99 thoughts on “December Delirium, Part Three”

  1. I will finally say what I got for Christmas. I got an electric pencil sharpener! And it has a clock that doesn’t quite work right on it. And I got tangerine altoids… and quite a bit of choklit that is just about gone. Hm… what else did I get? *checks basket* Ooh, lots of socks! Soft socks. Colorful socks. And I gave Panda a Muse shirt. It says, “GOT PWNAGE?” and shows a picture of Koko holding a Kokopelli for President sign. And on the back, it has an attempt at a drawing of the Pwtmobile’s liscense plate. It was froody.

    First post?

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  2. Maybe we could mark down for birthdays that Muse’s tenth birthday is in three days?????? At least, I think it is… unless its first issue wasn’t a January issue…

    HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY MUSE!!!!!!!!!

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  3. I got: 2 computer games (sudoku & ASOUE), a digital camera, 100 dolars from my dad *rather brave of him to mail it, LOL*, 2 ‘Ology books, a bible from my religious-fanatic uncle, a bath set, a 20 dollar gift card to Claire’s, a 15 dallar gift card to Petco, a pink shiny comforter set, a bird feeder which is no hanging outside my bedroom window, clothes *particularly ugly shirts from a store called Justice, a few bracelets, lots of candy,a journal, and a few Star Trek things.
    That’s the stuff I got for my parents & stepparents.

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  4. Yay, a part three!

    I have holy ears now. That’s right, two piercings apiece. Count ’em!

    The new ones don’t even hurt anymore.

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  5. 9 – what do you mean, “we’ve failed”???? This is great! A true museblog spirit. How is this failing?

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  6. There’s a squirrel in our living room. It’s scuttling across the piano, and you can hear it scuffling all over. It must have gotten in through the chimney. It’s quite odd. And quite the topic for a Silverstein poem.

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  7. yes. the squirrel fell down the chimney and it was running all over our living room. But I think it left now. We had to prop the door open and put spoons of peanut butter leading to the door. hee hee. !!

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  8. 14, 15- OMGY!! In my old house, there was a squirrel on the porch once. It freaked me out, but then again, I was only three.

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  9. there was this kid at my old school who was like LOOK EVERYBODY A SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    we were all like so what

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  10. *Looks back at Part Two*
    That’s so cool that you got your book bound, Kiki!
    I took a bookbinding class awhile ago…It was pretty neat.

    3: Electric pencil sharpeners are always nice. I use mine to sharpen my eyeliner nowadays, though, because I’ve stopped using regular pencils.

    Tangerine altoids are so good. Have you tried the ginger ones (…They’re pretty gross, actually!)?

    8: *Waves at Margaret* Velcome (I’m just assuming you’re new here – I haven’t been to the newcomers thread in ages)!

    14: LOL. We always get flying squirrels in my house…They’re so cute, though – I just want to keep them!

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  11. 23 ~ Yep, I’m a newbie. Nice to meet you!
    I love Altoids. My dad had a box of the ginger ones. I stealthily stole one, but it was gross. Sigh. I wish he had a better kind for me to stealthily steal.

    24 ~ My friend’s sister is allergic to Altoids.

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  12. I finally got out of my house today (Seriously, I was getting cabin fever or something). I went to the mall w/ Tabby…In the entire three and a half hours I was there, I did nothing but watch people play DDR (I’m not talented enough to play it…Meh, wish I could dance)…and watch people smoke. Tch. I am at a complete loss over what to do. It seems like almost all of my friends have turned into smokers…Thank god they haven’t tried to get me to do it…yet. I wish I could get them to stop. :?

    It’s fun to watch ppl play DDR, though. Cory and Travis did a round to this song called Cowgirl – Man, was that ever hilarious.

    And this random guy decided to pick me up and spin in circles…for like, five minutes. I was so dizzy. Def the most random thing that’s happened to me all day.

    Then I went to FYE + got Thornography (Cradle of Filth). I like it, so far.

    What’s everyone doing on New Year’s Eve?

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  13. What in the altoids are you allergic to? I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was allergic to Altoids.

    My mom likes ginger altoids…but I don’t like them. But I really like the tangerine ones. squee!

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  14. 26 ~ Wow, that sucks about your friends. Whatever they say, don’t start. I don’t want you to die. :cry:

    Sarah (my best friend) is coming over for New Year’s Eve. We’ll probably hang out in front of the TV all night with my little sister and drink sparkling cider.

    30 ~ Mmm, I didn’t know they made mango flavoured Altoids!

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  15. 23- I used to love binding books. Now I don’t bind them much. blech, I agree, ginger altoids are yucky.

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  16. Pittsburgh is going to have a ball this year for New Year’s. And instead of dropping it’s going to rise. (Did I mention that already? I don’t remember)

    How do you bind books? I’ve always wanted to learn.

