Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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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.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 02, 2006 5:58:54 am PDT #183 of 10002
What is even happening?

Thanks, Sophia. He's a little teensy bit warm today, and I have to keep telling myself that doesn't automatically equal e.coli infection and automatic kidney failure. He says he feels (and in fact is acting) perfectly fine.

It seems like it must have been a wad of wet toilet paper...
Yes, actually we've been leaning toward baked potato remains that probably fell off his clothing.

Also, I am finally back at work. My foot is still swollen, but it hurts tons less. I wish I could poke a hole in it and let all the water or plasma or whatever the hell is in there out, though

You poor, poor, woman. Is it more swollen, or the same or less? Are you supposed to be back, already?


Lee - Jun 02, 2006 6:12:12 am PDT #184 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Lee! Hi! How does the office moving go?

Ummm... I've thrown away some stuff.

I have until next Thursday though, so I should be good.


Ailleann - Jun 02, 2006 6:16:00 am PDT #185 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Cindy, your IWW,AS,ALLAT,SISI story gave me a feeling of 95% OMG! and 5% uncontrollable giggles.

t tongue-in-cheek

So, I found this thing on my desk... it's white and square... I don't think it looks like a tooth... can you ask Christopher if I should swallow it?

t /tongue-in-cheek


Scrappy - Jun 02, 2006 6:21:55 am PDT #186 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I loved and was horrified by your story in equal measure. However, I have to leap to Christopher's defense. This incident is no reflection on Christopher's smarts. I maintain is quite possible for a six-year-old of an, um, inquiring disposition to pop something in their mouth that they later realize is wrong. Like maybe when they are being taken to the hospital.

Signed
At a Book of Matches at Age Six


Jesse - Jun 02, 2006 6:26:14 am PDT #187 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have to confess that I was at least 6, but I think older, when I drew on my parents' sofa. It had a geometric pattern! I had a pen in my hand! I was just adding to the pattern!

So, not eating wrong things, but still really really wrong nonetheless.


Lee - Jun 02, 2006 6:27:44 am PDT #188 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I was five when I put my hand in the blender, just because my mother told me not to and then put my sister in charge of making sure I didn't when she left the room.


Sparky1 - Jun 02, 2006 6:31:13 am PDT #189 of 10002
Librarian Warlord

I was five when I put my hand in the blender, just because my mother told me not to and then put my sister in charge of making sure I didn't when she left the room.

Perkins wins points for the double whammy of defying her mother and getting her sister in trouble!


msbelle - Jun 02, 2006 6:31:54 am PDT #190 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

OMG so tired.


sarameg - Jun 02, 2006 6:33:26 am PDT #191 of 10002

I stuffed a gazillion toothpicks into the car ignition when I was 5 ish.

And as to how you can make the stories haunt your child forever: my mom's been interviewing with principals this past week. The one today she's known since I was a toddler, and I know the woman too. How did she prompt my memory? "Oh, she's Garrett-with-the-beans-up-his-nose's mom. You remember her now?"

And I do. I can barely recall the child who I buddies with at that preschool, but I remember Garrett-with-the-beans-up-his-nose. He got a lot of them up there. It required a trip to the ER where the staff was just amazed at the number of beans in his nose.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2006 6:35:00 am PDT #192 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Baked Potato remains sounds right, too.

The foot was MUCH less swollen yesterday-- almost normal. Today, I think because I have been upright all day and walking about, it is swollen, but not to anywhere near the size it was, say Tuesday night into Wednesday. At that point, I seriously thought my foot would burst