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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.


vw bug - Dec 21, 2006 4:42:19 pm PST #6881 of 10004
Mostly lurking...

And, speaking of nebulizers, I'm off to do one. Two cats and a house filled with really gorgeous winter wreaths and trees, etc. have done me in.


Amy - Dec 21, 2006 4:46:30 pm PST #6882 of 10004
Because books.

Breathe easy, vw. And have fun in Kansas!

Stephanie, the Ellie pictures really are heartbreaking. And she has gotten so big! (I am Repeat-O Girl tonight, I guess.) I think the one of her on the floor with the toys, and the IV still connected, really broke me, because she looks so little, and so happy to be playing, but there's the horrible IV...

I'm so glad you're all home and better.


tommyrot - Dec 21, 2006 5:04:33 pm PST #6883 of 10004
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

In Defense of Kansas: [link] Apparantly the Kansas flying monkey problem is exaggerated.

It seems that most non-Kansans I meet have a negative attitude toward visiting the state of my birth. More often than not, they seem to view Kansas as a long, grueling stretch to suffer through while on the way to somewhere else. Upon investigation, though, I usually find that this attitude is based not upon actual experience, but upon two false assumptions.

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The second assumption is that if you drive through Kansas, you will be attacked by flying monkeys. This canard is the fault of both L. Frank Baum and, especially, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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MGM, on the other hand, was thoroughly irresponsible. Their 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz depicts its flying monkeys as being the size of chimpanzees, existing in large numbers, wearing militaristic uniforms, and possessing the ability to carry a teenage girl through the air. All of these fearsome traits are unrealistic and false, and I’m convinced that such misconceptions are responsible for the loss of millions of potential Kansas tourism dollars.

The truth is that the typical Flint Hills flying monkey is no larger than a cocker spaniel, and the two- to- three- thousand- member troops, or flerds, that once roamed the blue Kansas sky have dwindled every year since 1964, when the last of the great Cottonwood Falls banana plantations brought in its final harvest. In 1998, zoologists at Kansas State University in Manhattan estimated that no more than twenty flerds still existed between Wichita and Topeka, with each flerd comprising only 400 to 600 individuals. Those numbers are almost certainly smaller now.

Furthermore, there is no record of Flint Hills flying monkeys, either as individuals or groups, ever carrying off a human being larger than an infant. In fact, there are only three documented cases of even that happening — and in two of those cases, the infants were dropped before the monkeys could reach their usual cruising altitude of 300 feet.


sj - Dec 21, 2006 5:28:16 pm PST #6884 of 10004
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

The pictures of Ellie are making my allergies act up. I am so glad she is home and well now.

I hope JZ wasn't stuck in traffic too long with the baby.

My hair is done. It is not my best red or my best cut, but at least I no longer have an inch of black roots with grays popping up all over the place. TCG and I organized all of the gift basket stuff tonight, which now just need to be assembled tomorrow.


juliana - Dec 21, 2006 5:45:24 pm PST #6885 of 10004
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Love the pictures of Ellie coming home.

Yay new hair!

I am uber-pyro girl tonight - there are so many candles lit that I don't need any other lights on in my apartment. Mmmm, candles.


beth b - Dec 21, 2006 5:50:57 pm PST #6886 of 10004
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

no candles - but then again I am hopeing to avoid heading to the doctor for possible nebulization

and just in case you need some help with your mashed potaotes...

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DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 6:02:52 pm PST #6887 of 10004
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I hope JZ wasn't stuck in traffic too long with the baby.

They made it home in the rain okay and I had hot pasta with meatballs (veggie, but good) waiting for them. JZ's making cookies. Emmett's bouncing Matilda and watching How I Met Your Mother (his first grownup sitcom!), and I'm posting xmas songs to BR.


sumi - Dec 21, 2006 6:18:57 pm PST #6888 of 10004
Art Crawl!!!

I'm glad that they made it home safely.

Well, interesting developments on the old heater front.

When I got home, in addition to finding three (3!!) packages in front of my door, I found two space heaters just inside it.

And a message from my landlord. Guess what? The boiler is not going to be fixed. It's far too broken. (And this is the very same one that was pronounced "fine" after I complained when I got back from Thanksgiving.) And they are switching me to electric, but don't know when it can possibly be done, given the holidays so they left me two space heaters.

Seriously?

Luckily it's not supposed to get too cold tonight (staying in the 40s) but we will be having lows in the low 20s on Sunday and Monday night. I won't be home. I hope my cats will be okay without heat.


Pix - Dec 21, 2006 6:32:33 pm PST #6889 of 10004
The status is NOT quo.

sumi, isn't that...well...illegal? I think it may be, holidays or not. At the least, you should not have to pay rent for days that you are without heat.

Can't see any pictures on the 'puter-phone but am glad the little one will be okay.

Also, Lilo has been achieved, plush and hula-ing.


sumi - Dec 21, 2006 6:39:26 pm PST #6890 of 10004
Art Crawl!!!

I'm going to phone them in the morning and see what's going on. I mean, she didn't say that I couldn't continue doing what I've been doing: running the boiler. Having it rundown. Running it again. Over and over, but I don't want to do that if it's dangerous.

And yes, I think it's probably illegal.