Strength for all of you, askye, to deal with your grandmother and her failing health, and not least of all to deal with family members who are acting weird.
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 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.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2006 2:26:09 pm PDT #4612 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NoiseDesign - Sep 24, 2006 2:31:01 pm PDT #4613 of 10000
Our wings are not tired
Drew -- grrr. I just got back online and saw your post.
I'm back at my hotel now and done with things for the evening, so I've got free time tonight. Tomorrow I've got meetings all day, but will probably have time in the evening. I leave on Tuesday morning. I am back from Nov. 6th to the 17th.
-t - Sep 24, 2006 2:50:02 pm PDT #4614 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Strength for all of you, askye, to deal with your grandmother and her failing health, and not least of all to deal with family members who are acting weird.
Yes, this from me, also.
WindSparrow - Sep 24, 2006 3:16:55 pm PDT #4615 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Surgery~ma to Suzi's mom.
Sanity and everything going ok ~ma to Askye's mom, g'ma, etc.
Lee - Sep 24, 2006 3:18:22 pm PDT #4616 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Patience and strength to your whole family, askye.
Zenkitty - Sep 24, 2006 3:22:42 pm PDT #4617 of 10000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Strength and peace and don't-strangle-your-relatives ~ma to Askye.
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2006 3:24:50 pm PDT #4618 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sending vibes-as-needed to all bitches and those they love.
billytea - Sep 24, 2006 4:32:15 pm PDT #4619 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wallybee and I have been discussing wedding dates. Initial plans: a wedding in Melbourne and a wedding in China. Only it turns out that it was actually two weddings in China, because her family and other groupies are concentrated in two different cities (Shanghai and Hangzhou). Furthermore, my office closes down between Christmas and New Years, so that would be the easiest time to swan off to a foreign country to get hitched as I don't need to get extra time off. (I've used up a bit of leave lately.) Apparently a Chinese wedding is a lot easier to pull together than those advocated by the marital-industrial complex in the West. Even two Chinese weddings. Nonetheless, my reaction was roughly "Wait, what?"
But! Conversations with the Wallybee's unofficial-proxy-parental-unit-and-landlord (I bet there's a culture with a single word for that) has suggested an alternative. In this version, we eschew the Melbourne wedding entirely, and go with a celebratory dinner instead. All I need to do, then, is work out a way to get my family over to Shanghai. (March or April, I'm not going to try that at Christmas.)
sj - Sep 24, 2006 4:43:11 pm PDT #4620 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Suzi, continuing vibes for your mom and her surgery.
askye, tons of ~ma to you and yours.
billytea, yay for weddings! I'm so happy that you have found happiness.
We concluded Teacup Guy's birthday weekend with dinner with friends and a poetry reading. Now to fall down. We're both dead tired.
brenda m - Sep 24, 2006 4:44:33 pm PDT #4621 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So, F2F in Shanghai? What? It's east.