Poor meara! Strep throat sucks.
P-C, go shipping, choose shipping!
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
Willow ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[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.
Cashmere - Dec 18, 2006 4:34:54 pm PST #6331 of 10004
Now tagless for your comfort.
Java cat - Dec 18, 2006 4:37:02 pm PST #6332 of 10004
Not javachik
If you check them, they won't necessarily be unwrapped. I just went to Mexico with some wrapped presents in a checked bag and neither US or Mex. customs opened the suitcase from what I can tell.
Also, 'allo, them whot remembers me.
Zenkitty - Dec 18, 2006 4:38:57 pm PST #6333 of 10004
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Can't they just x-ray the packages, without unwrapping them?
Pix - Dec 18, 2006 4:46:03 pm PST #6334 of 10004
The status is NOT quo.
Yes. The trick is that if your bag happens to get snagged for more thorough inspection, you run the risk of unwrapped presents. It's a gamble that I generally don't feel like taking. But I'm also biased because I hate traveling with an ounce of extra weight in my luggage and will ship anything that I can.
Btw, yes still having a wonderful vacation. I'm waiting in the car as ND does a quick grocery run, though, so I had phone-posting time.
Laura - Dec 18, 2006 5:16:00 pm PST #6335 of 10004
Our wings are not tired.
waves to Kristin and ND
You are so close, and yet so far away. It is only about 3 hours to Orlando, and yet 3 hours that I don't have. Yay for vacation! Have much fun.
{{meara}} Ick. Strep germs need to leave you alone.
SailAweigh - Dec 18, 2006 5:35:29 pm PST #6336 of 10004
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
that humans aren't physiologically built for monogomy
Cash, the term you're looking for here is sexual dimorphism. The larger the male is relative to the female determines whether a species will be monogamous or polygynous. If you look at the great apes, the dimorphism is greater is 50%. The males have harems and no other males are allowed to breed with the females. Humans exhibit around 15% dimorphism, we are situationally monogamous. A nice in-between are chimpanzees who have about 25% dimorphism. While they don't have harems, there is an alpha male who is given the first opportunity to breed with all females as they come into estrus, but there's a lot of fooling around on the side with the non-alphas.
Aims - Dec 18, 2006 6:22:46 pm PST #6337 of 10004
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I've also heard the argument about Social Security benefits - that if gays marry, then the widowed/widowered spouse would be eligible for the benefits. To which I say, so would the spouse if they were straight. It evens out.
And Cindy - you are absolutely right. I would do all that and more for ANY girl/woman in that situation.
Aims - Dec 18, 2006 6:27:56 pm PST #6338 of 10004
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimee, my Target was sold out of cookie cutters (BASTARDS!).
Total bastards!
They are MORALLY WRONG and also SINNERS.
libkitty - Dec 18, 2006 7:10:28 pm PST #6339 of 10004
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Hi Java cat!!
WindSparrow - Dec 18, 2006 7:12:50 pm PST #6340 of 10004
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.
They are MORALLY WRONG and also SINNERS.
Ok, here's the deal: What I learned in Sunday School, church, and Bible club was that the word "sin" means "missing the mark". The fact that I have hideously poor hand-to-eye coordination means that I am inherently, by nature, without volition, a huge sinner. After a couple decades of bearing the shame of that sin, I realized that if that's what sin really is, then sin really isn't as big a deal as I thought it was.
ETA: I gotta add that this hasn't made me turn my back on having principles, ethics, morals, what-have-you - more that I am now much more likely to see "sin" as easily forgivable (both my own, and others') human foibles. And maybe that's what Jesus really wanted to get across, anyway.
Hugs and ~ma to them that needs 'em.