party on

Today I learned that not only can you tour the house where A Christmas Story was filmed, but you can also buy one of those leg lamps. If you pay extra, you can get it delivered in a crate like Ralphie's dad's.

And I forgot to report that you can get wild scallops at Safeway for $5.99/lb. at around 5:45 pm on Christmas Eve because the meat counter guy needed to get rid of them. That was a good thing because we were planning on having shrimp, but we forgot to get safer ones, and ordinarily farmed shrimp has roughly a 50-50 chance of totally killing you.