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Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.  

[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.


SailAweigh - Oct 27, 2005 2:22:00 pm PDT #1034 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

My parents used to do that to my brother and me when it came to my mom's hospitalizations (she has lupus), and I finally had to say, look, tell me everything, all the time

It sucks when parents do that. My mom was great for it. Thank heavens my dad is one of those guys who points to a hangnail and whines, I never have to wonder what's going on with him.

IOmemeN, my hairs be short. Very short. Very, very short. It tickles.


beth b - Oct 27, 2005 2:23:14 pm PDT #1035 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I am amazed - there are no grey hairs visible. This might be worth refinishing a table...

I am curious about how short your hair really is. cause you have always had short hair as I see you.


sj - Oct 27, 2005 2:24:17 pm PDT #1036 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

IOmemeN, my hairs be short. Very short. Very, very short. It tickles

Pictures?

My family tells me everything, all the time, and usually more than once.


Aims - Oct 27, 2005 2:27:24 pm PDT #1037 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.

When my dad's brother died, my mother called Joe, told him but then told him NOT TO TELL ME - she would call me when I got home from work. Which, he did.

He won't ever again.


DavidS - Oct 27, 2005 2:28:07 pm PDT #1038 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

IOmemeN, my hairs be short. Very short. Very, very short. It tickles.

There need to be lots of pictures, I think.


Sparky1 - Oct 27, 2005 2:29:35 pm PDT #1039 of 10003
Librarian Warlord

My family is good with the information, especially with the medical. I suspect it has something to do with my mother's nursing degree -- we got the facts from her and learned to give 'em.

My husband's family? They were a source of stress. I'd ask how (the sick person) was, and I'd hear "terrible." I'd ask, what was going on, and I'd hear "S/he had a bad day." Eventually, I learned to stop asking what made the day bad, because there were never any details. It was impossible to tell if things with whoever was sick at the time were getting better or worse.


Connie Neil - Oct 27, 2005 2:32:46 pm PDT #1040 of 10003
brillig

In defense of people who don't notify others, my excuse is that I get tired of copeing with things and don't even want to deal with people I like until it's settled. Plus I figure something like battle fatigue sets in with my loved ones--if I'm tired of it, the people who aren't directly affected must be even more tired of it.

Why you would tell some people and not others, though, is a mystery, unless someone is a screaming drama queen--so can't picture the Empress as a screaming drama queen.


SailAweigh - Oct 27, 2005 2:35:57 pm PDT #1041 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

The lone survivors.


Aims - Oct 27, 2005 2:37:10 pm PDT #1042 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.

so can't picture the Empress as a screaming drama queen.

Have we met?

I get when there are chronic problems you might not want to tell people everything all the time, but my grandfather, well, he's not been well. He wasn't supposed to be hospitalized. Plus, she PROMISED to call and tell us what was going on. That's what drives me crazy most of all.


Jessica - Oct 27, 2005 2:39:18 pm PDT #1043 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My family never tells me anything -- I have to get all the news through my sister. (Except for the times we're both out of the loop, as happened a few weeks ago when my mother ended a conversation with "Anyway, I have to go, I'm on my way to [my great uncle]'s funeral." She hadn't bothered to tell either of us that he'd died.)