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'Out Of Gas'


Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


SailAweigh - Feb 15, 2005 4:09:01 pm PST #1288 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Or, as mother said, it felt like her back was being snapped in half over and over again.

More like someone jamming a red-hot poker into your kidneys, over and over again. Thirteen hours of that shit and I was ready to kiss my OB when he said it was time for a c-section.


Strix - Feb 15, 2005 4:11:17 pm PST #1289 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I miss Erin. Also, I need to hear about this.

Basically, I got really drunk at an Aussie bar, went home, started schreeching at drunk Irishmen in the street out of the window in bad accents, flashed my tits and yelled something along the lines of "Come on up!"

They stormed the door, someone let them in (it was a big building full of students) and they started barging about, evidently loking for the crazy naked Polish/Irish/American girl. My friends promptly locked me in a closet, lied to the Irish guys, who got locked out and started banging obnoxiously on the California students' building next door. Since it was 4 a.m., the California students response was to throw some furniture (like, a couple of chairs) out at the Irish guys, who started to attack the dangerous furniture and building with drunken horny Irish fervor, someones called the cops and an amazing 15 seconds later. the efficient English police were bundling up the 10 or so drunk Irish guys, while I was banging on the inside of a closet door, demanding to be let out.

It wasn't MUCH of a riot. But there it is.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2005 4:11:22 pm PST #1290 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Back labor.

Oh, that.

Ick.


vw bug - Feb 15, 2005 4:11:58 pm PST #1291 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

I just went and saw my friend J in the hospital. I've never been on that side of a visit before. I had no idea how exhausting it is.


P.M. Marc - Feb 15, 2005 4:15:09 pm PST #1292 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

To get a decent place in this city, one we'd want to live in for the duration, we'd need at least $65,000 to put *down*.

(Which, really, if we actually do have at least $40k in equity right now, isn't outside of possible, assuming I'm able to find work post-baby.)


Betsy HP - Feb 15, 2005 4:52:59 pm PST #1293 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I could almost certainly spend $80,000 on a parking place.


meara - Feb 15, 2005 5:48:42 pm PST #1294 of 10001

CRAP CRAP CRAP.

Anyone have any really good suggestions for taxes? Cause I just did mine and seem to owe $2400. I went over it a couple times and it still adds up like that. FUCK.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2005 5:49:30 pm PST #1295 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think if you're that much at risk, get thee to H&R Block or best equivalent.


beth b - Feb 15, 2005 5:54:53 pm PST #1296 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

tax accoutant - or do as ita said.

Nonian- hugs to your friend and her DH - that is just a crazy difficult thing for both of them - and thier daughter.


Topic!Cindy - Feb 15, 2005 6:13:15 pm PST #1297 of 10001
What is even happening?

When we had our birthing classes, the nurse described her three labors (all natural). The back labor sounded really painful.
It's a bitch. One of the pesky things about it too (in my experience, at least) is that the nurses monitoring your progress don't seem to think you're as far along in labor as you actually are. I stunned my nurses in all three deliveries.

Plei, for what it's worth, nobody ever mentioned my placenta being up front (and I would think they would, yes?), and I had back labor, exclusively.

I've never heard of that before; I do know back labor is more common if the baby's face is anterior.

One of the reasons they were surprised Annabel was sunny side up was that I never had back labor.
Fwiw, my kids were all face down, despite all my back labor.