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  17. 13- Sadly.

    14/15- Egad!

    26- Pretend to cough and die every time they smoke. It doesn’t work well, but it’s amusing. I do it at people outside the movie theatre. And then run, because most of them look pretty scary. And are probably in gangs. *shudder*

    33- That’s odd…rising? Okay, then.

    So el bailo wasn’t that bad. Haha, it was mostly us making fun of the dancing people. And him getting depressed at me for not seeing all the Star Wars movies. Bloody SW fans. And I made friends with this random girl at our table and we went off exploring the area and other rooms in the building because we were “trying to find the bathroom.” Fun times. And a bunch of kids from our school started to line-dance. ‘t was hillarious. I did dance like three times. And got pulled into a conga line of death. It was going so zarking fast. Yeah but I was [in true SM style] sitting in the corner discussing how much cooler AOE and Civ were than dancing. And we made a list of songs that will always be played at every dance ever.

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  18. 18 – We have bats in our summer home-like-thing. They squeak and scuttle every night, all night, and sometimes they come into the room and suck your blood.

    20 – Please visit https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=525 ! It’s a great place for liking smileys. It wasn’t that pointless. I think part of our job should be kindly showing something a thread that suits their needs.

    23 – We have a huge thing of colored pencils which are used often, so it’s great for Panda and me.

    24 – What in altoids are you allergic to? That’s a mighty interesting allergy.

    25 – The ginger ones are too gingery. And the mint ones are way to minty. I like the citrus sour ones.

    30 – I don’t like the mango ones either.

    33 – Yeah, I want to know too.

    36 – Because Pgh is “On the Rise!” yay…?

    37 – And pointless. You are hereby fined virtual choklit. Since you have no need for your dark choklit, and your milk choklit if you don’t have any dark, virtually hand ’em over.

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  19. 36: I adopt a more… outspoken method. If we’re sitting in the proximity of a smoker, I turn to a friend and say: You know what I hate? Those goddamm smokers!

    always gets a laugh.

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  20. 33: I wish I could remember exactly how they taught us how (This was a long time ago). I know it involved ironing fabric onto cardboard…I don’t know what we used to stick the fabric to the cardboard, though. Anyways, after we finished that part, we just glued the paper part into the binding (or cover, or wvr you want to call it).

    36: These are my friends, though. I’m trying to figure out some way to at least make them consider quitting (w/o annoying the heck out of them).
    Conga? *Shudders*

    What a boooooooooring day. But my Muse came, so I guess it could be more boring. This is what I’ve accomplished today, so far:
    1:30 – Woke up (Probably the hardest thing I’ve done all day, LOL)
    1:30-2:30 – Had hot choklit, read Muse
    2:30-4 – Did random things (I honestly forgot what I did in this time…Oh wait, nvm, I did my laundry…Haven’t done it for two weeks, so yeah, I had a lot).
    4- …+ now I’m here.

    I have yet to figure out what to do tomorrow.

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  21. i dinnea unnerstand how peple keep track of this crazy place…
    3-i got socks too! turquoise & green stripped, turquoise, blue & fuzzy, etc.
    42-that sounds like every day of my break so far, except i got sick, although i refuse to admit it, and it hurts to move my eyeballs.

    i think everyone should now go and take lots and lots and lots of random pictures if they have nothing better to do.

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  22. 33- there are many ways. I like one that uses a twig. the basic thing is make lots of little booklet thing all the same size. (cut the paper to the size of twice the size of a page so you can fold it at the spine and either sew or staple it into a booklet) then you need to put all of these together. The easy but not necessarily long lasting way is just to put a line of glue on top of each one and glue them together at the spine. The harder way is, when you are sewing, to sew the stich over a strip of fabric as well, gather it all together and glue the strips to the ends of the book. You then glue the ends of the pages to the book covers using endpages if you like. you can cover the covers with cloth if you like. (I use cardboard for the covers – the stuff that comes inside of a new calendar works quite well). I also find that putting part of a toilet paper roll thinge on the spine makes the spine look nicely curved.

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  23. im another newbie. i got a Nike mercurial team 400 soccer ball for christmas=) and some other random stuff. thankfully i didn’t get any socks or underwear.

    By the way, how do u do smilies?

    42-The jan/feb issue already came?

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  24. 33 ~ That’s weird, but pretty cool, too. My cousins live in Pittsburgh. Well, right outside. Wonder if they’ll see it.

