Good LORD, woman!
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2006 2:26:29 pm PDT #1120 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
msbelle - Aug 06, 2006 2:33:33 pm PDT #1121 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Oh, I am serious. I have way too much stuff. There is no space in my space.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2006 2:43:39 pm PDT #1122 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damn, msbelle.
Who is Trudeu? I don't know if the expression is wrong--both work fine to me.
Spent too much time on the phone home (sister's moved back to JA and has much dish), an hour posing for the krav instructor manual, an hour leading a class, and almost an hour and a half doing kettlebell.
I'm home now, having opened up the cut on my finger handling laundry, having had both a shower and a Lush glittery bath. I feel noodle-like.
I want to put on a pretty dress and receive visitors.
Or sleep. Either way, a much better day than yesterday. I had two parties to go to--one had Robin announcing weddedness, and the other went on until 7 in the morning. I feel lame.
msbelle - Aug 06, 2006 2:46:45 pm PDT #1123 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
dinner is cooking, one bag of stuff has been culled, and 2 ads are up on craigslist.
billytea - Aug 06, 2006 2:53:49 pm PDT #1124 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.
Who is Trudeu? I don't know if the expression is wrong--both work fine to me.
He's referring to the author of Doonesbury. Sadly, I'm not up with the crazy talk the young people of today are into, so I can't help with the question. Peas out. Was that right?
Steph L. - Aug 06, 2006 3:02:45 pm PDT #1125 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
billytea! I was just trying to wrangle my vacation time for August -- when, exactly are you going to get to Cincy, and when are you leaving?
Zenkitty - Aug 06, 2006 3:03:12 pm PDT #1126 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Serious question. How much is a single woman of modest means (me) expected to give as a wedding gift to a (good but not super-close) work-friend?
I'm not attending the wedding, as it is too far away (no one from work is, as far as I know); I am attending the reception, which is sure to be quite a party. I know this girl from work, and I like her, but we're not bestest buddies. I have very little experience with such social functions, and I'm not really sure what's expected. (They're both late twenties; her first marriage, his second.)
Steph L. - Aug 06, 2006 3:04:48 pm PDT #1127 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Zenkitty, can you and other co-workers chip in to get a group gift for her?
Zenkitty - Aug 06, 2006 3:09:48 pm PDT #1128 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, we did, Steph. Three of us went in to get her a expensive juicer, which was the shower gift. We all also got her a small "wishing well" gift for the shower. We're also expected to give the new couple cards with money in them at the reception. I didn't know this. I'm such a social klutz. I'm pretty sure none of the other weddings I've been to have had this tradition, though.
There should be a book of rules, covering all possible adult social functions, handed out to everyone on their 20th birthday.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2006 3:15:10 pm PDT #1129 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The problem is that every group of people has a different set of rules. Can you ask other people what they're giving?