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December 15, 2014: Ohhhhhh Snap

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I spent a lot on my wife this Christmas, but just learned that she spent three times as much on me. She doesn't care and doesn't want me to do anything more, but I sure feel like I should.

34 thoughts on “December 15, 2014: Ohhhhhh Snap”

  2. My wife and I have been successful in spending zero dollars on each other every year we've been together. It helps that her birthday is a week after Christmas, and mine is just a couple months before.

    1. Same here. Plus, we got to the point of realizing that if there's something we want, we just get it when we want it.

    2. The small gift I got the girl I've been seeing arrived in the mail yesterday. Yesterday, she also advised me she thinks we should stop setting each other. C'est la vie.

      1. Been there, man. One time, I sent it to her anyway, even though she told me not to. It probably doesn't matter, but I wouldn't send it along. Even if it's something practical, she probably ain't gonna keep it.

        1. It's a flask, which I would keep for myself if not for the fact it's got her name engraved on it. We're having dinner tomorrow. I'm gonna give it to her, what she does after that is out of my hands.

    3. We've neared that before, but we've never had more money than we do right now.

      Plus, the Milkmaid LOVES giving Christmas presents and I doubt highly that I could stop her if I tried.

    4. We generally buy something for the both of us and call it our Christmas gift (this year, since the garage cost quite a bit, we just called that our gift to each other). Then on Christmas Day, we open our stockings, filled with small things (usually books, CDs, candy, a couple of lottery tickets, etc).

  3. We're way ahead of our previous pace for sending out Christmas cards this year, but I'm feeling like we're a bit behind on gifts. One thing that has been key to feeling like we're organized this year is a shared Evernote gift list. We did this in previous years on other platforms (a shared spreadsheet), but everything finally clicked this year. I'll be converting our Christmas card spreadsheet over to Evernote next year.

      1. I have been trying to sell this concept to the Mrs for years, along with the concept of her actually using the calendar function on her phone. No soap.

    3. I'm thinking of skipping the cards. It's always been something I've enjoyed in the past, but this year it feels like it would just be one more thing on an already overstuffed to-do list.

      Maybe I'll at least find time to make a batch of cookies so that I'm not a full-on Grinch. Actually, this fudge caught my eye...

    4. No Christmas cards here. Don't like spending all that postage.
      Too easy to keep up on Facebook

  5. Sharing, in case anyone around here might be interested or know someone who should be interested: LOC to offer (paid) summer internships to college students

    For a stipend of $3,000, the 2015 class of Junior Fellows will work full-time with Library specialists and curators from June 1 through Aug. 7, 2015, to inventory, describe and explore collection holdings and to assist with digital-preservation outreach activities throughout the Library. The program aims to increase access to collections and awareness of the Library’s digital-preservation programs by making them better-known and available to Members of Congress, scholars, researchers, students, teachers and the general public.

    The fellows will be exposed to a broad spectrum of library work: copyright deposits, digital preservation, reference, access standards and information management. Rare and unique treasures were processed by the 2014 Junior Fellows, from a collection of Mayan "poison flasks" dating from 300-700 AD (350-800 CE) that contained tobacco and other stimulants in the ancient culture, a rare 17th-century hand-illuminated Persian manuscript, a check from Marilyn Monroe to acting teacher Lee Strasberg for $90 (Strasberg was Monroe’s private acting coach) and an audition sheet showing Al Pacino’s first audition for the Actors Studio in 1961.

    1. Think I could lie and claim I'm still in college? I would love to work for the LoC. The chapter in Mapheads where Ken Jennings visits their map department was straight up cartographical porn.

    3. I'm surprised. I thought schools were trending toward using the comma to eliminate confusion since there are instances where a comma would be required. Plus, the reason it was eliminated was for newspapers, which are becoming irrelevant now, at least the dead tree versions.

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