Wow. I haven't seen you in person in a long time Kat, and well, wow. I know your (general) eyes don't always register what is really there, but you *are* smaller than the last time I saw you. You look really good.
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Aims - Jul 26, 2006 1:49:42 pm PDT #8932 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
amych - Jul 26, 2006 1:50:33 pm PDT #8933 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You've done fantastic work, and I've been blown away by your willpower again and again (even if I haven't commented often enough)! So whatever demon that is talking, it not only needs to stop beating you up Right The Hell Now, it's also just plain wrong.
Kat - Jul 26, 2006 1:57:59 pm PDT #8934 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Thanks Aimee and amych. I know. Body image stuff is of the very most boring. So I'll shut up now and instead think of how great it is to have survived another trip around the sun. Which is true and to think of next years big 35th plans which include a passport, geysers and whales....all good things.
P.M. Marc - Jul 26, 2006 1:59:20 pm PDT #8935 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can do a one-armed handstand and I have relearned how to do a backhandspring
You know, the backhandspring looks so filled with joy, it just makes me smile.
(Happy birthday, by the way!)
sarameg - Jul 26, 2006 2:00:09 pm PDT #8936 of 10002
You really are the queen of vacation planning, aren't you? Happy birthday!
amych - Jul 26, 2006 2:01:25 pm PDT #8937 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Pfft. Not boring -- just hurting you when you don't deserve to be hurt. So enough of that and back to happy birthday!
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2006 2:06:04 pm PDT #8938 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
overheard in the office reminded me of ita today:
At least I had a meeting most people showed up to today. I so need to go home now.
And I'm not kidding. I'm at the end of my work rope--not in a bad way. Just in a nothing-left-to-give way. I used to have more.
Kat, you're *tiny*. And I will shake you until you believe it. Aren't you smaller than me now?
Burrell - Jul 26, 2006 2:06:24 pm PDT #8939 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I have worked really hard to get to this size and yet when I look in the mirror I don't look different.
Well, you look thinner from here. But you still look like you, which is a good thing in my book. When Cody described you the other day, he said "she's so pretty!" (Seriously.)
I think the handstand and the back handspring are amazing. I don't even have envy, just awe!
Burrell - Jul 26, 2006 2:09:50 pm PDT #8940 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Aren't you smaller than me now?
Kat's smaller than me (not that I think of myself as small anymore, but I did at one point in my life). Of course, last time I saw you, you were smaller than me too (well you were way buffer than I am, but also thinner). I guess it makes sense that she'd have to get smaller than me in order to become smaller than you.
sarameg - Jul 26, 2006 2:11:29 pm PDT #8941 of 10002
Sometimes I even read my junk mail-that-really-isn't.
Holy crap:
The State of Maryland has just announced the most aggressive loan program in their history with the Live Near Your Work PLUS (LNYW+) Program! It offers you a mortgage loan that comes with agrant equal to 3% of your loan amount! Just use any State CDA loan program and purchase a home within 25 miles of your workplace (you can even work in the county and buy in the city!). You must be a first-time homebuyer and income restrictions apply (although they are quite generous!).
Looks like I qualify. Now if only I didn't feel like the future was a fuzzy mess.