I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.

Fuffy ,'Storyteller'


If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

Birth, death, illness, new job, vacation...if it's happening to you and you want us to know about it, post it here. These threads are intended for announcements only. Want to offer sympathy or congratulations, or talk about anything? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.


Maria - Aug 10, 2004 12:29:45 pm PDT #1588 of 5668
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Heh. I get to follow Nilly's "going dark" announcement. There's no way I'ma gonna top that one. . . .

Anywhoo, I'm going completely black from this evening until Sunday night, and more likely Monday morning, for a much needed vacation with DF. Have fun and don't do anything I wouldn't do (which leaves it wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddde open)!

Nilly, be safe and welcome to the U.S.! See you in a few weeks.


DCJensen - Aug 10, 2004 1:11:20 pm PDT #1589 of 5668
All is well that ends in pizza.

I have a "lets get to know you" interview with Robert Half, Inc., tomorrow afternoon.

They are basically a contract house to a number of big companies.

Please send any appropriate ~ma, especially stage-fright-ma and impressing-ma.


Jen - Aug 10, 2004 2:53:01 pm PDT #1590 of 5668
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

August 29 is Jen's birthday.

August 29 is also meara's birthday!


DavidS - Aug 10, 2004 5:50:50 pm PDT #1591 of 5668
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

August 29 is Jen's birthday.

August 29 is also meara's birthday!

August 20 is Fay's birthday. Plus Scrappy just had a birthday.

plans to have next child in August.


Scrappy - Aug 10, 2004 5:55:20 pm PDT #1592 of 5668
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

deborah grabien - Aug 10, 2004 7:29:30 pm PDT #1593 of 5668
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

L.A. Nilly partyers, a request, please?

My friend Pieter - Lee and Sean have met him, ita and Betsy and Dana and Beverly know him and can vouch for him - lives in LA. He wants to meet erika while she's there, and F2F with some of the locals.

Pieter's a doll, one of the best people I know. Can you ping me in email, if you'd like to set something up? Lee and Sean, we had dinner with Pieter at Taxco.


billytea - Aug 11, 2004 4:42:06 am PDT #1594 of 5668
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

On August 11 2004, at 2:45 pm -- in Royal Canberra Hospital -- Andrew James Hird made his successful bid for freedom from the confines of my sister after a short labour. Yes, she has dropped sprog, and this thread gets to live up to its title. Higgins and Hird are reportedly doing well, my sister reports that labour is 'kind of dull, what with all the waiting'; and photos may be heading my way once the ancestors work out how to use that newfangled internet thingie all the kids are into these days.


erikaj - Aug 11, 2004 7:41:52 am PDT #1595 of 5668
Always Anti-fascist!

Bt is funny, but he knows that.(You can write my birth annoucements, too, babe, should I ever sprog) Anyway, I'm doing the check-got-here dance right now AIFG, out of practice though I am. Thanks! {{Buffistas}} {Anarachs}}} {[Lovely and talented sister-wife and The Husband}}(My internet postings will be quite the challenge to my biographers, I think.)


DCJensen - Aug 11, 2004 5:31:58 pm PDT #1596 of 5668
All is well that ends in pizza.

Interview went well with Robert Half, Inc. We'll see where this leads. Thanks for all the Interview~ma, folks.


Laura - Aug 13, 2004 9:59:13 am PDT #1597 of 5668
Our wings are not tired.

Charley has decided to not follow the predicted path, or strength, and is coming ashore right where my parents, brother, and sister have homes. They are all safe, but send some strong~roof~ma in the direction of their homes please.