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Best. Videos. Ever. These have become permanent vocabulary around my dance troupe.

My life would be complete if the Sassy Gay Friend would help Lydia Bennet next.

NaNoWriMo is finally over (I won. Twice. Two novels, yes, haha) and now it’s time to get started on Christmas. Yesterday I spent almost the entire day making ornaments to give as presents to the boys’ teachers and speech therapists and the bus driver (seriously, it’s a lot. 3 teachers, 4 STs) and for some family members. I still need ribbon to tack to the backs to hang them, so they’re not quite done.

I had a fantastic idea for a present for my mom for Christmas, which I will not detail here because sometimes she reads my blog. Mwahahahaha. But it will be awesome, and after Christmas I will post pics of all my crafting and sewing. I have a lot to do, basically. I have big plans for my niece, too. I have some pink tie-dye fleece that is going to be a hat and mittens for her, and I’m going to make her a purse, because every stylish one-year-old needs a bag to carry her toys in (she is a Libra). I think I might also make her a tutu, haven’t decided yet. She’s going to get some books from Auntie Megan as well, because I’m told she has none, and that ain’t right. My kids have more books than toys (unless you count Legos, which are insidious and probably multiplying every night, ready to attack like the bubonic plague of toys). They read all the time. She needs to read too. And it will be fun to buy princess books. I’m planning to give my nephew books this year as well. He’s gotten into reading, so I’m going to send him the first couple of Harry Potter books.

I also need to get started on the boys’ Christmas pajamas. I bought Christmas print flannel last year and never got around to making the jammies. So now I have washed the fabric, and will cut it out and try to get it sewn tomorrow. I hope. Going to do some button-up collarless shirts style jammies (they won’t wear it with a collar, they complain any time I try to put so much as a polo shirt on them. Reminds me of my brother, who claimed every shirt with a collar was choking him to death. I can still hear his little seven year old voice acting like he was being strangled, “It’s binding! It’s choking me!”).

I think that’s it for Christmas to-do lists. Must send out cards. I’m lazy and don’t do the letter thing, I just send a photo card. No one reads those letters anyway.

So my aunt Susan has this theory that the movies and stories you really loved when you were younger are deeply meaningful to your life. She and my mother discussed this at length while my mom was visiting, picking out what their favorite fairy tales and movies meant. Susan asked me about my favorites, and I could name them, but I couldn’t think of what it meant.

But I’ve been thinking.

And all the movies I love, the ones I watch over and over to the point of memorizing entire scenes (or the entire movie, in the case of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which I could recite in its entirety during college), and even my favorite fairy tale, they all have a theme in common: The characters are willing to do whatever is necessary to get what they want, and in almost every case this means subterfuge. But always, someone is going all-out, full-tilt for what they want, no matter what it takes.

Interesting.

I told my aunt she should write a book about her theory. I actually do think she’d make a great New Age guru. She’s very big on visualizing what you want and assorted other hippy New Age sort of things. She’d be great at the guru thing.

Sadly, I’m not going to Pennsic this year. We would have to bring the boys along, and camping for a week or two in 14th century style (but with port a potties) does NOT sound appealing with two five year olds. And 95 degree high humidity heat. So the Husband is going up for war week with one of his buddies. They’ve been busily building and repairing armor all week.

I find this funny because my response to a large event is to want all-new garb, while his is to want new armor. I did make him a bit of new garb, but he’s still got quite a bit of decent garb, so I didn’t bother with much.

They’re heading out Saturday night (why? Men are so weird) and then as soon as he comes back, he’ll be going out on another out of town job. Hawaii. Wish we could pick up and move there already. One of these days I’m going to make that happen. And then I’m never leaving Hawaii again.

And a quick kid funny: The boys are building with Legos right now (they LOVE Legos) and Twin B is saying “This police car going to blow your feet off. That means it going to be very surprising. It going to knock your socks off forever.” And because they always need to top each other, Twin A responds, “Well these spaceships are going to blow your HEAD OFF.”