Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

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.


sarameg - Oct 12, 2007 7:19:51 am PDT #6319 of 10001

Sounds like Noah and Dylan are somehow comparing notes cross-continentally.

You know what I should do this weekend? Make biscochos. For some reason, I really want some. I should probably check out the local groceria first, because IIRC, they are a lot of labor.


Scrappy - Oct 12, 2007 7:21:12 am PDT #6320 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I actually got good sleep last night and woke happy it's Friday. One more big push and the last bit of pre-move renovation work on the house will be done. DH and I are having an amiable-but-deep-seated difference of opinion about shelf space in the new house. I think there isn't going to be enough room for all of our books and it's FREAKING ME OUT. He thinks I am overeacting and we'll find space for the bookshelves. Maybe we will, maybe we won't, she mutters darkly.


Kat - Oct 12, 2007 7:23:22 am PDT #6321 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

That sucks, Kat. You should have called up the SO & chatted. He woke up at 4 this morning for no reason at all. Which he's been doing a lot. Confusing to people like me; I could sleep in indefinitely and can go back to sleep if I wake up early.

I totally should have. OH. Don't get me wrong. I fed the boy and was back in bed mt 4:30 AM, even though I had to get up no later than 45 minutes later. I did go back to sleep. K, who also got up because Noah has also learned that quiet fussing and hand sucking gets him no attention but yelling does, kept talking to me as I was trying to sleep and I got so agitated. I wanted to be like, "Bitch, please. Don't make me cut you."

What is killing me is that for 2 weeks, he was sleeping through the night. Then a co-worker said, "That won't last forever. He'll go through a growth spurt and not be able to get enough to eat in a feeding to last him those hours anymore. And he'll need to wake up." Bitch cursed him and he was up the next morning at 3:30.

Being woken at 2:30 was almost easier because it meant there was another solid chunk of sleep before I had to get up and go to work.


Kat - Oct 12, 2007 7:24:19 am PDT #6322 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

He thinks I am overeacting and we'll find space for the bookshelves. Maybe we will, maybe we won't, she mutters darkly.

Is this in your built ins or in the regular bookshelves?


Jessica - Oct 12, 2007 7:25:03 am PDT #6323 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Stephanie turned me on to Ask Moxie, and I cannot thank her enough. The 4-month sleep regression? Oh yeah, it's real.


Toddson - Oct 12, 2007 7:25:44 am PDT #6324 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Favorite line from the story about the nude guy: "I want to be on what he's on."


Kathy A - Oct 12, 2007 7:26:04 am PDT #6325 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

IcompletelyON, the Tribune has an interesting article about a recently discovered pioneer cemetery that's being rededicated this weekend.


sarameg - Oct 12, 2007 7:26:45 am PDT #6326 of 10001

kept talking to me as I was trying to sleep and I got so agitated. I wanted to be like, "Bitch, please. Don't make me cut you."

WHY do people do this? My mother still pulls this when I'm visiting, despite 18 years of getting a very bad reaction from me. Hello, do you really want to meet the cranky sleep monster who'll bite your head off and go bowling with it? Just like the last time?


Trudy Booth - Oct 12, 2007 7:28:42 am PDT #6327 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

"See what happens?" he said, "One day out and it literally caused some poor soul to go nuts, to keep the nakedness alive."

Love the Naked Cowboy.

Starbucks uses fake eggs? Say it ain't so!

I'm working with a document called a "Certificate of Existance With Status of Revocation". The surrealists of the world are going to come together and clap one hand in celebration.


Scrappy - Oct 12, 2007 7:30:37 am PDT #6328 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Kat--it is in our many many regular foldy-up bookshelves [link] all 14 of which are all full of books at the moment. Some of those books can go in the built-in in the new place, but more can't and where will we put them, where, for the love of all that is holy, I ask you? I MAY be slightly obsessive about this, but we have two weeks before moving day, and I'd love to get all the books moved over and put away before the rest of the furniture comes.