Jilli, I bought a Nightmare Before Christmas onesie for Noah at the sale today
Yay! Put him in it and take photos now now now.
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Atropa - Mar 27, 2008 2:25:03 pm PDT #7795 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Kat - Mar 27, 2008 2:26:26 pm PDT #7796 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I can't because it hasn't been washed yet! And he finally went down for a nap!
Atropa - Mar 27, 2008 2:29:15 pm PDT #7797 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I can't because it hasn't been washed yet! And he finally went down for a nap!
Okay, good points. I am not one to disturb napping munchkins. Envy them, yes. Disturb them, nuh-uh.
P.M. Marc - Mar 27, 2008 2:29:44 pm PDT #7798 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Some of us want to paint wide black & white stripes, but have been repeatedly told "NO. THE HOUSE DOES NOT HAVE TO LOOK LIKE TIM BURTON ART-DIRECTED IT".
Certain People just don't want to have to deal with painting. We'd ALL pitch in and do it. I mean, you own the place, so PAINT, for the love of mike!
Ahem.
Yes, I know. Not my walls. BUT I AM ITCHING TO DO SOMETHING TO DEBLANDIFY THEM, OH YES.
Happy Noah and Grace day!
Atropa - Mar 27, 2008 2:33:22 pm PDT #7799 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yes, I know. Not my walls. BUT I AM ITCHING TO DO SOMETHING TO DEBLANDIFY THEM, OH YES.
I know! I keep telling him this! We'd only have to move one bookcase and lock the cats in the basement for a day!
I'm going to try and talk him into this again, after the soul-sucking deadline is over.
beekaytee - Mar 27, 2008 2:33:44 pm PDT #7800 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
"garbage" has a food waste connotation
In my mind garbage is wet and trash is dry. The combination is rubbish.
I tend to call it a 'rubbish bin'.
sarameg - Mar 27, 2008 2:39:39 pm PDT #7801 of 10001
I tend to use garbage can to refer to the ones that live outside. I put something in the trash can. I take the garbage out to put in the garbage can (or, in my case, the dumpster.)
I don't really get why I do this. Except maybe garbage sounds grosser than trash, so garbage needs to be OUTSIDE.
Jesse - Mar 27, 2008 2:39:55 pm PDT #7802 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Allyson, that sounds faaabulous!
I had the stupidest feeling-like-a-loser moment every today. You'll see why it was so stupid. I had plans to go to the movies with a friend on Sunday. Today she emails and says she has to work Sunday, so how about Saturday night? I literally almost said I couldn't do it, because it felt too lame to say I had no Saturday night plans. But she didn't either! So we're going Saturday night. The end.
-t - Mar 27, 2008 2:45:35 pm PDT #7803 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kristen and I are painting one of the walls with satin black and cream thick stripes, then doing a chair rail with cream on top. I'm keeping to the red velvet/wrought iron furniture and accessories.
Love.
Ginger - Mar 27, 2008 3:00:21 pm PDT #7804 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is it "Department staff maintain..." or "Department staff maintains..."? The former looks right to me, but Word's grammar checker is disagreeing.
In American English, a collective noun such as "staff" is singular, while in British English, it's plural. Therefore the second is correct, although I tend to rewrite to "department staff members."