Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[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.
Today is Tom's turn to deal with stuff, he's handling this snafu - the transfer of funds, and calling the bank- as well as hiring us a real estate law...talking...guy. The two tasks are not related, BTW.
I am actively trying not to beat myself up- I just flash to a place where I was, praying for my paycheck to appear before everyone started depositing their payments from me. And when I do it out of absentmindedness, rather than lack of money, it's almost worse.
I'm trying to talk myself out of that though. This headache makes it so hard to think. Except for "ow."
Nora, I've had a headache off and on since the weekend. I hope your poor head gets some rest. Everything will work out with the house and the money.
the transfer of funds, and calling the bank- as well as hiring us a real estate law...talking...guy. The two tasks are not related, BTW.
FWIW, we needed a lawyer for the sale of our house, and purchase of this one, because there were some out-of-the-ordinary circumstances involving both, and because we wanted to structure our P&S for this house, such that if the buyer of our old house backed out, we wouldn't be screwed for the 5% we were putting down with the P&S of this house.
Anyhow, we approached the lawyer we had to pay to work for the bank (for all the mortgage stuff) about working for us, as well. He was willing, and was reasonable--price-wise, because he was already involved in the transaction, anyhow.
It's after 8:30 and Owen's still asleep. This is unheard of. I've checked on him three times. He didn't even get up last night--just once this morning around 5--but he went right back to sleep. He then usually gets up by 7. Maybe he's going through a growth spurt.
I should probably shower while I have this time to myself.
I seem to recall before it was known that the male contributed the sperm and the female contributed the egg, that one theory was that the male sort of planted a whole mini-baby, but can't--for the life of me--remember which society, or when.
I'm pretty sure I remember that as being ancient Greece. Possibly some other places, too.
Yay for Nicole guestage! I hope you guys are having a blast.
Much ~ma for your mom, Calli.
I think Greece around the time of Plato and those guys had the idea that the woman was just a vessel for the man's generative seed. I don't know when/how that changed, though.
Nora's headache, begone!
All these yard sales and people moving makes me want to pack something up.
(Eep, ~ma for Calli and Calli's mom!)
Oh Calli, lots of health and healing to your mom, and calm to you.
I'm pretty sure I remember that as being ancient Greece. Possibly some other places, too.
I think Greece around the time of Plato and those guys had the idea that the woman was just a vessel for the man's generative seed. I don't know when/how that changed, though.
Thank, Hil and -t. Do you have any idea where I could find a bunch of these sorts of theories? I can't even come up with useful search terms, for Google.
re: theories of conception.
I'm fairly sure that the idea of a male impregnating a woman with a Mini-Me hung on into the Middle Ages. The idea that sex caused babies came about pretty quick once people started raising herd animals and were able to observe the goings-on (but you knew that). I'm not sure when the concept of how and when the sex of the baby was determined was understood.
Just spent a few moments trying to find a website. Tricky search. Still looking.
Thanks, connie. It is a tricky search. I also feel like I have no googleability today.
Thank you, Deena, -t, and topic!Cindy.
one theory was that the male sort of planted a whole mini-baby, but can't--for the life of me--remember which society, or when.
I'm pretty sure I remember that as being ancient Greece.
Yep. In one version of the Orestes story, he's being punished by the Furies for killing his mother (she had killed his father, etc.). It was decided that avenging his father overroad the sin of killing his mother, because the Father was the true parent and the mother was merely a sort of incubator-nurse combo.
Not my favorite myth cycle ever.
