!, Things better late than never - mom's response...climax. Ahh, it was a good time.

What else...O,a lady slapped me in the face today lol. It was definitely meant to be a friendly embrace, but I totally wasn't expecting her to grab my face. And, I went to see the Sherlock Holmes movie and enjoyed it - even if I went by myself.I love 19th century costumes and of course Robert D. I finished the throw blanket I was crocheting off and on for the past 2 years. It was my first attempt at crochet. And yep, it pretty much looks like crap, but it was crap that I put a lot of time into so... I love it anyway. Ha! all my blanket squares came out dome shaped, so as my brother pointed out . . . it looks like a ball holder/hat, lol. Maybe I'll be better at knitting or I should just design a line of crochet banana hammocks.

Not sure what I'm doing New Years Eve, don't have any plans as of yet. Wendy is out with her boy toy in NC. If they end up married, I hope she convinces him to move here or else she will have to find a place with a mother in law suite to accommodate me! Btw, after the holidays I'm not allowed to eat anymore, lol.

I finished reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and loved it. Such a great picture of Chinese culture at that time and very well written. Ugh, and foot binding - so hard to stomach. But, if you think of all the things women do today in the name of beauty (bigger breasts, and a flat stomach? - me please!) and social standing it is a lot easier to understand. Moving on to another Freud book: Darkness in the Midst of Vision.

"Pink like a deco umbrella
It's kink - but you don't ever tell her
Pink it was love at first sight, and
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

I want to be your lover
I wanna wrap you in rubber
As pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pink it's my favorite crayon, yeah "