Hey, lisah! When you come around, who is your dentist? (Maybe I'll get lucky and they are on my plan. I hate throwing darts at a wall to find a damned provider.)
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
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.
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 3:03:52 pm PST #8908 of 10001
-t - Feb 11, 2008 3:05:04 pm PST #8909 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, paying 2x a month doesn't save you much, but it can stabilize your cash on hand by synchronizing income and expenses a bit, which I like. I'm actually on the every two weeks payment plan because that is how DH gets paid, and it makes financial sense in a highly theoretical years down the road sense, but it's mostly comforting for me to not have to feel like a whole paycheck is immediately spent on the mortgage every month. My bank has the policy that the payments have to be a month ahead before they will start taking the automatic payments, which it took me a while to figure out - the wording on the web site is that payments have to be current, but they mean a month ahead - and that was a lot of money to pay out initially.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2008 3:07:00 pm PST #8910 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You think it was a generation/gender thing? Or was it my hat?
It is quite a hat, to be honest.
DavidS - Feb 11, 2008 3:08:43 pm PST #8911 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A bit of a wait to load, but awesome time lapse of a San Francisco day.
We're a magical city that floats in the clouds and then turns into constellations of light.
Gadget_Girl - Feb 11, 2008 3:25:48 pm PST #8912 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Man, I so wish I could IM while grading. This is BORING.
This is so true!
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 3:49:10 pm PST #8913 of 10001
All you teachers need to do what my parents did: make your kids grade papers for you! Of course, this only worked because for mom, she was teaching first or second grade when I was in my teens. With dad, it gets a little more iffy because I was grading college students starting in my very early teens. However, just his 101 classes and I knew most of it by osmosis. (Still can't believe he let me!)
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 4:05:11 pm PST #8914 of 10001
All the catfood I have that I can't feed my cats any longer is coming in handy in feeding my neighbor's cat. (Miss Louise, or more properly, her granddaughter who is staying with her/living there/I don't know, has a cat.) Their budget is really tight and she wasn't able to get more food tonight. So I gave away some more that was tucked into the back of the cabinet. I'd meant to drop it at a shelter, but this is as good a cause as any.
Jesse - Feb 11, 2008 4:05:29 pm PST #8915 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yay! I just got an email that a friend of mine had her baby at 4pm today. I was literally just wondering about them this afternoon, so she must have been in labor right then! Eight pounds, born at home, named Zoe. Yay baby!
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 4:08:06 pm PST #8916 of 10001
Wow, Jesse! I like the name...
Man, it sometimes hits me that birthing babies is now a regular event in my circles of friends. And how that's..well, expected at this age, but gee, I'm that age!
Jesse - Feb 11, 2008 4:11:35 pm PST #8917 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I feel good that I have a little gift all ready for when they are ready for visitors! Although I already know that his family was planning on arriving en masse ASAP, which was not cool with her, so I'm sure it'll be a couple/three weeks, if not more.