One Tough vonCookie

Assiduously Avoidant Since 2005

Halloween in the Key of “Low”

voncookie | November 1, 2009

I was recently anticipating a very, very high-drama Halloween, filled with unrequited lust, triangular tension, and (worst case scenario) plenty of tears… not to mention drunkenness.  All of this as a consequence of being 19-for-two-days, too much eyeliner, and perhaps that evil, evil man, Johnnie Walker. Luckily, absolutely NONE of this came to pass.  I [...]

Uploading Christmas Cheer

voncookie | December 24, 2007

No, I’m not frustrated that WordPress won’t upload my picture of a Christmas Tree… No, I’m not completely appalled by the fact that my Knit-Along group (spelled Knit-a-Long, which prompts me to wonder, knit a long what?) has fired up my secular humanist tendencies when the organizer of the group went against her own rules [...]

WWJD: Needless Markup Edition

voncookie | December 22, 2007

Dad and I went shopping in Union Square today, going from store to store, watching the people (like the over-dressed, stick-thin French girl in the red coat that couldn’t navigate the revolving door at Needless Markup—you enjoy that weak dollar, ma fille!) and barely tolerating the incessant, mediocre Christmas music being mainlined into every department [...]

Getting to Know You: Christmas Edition

voncookie | December 13, 2007

As brought to me via email by Laura, I will today be incorporating the Christmas survey about my holiday preferences. Feel free to pass on the meme. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Gift bags, because I’m just that lazy, and after working at Borders in the ’90s, I never want to wrap anything ever [...]