Taking a break from the partying.
Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:00 pm
Yoli here, being quite surreptitious behind locked doors.
I'm near 100% after last week's illness and that's a good thing...appetite hearty, pre-Xmas dinner cocktails and the dinner wine riding easily in my widdle tummy. But I just needed to get away from the mob for a brief while and hear the sounds of silence. What better place than the EA?!
Hope no one notices my absence, especially the adoring and equally adored offspring of my sister and brother-in-law. They DO seem to cling a bit.
Over at the big house there are over twenty-five guests (and there will STILL be leftover food and desserts...Yayyyy!) and, frankly, I needed some alone time...not much, just a few minutes; Then I'll hurl myself back into the fray, still clad in my cute little Santa's Elf attire, have another toddy, and give in to the usual request to take off my boots, be boosted atop the mantel over the fireplace in the dining room (it's wide and there are 12 foot ceilings.) and do my "signature" rendition of "I Saw Mommy Castra...errrr...Kissing Santa Claus". That'll be a special treat for my brother-in-law since he has a thing for my feet and he stands very close to the mantle with them almost at eye level. Heck, my sister has equally pretty feet but what can I say? I'm thinking about rubbing garlic between my toes so when he gets really close...Bad Yoli! As ir is, a bit of perfume will be dabbed on and THAT will drive him crazy.
The aforementioned Herr Claus was, as always, too generous this year, though I won't list the loot for fear of seeming boastful. The bonus from my bosses was, well, WOW! and for that I'm grateful. (You tell me I'm indispensable, then pay me so well that I can retire wayyyy early. You fools!)
Barry, as promised (and mentioned in my "Hate being sick" post), drove the absent boss's mom on her last-minute shopping venture, NOT in the Mangusta! (also mentioned), and they became instant buddies. After a mercifully brief raid on the mall, she wanted to buy him a drink, which led to another, and another. Now you can more easily understand why he was not entrusted with that exotic car.
They became so "Buddy", in fact, that when she asked him if he and I were an item, as in GF and BF, if we were planning marriage and kids, he actually told her "No, just good friends, and I can't father children." She pressed as to why and HE TOLD HER HE HAD BEEN CASTRATED! OMG! I nearly had a cow when he told me that.
For her part, according to Barry, the lady put her hand on his and said, "Well, dear, I'm so sorry...accident? Disease?" Barry told her it was by choice and said she sat glassy-eyed and speechless for a moment, then ordered another drink. God only knows what she must think. I'll bet if he'd offered to show her proof she'd have invited him home on the spot.
Anyway, I need to do some vocal warm-ups and prepare for my big mantel musical moment. I hope all here had at least some joy today, especially in remembering the real reason for the season.
Mi,mi,mi,meeeeeeee. Tralalalalaaaaa...cough...giggle.
Love and all that's thus implied,
Yolanda The Singing Elfette,
On The Mantel, Sweetly Singing And Pointing Her Toes At My Perv BIL.
I'm near 100% after last week's illness and that's a good thing...appetite hearty, pre-Xmas dinner cocktails and the dinner wine riding easily in my widdle tummy. But I just needed to get away from the mob for a brief while and hear the sounds of silence. What better place than the EA?!
Hope no one notices my absence, especially the adoring and equally adored offspring of my sister and brother-in-law. They DO seem to cling a bit.
Over at the big house there are over twenty-five guests (and there will STILL be leftover food and desserts...Yayyyy!) and, frankly, I needed some alone time...not much, just a few minutes; Then I'll hurl myself back into the fray, still clad in my cute little Santa's Elf attire, have another toddy, and give in to the usual request to take off my boots, be boosted atop the mantel over the fireplace in the dining room (it's wide and there are 12 foot ceilings.) and do my "signature" rendition of "I Saw Mommy Castra...errrr...Kissing Santa Claus". That'll be a special treat for my brother-in-law since he has a thing for my feet and he stands very close to the mantle with them almost at eye level. Heck, my sister has equally pretty feet but what can I say? I'm thinking about rubbing garlic between my toes so when he gets really close...Bad Yoli! As ir is, a bit of perfume will be dabbed on and THAT will drive him crazy.
The aforementioned Herr Claus was, as always, too generous this year, though I won't list the loot for fear of seeming boastful. The bonus from my bosses was, well, WOW! and for that I'm grateful. (You tell me I'm indispensable, then pay me so well that I can retire wayyyy early. You fools!)
Barry, as promised (and mentioned in my "Hate being sick" post), drove the absent boss's mom on her last-minute shopping venture, NOT in the Mangusta! (also mentioned), and they became instant buddies. After a mercifully brief raid on the mall, she wanted to buy him a drink, which led to another, and another. Now you can more easily understand why he was not entrusted with that exotic car.
They became so "Buddy", in fact, that when she asked him if he and I were an item, as in GF and BF, if we were planning marriage and kids, he actually told her "No, just good friends, and I can't father children." She pressed as to why and HE TOLD HER HE HAD BEEN CASTRATED! OMG! I nearly had a cow when he told me that.
For her part, according to Barry, the lady put her hand on his and said, "Well, dear, I'm so sorry...accident? Disease?" Barry told her it was by choice and said she sat glassy-eyed and speechless for a moment, then ordered another drink. God only knows what she must think. I'll bet if he'd offered to show her proof she'd have invited him home on the spot.
Anyway, I need to do some vocal warm-ups and prepare for my big mantel musical moment. I hope all here had at least some joy today, especially in remembering the real reason for the season.
Mi,mi,mi,meeeeeeee. Tralalalalaaaaa...cough...giggle.
Love and all that's thus implied,
Yolanda The Singing Elfette,
On The Mantel, Sweetly Singing And Pointing Her Toes At My Perv BIL.