    36 ~ I’m pretty sure the Spanish word for dance is “el baile.” “Bailo” would mean “I dance.” I think.
    I don’t like dances. I’ve been to two school dances in two and a half years of middle school, and they were both in sixth grade because my friends dragged me. I’m going to go to the eighth grade formal though, not because of any love of formality, but because it might be fun since pretty much everyone in my graduating class thing is going. I think it’s ridiculous that they make such a big thing about graduating middle school, but that doesn’t mean I can’t take advantage of it. xD

    44 ~ Hi there. n_n

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  25. 47 ~ Read the HG2MB. Link at the top. It explains smilies.

    48 ~ Argh! I wish I’d known…it would’ve made my night less boring.

    50 ~ Psh. You’re almost as newbie-ish as I am.

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  26. *pies Margaret* HI! Welcome!

    (14) Eh! Piano squirrel? That would be interesting. Poor piano.

    (26) DDR’s funny. Have you seen that video on youtube with the two ninja guys doing it?
    When my sister got back from Italy, she smoked.On the first days she was back, she took me out for coffee and she was like, mind if I light up? and I was like, umm, yes, and she felt bad. She stopped smoking pretty soon after that. My suggestion would be to guilt trip them shamelesssly, but depending on your friends, that may or may not work.
    (28) Dishwasher trouble? I feel your pain. Ours is also on strike. Yay. Hand washing dishes is uber fun. Rocks my world, baby.

    (34) It rained for a whole day here too. But that made us happy because it meant snow in the mountains north of us. Hopefully my friend and I will get to go sledding.

    (36) Sounds fun. What were the songs on the list?

    So I did not paint at all today, and I have several paintings due by the 8th, when I start school again. But I’m not going to worry about it, that’ll just make me want to paint less. Instead I re-read The Golden Compass and saw Eragon. Boy, was it terrible. What fun!

    I got an Edward Gorey calender for Christmas! Wee!

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  27. Why do peppermints make holes when u suck on them? I’m no noob… I’ve been reading the mag for 3 years! Noob

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  28. 26- Yeah, DON”T START!!!!! Stay an intelligent, nerdy MBer. Stay faithful to the cause!

    I pretend to get sick around smokers, too!! Sometimes I use the outspoken method…
    But most of the smokers are around a bar on my block that I have to pass to get home. And I don’t want to take too many risks with possible drunks. It’s probably stupid, but in NYC you can never be too careful.

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  29. ooh and i got a wii for christmas… they should make longer muses! i can read them in like half an hour T.T

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  30. wow. definately a new wave of newbies. Just so everyone knows I won’t be making new graphs for awhile. Actually, maybe I should. I don’t really have anything to do for the next few days. Hmm…..I’ll ponder the idea. (I’ll take graph suggestions)
    But anyway, Welcome, everyone I didn’t welcome yet! *pies for you too*

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  31. (41) I love doing stuff like that. Priceless.

    I’m going to dinner etc with my two friends on New Year’s Eve. :D I WANT to go to the beach (lawl at SoCal and our filthy beaches) but I don’t think we are then… Oh well we can next week. I’m off until the 8th, what about you guys?

    (43) This thread is very hard to keep track of. If you want more meaningful conversation, try the monthly discussion thread or some of the more specific ones. :3

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  32. 47- Hullo! Welcome! *pies*

    49- Yeah, it is….kind of a joke that became a habit, much to my Spanish-speaking detriment…^^;

    52- From what I can remember, Yeah, Get Low, YMCA, You Shook Me All Night Long, The Cha-Cha Slide, The Macarena(sp?), Baby Got Back… there were more… And there’s always a random slow song that nobody actually knows.

    53- Hullo to you, too! *pies*

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  33. We don’t play most of those at our dances. We play stupid rap songs. Like the one white&nerdy was based on that i don’t remember the name of…that one’s been at every dance. We do get the cha cha and electric slides, and the cotton eyed joe if we ask for it, but other than that it’s what cheese’s mom aptly refers to as “that hip-hop crap” (No offense to anybody who might happen to like such music. I personally despise it. But we’re all musers here. :D )

    41-haha…i have to say, that’s definitely to the point. do they stop?

    48-I discovered the excitingness that is the aim option to put ppls names on your buddy list instead of their sns. During that time, i managed to count an exciting 11 (possibly 12) out of 42 are musers. Mostly Harmless forever! Yes, i keep 42 people on my buddy list. Because then i can tell my parentals that AIM is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. And mean it. :D

    59-I go back the 3rd. :'( i really don’t want to. Like really really. The thing about Zapville is that it isn’t like back in GR where i wanted to get back to skool to see all my friends…because here all my friends live within walking distance and we meet all the time at various specified meeting points anyway. So skool is really unnecessary. Beyond the fact that you have to go because it’s a law. Oh, and college. For some reason, life assumes that if you went to college, you actually learned something extra. Which isn’t necessarily true either. *sigh*
    Oh well…

    Hey, did i tell y’allz that i got risk for christmas? And that we played for 2 days? And that eventually i got wiped out but by that point lb quit? So pater spent another whole day playing himself? He won, btw. Cwazzy…

    For the last couple days we’ve played schmere though. Relatives have been over. Schmere is life :D i was uncle john’s partner, which is always interesting. he’s a crazy bidder. He’ll bid without even looking at his cards. And uncle dan had grandpa’s old ring so he was knocking it against the table like he apparantely used to do, and everybody found that hilarious except for me b/c i didn’t really know him (he died when i was small). Oh and we played some Sorry too. Sorry’s fun.

