Hee! I found a boundary!
That's the beauty of being a conquistador and explorer of the uncharted waters in the Sea of Wrong. Forge further on!
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[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.
SonusExMachina - Aug 31, 2006 10:05:38 pm PDT #1286 of 10000
BOOK: "River..? Please, why don't you come
on out..." RIVER: "No. Can't. Too much hair." - 'Jaynestown'
Pix - Aug 31, 2006 10:07:19 pm PDT #1287 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
the Sea of Wrong
And the truth about ND's natural heritage finally comes out...
Aims - Aug 31, 2006 10:08:07 pm PDT #1288 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yes, but if Em is a Sea Monkey, then that means....
Pix - Aug 31, 2006 10:09:11 pm PDT #1289 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
She was spawned in the Sea of Wrong?
SonusExMachina - Aug 31, 2006 10:10:51 pm PDT #1290 of 10000
BOOK: "River..? Please, why don't you come
on out..." RIVER: "No. Can't. Too much hair." - 'Jaynestown'
She was spawned in the Sea of Wrong?
If so, her teen years will be oh-so-fun for you two. Good luck with that.
Good night, my dear Bitches, good night.
NoiseDesign - Aug 31, 2006 10:10:56 pm PDT #1291 of 10000
Our wings are not tired
Doin' the backstroke across the Sea of Wrong.
Volans - Sep 01, 2006 1:28:40 am PDT #1292 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Nothing more entertaining than Late Night on the West Coast.
Toddson! I'd no idea, but so glad you are okay.
SailAweigh - Sep 01, 2006 2:26:17 am PDT #1293 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That was so entertaining I'm going to be late for my shower and hence, running like hell for work. Save this kind of shit for the weekend, wouldja?
Okay, this is weird. Everytime I try to put a comma after "weekend" it gives me a semicolon. Gives me commas anywhere else I want one, though. My computer has become been corrupted by the Sea of Wrong, that's all it can be.
ETA: And now my post is making me look craxy. The semicolon has been reconverted to a comma. It's those damn sea monkeys, I'm tellin' ya!
Cashmere - Sep 01, 2006 2:50:51 am PDT #1294 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
libkitty, you mean you spent $100 on a baby shower gift and now are expected to bring another gift to a baby dedication??? I'm sorry, I know you have to work with this person but this is some kind of off-the-charts selfish, greedy bitch and I would, in no way, shape or form, run up credit card debt to indulge this woman. No. Fucking. Way.
The shower gift IS the baby gift. Was this woman raised by very rich wolves or something?
Topic!Cindy - Sep 01, 2006 2:55:04 am PDT #1295 of 10000
What is even happening?
Not one of you Bitches welcomed September.
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome September,
Come this way!
This family contains the same grandmother (the one in the hospital) who told me my uncle was decapitated, but was doing fine now.
Heh. Your uncle is from some strong stock.
Now I find that it's really a dedication ceremony for their new baby, and presents for baby and for parents are implicitly expected.A dedication...like...the Protestant ceremony done in those denominations where they don't baptize infants? Seriously? Ugh.
Okay, I'ma have a little rant.
The larger Christening party (the post-ritual get-together) was held by those people whose customs from the old country did not include baby showers, and who were afraid the pre-birth baby shower custom was a little tempt-y of fate.
Among these people, generally, the infant was baptized as soon as possible, and in the old days, many infants (particularly those of Western European extraction from predominantly Roman Catholic countries) were pretty much kept in the house with the immediate fam until the baptism, which was performed in the first few weeks of life.
The Christening ceremony and any party following, was sort of the baby's introduction to his or her extended peeps. Presents were given in the spirit that new baby presents often are--as a genuine happy reaction to a new member of the circle. And the people hadn't already been milked for a shower, and hadn't already come to see you and your new baby with a spontaneous gift.
If you have already had a big-ass baby shower (in particular, I'm looking at you people who end up having baby showers in function halls, and I won't say any more about that), and then everyone who comes to see your baby brings a present when they come to see the baby (which is another custom that mingled in, somehow) and then you have the baby Christened, and throw another big ass party (I'm not talking about grandparents and aunts, uncles and cousins back at the house), you're asking for too much gift-wise, even if you're not asking, because people feel like they have to give it. You're also in danger of engendering baby fatigue.
If you're from a tradition that doesn't baptize babies anyhow, and instead has a dedication, because the child has to be of a certain age to choose baptism himself, and you had a big-ass shower? Don't have a post-service party. Just don't. If you want your fam and (closest) friends to experience the ceremony, you tell them the baby is being dedicated at such and such a church, at such and such a time, and you're having [dinner; a buffet; pizza; Chinese] after, and they're welcome "to stop by." Otherwise, you just look like a gift-beggar.
For reals.