{{{Cass}}} I hope you get a good response from your stepmom. Much ~ma for your neice. She is lucky to have you in her corner.
Robin, your friend is lucky to have you. I am glad you are having a good weekend.
Emily, feel better.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
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.
sj - Feb 12, 2006 1:58:59 pm PST #8860 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Pix - Feb 12, 2006 2:30:30 pm PST #8861 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Teaching -ma to all the student teachers! Just remember, if you can survive teaching boot camp, you can survive anything.
So it is a gorgeously warm and sunny day here, and I'm trying not to be smug about it...but 30 birthdays in cold and wet and snow earns me a little slack for this one, right? Anyway, I'm resisting doing work. Had lovely brunch with ND and then went to Trader Joes, where I stocked up on frozen foodstuffs. Came back here, put away groceries, and cleaned some more of my patio.
I really shouldn't have to do school work on my birthday. *pout* Alas, I must. But not yet...I think Ima lounge on my couch and enjoy the breeze come through the screen doors for a bit first...
Oh, and for those playing along at home, I STILL do not have my car back. Five weeks as of tomorrow. Feh feh feh. meara, I may need you to rent something this weekend after all.
sj - Feb 12, 2006 3:29:07 pm PST #8862 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Dave is making dinner. I had to leave the room to not interfere.
victor infante - Feb 12, 2006 4:41:56 pm PST #8863 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Kristin -- You are SOOOO lucky to be in California right now.Just got back a few hours ago, and we are buried. Sorry I missed birthday shennanigans -- Rocky Horror reunion went long -- but it was good seeing you, Drew, Aimee and Miracleman while we were out there.
SJ, read back in Gary H.'s blog, as the apartment under his is for rent.
Daisy Jane - Feb 12, 2006 5:30:26 pm PST #8864 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Blech. Self-image demons are spoiling my day. They're the nasty appearance related ones too. The others are easier for me to stomp since I can actually point to some decent things about myself as a person that'll pull me out of it. Thinking I have nice eyes while the evidence in the mirror shows that I'm a frizzy-headed fugmonster gets me nowhere.
Zenkitty - Feb 12, 2006 6:07:09 pm PST #8865 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What is with the recurring self-hate thread lately? I haven't weighed in (note the weight joke, there) because I'm trying to deny my own self-loathing, but the pictures I took of myself today with my shiny new digital camera make me want to never fucking leave the house again. Why can't I look at myself and see the person other people tell me is there? Or are they all just lying to me? I don't understand this dissonance between the reality I see and the reality my friends say they see. Damn it. All the good things I do can be wiped away into meaninglessness by one glance in a mirror.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2006 6:08:52 pm PST #8866 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You may never see yourself, Zenkitty. In fact, I wager no one who doesn't have to see themselves professionally ever gets close.
You can't see yourself move and react and break into a smile or fall into a frown. You're not going to catch a genuine laugh or look of warm concern. You can only see so many angles under limited variety of lighting.
You can't see what everyone else does because you're not looking at what everyone else is.
beth b - Feb 12, 2006 6:14:21 pm PST #8867 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
You can't see yourself move and react and break into a smile or fall into a frown. You're not going to catch a genuine laugh or look of warm concern. You can only see so many angles under limited variety of lighting.
this is true - I decicded at one point that I look better when I am moving - I think it was based on pictures that caught me in the middle of a laugh. pictures, mirrors, make me look flat and dull.
Cass - Feb 12, 2006 6:16:35 pm PST #8868 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.
I hope you get a good response from your stepmom.Yeah, that would have been nice.
She did at least seem a little confused as to what I was told not to tell and ask the neicelet about. I said that if it had just been them wanting to tell her about deaths in the family in person, I wouldn't be asking the questions... Oh well.
I just do not have it in me to ask my idiot brother and sooo OC s-i-l. It would get ugly and it is easier to just move away and ignore them for the time being.
Bad body image demons, DJ. Want I should smite them? I have some unresolved issues and could use the opportunity to Cass!Smash.
Zenkitty - Feb 12, 2006 6:17:56 pm PST #8869 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Thanks, ita. You are wise. I'm sure that's true. But I want to see the beautiful person my friends see, not the mottled distorted creature that looks back at me. Maybe I just have to trust them. And never leave the house without concealer and eyeliner.