Oh, and Kat: THX!!
you are welcome!
This is news?
DO you SEE MY TAG?! Applies to me too, honey.
No. Just needs to be said more often.I haven't gone shopping for birthday presents yet is all I'm saying.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter .38 Special
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.
Kat - Aug 21, 2005 6:47:31 pm PDT #31 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara - Aug 21, 2005 6:52:16 pm PDT #32 of 10002
Gratuitously posting in Natter cause I probably won't ever be caught up with this thread again to post in it....hi Natterinos!
Steph L. - Aug 21, 2005 7:19:31 pm PDT #33 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Poor, delusional Teppy. How are you feeling, and how was the shindig?
I'm tired but not feeling like passing out is imminent, like yesterday. Almost no dizzy spells. Which is nice.
The shindig was 98% fun, although I made the discovery that my aunt is a bigger bitch than I thought. (Apparently she's snubbing me, though -- and this makes me giggle -- I wasn't even aware that I was being snubbed. That sort of defeats the purpose of snubbing, no?)
Why is she snubbing me, you ask, because you're dying to hear about family drama that involves almost no one you know?
This is good. My bro and SiL announced their engagement at Xmas. Once they had set the date and location -- this was January-ish -- my aunt calls me (in January, mind you), and asks me if I want to share a hotel room with her for the wedding (which is in August) because she wants to make plans NOW.
I tell her that I hadn't even given it any thought, since it was January, and the wedding was in August. And that I also thought I'd be in Vermont for longer than a weekend, which annoyed her, because then it meant our schedules wouldn't mesh and we couldn't fly together. [Meanwhile, I totally missed the part where I ever said I wanted to be her travel buddy. Because I *didn't.*] And then there was the part where all the immediate family was going to be staying in the 5-room B&B. Only 5 rooms means no room for aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Which meant I had to say "Sorry; I already have a place to stay and, um, there's no room for you."
My aunt apparently got in a snit over me not knowing my August plans in January combined with my unwillingness to give up the B&B and share a Holiday Inn room with her.
No, really. She complained to other family members (which I just found out about tonight) that I ruined her plans. And so apparently she's been snubbing me since January. Which I didn't know.
To which I say: (1) Hello, boundaries! Learn them, know them, love them, O Crazy Aunt mine. (2) Whatthefuckever. Grow up.
And also, my *great*-aunt (different woman; mid-80s, still a British citizen) told me today, when I said that I was excited that SiL was now officially my sister, that if that were true, I should lose weight to look like SiL. Hand to god, I swear great-aunt said this. (SiL, by the way, is literally a size 2, sometimes 0.)
All I could do was laugh. Great-aunt (who meant it, by the way) is old, and also falls in the category of Whatthefuckever. My bro suggested I tell great-aunt that I'll make sure to lose weight just in time to be skinny for her funeral.
These people, BTW, are all on my mom's side of the family. My Dad's family members were just as thrilled as can be to see my bro and me, and not one single insult was hurled. I like my Dad's family a lot better than my Mom's family, some days.
On the upside, not one person asked me about my love life. They either think I'm (1) a lost cause, (2) gay, (3) a gay lost cause, or (4) a highly unstable individual who's likely to lose her shit if anyone dares ask about my love life.
Though that meant I didn't get to use the parole line on anyone. Bummer.
Lee - Aug 21, 2005 7:28:25 pm PDT #34 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I haven't gone shopping for birthday presents yet is all I'm saying.
Uh oh.
Yay for the mostly fun, Steph. Your aunt and great aunt sounds like some of my family.
Lee - Aug 21, 2005 7:29:56 pm PDT #35 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Cap'n crunch
I crated! I feel very proud.
Pix - Aug 21, 2005 7:30:57 pm PDT #36 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
New thread. Shiny.
Kat - Aug 21, 2005 7:39:15 pm PDT #37 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I've decided to piece together a quilt tonight, while watching Before Sunrise. What came first, Before Sunrise or Dawson's Creek? They share the same navelgazey feel to me.
Lee - Aug 21, 2005 7:39:56 pm PDT #38 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think Before Sunrise, but I am not sure.
Kat - Aug 21, 2005 7:42:35 pm PDT #39 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It's so.... navelgazey. I'm now trying to decide if I'm charmed by it or not?
Cass - Aug 21, 2005 7:53:05 pm PDT #40 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
In my brain, Before Sunrise (1995) was well before Dawson's Creek (1998). But there is no reason to trust my brain, I certainly don't.
I iMDBd and added dates. Not really so far apart but *I* grew up a lot in those intervening years so it seems like longer.