To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.

Anya ,'Sleeper'


Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!  

[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 - Jan 23, 2006 4:15:18 pm PST #5962 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

{{Aimee}} Your employers need smiting.

Smite, smite, smitey-smite, SMITE!!

This is where I miss the military. You could get anywhere from 15 to 30 days emergency leave for a death in the family. My company gives 3 days and as generous as it is compared to other local companies, it pales in comparison.


Cass - Jan 23, 2006 4:48:16 pm PST #5963 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.

3 days and as generous as it is compared to other local companies, it pales in comparison.
Such a sad state of affairs we live in...

When my grandpa (stepmom's father) passed away, we'd all been with him at the hospital through the whole night in Loma Linda. I watched the sun rise as I left the hospital, drove the couple of hours home and called in sick to a temp job that I had been at for a couple of months. And was fired. Decided I didn't much care since my agency didn't.


P.M. Marc - Jan 23, 2006 4:48:29 pm PST #5964 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Cindy, sadly, those links (which I've spent much time on with no fruit) would be of use if I knew the Firstnames McLastname of the great-grandparents in question--I have to somehow reverse engineer from Norman Murdoch McLastname.

It should not be this hard. I mean, I was able to, without having to talk to ANY HUMANS, armed with only a birthdate and a remembered conversation with Gram's cousin Stella (and, okay, a credit card), track down the family for Arthur Reuben Stannard (born Dettmer) by triangulating information in various census records and vital stats.

I keep thinking (Gram told me some things once, a long time ago, and I foolishly decided she'd never die, so I never wrote them down) that Dad's grandfather's name was Alexander, but of the 300+ McLastnames in PEI in 1901, I'd guess about 1/4 of the men were Alexanders.

Feh.

Aimee, that sucks.


sj - Jan 23, 2006 5:12:01 pm PST #5965 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

{{{Aimee}}} I'm so sorry for your loss. You're employers are evil, cold hearted, SOBs.

Congratulations on the good news, Daniel!

So, it appears that the professors of my first two classes got together and made their schedules. Every. Single. Test. is on the same day.

Ugh! That sucks, vw.


Fred Pete - Jan 23, 2006 5:12:50 pm PST #5966 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

((((Aimee))))

I'm in a 5-generation picture taken when I was about 2 months old. A copy of the photo is on an end table in our living room

When Hubs' oldest brother became a grandfather, I made sure there were some 4-generation pictures taken.


Vortex - Jan 23, 2006 5:15:47 pm PST #5967 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

so, tomorrow, I'm speed dating, what the hell do I wear? I'm thinking of coming home to freshen up, so I could change out of work clothes. I could wear:

1. black suit with knee length black jacket and knee length skirt. can wear either black pumps, slingbacks or boots.

2. charcoal grey suit with short jacket, long trumpet hem skirt. same shoe options.

blouse options: slate blue silk sweater, crimson silk vneck sweater, shiny slate blue shell, turtlenecks in various colors.

or I could wear an LBD with a jacket or sweater.

Discuss.


P.M. Marc - Jan 23, 2006 5:30:29 pm PST #5968 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

One side effect of being the child of older parents was the lack of great-grandparents in my life. I learned a few years back that, until I was 6, there was at least one living one (the youngest of my great-grandparents, to my knowledge, born as he was in 1890 or so), but he abandoned the family as soon as my great-grandmother died. As he was by all accounts a nasty man, I suppose it's not much of a loss.

Paul's grandmother is only 80, and I hope she's around long enough for Lillian to remember.


sj - Jan 23, 2006 5:32:47 pm PST #5969 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

My great-grandmother lived until she was 94. I was seven when she died. My grandfather is currently a great-grandfather to my cousin's two kids. I wonder if they realize how lucky they are to have him.


Cass - Jan 23, 2006 5:38:23 pm PST #5970 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.

Vortex, black suit with either the slate blue silk sweater or the crimson silk v-neck sweater (depending on how cleavage-y and flirty you want to be) and the boots or slingbacks. And yay speed dating.


Jessica - Jan 23, 2006 5:38:40 pm PST #5971 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I knew my dad's grandmother, but I don't think any of my other sibs did (or at least, were old enough to remember her). My older-younger sister, maybe.

The person standing next to me, she turns to me and says, "That was quick!" How come women keep saying that to me?

People do this to me ALL THE TIME. I must look interested in elevators of something.