Congrats on the getting home safely, Daniel. I wish you both much joy and delight in your home together.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[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.
Scrappy - Jul 04, 2005 6:30:39 am PDT #8358 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
vw bug - Jul 04, 2005 6:31:37 am PDT #8359 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Yay Daniel and WS! I'm so happy for you guys.
ION, banana bread is baking, and it smells amazing. I wish it would be done already.
brenda m - Jul 04, 2005 7:29:44 am PDT #8360 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Welcome home, Daniel and Andi!
Now go sleep.
Beverly - Jul 04, 2005 7:45:21 am PDT #8361 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Welcome home, Andi and Daniel! Safe and sound, brave souls. And happiness abound to you.
Emmett is a wonder, with his outlook on life.
But then, considering the thoughtful and involved parenting he's grown up with, I suppose it's not such a wonder, after all. In any case, it's always a pleasure to hear about his take on life. He's a definite individual: thoughtful and with a unique perspective.
vw, you sound industrious. What? Baking is industrious. Now figure out a way to waft those banana bread scents through the internets and we can all share.
Casa Bev is far from industrious today. In fact one might go so far as to call us indolent and lazy.
beth b - Jul 04, 2005 9:50:02 am PDT #8362 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
There was a list for today. but the coffee shop was closed - so we got a call from one of our neighbors this morning - he was serving coffee and pancakes. so now, too much food. DH has plans. I might nap.
beekaytee - Jul 04, 2005 9:58:45 am PDT #8363 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Joining Susan in the grump and whine corner today.
BTW Susan, I love the freelancing to keep your skills up designation because a) it comes from a powerful place and b) has the extra added bonus of being true.
If/when I go for a 'real' job, I'm going to have to explain what I've been doing for the last 14 years. Self-employment is obviously a viable lifestyle and, besides, you don't need to justify anything. Your skills speak for themselves.
On the grump and whine front: Spent 3 hours in the hospital with Bartleby this morning due to hourly bleeding from a part of the body no dog should bleed from.
When his system gets stressed, the immunity? she goes south. This time, he apparently dumped all the bacteria out of his digestive tract save for one. That one decided to seek its own independence and grew like kudzu, causing him to probably not take in any real nutrient since Wednesday and the aforementioned bleeding, of which, we shall speak no more.
He'll be fine. Just more drugs and some watching.
The grump part? I was supposed to go out on the Potomac with friends this evening to watch the fire works. My idea. I also took pains to arrange for a boat that, despite my travail (no sleep at all last night for starters) my best friend insisted on coming to get from my neighbor at her (the friend's) convenience.
As we were carrying the boat down a long alley to get it to her car I suggested that it might be possible to stay home with Bartleby until about 7:30 to make sure he's okay, hop a cab and have one of the 5 boats swing around and pick me up at the landing.
No.
Just no. Then lots of "Oh, well, we'll see if it's too far to come and we'll let you know."
At the end of a fairly heated discourse, this friend of 15 years says..."If you'd really thought it through, you wouldn't even have asked."
Huh. Asking is outlawed. While you sail off in the boat I arranged for you. Huh.
The simple fact that I would have done it for her without even thinking about it speaks less to her selfishness and more to what I putz I have been.
Feh.
Cass - Jul 04, 2005 10:16:25 am PDT #8364 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Timelies...
I had a list of things to do today. However, I forgot to actually make sure several of the places were actually going to be open today. Oopsie. So only a few things got done.
I did want to have my brows waxed, which will either have to wait or I get to tweeze today. Decisions... I still need to change my sheets, launder my duvet cover and vacuum.
Then sweet, sweet sloth. And seeing if my grill is up to grilling, because somehow today calls for food cooked over fire.
Welcome to your new home together, Andi and Dan! Much joy and happiness to you both. And sleep. Get some sleep.
Cass - Jul 04, 2005 10:19:29 am PDT #8365 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, Beej, I am glad Bartleby is going to be okay...
The simple fact that I would have done it for her without even thinking about it speaks less to her selfishness and more to what I putz I have been.This! The her selfishness bit.
((Beej))
Ginger - Jul 04, 2005 10:19:32 am PDT #8366 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Welcome home, Dan and Andi. I'm glad you survived your trip without any major car trouble. Best wishes for your new life together.
askye - Jul 04, 2005 10:30:35 am PDT #8367 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Beej -- your friend evidentally has a hole in her head and all of social skills fell out.