That sounds like a wonderful cake, Matt! Happy anticipation of birthday day!
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
-t - Oct 12, 2006 10:59:45 am PDT #3382 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sparky1 - Oct 12, 2006 11:08:29 am PDT #3383 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Yum, cake! A very merry unbirthday today, Matt! May it be good practice for a more perfect day tomorrow.
§ ita § - Oct 12, 2006 11:17:37 am PDT #3384 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Happy early birthday, Matt. That's a lovely thing for them to do.
I studied Zen meditation for a while. They recommended taking a household chore, and making it a meditation. For quite a while I would take the dirty dishes out of the dishwasher and wash them by hand. It was soothing, despite my roommates thinking I was insane.
Not something I do so much anymore. Cleaning is either joyless discipline, or a quest for OCD satisfaction.
Though seeing my apartment clean and tidy (and knowing everything in the closets and cupboards is organised) is a very good feeling.
I'm both cleaning and organising in my newly-found free time.
AirstreamNA - Oct 12, 2006 11:32:51 am PDT #3385 of 10001
When you're racing - it's life. Anything that comes before or after is just waiting.
Happy Early Birthday, Matt. BTW, what local Italian bistro would you be referring to (since there are only a handful here in Memphis)?
Speaking of turning a chore into meditation, I managed to do that with the laundry, which I used to loathe. Fortunately, doing the dishes has never been a problem for me.
BTW, thanks to all for the very warm welcome everyone.
Trudy Booth - Oct 12, 2006 11:39:25 am PDT #3386 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I don't like washing pots. Scrubbing grease and baked on stuff--yuck.
Reason #1 to have a dog. Evolution has built her clean nasty pots and she has a blast doing it. Then I give a scrubby-dub with the Dawn and its done.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!!!!!
bon bon - Oct 12, 2006 12:52:06 pm PDT #3387 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
...and we're back, hopefully?
tommyrot - Oct 12, 2006 12:52:37 pm PDT #3388 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Where did we go?
Connie Neil - Oct 12, 2006 12:54:03 pm PDT #3389 of 10001
brillig
Fine, I go home early because of cramps and you crash on me. Be that way.
Kathy A - Oct 12, 2006 12:55:07 pm PDT #3390 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yay! I was going through Buffista withdrawal (thank goodness I had work to keep me busy).
I'd say "Tom and Jerry return" for this one, but I don't want my head ripped off...
juliana - Oct 12, 2006 12:55:25 pm PDT #3391 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, MATT!!!!
Though seeing my apartment clean and tidy (and knowing everything in the closets and cupboards is organised) is a very good feeling.
Yes, this, and since my apartment is wee, it doesn't take very long to make it like that.