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Dec. 12th, 2003 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_multiplemanI dunno about you guys, but I thought the documentary was pretty cool. Everybody looked great and we didn't sound like scary people. Except Marie-Ange, because she let Blinky the Attack Umlaut get a taste of network exposure. He'll go crazy for more, I'm telling you. Never trust an umlaut.
Apparently TV stars get snacks, because I got a big box from Mom and Dad today. Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, brownies, and my mom's homemade honey granola clusters. First come first served, except for Kitty, who gets to cut in line because she has unfair leverage with the snack guy. Kitty, you have to try some of these granola clusters, it's a rule. :)
Hey, there's letters in here too . . . nifty, they're from my cousins. Cousin Jack says he'll kick the tar out of anybody who gives us trouble, as long as I stop calling him Jack, which isn't going to happen because as far as I'm concerned if your actual name is Nathan Jessup and you sign on with the Marines you deserve every joke you get, so probably he'll only kick the tar out of anybody who gives us trouble after dangling me out a window by my ankles. And Doug, my cousin Annie thinks you're cute and wants your phone number. She's eleven. Up to you.
Hrm. Aunt Mona isn't speaking to Dad anymore, though, and about the only upside to that is no more cheek pinching at reunions. That sucks.
. . . Hey, this letter isn't from my cousins, it's from Stephie Johansen back home. Wonder what everybody's favorite central Kansas used-car-and-tractor heiress wants with me . . . "hope you're coming home for Christmas, my parents are out of town and we could unwrap presents?"
Dude. I think she's being a teenage rebel. Heh.
Man, I had such a huge crush on her in junior high . . .
Apparently TV stars get snacks, because I got a big box from Mom and Dad today. Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, brownies, and my mom's homemade honey granola clusters. First come first served, except for Kitty, who gets to cut in line because she has unfair leverage with the snack guy. Kitty, you have to try some of these granola clusters, it's a rule. :)
Hey, there's letters in here too . . . nifty, they're from my cousins. Cousin Jack says he'll kick the tar out of anybody who gives us trouble, as long as I stop calling him Jack, which isn't going to happen because as far as I'm concerned if your actual name is Nathan Jessup and you sign on with the Marines you deserve every joke you get, so probably he'll only kick the tar out of anybody who gives us trouble after dangling me out a window by my ankles. And Doug, my cousin Annie thinks you're cute and wants your phone number. She's eleven. Up to you.
Hrm. Aunt Mona isn't speaking to Dad anymore, though, and about the only upside to that is no more cheek pinching at reunions. That sucks.
. . . Hey, this letter isn't from my cousins, it's from Stephie Johansen back home. Wonder what everybody's favorite central Kansas used-car-and-tractor heiress wants with me . . . "hope you're coming home for Christmas, my parents are out of town and we could unwrap presents?"
Dude. I think she's being a teenage rebel. Heh.
Man, I had such a huge crush on her in junior high . . .
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Date: 2018-01-04 07:00 pm (UTC)x_cypher
December 12 2003, 21:40:28 UTC
I think I shall just have to get first crack at the baked goods, since I'm the closest to them... :)
And I think your cousin is a little young for me. Tell her I'm flattered.
Besides, um...there might be a something with a certain someone this weekend. And that's all I'm saying in public here.
And if your cousin Jack is a captain in the Marines, I could see how that would lend itself to jokes. :)
Re: Well...
x_crowdofone
December 12 2003, 21:42:58 UTC
Ha. You get no clusters, though. Gorge yourself with cookies and be satisfied.
And my cousin's a sergeant, actually, but Nathan R. "You Can't Handle the Truth" Jessup was a colonel, not a captain. Watch the movie again.
Re: Well...
x_cypher
December 12 2003, 21:46:58 UTC
Oh. Right. I feel ashamed that as a card-carrying Aaron Sorkin fanboy, I didn't think of that.
For some reason I was thinking more along the lines of "Captain Jack". Various puns abounding from there.
Re: Well...
x_crowdofone
December 12 2003, 21:48:27 UTC
Nah, my cousin absolutely will not get you high tonight, nor will he take you to your special island.
Re: Well...
x_cypher
December 12 2003, 21:50:12 UTC
Very good!
Y'know, we have such impeccable taste in music. Alison Blaire, Billy Joel...
Now, how kickass would it be if those two had a concert together?
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Date: 2018-01-04 07:01 pm (UTC)December 12 2003, 22:30:46 UTC
"hope you're coming home for Christmas, my parents are out of town and we could unwrap presents?"
*growls* Mine.
Will come by and steal cookies and
stake my claimsay hello. *grin*x_crowdofone
December 12 2003, 22:41:09 UTC
Ooh. Yay. I like it when you're all claim-stakey.
Not that you should in any way not come over and say hello, mind you, but Stephie's just this side of helium-brained, her brother used to trip me into garbage cans, and neither of them ever used to say two words to me unless they were "get out," because they were too busy being the kids of the richest guy in town. So you have absolutely nothing to worry about. The picture's in the garbage already unless Doug fished it out for future reference.
x_kitten
December 12 2003, 22:45:12 UTC
Good boy. Am on my way. :)
x_cypher
December 13 2003, 03:26:40 UTC
Why would I do that? I prefer my girls with something besides helium between their ears.
x_crowdofone
December 13 2003, 06:33:06 UTC
Well, she did grow up pretty well, and you can really tell what with the part where in the picture she's wearing random bits of wrapping paper held together with ribbons. And you have to actually see her in person before you can tell about the helium head.
Actually, I might just mail the picture back to her parents and play dumb about why I got it. That would be freaking hilarious.
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Date: 2018-01-04 07:02 pm (UTC)December 12 2003, 22:39:59 UTC
Hey. Save a few snacks for when we get home?
...Please?
x_crowdofone
December 12 2003, 22:43:24 UTC
Don't worry, man, my parents are coming to visit for Christmas and I'm sure my mom and Lorna are going to get along really well. :)
x_polarisstar
December 13 2003, 05:45:23 UTC
What a perfect opportunity to tell you that I'm begging her to bring along her recipe book.
Really. Begging here.
x_crowdofone
December 13 2003, 06:29:43 UTC
Heh. She says she was already going to be bringing it, even though she's pretty sure you make more complicated things every day.
x_polarisstar
December 14 2003, 18:49:34 UTC
We'll swap. Complicated doesn't always equal better.
x_crowdofone
December 15 2003, 05:30:12 UTC
And where was this four months ago when I was arguing you down from twelve courses, huh? :)
(. . . That was four months ago already? Wow.)
x_polarisstar
December 15 2003, 22:20:33 UTC
Twelve courses would have been awesome. Anniversaries deserve extravagance!
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Date: 2018-01-04 07:02 pm (UTC)x_tarot
December 13 2003, 00:55:12 UTC
He sat and blinked cutely and did not bite anyone. I am ashamaed of you, insulting an innocent letter's reputation like that.
Re: Blinky was good.
x_crowdofone
December 13 2003, 06:28:56 UTC
Yeah, but just you wait, in six months he'll have Spielberg on his speed dial and be negotiating a six-figure contract, and you won't see a red cent. Umlauts are tricky.