Tatiana's Wanderings

My parents are on a cruise and didn't let me know, so I wasted my time calling them to get their voicemail multiple times yesterday! Then Dad emailed me to say that they could call me from the shore at 8:30, but then emailed me again at 8 to say that they were still on the ship. Since I don't want to deal with stressful and inconvenient phone calls in the morning when I'm trying to shower and get out the door, I just PMed Brian about it instead since Paulo said he could be good for this sort of thing. To be fair, we had discussed it yesterday just in case. Thank goodness for friends since he agreed to do this for me! He doesn't even have to stay for the entire four hours! I also got to text Pothead Mike for the first time, so YAY! (and talked to Jon via FB Messenger for a bit about the surgery and other things)


From Grammar.net: 10 commonly misunderstood words in English! Enormity, nonplussed, bemused, redundant, plethora, unique, fulsome, noisome, ironic, and literally.




From Julie M. and DR. PHIL: Kalan is a girl's name?!

It's Christmas Eve today!


From Wilf: Canucks Christmas ornaments!




From Julie: A red Christmas dragon with a candle, a night window, Christmas mistletoe, and holly! Credit: Kristin Mills, 2008.




From Reddit: This is a misleading Christmas ornament. I totally thought this baby Jesus ornament was a severed toe someone hung on our tree.

My headache was gone when I got up this morning - yay!


Bartz, Lenna, Galuf, and Faris complete the Wind Shrine in FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF. They go upstairs to find the shattered Wind Crystal and Lenna's father, King Tycoon. Galuf says, "IT'S ZOMBIE KING TYCOON!"




King Tycoon says, "I am afraid the bearded one is right... I have died and become a zombie."




Lenna says, "But zombies can't talk!" Zombie King Tycoon says, "Actually, I'm just moaning right now. I'm amazed you can understand me!"




From Julie: Fawcet Bess is the store owner of Bess Chicken and Pizza in Cleveland?! Is that like a water faucet or Farrah Fawcett? Like I was telling TinyTalkingNinja in June in Classy's Discord server, most last names do not make good first names!




In the same Discord server, Lurus reminded me that Jessa Duggar Seewald named her first kid SPURGEON. While Charles Spurgeon may have been a good man, that doesn't mean his last name should be used for a first name!

I tried calling Chinese Eric because I thought he'd called me in the morning, but I guess not! Also heard COPYRIGHT on the radio for the first time in a LONG time, then learned that GOB is from Langley - I didn't know that for some reason! Then he called me while I was in the middle of making spicy beef noodles, which is always okay. *grin* I updated him on most of the stuff which I'd already said in the email, and got away with using the words "dumb fuck" to describe someone, haha. He agreed that I should block Randal after hearing what had happened. Like he and others have said: if the dumb fuck had been nicer, I'd have respected his wishes! I assumed Eric doesn't really care about the notifications; I asked, and he didn't say anything, so this is good. Talked about the advances in technology these days - texting at the dinner table for teens ("gotta update my Facebook status!") is normal, we guess. If you text and drive at the same time, you could cause an accident and kill yourself and others! He also gave me the new cellphone number: only eight digits off!

I figured the cooler weather would be better for his health - not as much heat! - but he still has to bring a jacket to guard against sudden chills. Makes sense to me! Of course, we still think and wish it to be summer, but it is getting colder! I told him that it was cold when we went to see the baby the other day, too. He asked about my weekend plans (his consist of going to visit his grandma), so I told him about the Christon / Jeremy birthday dinner. Yes, he remembered that I'd told him about it already (which is fine), and wanted me to wish them a happy birthday for him. OF COURSE! Seemed he and his mom had just gotten in from grocery shopping, and she noticed my call - Auntie is nice, for sure. Eric asked if I'd had lunch yet: almost! His dad needs to do some work, so has to do a different kind of shopping with him later in the afternoon; that's how it should be, as long as he's not too exhausted later. Told him about how most of the cold medicine stuff was on sale at the store, so of course he reminded me to stock up: already done yesterday, and not in the EXTREME COUPONING sort of way, either! (hahaha) Since his mom was calling him to lunch, I said I'd talk to him next week for sure! Yes, it was nice talking to each other, as usual. :D