DH (yay!)
OMG so cute.
When are the in laws going to be selling the house?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Nora Deirdre - Nov 11, 2005 8:28:53 am PST #4177 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Aims - Nov 11, 2005 8:29:40 am PST #4178 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
YAY Erin!
Nora Deirdre - Nov 11, 2005 8:30:16 am PST #4179 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
It's Jen!
SuziQ - Nov 11, 2005 8:31:04 am PST #4180 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Hi Maria!!!!
brenda m - Nov 11, 2005 8:32:07 am PST #4181 of 10003
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
Erin! That's so great to hear.
Betsy HP - Nov 11, 2005 8:35:34 am PST #4182 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
hee.
Steph, I agree with everybody else. Blood where it shouldn't be is scary, and you deserve in-person reassurance that it's not serious.
DavidS - Nov 11, 2005 8:37:17 am PST #4183 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But things are going REALLY well.
That is excellent fucking news, Erin. I'm so glad for you.
Is your ass still shiny and smooth?
Susan W. - Nov 11, 2005 8:38:30 am PST #4184 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Hi, Erin!
Here's what I finally decided to post:
I know I fed this topic by expressing my opinion of Mel Gibson and his work yesterday, and I'm still a relatively new member, so I may be stepping out of bounds here, but I hope we can avoid a major discussion of present-day politics on this loop. It's nice to have a few places that are free of the political polarization so rampant in America over the past 5-10 years. And I'm speaking as a person of strong political opinions who pays close attention to the news and reads several political blogs regularly. I'm already handicapping potential '08 candidates from both parties and trying to decide who will get my support, for whatever it's worth, from my own party.
But I think I'm still gun-shy after witnessing two of my brothers have a shouting match at the dinner table *the day after our father's funeral* this summer about the current war--on the pro-war side my ex-Army brother, on the anti side my ex-Marine brother whose son is serving in Baghdad with the National Guard even now, and serving honorably despite his personal opposition to the war because he's a soldier and that's what soldiers do. It was ugly, and all of us witnessing it, despite having strong opinions of our own, were just doing our best to get them to stop it, calm down, and stop upsetting our mom.
Anyway, one of the reasons I'm writing about the Peninsular War rather than the Iraq War, besides being a historical fiction writer to my core, is that I can create characters who remind me of my nephew--men of courage, intelligence, and honor--without having to deal with the politics of what got them into harm's way and whether or not it was the right thing to do.
Maria - Nov 11, 2005 8:38:50 am PST #4185 of 10003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
When are the in laws going to be selling the house?
Soon. We would like to be out of the apartment no later than March, and by January is preferable. If we find something now, we'll ask for closing in 60-90 days. The good thing for the in-laws is that their house is in an up-and-coming 'burb of DC, and any depression in the housing market here is always small because of the transient nature of the city and the sheer numbers of people who have steady federal government jobs.
Hey, it's Erin and Jen! Yay!
Hi, Suzi! How are you feeling?
Scrappy - Nov 11, 2005 8:39:25 am PST #4186 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Beautifully said, Susan.