It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.

Angelus ,'Smile Time'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

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.


meara - Jul 22, 2007 4:17:28 pm PDT #9432 of 10001

When my ex-GF was growing up in a bodycast she would lie down on a dolly and scoot around by pushing off with her hands. Sort of like lying down on a big skateboard.

Oh my. The image of that is horrible and yet hysterically funny!

Clearly Sparky's DH should spend his free energy motivating me to do shit this week. :)


sarameg - Jul 22, 2007 4:19:59 pm PDT #9433 of 10001

If inactivity is ok, but boredom is not, there's always the Pullman trilogy. (Note, I've not read any HP. Saw the first... I think ... movie.)


Kat - Jul 22, 2007 4:32:07 pm PDT #9434 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The image of that is horrible and yet hysterically funny!

Or scary in that it takes you to that X-Files episode.

Pullman trilogy

Cannot wait to see The Golden Compass.

I'm putting away baby clothes and sort of "watching" Bourne Supremacy. I cannot believe Franka Potente dies in the beginning! Does she stay dead?


Cass - Jul 22, 2007 4:37:14 pm PDT #9435 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Have you thought about buying him a chew toy, Sparky?
Yeah, that's a suggestion that can't be read in really wrong ways.

I need brain sorbet now.


sarameg - Jul 22, 2007 4:39:12 pm PDT #9436 of 10001

She shouldn't! I am all too fond of her in Run,Lola, Run. Erm, that's not relevent, is it?

OK, I don't doubt once it grows out a bit, I'll like it, but I think I told my hairdresser to go too short. Too butch for me right now. It might just be me getting used to styling it, though. Hrm. Anyway, I'll live with it. I think this is the first time in 9 years I'm not 100% satisfied. So that's not bad.


Susan W. - Jul 22, 2007 5:00:12 pm PDT #9437 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

About an hour ago I was sitting on the couch working on my non-work to-do list for the week, an absolute necessity in the great juggling act that is my life. Annabel was playing on the floor, and she asked me to join her. I said, "I can't. I'm busy right now." She popped up onto the couch, kissed my cheek, and said, "You're not busy anymore. I kissed you and made it all better."

I got down on the floor and played. How could I not?

ION, I'm making lentil soup, and the house smells like bacon and onions.


Kristen - Jul 22, 2007 5:07:45 pm PDT #9438 of 10001

Kat, she stays dead for all of the Bourne Supremacy. I don't know if she's been resurrected for the next movie.

For reasons that I cannot fathom, I decided that today would be an excellent day to roast a loin of pork. My house is stiflingly hot now. But it does smell awesome.


Laura - Jul 22, 2007 5:11:32 pm PDT #9439 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

If anyone has any other ideas for exercise without ankle, I'd love to hear them.

Rowing is a nice aerobic exercise if you have a waterway option.


DavidS - Jul 22, 2007 5:11:48 pm PDT #9440 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

You're a sick man, Smay.

Alcohol lowers inhibitions! It's the perfect time.

but I think I told my hairdresser to go too short.

::struggles to grasp the meaning of this sentence::

She popped up onto the couch, kissed my cheek, and said, "You're not busy anymore. I kissed you and made it all better."

They love you back! That's the whole thing of parenting.


Kat - Jul 22, 2007 5:13:30 pm PDT #9441 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Well that sucks! I mean, she's one of two reasons to watch the movie and to off her her in the first 15 mintues sucks.

In poop news, Grace pooped on her own for the first time in like 6 weeks. Let me not talk about how much I hate her hospital. But today, when I visited her, I just sort of cried the whole time because it looks like she will be having a tracheostomy and a ventilator at home for all of her early childhood and I am going to have a nightmare of a time trying to figure out childcare/home nursing.

On the upside? I'm teaching a new class at UCLA on analytical writing in middle school classrooms.