How do you respond to someone you don't really know (and have never met) when they randomly e-mail you to ask how you're doing?
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
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.
shrift - Mar 23, 2007 10:16:20 am PDT #8594 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Liese S. - Mar 23, 2007 10:18:00 am PDT #8595 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I have never been coy about my age. I did, however, lose a year in which I said I was 26 for a year. Then when my birthday hit, realized I actually was 26 and had to say it for another year, during which everyone assumed I was lying that year. Ooops.
Then we did it again with our anniversary one year. Oops.
Evidently the traditional marking of the passage of time doesn't rank particularly highly on our scale of importance.
bon bon - Mar 23, 2007 10:20:29 am PDT #8596 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
How do you respond to someone you don't really know (and have never met) when they randomly e-mail you to ask how you're doing?
"I'm good. What's up?"
Liese S. - Mar 23, 2007 10:21:02 am PDT #8597 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
In other news, someone hung a placard on our door telling us the water would be out today from 9-2. Thee things: 1) They gave us advance notice for routine maintenance, 2) They're doing routine maintenance! Not just, you know, waiting until water is inexplicably spurting across a major highway, and 3) Today the truck came down our alley, so they're specifically working on our area, they didn't just turn off a large area for no reason. Oh, and they got done two hours earlier than promised. Shocking!
It's so bizarre to have actual services.
libkitty - Mar 23, 2007 10:21:10 am PDT #8598 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Happy Birthday Kathy!!!
I'm not your birthday twin, but I turn 40 in exactly one week. I think you and Tom Scola and I should get together and have a party!! Practicalities, shmacticalities.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2007 10:21:25 am PDT #8599 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I keep telling people I'm 35, which is just not true. I want to say "mid-thirties," but screw it up. Except for the time I was talking to my mother and grandmother about my wedding. What I meant that time was that I'll be at least 35 by the time I get married. That is not what I actually said.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2007 10:24:17 am PDT #8600 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently I look 28. I know I act 15, so it's perhaps some sort of an average thing. Or the two women who said that (independently) this week were kissing ass.
Also possible.
Carb loading! I think I'll take a glittery soak in the tub while eating homemade blueberry ice cream. My sister missed her connecting flight, but I've already ducked out on this afternoon's training.
Sad thing is, I should use this time productively.
Black Pearl bath bomb, here I come.
Kathy! Happy birthday and continuing congratulations on the weight loss achievements. Too cool.
juliana - Mar 23, 2007 10:25:34 am PDT #8601 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My birthday's 4 months off or so, and I've already started saying I'm 32 when people ask. No idea why, it just keeps popping out of my mouth. Weird.
Miracleman - Mar 23, 2007 10:29:37 am PDT #8602 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Nobody's ever incorrectly guessed my age...mainly, I think, because they never guess my age at all.
However, Sean, fucker that he is, stood in my kitchen the other day and commented: "You're getting quite a lot of salt and pepper in your hair, huh?"
...you know, come to think of that.
Not So Secret Message to Sean's Cat: GO FOR THE JUGULAR!
Liese S. - Mar 23, 2007 10:31:23 am PDT #8603 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The SO's birthday is coming up in a few days and he can't commit to what he wants to do. He's got a history of having miserable birthdays and I'm afeard we're headed that way again. Trip to Tucson? To Moab? Party with the local friends? Dinner out with friends, because of dog allergy? Quiet dinner at home (I bought steaks)? He can't decide.