I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.

Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

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.


askye - Nov 22, 2005 7:15:39 am PST #6300 of 10006
Thrive to spite them

I had homemade chili for lunch, it was so good.

Grocery stores being closed on Thanksgiving, granted it sucks working on Thanksgiving, but so many people come in at the last minute needing more oil to fry their turkey, or they were short some vegetables or needed more butter or milk. Or the misguided soul who came in looking for a turkey to cook that day.


Emily - Nov 22, 2005 7:19:57 am PST #6301 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Oh dear. I suppose if I'm going to take something with, I'd better make sure I get it beforehand.

Because I'm always that organized. Thanks, Shaw's. Thanks for snitching.

granted it sucks working on Thanksgiving,

Yeah, but they're getting double pay and, frankly, I'd do it! It can't be that busy, you get paid extra, and I don't really have anything to do (well, this year I do, but in general...).


bon bon - Nov 22, 2005 7:20:33 am PST #6302 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Many of the state's Puritan-era blue laws, passed in the 1600s to keep colonists at home or in church on Sundays, have been repealed, such as a ban of liquor sales on Sundays. But one that remains in effect requires all stores, except convenience stores and gas stations, to close on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.

Wow, those puritans were prescient. They not only predicted the thanksgiving holiday, they also predicted gas stations!


Jessica - Nov 22, 2005 7:20:54 am PST #6303 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have completed my Thanksgiving shopping! (HA -- like that's actually true. But at least I've completed the bits I was clever enough to think of in advance. I'm sure there will be several "SHIT, we forgot the ____" in the next 2 days.)

Frozen spinach has been procured, as has a disposable camera, since both DH and I managed to leave our cameras at home. We = flaky.


juliana - Nov 22, 2005 7:21:28 am PST #6304 of 10006
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Grocery stores being closed on Thanksgiving, granted it sucks working on Thanksgiving, but so many people come in at the last minute

I have a friend who keeps his bakery open until 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, based on the knowledge that a LOT of people will come frantically searching for pie and bread around about 5 p.m. He's right, and he makes a mint every year.


§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 7:23:01 am PST #6305 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It can't be that busy
...
but so many people come in at the last minute
...
a LOT of people will come frantically searching for pie and bread around about 5 p.m. He's right, and he makes a mint every year.


askye - Nov 22, 2005 7:25:28 am PST #6306 of 10006
Thrive to spite them

Unfortunatly nothing the President or this adminstration does or has done surprises me anymore, which is sad.

I'm just imagining the letters to the editor over this. Today there was another letter full of hate for the "liberal media" and how liberals are just as a dangerous threat to this country as terrorists. The whole "not showing a united front means terrorists think we are weak, so don't say bad things about the current adminstration" argument drives me batshit insane. I don't understand why people think it's more dangerous for the world to see democracy in action and that people living in a democratic nation can say anything and express any belief, I don't understand why that is more dangerous than the American government acting like a dictatorship and stifling any opinion that doesn't fall in line with the current adminstrations beliefs.


bon bon - Nov 22, 2005 7:25:33 am PST #6307 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

It can't be that busy
...
but so many people come in at the last minute
...

The first is thanksgiving, the second is the night before.

BF is picking up tx dinner today from Whole Foods.


shrift - Nov 22, 2005 7:25:54 am PST #6308 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

So my bloodwork came back normal. Whatever that means.


Aims - Nov 22, 2005 7:25:58 am PST #6309 of 10006
Shit's all sorts of different now.

It can't be that busy

Oh sweetie. Come out here next year and I'll take you to Ralph's or Von's around noon on Thanksgiving Day.