This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


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.


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 5:36:22 pm PDT #6687 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Happy Birthday, D. Griswold!

We just took Annabel out into the back yard to roam around. The neighbors to our north (the ones we only vaguely know, as opposed to our good friends on the other side) were there cooking dinner on the grill. Their 5-year-old, Fiona, came over to talk to Annabel through the fence. She asked if Annabel could come over to play when she's 3, and then again when she's 5, "but I'll probably be 12 or 10 by then."

We also plotted out the first expansion of our house, if the purchase works out--extending it out 12-15 feet or so in the back. We'll still have a decent-sized back yard by urban standards, and can greatly expand the kitchen/pantry area and add a bedroom for Annabel. And in a few years, we can think about expanding upward, and have an upstairs master suite with 2 bedrooms for kids and an office downstairs.

At least that's the dream.


billytea - Apr 30, 2005 6:04:26 pm PDT #6688 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

JZ, I'm so sorry to hear of your grandfather. And also quite appalled at the behaviour of his wife.

Owen's new favorite show is The Koala Brothers (and mine, too, I admit). There's a pair of koalas (the brothers), an emu, a platypus, an echidna, a crocodile, a kangaroo, an oppossum and a wombat. Very cute with the accents.

Oh lord, that's fantastic. And I feel obliged now to share the information that an enclosure for platypi is called a platypussary. And that I just clicked on a website (http://www.platypuscomputing.com/platwhat.html) that played the sound of kookaburras laughing, and it made me very happy. And I just refreshed the page, so they'd do it again.

I mistakenly tried to hand Kara her hot chocolate to take to the table instead of carrying it myself. I didn't intend to have her carry it at all and caught myself, but as I was realizing what I'd done she said, "I'm not a mommy! I don't carry hot things! but you stuck my HOT cocoa IN MY FACE!"

Laughing like a loon here.

And apparently Cosmo believes I'm "coyly sexy" and need to "Acknowledge men more often on dates and hint at certain moves that bring you pleasure in bed." Which would require going on dates, of course, if only so I could say, "Oh, there you are!" at various points in the evening. But how does one "hint" a "certain moves"?

Pull out the Pictionary set! Or charades! "Three words, first word, um, sounds like big bee, er, figtree, giggly, Igby-- Oh! Ok, Igby. Second word, leaves, exits, goes... Ah! Ok, Igby goes... No, I'm sorry, I'm just not getting it." [muttering] "You're not the only one."


Trudy Booth - Apr 30, 2005 6:44:17 pm PDT #6689 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

t tacklehugs billytea

congratulations on the woodpecker


Beverly - Apr 30, 2005 6:56:49 pm PDT #6690 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

billytea! Good to see your shiny typeface here.

Happy Birthday, Gris. That is indeed some nice sister.

Tell Kara and Ain-Kor happy bluebird feet. I'll see if I can find tiny blue and white stuffed birds to tuck into her marabou-trimmed "glass" slippers. And yay! for birthday dinners, kids down (or out) and front doors barred against intruders.

Carrot cake is veg, right?

No. It is sugar, fat, and some shredded veg that is cooked long enough that its starch is converted to sugar. I can't fake up carrot cake.

:: cries::

today Carrot cake can be a veggie, but only because it is saturday.

::is happy! throws confetti! gives beth carrot cake. does NOT share with cindy::

Actually, in our family, carrot cake is wedding cake. And proposition cake. "C'mon, honey-bunny. I'll make you a...carrot cake..."

This grocery store carrot cake was not worth the candle (heh) and after one slice, DH passed it onto Mom.

"Why should she get your cast-offs?"

"Is it sweet?"

"Yes."

His eyebrow goes up. He waits. The penny drops.

"Oh. Okay."


Aims - Apr 30, 2005 6:59:17 pm PDT #6691 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

[link]

stares openmouthed with a slight line of drool


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 7:05:38 pm PDT #6692 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Wow, that's pretty. It makes me want to set a story in 1877 so I can write about a woman wearing it.


Aims - Apr 30, 2005 7:06:31 pm PDT #6693 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I'm not quite sure what I think of myself - if I had unlimited funds, I would literally collect clothing.


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 7:10:37 pm PDT #6694 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

And did you see this one? [link]

If I had unlimited funds, I'd collect clothing plus a little bit of everything else my imaginary people use. I'm not quite sure what to think of myself when the mere act of writing a novel with a Rifleman hero has taken me from, "Guns? But I'm a liberal!" to "I want a reproduction Baker rifle, and I want to take it to a gun range and learn to shoot it."


Trudy Booth - Apr 30, 2005 7:14:22 pm PDT #6695 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

if I had unlimited funds, I would literally collect clothing.

Aims, I'm stunned. Just stunned.


SailAweigh - Apr 30, 2005 7:16:39 pm PDT #6696 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Susan, that gown is gorgeous. I could do some serious covetting there.