Well, I am on dialup, so it would be a pained experience anyway.
What movie is so dull it is putting you to sleep, Jesse?
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Natter 39 and Holding
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.
sarameg - Oct 11, 2005 3:24:06 pm PDT #5373 of 10002
Kat - Oct 11, 2005 3:24:07 pm PDT #5374 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Aimee, it worked out fine with the blushing girl. Jesse, they embraced your pregnancy trope which is frustrating as hell.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2005 3:25:23 pm PDT #5375 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
12 O'Clock High. It's not that it was so dull, it's that I'm so sleepy, apparently.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2005 3:29:50 pm PDT #5376 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
JZ, how did the service for your granddad go?
JZ - Oct 11, 2005 3:36:40 pm PDT #5377 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It was lovely -- the priest didn't know my grandfather, but knew my uncle (his oldest son) well and had met all three of his children and talked with them at some length about him; it was very short, simple and ecumenical: just all of us out in the backyard holding hands, with the only nod to formality being the priest requesting that we put down our coffee cups before we started. Each of his three children did a short reading, we all held hands and just thought quietly about him, and then the ashes went into the ground and we all filed past and crumbled a small handful of dirt on top of them. Then a young spruce tree went in, and then we all filed inside for croissants and scrambled eggs and 5 1/2 gallons of coffee.
Later, my sibs and their partners and Hec and I went miniature golfing, and then we went to the state line and I gambled for the first time ever (put in $5, won $4.75 on my first quarter, and cashed out immediately; I'm a big pussy), and then came back, collected my mom, and all went out for Mexican. It was an oddly lovely day.
Thanks for asking. You are the kindest Teppy ever.
How is your dad lately? Taking a brief break from scaring the holy shit out of you (as he damn well ought)?
brenda m - Oct 11, 2005 3:36:48 pm PDT #5378 of 10002
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
No, it's that dull.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2005 3:38:29 pm PDT #5379 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, JZ, that does sound lovely. A nice level of ritual, if you know what I mean.
No, it's that dull.
Heh. My classmates had me thinking it was good.
brenda m - Oct 11, 2005 3:39:32 pm PDT #5380 of 10002
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
I could be soured by my dad having it on all the freaking time for a while there. Stranger things have happened.
amych - Oct 11, 2005 3:39:45 pm PDT #5381 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's -- well, it's very good spinach.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2005 3:44:16 pm PDT #5382 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Thanks for asking. You are the kindest Teppy ever.
I was thinking about you this weekend. It does sound like a lovely, calm way to pay tribute to your granddad.
How is your dad lately? Taking a brief break from scaring the holy shit out of you (as he damn well ought)?
For the time being, yes. In fact, we had lunch today, which was 100% angina-free. Woot!
He probably has to have his gallbladder removed in the imminent future (next 3-6 weeks), b/c the last time he was in the hospital, they did a CT scan b/c they couldn't determine the source of his pain, and the scan showed gallstones (they weren't *looking* for gallstones; the CT scan just happened to go that low -- luck break, eh?).
Apparently a lot of the symptoms that gallstones can cause are symptoms that mimic cardiac symptoms, so it's possible that the past couple of hospital trips have been due to gallbladder symptoms. Which would be nice, as odd as that is to say.