what is a sugarplum? that’s sort of my obsession today. i’m too lazy to look it up, but it has occurred to me – visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads? is that some sort of festive drug? alright it’s got to me.. google image searching it…

… first image was unpleasant …

what the? fairies? boots? children’s bed sets?

i’m gonna wikipedia it. bear with me…

ah. “A sugar plum is a piece of candy that is made of sugar and shaped in a small round or oval shape.” that’s really not at all fulfilling. oh well. at least we all know now.

merry christmas, and all that. you’ll have to bear with me. i’m writing this blog post after a rousing three hour game of risk (as rousing as risk can be). my army, the blue army, ruled australia with an iron fist. no one got in, no one got out. of course, because of my seclusionist agenda, asia and europe were easily toppled by the dreaded green army who proceeded to blockade me in. an hour of building of defense made australia virtually impenetrable, however that also meant we played a really really boring game of risk that lasted forever. the trick, of course, is to act like you are having a great time rolling dice continually until the other player resigns out of boredom. then you receive meaningless victory by default and are slightly pleased about it.

that all said, i am mentally wiped. it takes a lot out of a person to calculate how to roll those dice efficiently. and that is going to be my excuse for this: the worst blog post in the history of blog posts.

i’ve made that claim before, i know. you might recall this gem

oh, how young we were. how vain! thinking that that was a bad blog. we had so much to learn.

so many classic lines….

I realize that when people see you eating cereal at, say, 3PM, they wonder how your life has gotten to a point when a mid-afternoon cereal snack has become acceptable social behavior.

such stark social commentary! it’s true! people might find that a bit odd! eating cereal at three… ah, so true to life.

It is nature’s perfect food, and by nature, I mean Kelloggs.

ohh-ho-ho! the classic bait ‘n switch! A+++++ GREAT ebayer would buy from again!!1111

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so poop in bed? poop in bed.

we’ll give this whole blog thing a better shot next week.

joel