Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.

'Bring On The Night'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

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.


Cashmere - Nov 16, 2006 8:15:35 am PST #639 of 10007
Now tagless for your comfort.

I remember that her youngest child will be graduating high school and giving her her life back at about the same time my oldest (and at this point likely only) child will be entering the second grade, and then I go straight into ::never stops crying:: mode.

I've got a dear friend here who's eldest daughter just turned 21. She expecting her second child in March. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the news. I think she did both.

I graduated in '89--just squeaked in under the 80s wire.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 16, 2006 8:16:37 am PST #640 of 10007
What is even happening?

I was wearing knickers in like '80 or '81, I think. I don't think I would have been caught dead in them by '85.

And not just any boy. Tom would have to be voted 1985 - BEST SMILE.

I was thinking the same thing. But if he keeps being our only boy, he's going to win every superlative in the year book.

I'm an 87er. Born two years too late for the party.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be? t /Cordy


juliana - Nov 16, 2006 8:18:15 am PST #641 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I can't recall much about my wardrobe, which probably wasn't very pretty , but I do know I wore scabs.

There was a winter where I had three sledding accidents that all involved my face, leaving me nicely scabbed. My mother was afraid people would think that she was abusing me.

Not to mention the constant summer scabs from running amok in the woods.

SWEATER VESTS! Gods. practices thread title


SuziQ - Nov 16, 2006 8:18:52 am PST #642 of 10007
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I was wearing knickers in like '80 or '81, I think. I don't think I would have been caught dead in them by '85.

Awaits Fay's comment.


flea - Nov 16, 2006 8:22:19 am PST #643 of 10007
information libertarian

JZ's comment reminds me that yesterday I was on the bus, and a Looniversity student was saying to another, "I mean, I want to go to law school, and also, if you don't get married by age 28, that's it - your expiration date has come!"

And I thought of newlywed Robin, and Laura, and JZ, and assorted other older-than-28-year-olds I know, and refrained from smacking the girl upside the head, because these gracious mature ladies would never do such a thing.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 16, 2006 8:23:03 am PST #644 of 10007
What is even happening?

Hee, Suzi. I thought of that, and then decided to leave it.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 16, 2006 8:23:59 am PST #645 of 10007
What is even happening?

And I thought of newlywed Robin, and Laura, and JZ, and assorted other older-than-28-year-olds I know, and refrained from smacking the girl upside the head, because these gracious mature ladies would never do such a thing.

Nor would they, I'm sure, have had to bite their lips in order to refrain from yelling, "That's only true of the vapid!"


juliana - Nov 16, 2006 8:25:34 am PST #646 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Hey, THAT's why my marriage didn't work! I got married at 29, so I was way past my sell-by date! smacks self upside head


§ ita § - Nov 16, 2006 8:27:13 am PST #647 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm past 28, and I know I'll never be married. She's totally right.


Aims - Nov 16, 2006 8:27:27 am PST #648 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.

No, love. Your marriage didn't work because no one froze Z before his sell-by date and he went bad.