Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.

Mal ,'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.


sarameg - Mar 23, 2008 12:05:32 pm PDT #6816 of 10001

The bread has risen about half an inch above the pan. I've never had that happen before (however, I'm using the recipe in BH&G, rather than my mom's, which I don't have and may be slightly different.)

Smells right, though.


Kat - Mar 23, 2008 12:05:47 pm PDT #6817 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

packing is so much easier if you aren't invested. I mean, I'd just put it all in boxes. If you pack your own stuff, it requires thinking, do I really want to move this.

unpacking is a fucking nightmare. Granted, a first world nightmare. But still.


Scrappy - Mar 23, 2008 12:12:11 pm PDT #6818 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I find unpacking infinitely more traumatic than packing. You have to figure out where everything GOES!


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 23, 2008 12:19:11 pm PDT #6819 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

When I move, I already know where everything is supposed to go. It just involves actual work and time to get it there. The "OMG,how am I going to get all this stuff packed by Moving Day?!?" beforehand is much more traumatic.


sarameg - Mar 23, 2008 12:21:39 pm PDT #6820 of 10001

Unpacking is more satisfying for me (granted, the only time I've done that in the past 10 years was my kitchen.) I get to organize instead of the haphazard chaos that was! I get rid of stuff (for some reason, this doesn't work as well when I pack.) Everything gets its proper home, rather than what was available when it arrived.

Next time I move, you are free to throw this in my face.

I suspect I like unpacking more because I hate being packed.


JenP - Mar 23, 2008 12:26:31 pm PDT #6821 of 10001

I hate both. I love when I have a place for everything; I hate organizing my space such that there is a space for everything. So there isn't, so it's often a mess.


SuziQ - Mar 23, 2008 12:33:51 pm PDT #6822 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

More than the packing and the unpacking, I am hating the weeding out of the junk. HOW IN THE HECK do we have so much STUFF?

We just went through our collection of VHS tapes. VHS, people and we have a TON.


Lee - Mar 23, 2008 12:38:30 pm PDT #6823 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I am so sorry about your niece, scrappy.


brenda m - Mar 23, 2008 12:46:08 pm PDT #6824 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

Ugh, scrappy. What a tough situation for your family.


Scrappy - Mar 23, 2008 12:52:31 pm PDT #6825 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Hard on me, but so much harder on her parents. My poor brother sounds just so TIRED on the phone. They are constantly seesawing between resignation and hope and anxiety and trying to be strong for their other two kids. I know they are just torturing themselves with "what if's" and there is no way not to.

I wish I could do more, but they don't want us out there until they know what is going to happen.