Women like that puzzle me, Susan, and that is without your knowledge of firearms. That is why I saw in Kay Howard a sister, though. Even if her hair is perfect...it's just sort of naturally perfect though. I can't feature her buying volumizer and this and that.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[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.
erikaj - Oct 18, 2005 8:26:57 am PDT #9171 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Cass - Oct 18, 2005 8:29:10 am PDT #9172 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.
Cass calls those "medical peas".Medicinal peas. Sheesh, it's like you weren't paying attention at all...
Susan W. - Oct 18, 2005 8:32:23 am PDT #9173 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Girly SIL works for me. Girliness doesn't puzzle me as such--all the Buffista women who out-femme me don't, for example. And I know that in the big scheme of things, there are a lot more women like Girly SIL than like me. But she does take it to an extreme level, and we're so opposite we hardly know what to do with each other at family gatherings.
Fred Pete - Oct 18, 2005 8:32:56 am PDT #9174 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
And, yes, I know the odds are very high that ten years from now Annabel and her cousin will be sitting around at family reunions complaining about their mothers, because Annabel will be sick of having a tomboy-geek mother, and her cousin will be equally tired of having a hyper-feminine mother, Southern style.
...and the next thing you know, you're starring in your very own real-life reworking of The Parent Trap!
Volans - Oct 18, 2005 8:33:06 am PDT #9175 of 10001
move out and draw fire
one of those (freakish) people who keeps her flour in the freezer
Hey!
I know it's weird, but I had a nasty bug problem in Romania (the bugs were apparently already in the flour), resulting in me both keeping it frozen to keep them dormant, and sifting the flour through nylons before using.
Also, the DH is opposed to anything on the counter, so no chance for canisters until we get a house with two kitchens. Seriously. He threw out my dishrack, and puts the blender and food processor away every time he sees them on the counter (which is about every day, since I use them to cook). Your housemates may vary.
SailAweigh - Oct 18, 2005 8:35:58 am PDT #9176 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hee. Nah, I understood the reasoning behind it, Raq. I just wish I'd heard of it when I was younger. When I lived in Arizona I had a really bad problem with bugs in just about any kind of grain product: flour, cereal, oatmeal, grits. I just couldn't get rid of them. If I'd known keeping the stuff in the freezer would have helped, I would have done it. But, since I've never had a problem here, I just mock my daughter.
SuziQ - Oct 18, 2005 8:38:26 am PDT #9177 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I love my job.
I spork the people I work with. So glad I do not own heavy weaponry.
erikaj - Oct 18, 2005 8:38:58 am PDT #9178 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I don't mean that they puzzle me in a "heretic. Burn her!' way. But when I spend time with them for the most part, I feel like the exchange student whose vocabulary is "Yes. No. Thank you very much. No coke, Pepsi. Ok, fine. No problem."
Susan W. - Oct 18, 2005 8:41:26 am PDT #9179 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Well, I don't mean that they puzzle me in a "heretic. Burn her!' way. But when I spend time with them for the most part, I feel like the exchange student whose vocabulary is "Yes. No. Thank you very much. No coke, Pepsi. Ok, fine. No problem."Yes, this. And then I drift into the room with all the men in the family because I'm more likely to be able to relate to the conversation, and if not, that's the room where the game is on.
Amy - Oct 18, 2005 8:50:12 am PDT #9180 of 10001
Because books.
I had a nasty bug problem in Romania (the bugs were apparently already in the flour), resulting in me both keeping it frozen to keep them dormant, and sifting the flour through nylons before using
How much do I love that you said "nylons"? I said it to someone recently, and she had no idea what I was talking about. Finally, she managed, "Like, pantyhose, you mean?" ::thunk::