And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?

Xander ,'End of Days'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DXMachina - Jun 08, 2005 8:00:05 am PDT #383 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Okay, ticket purchased, very exciting.

Just remember not to step on any monkeys.


Theodosia - Jun 08, 2005 8:01:07 am PDT #384 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I just found a really cute handbag with a long strap at the Marshalls downstairs in my building! After several months of intermittently checking their offerings and finding nothing but ugly handbags with long straps or cute handbags with ridiculously short straps.

(Not to mention ugly handbags with ridiculously short straps, which seem to breed like rabbits this year....)


§ ita § - Jun 08, 2005 8:02:41 am PDT #385 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Just remember not to step on any monkeys.

Apparently the big worry is being held up at shitpoint. But what a story for krav that would make! It's not like we don't already use the term "oh shit defense."


Jesse - Jun 08, 2005 8:03:38 am PDT #386 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have not only a card but ALSO a small tchotchke for my father, which is more than enough. Also cards for the family birthdays we're celebrating this weekend.

I just ate a blue Fla-Vor-Ice that was so big, it was almost Too Much. And for only fifty cents!


Kat - Jun 08, 2005 8:05:19 am PDT #387 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have a gift certificate for dad (never underestimate the joy of choosing your own gift) that is being mailed form Cabela's directly to him. Gotta go get a card.


§ ita § - Jun 08, 2005 8:07:01 am PDT #388 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You know, my mother's only getting a book for her birthday (right about the same time). Maybe I should not try to fill his entire DVD library in one shot. Besides, I need to get it in the mail stat, if it's to reach in time.


Jesse - Jun 08, 2005 8:08:03 am PDT #389 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What'd you give your mother for mother's day? That should be the comparison to make.


§ ita § - Jun 08, 2005 8:12:10 am PDT #390 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What'd you give your mother for mother's day?

A phone call. It usually ends up that they get Christmas gifts, and mother gets a birthday present, and daddy gets a Father's Day gift. Occasioning just the two gift-buying occasions a year, because we're far away and it involves shipping and them having to pay duty when they pick stuff up at the post office.

Okay, why does Robinson's May appear to not sell dresses online? Are they some sort of fascist organisation? They have a shorts section, fer crying out loud!

Erinaceous should write a letter.


Jesse - Jun 08, 2005 8:13:44 am PDT #391 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It usually ends up that they get Christmas gifts, and mother gets a birthday present, and daddy gets a Father's Day gift.

Ah, that makes sense, then. Carry on.


-t - Jun 08, 2005 8:18:29 am PDT #392 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Apparently the big worry is being held up at shitpoint.

Wait, what?