Gloomcookie, that's a LOT of pretty!

Hush, you, you're deflating my righteous wrath and replacing it with "Aw, golly shucks."

t growls softly

Another sad fact about the family photo is that it was taken on my dad's b-day. He was upset after the memorial for his mom, so he wanted no b-day celebration, which is totally out of character. Poor Dad.

Vincent's voice always gave me shivers--the good kind.

Beverly is me. That voice just slays me. And the wounded nobility and all. ::puddles up:: I just wish they didn't throw in the Rambokitty rides on top of the subway in every, single episode.

Go you Joe with the VA possibility. I'm serious, with your CS background, wit and fixy-ness, you could make a hugely rewarding career for yourself out of VAing. Plus, 99% of VAs are women. You could brand yourself as the "OTHER VA meat." By which I do NOT mean porn.

Pretty photo, GC, even if it was a sad occasion.

Begone~ma to connie's headache and vw's migraine.

Vortex is made of the most legendary awesome, we all knew this. But Nora, I don't think it's beyond normal expectations to confirm arrangements that were made more than a week ago. You've made that effort and either your friend hasn't gotten the messages or has neglected to respond. Call, and don't feel like a nag. Resent that she's making you feel like a nag, a little, but being the grownup often feels like being a nag, so.

Cashmere, your sister is really beautiful, as she should be on her wedding day. But you? My gods, woman, you're luminous! You're gorgeous as a goddess, and the picture of you and your DH is wonderful.

Also, I think Sparky is sassier now that she's an East Coast girl. I like it.

It's the humidity.

I've missed the Joe and Aimee show. I think MiL was...misguided, at best.

I'm with Zen on the tooth-whitening thing. I've never tried the strips. My dentist just zaps the gel on there and hits it with the light as part of my cleaning. It's not the deluxe $500 job, but it goes a couple shades lighter, enough to tell a difference, but not enough to give me chiclets.

I'm having dental work done next month, and I'm pretty sanguine about it, even a little happy, as it will correct a mistake made years ago by a cowboy dentist. If I'da sued, I'd have enough to fund the procedure.

Go you Joe with the VA possibility. I'm serious, with your CS background, wit and fixy-ness, you could make a hugely rewarding career for yourself out of VAing. Plus, 99% of VAs are women. You could brand yourself as the "OTHER VA meat." By which I do NOT mean porn.

Though the porn is a last ditch possibility I suppose.

I wouldn't even know how to begin getting work as a VA, though.

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Here's an article on it, babe. And how cool - you *could* be a stay at home dad! Part-time anyway once Em starts pre-school.

Or, you know, not.

I learned how very good an actor Ron Perlman is watching that show.

I was part of a production of Strindberg's Ghost Sonata; we performed in masks and heavily gothic, body-morphing costumes, and getting any sort of emotion across the footlights was an exercise in patience, concentration, ensemble acting at its most synergistic. Everything was slowed, a little, because we had to use body language and voice to convey everything. For an actor to convey the necessary emotion past facial appliances and makeup, even in onscreen closeups, is a hallmark of his or her ability (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell in the Apes movies, frex). To use the voice, and in this case with dental appliances as well, to convey subtleties that the masked face isn't capable of, as well as Perlman did, is awesome.

One scene I remember, though, we didn't even get Vincent's face--only his back, his body language, and his voice. That scene still leaves me in tears.

Huh. I could set up the fax machine, get the Batcomputer up...

Were we in our own place, this would be a total possibility.

Aimee, your MIL was misguided, although I'm sure she meant well ... I hope she did. My mother insists on sending me dumb stuff that's been forwarded around the internets for years - "funny" pictures and stories - and they're always forwarded umpteen times. Only when she sends them they arrive as an attachment to an attachment to an attachment to an attachment ... so it involves opening at least five attachments. So ... mostly I delete them without even reading them - I'm telling her that our office system (which is the only e-mail address I've given her for me) deletes them after a certain number of levels. She's decided it's because I don't want to hear from her.

And my dentist has suggesed the deluxe - $950! - tooth whitening. My teeth are fairly healthy, but badly discolored. 40+ years of coffee, tea, cola ... I'm tempted, but damn that's expensive!