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So. We are back to the ordinary number of monkeys around here, the last of our out-of-town visitors having gone last night after supper. I am startled to notice that it's only been a week. We fit in fun family time (and some fun friend time) with a wedge and a mallet, and as a result we are all kind of tired and quiet around here. I have a minor headache and a low-grade fever that mostly translates into not being able to keep warm. I'm in the mood to slop around the house in my new cargo socks* and crack nuts and drink tea. So I think I'm going to do that, actually. We have the nuts. We have the tea. We have things to read in the process.

I always get this way this time of year. I am in awe of those of you who can manage to make New Year's an actual holiday, because by the time New Year's Eve rolls around, I am done with holiday and shambling around wondering if braaaaains count as an idea for what to make for dinner.

Also I have no interest whatever in taking stock of this year. I have had plenty of time to think about this #$^#@* year while it is happening. Now I want to think about a better year. Ideally 2009, but really any better year will do; I'm willing to take nominations. So that line from Grosse Pointe Blank keeps popping into my head, and from there into the title field.

I am going to do a radio silence day tomorrow. No reading lj, no posting to lj, no e-mail out except in case of emergencies. I want the quiet in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense.

*They have little pointless** pockets on the sides. Hence, "cargo socks." They are blue and look sort of like the boots from the Cookie Monster Slayer being linked to here, there, and everywhere some months ago.

**[livejournal.com profile] timprov says that the pockets are for a Bowie knife. I do not have a Bowie knife that small, and anyway I don't think these socks' structural integrity is quite that high.

Date: 2008-12-29 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jbru.livejournal.com
Perhaps the pockets on your sockets ... er, I mean socks are for an iPod!

Date: 2008-12-30 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
With reeeeeeeally long cords!

Date: 2008-12-29 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com
I would say the pockets are for mad money or maybe an emergency supply of chocolate.

One doesn't want to be caught short.

Date: 2008-12-29 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottjames.livejournal.com
I, for one, am not interested in chocolate I've been storing so close to my feet. I'm not willing to totally rule it out, but I'd need to be in dire straits, is what.

Date: 2008-12-29 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com
I'm picturing cargo socks as being long, knee sock type things and the pockets being like mid calf or higher, so any chocolate--wrapped of course--is really no where near the feet. *g*

Date: 2008-12-30 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
They're not all the way up to the knee, so the pockets are around the ankle. Also, see below re: Ista and sock biting, desirability of same.

Date: 2008-12-29 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dd-b.livejournal.com
Spare batteries, maybe? Or a credit-card multi-tool?

I do like the name "cargo socks". I can see how that would be irresistible to the designers.

Date: 2008-12-30 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Credit card multi-tool may still be too big; my ankles are really not what one would call capacious.

As for the designers, I have no idea whether they thought of "cargo socks": we got it from our own twisty brains, not the packaging.

Date: 2008-12-30 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottjames.livejournal.com
And yet your journal is #5 in the Google search list for "cargo socks". I think the higher-ranked ones are bogus, though.

Date: 2008-12-29 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aamcnamara.livejournal.com
I have a sweater with a pointless pocket on the sleeve. I used to hate it because it was so pointless. Now there is a note in it that my friend wrote just so I have something to carry in there, and I am happy whenever I think of it.

I suggest a similar solution for the socks.

Date: 2008-12-30 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Problem is, I would almost certainly forget and wash it and have little bits of paper on all of my other clothes.

I commend your mindfulness in this area. You're a better woman than I am, Gunga Din.

Downgrading the level of discourse since 2008

Date: 2008-12-29 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reveritas.livejournal.com
"You put your weeeeeed in here."
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
My experience with weed is all "scent drifting down the hall" level, but I always thought it smelled like ass, not feet.

She said in a delicate and ladylike way.

Date: 2008-12-29 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shana.livejournal.com
It is a perfect place to put treats for Ista.

Date: 2008-12-30 12:09 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] markgritter.livejournal.com
Marissa's mom and I discussed that, since we were not buying any of the slipper-socks with poofballs, which Ista loves.

Date: 2008-12-30 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
You both have a crazy. The last thing we need is to get her to bite at feets/socks more.

Date: 2008-12-30 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mkille.livejournal.com
Clearly the pockets are for nuts, teabags, and miniature books.

Date: 2008-12-30 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rmnilsson.livejournal.com
It's where you keep the key to the train station locker with the false passports and the getaway money.

Date: 2008-12-31 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Ah, because I don't yet have a kid so I could put it around the neck of her teddy bear?
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Date: 2008-12-31 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
I'm still not bouncing around yet, but better than before, I think.

Date: 2008-12-31 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com
Perhaps the pockets are store hot wheels or lucky pennies?

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