Cities burning...
Dec. 14th, 2007 09:52 amHappy birthday, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
resonance42! May it be full of wonderful things. :)
resonance42! May it be full of wonderful things. :)Dec. 14th, 2007
Busy personal day. And I'm not done yet!
Dec. 14th, 2007 03:18 pmSpent much of the morning in downtown Palo Alto doing shopping-related stuff. Acquired: Video for dad-in-law and couple of things for the huz from Borders, bunches of holiday cards from Long's (on the assumption that a holiday letter is in fact going to get written). Also, tasty panang curry with beef for lunch after searching for a new parking spot. I think everyone took the afternoon off for shopping today.
Stopped at Target on the way home. Acquired: Two cute shirts for local nephew for Christmas; one adorable sweater for local niece for birthday (on something like the 28th of December; the huz's family is very irritating that way!).
Just spent bunches of time online. Acquired: Book for dad-in-law, CD for mom-in-law, almost everything for my brother and his family from Amazon, and toy drum for youngest nephew from Little Tikes because Amazon's subcontracting merchant's price was friggin' $10 higher than anywhere else AND they wanted to charge $10 for shipping. No thank you!
Still to do, preferably today:
•order things for distant aunts (2) (probably nice-smelling things from Crabtree and Evelyn like last year)
•order thing for distant cousin (probably boring Sephora gift certificate, but if the enclosed photo of her in the family Xmas card is any indication, she reeeeeeallly likes unusual makeup)
• get movie gift certificate(s) for brother-in-law. Don't yet know what we're doing for his birthday on Dec. 26th. (EDIT: Postponed; it's an easy walk to the local movie theater.)
•shop for dinner
• practice - FAIL
•make dinner, including Meyer lemon muffins
•figure out something to tell my brother for a gift to us from his family
• catch up on Librivox stuff 'cuz I haven't logged on since Tuesday - FAIL
• nap???? maybe??? - WTH was I thinking?
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Added later: Unh, stressy-feeling.
We modified the muffin recipe to use just juice and zest of two lemons, and distributed mix into twelve muffin cups rather than 18. Probably won't bother doing it again; it's a fair amount of work, and the amount of butter in it is kind of insane - the paper muffin cups were greasy, and there was a lot of melted butter in the pan afterwards. Yegh.
Stopped at Target on the way home. Acquired: Two cute shirts for local nephew for Christmas; one adorable sweater for local niece for birthday (on something like the 28th of December; the huz's family is very irritating that way!).
Just spent bunches of time online. Acquired: Book for dad-in-law, CD for mom-in-law, almost everything for my brother and his family from Amazon, and toy drum for youngest nephew from Little Tikes because Amazon's subcontracting merchant's price was friggin' $10 higher than anywhere else AND they wanted to charge $10 for shipping. No thank you!
Still to do, preferably today:
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• get movie gift certificate(s) for brother-in-law. Don't yet know what we're doing for his birthday on Dec. 26th. (EDIT: Postponed; it's an easy walk to the local movie theater.)
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• practice - FAIL
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• catch up on Librivox stuff 'cuz I haven't logged on since Tuesday - FAIL
• nap???? maybe??? - WTH was I thinking?
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Added later: Unh, stressy-feeling.
We modified the muffin recipe to use just juice and zest of two lemons, and distributed mix into twelve muffin cups rather than 18. Probably won't bother doing it again; it's a fair amount of work, and the amount of butter in it is kind of insane - the paper muffin cups were greasy, and there was a lot of melted butter in the pan afterwards. Yegh.
