HOORAY FOR CASHMERE AND BABY!!!
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Jessica - Feb 01, 2006 11:19:58 am PST #7218 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DCJensen - Feb 01, 2006 11:23:14 am PST #7219 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
There used to be little enclaves of older houses scattered around the rim of the San Fernando Valley. I remember one such enclave that looked interesting in the wnw corner of the valley, if I remember correctly. Then there were the older settlements woven into the places like old topanga road, etc.
It's been 15 years since I last saw them. If LA changed in the last 15 as much as it had changed in the prior 15, I'm thinking the neat pockets are all gone by now, or owned by rich folks.
brenda m - Feb 01, 2006 11:24:04 am PST #7220 of 10001
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
Yay Baby!
Lee - Feb 01, 2006 11:24:10 am PST #7221 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Welcome Olivia Rose and yay! for her 'rents!
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2006 11:25:17 am PST #7222 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How are you defining "neat," DCJ?
Topic!Cindy - Feb 01, 2006 11:26:13 am PST #7223 of 10001
What is even happening?
Olivia Rose is a seriously pretty name.
It truly is. I've been walking around the house just saying it to myself. I love it. I'm also having a huge I-hate-internet-long-distance-friendships moment. Cashmere's the kind of friend where I'd normally call the hospital tomorrow and ask if I coudl bring her some real breakfast, and come see the baby. Stupid states between here and there.
Spidra Webster - Feb 01, 2006 11:26:28 am PST #7224 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
LA metro has changed so much, I think. I don't know about its interior, but Valencia has gotten much bigger, Palmdale has gone from all military to suburb city. There's actual TRAFFIC north of 134/405 junction. People are commuting from INSANE distances. They're doing it up here, too. That's another reason why I'm for reclaiming the urban areas. No more boarded up ghost property. Developers have totally messed up the very beautiful rolling hills you used to see when turning off of I-5 and onto the 580. There's so much sprawl everywhere.
Cass - Feb 01, 2006 11:34:51 am PST #7225 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.
Yeah, but PDX and Seattle have very similar climates, so why Portland is always so high on the list and Seattle so low is beyond me.On a lot of the quizes I did, Seattle was listed right there with Portland. Little differences of course but quite similar. What are housing costs in Seattle like?
Of course I have absolutely no cites for the other searchy things because once I had made up my mind I deleted all of my bookmarks.
Sigh... I knew cleaning was a bad thing.
P.M. Marc - Feb 01, 2006 11:40:25 am PST #7226 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
Little differences of course but quite similar. What are housing costs in Seattle like?
High, considering wages. We were named most overpriced, after all.
It may *sound* reasonable to those in California, but for us to move to a decent 'hood close-in in a house at the same level of crap as ours would be about $375k. (A year ago, it was $325k. The places we want to live have jumped in price at least $50k, while during the same period, the amount we could get for our place only went up about $15k, which should seem like a lot, drat it.)
Jessica - Feb 01, 2006 11:43:51 am PST #7227 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It may *sound* reasonable to those in California, but for us to move to a decent 'hood close-in in a house at the same level of crap as ours would be about $375k.
$375k in my neighborhood would almost buy a studio apartment.
(Not trying to one-up, just boggling at how many lotteries I'd have to win before even thinking about home ownership.)