I woke up jangly and this conversation has made it 8556 times worse.
Sigh.
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Kat - Feb 10, 2008 3:55:00 am PST #8574 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse - Feb 10, 2008 4:08:55 am PST #8575 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sorry so jangly, Kat.
I think David's friend is talking to people with money. Not necessarily a ton of money, but enough to realistically consider the "6 months savings" advice. I'm just glad I've started putting money in a higher-yield savings account, and this conversation makes me realize I should take the little bit of money out of my stupid regular savings account and do something better with it. For me, that means putting it to credit cards. If I didn't have the credit card debt, I get that investing makes sense for "emergency fund" money.
Kat - Feb 10, 2008 4:12:44 am PST #8576 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Enh. It's how it goes.
AND my Tivo hates me. It didn't record FNL this week or two weeks ago. So I'm watching it. Enh.
But trying to bright side it for me? Noah is still asleep so I just might finish this episode after all.
Theodosia - Feb 10, 2008 4:20:58 am PST #8577 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm a bit jangly myself - woke up from a semi-nightmare where the landlord was trying to sell the house out from under us, sneaking in people to see the apartments while we were out, et cetera. And work had instituted some really bogus travel expense rules that were screwing over just about all the workers.
This despite having owned my own house for 7 years now! And not having worked at my old job for nearly a year!
Kat - Feb 10, 2008 5:58:08 am PST #8578 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oh FNL. I'm sad now because if that's it for the season let alone possibly being IT forever, there's too much left untidied. I must know.
Just did my taxes. What my taxes proved to me is that I should really fix my withholdings because I'm getting a lot back.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 10, 2008 6:01:19 am PST #8579 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Good god. I went to college with him. We did theater together. I....it's weird that people watch him? That he's semi-famous??
So you were the one bogarting all the cute soon-to-be-famous guys in college! The only semi-famous person I went to school with was Donny Kershawarz, and we loathed each other in junior high.
In last night's special Mike B did a riff on forgetting he was the celebrity partner at a charity golfing event and getting excited speculating with the other people about what famous person they might get. Then it sank in...
Sheryl - Feb 10, 2008 6:17:30 am PST #8580 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I don't think I went to school with anyone even semi-famous. Ah, well...
Jessica - Feb 10, 2008 6:21:25 am PST #8581 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
This conversation is making me want to empty my savings and pay off all my credit card debt. Hrm.
Jesse - Feb 10, 2008 6:28:53 am PST #8582 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just have to remember that I'll want to move semi-soon, so I should keep cash on hand for that, because it's a big enough chunk that it would take a long time to pay back on a credit card.
So, I'm making half of this ropa vieja recipe. Except I forgot to halve the liquids. Even worse, I thought the recipe called for a big can of tomatoes, when it called for a small can of tomatoes, so I have like a million times more tomatoes than is called for. I forsee hours of simmering in my future.
brenda m - Feb 10, 2008 6:34:14 am PST #8583 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
This conversation is making me want to empty my savings and pay off all my credit card debt.
I know. I might have to do that today. I did just file my taxes. Not as big a refund as I was expecting, because I had a penalty from some money I took out of a 401k for house buying purposes. But still a little something coming my way, so that's good.