Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.

'Serenity'


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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.


sumi - Mar 06, 2008 7:24:19 am PST #3265 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

TWOP founders leaving.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 06, 2008 7:25:32 am PST #3266 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Man, I don't know if it's hormones or what but this

[link]

just made me weepy. I may be too invested in my internets.

Well, I got weepy too, and I don't even POST there, just read. And have since it was Dawson's Wrap.


Kat - Mar 06, 2008 7:26:57 am PST #3267 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I didn't get weepy, but whoa.

I'm having a muffin today and it's making me happy. Is it problematic that food makes me feel better than it should.


Jesse - Mar 06, 2008 7:27:15 am PST #3268 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I totally had Speak and Spell!


Jesse - Mar 06, 2008 7:28:33 am PST #3269 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I didn't get weepy, but whoa.

Seriously.


sumi - Mar 06, 2008 7:28:52 am PST #3270 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I wonder what they're doing next.


Miracleman - Mar 06, 2008 7:31:07 am PST #3271 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Speak & Spell...man, I had one of the early ones, with buttons rather than the vinyl press-pads.

I remember the Christmas I got it. I didn't get to play with it as much as I wanted because I couldn't pry it from my grandfather's hands. He was *fascinated* with it.

Good times. Thank you, Texas Instruments.


Steph L. - Mar 06, 2008 7:34:29 am PST #3272 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Is it problematic that food makes me feel better than it should.

Well, (1) how happy do you think it should make you feel? and (2) how happy is it actually making you feel?

I mean, if you think a muffin should make you feel "Ah, what a pleasant tasting foodstuff," but it's actually making you jump up and down and scream and cry like those people who get called down on The Price Is Right, then maybe things are a little skewed.

If you, say, LIVE for your daily muffin, but then you don't get your muffin one day and it sends you into such an emotional tailspin that you can't get out of bed, then maybe things are a little skewed.

Otherwise, I say: this is a fucked-up world we live in. Bad shit happens all the time. Annoying shit happens all the time. The dog pukes on your favorite shoes. Your employer screws with your paycheck and says you owe them thousands back. Your pretty baby girl is still hanging out in the hospital instead of at home.

In the face of all that, I say take all the enjoyment you can get, and if that means a damn muffin makes you inordinately happy, then enjoy that damn muffin.

CAN I GET AN AMEN????

(Yeah, sorry about that last part; I just started to feel like a televangelist by the time I wrapped up my muffin rant.)


Jesse - Mar 06, 2008 7:35:33 am PST #3273 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

AMEN!

This all fits into my "be as happy as possible about the small things" philosophy, because I swear to god, if I waited around for big things to be happy about, I would not be a happy camper. Utz cheese popcorn, OTOH, I can have any time I want! More or less.


msbelle - Mar 06, 2008 7:39:06 am PST #3274 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

gets money ready for the collection plate.

relatedly, I could use some food joy. I am unsatisfied with the salad I brought. I am trying to bring in lunch twice a weeka nd this is #2 for the week, so I guess I could also bring in lunch tomorrow and just go but a supplement to the salad, but then I have to get up.