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  34. 62 ~ I heard it was based on Ridin’ Dirty, which I’ve never heard.
    Also, can I give you my screenname, or is that against the rules? I guess it is, isn’t it. -sigh-

    I beat my dad at Risk the first and only time I played. It was awesome.

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  35. 62- I’m on your buddy list!
    I just got back form Night at the Museum. ‘Twas pretty good. Funny. Actually, anything w/ Robin Williams in in is going to be good. And anything w/ Robin Williams and Dick Van Dyke is going to be AWESOME.

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  36. (62) D: The third? That’s no good! When did your break start? My school is psychotic and waits until the 23 to let us go. Pff.

    I want to play Risk now, heh. xD

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  37. I have a Lord of the Rings Risk game that I’ve never played. I’ll bring it along if I ever manage to attend a Kokonvention.

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  38. God. I just spent two hours reading for my class (which so cruelly gave me work on probation– why not just keep me locked up, eh?) and I have two more hours to do yet tonight. Aren’t I brilliant for being on here now? At least the book isn’t a sleeper.

    Speaking of Kokonventions, when is the next? I’m hoping for some excitment soon…

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  39. what is a kokonvention? it sounds fun…
    is there a food thread? or a LOTR thread? i should go exploring more…
    speaking of board games, our family got a LOTR monopoly game and me , my sister, and my dad play and i (gandalf) ruled middle earth (AKA i WON)

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  40. Actually, Robert, I might be going to Washington D.C. over the summer… *schemes*

    I do desperateley want to attend a kokonvention.

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  41. 73 – next time you come by Pittsburgh, (or Muse), let us know! We’ll probably be able to make it there!

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  42. 77 ~ If you come by Pittsburgh during Thanksgiving break, I’ll be there. xD

    I’d love to go to a Kokonvention. That would be so awesome!!!

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  43. 74- I’m trying to organize one in the beginning of January. There’s also going to be one in California in the beginning of June. Yipee!

    I slept 11 and a half hours. WHEEEEEEEEEE!! And it’s the perfect day to do so. Since my grandpa died, we’re not having our usual humongo party at our house. We’re going to a few smaller parties.

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  44. 73-I have a Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit game that I could bring, if anyone’s interested…

    GOOD-BYE 2006!!!!! IT’S BEEN FUN! *sob* It’s all gone, all gone, never to be had again, agh!!!

    Ok, sentimental moment over…for now. How was everyone’s year?

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  45. I’ve just started an Old Year / New Year thread for precisely that sort of discussion.

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  46. GAPAs, I think you understand that I have been begging for a new Art of Being and Alien thread for a while. But in fact, on the Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories thread you say,
    The original SSSS thread is eight months old. Time for a new one!

    It has, in fact, been EIGHT MONTHS since the first Art of Being an Alien thread. So make a new one!!!! P*ease?

    This has been an Allegra R. Presentation. *bows*

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  47. 73 – Really? fr00dy! I do too! I’ve never played it either, (don’t know how to play Risk) but I like the extra ring you get with it.
    84 – Kiki, I saw your letter in the magazine, and I luv the sticker. Kokopelli for President! w00t! I now feel extremely old. I am soon going to become a no-nonsense old person and am going to loose the awesome randomness of Musers, buit my grandma renewed my subscription to Muse, so maybe one more year. :)
    86 – Awesome! I only know one other Muser in my town, but I’ll try to convert more of my freinds to Musery. I lived pretty close to Pittsburgh five or six yeras ago, but have moved several times since.

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  48. 52- me too! I wonder if we are now calendar twins…

    eh, still no kokoventions anywhere near me…

    So, anyone going to follow my instructions and bind a book?

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  49. 87: won’t be meeting me for some time yet… at least not until someone organizes a kokonvention in Helvetia…

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  50. Well guys, it’s ten minutes into 2007 in Germany, and I would like to wish you all a happy new year, as well as request a new years resolutions thread!

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  51. Each thread is a new world, isn’t it? Maybe we should have a thread where all the threads unite and do great things… A United Threads of Muse Thread. Anyway, I like the name. It could actually be something completely different.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

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  52. I went to see The Three Musketeers at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. ‘Twas sweet.

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