Dear lord. I can't believe I haven't said this yet. I blame excessive Blackberry use.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MG!
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
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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.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2006 6:28:51 pm PST #8340 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
esse - Feb 09, 2006 6:29:28 pm PST #8341 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
what do you think the *right* question is, I'm curious?
Well, I think it would be something like, "what are the benefits of therapy and what are the downsides?" Not involving a person's relative craziness---more determining its relative value for an individual.
Bah! It is very late (for me) and I need to go to bed. But I wanna eat something. Which is unlikely, as I have nothing...
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 6:29:44 pm PST #8342 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Obviously "how crazy do you have to be" is rather flippant, but...what do you think the *right* question is, I'm curious?
"Tell me about your childhood."
Heh. My family went to therapy for a little while. Or rather, the REST of my family went--the therapist decided he needed to focus on my parents' relationship with my brother, and a little bit on their relationship with my sister. I was like, a junior? in high school. And apparently, my "I'm getting the fuck outta here" attitude was already evident, and judged less of a problem. :)
We once had a family therapy session in regards to my older brother, when he was about 17 (I think). Oh, and there was the time they were trying to figure out why my younger brother wasn't speaking at the age of 3, and got all of us in to analyse the family dynamics. Wild times.
Scrappy - Feb 09, 2006 6:31:28 pm PST #8343 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ah, geez, Gud. I am glad the financial situation is better at least.
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 6:32:41 pm PST #8344 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Maybe self-hate is the wrong term for me. I'm just mad at myself for messing up a lot of things, I don't really think that I'm a terrible person.
I really feel for you, Gud.
juliana - Feb 09, 2006 6:34:28 pm PST #8345 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
the thing that really did the most for my own feelings of self-loathing was getting divorced.
Huh. I'm right there with you, billytea. That really was the catalyst to me making a lot of positive changes and being able to act on some things about myself.
It's not a course of action I'd recommend, though.
Trudy Booth - Feb 09, 2006 6:37:53 pm PST #8346 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
7. Got an invitation to my sister's wedding, which is nice. (Not unexpected, you understand.)
Mazel tov!
She marrying her baby daddy?
t snuggles Gud chastely
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 6:38:51 pm PST #8347 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Huh. I'm right there with you, billytea. That really was the catalyst to me making a lot of positive changes and being able to act on some things about myself.
Have I mentioned how glad I am that SF is working out so well for you? You really need the good things in your life right now, and I'm glad things are coming together.
Cass - Feb 09, 2006 6:40:55 pm PST #8348 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.
Have I mentioned how glad I am that SF is working out so well for you?I was just thinking this very same thing.
billytea - Feb 09, 2006 6:40:58 pm PST #8349 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
She marrying her baby daddy?
Nope, some other guy. He meets with the approval of her siblings, though. He's a really nice guy, and he's very good with Andrew, who adores him. (We all remain amazed that he's willing to marry our sister.)