Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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.


§ ita § - Apr 10, 2008 1:43:50 pm PDT #1008 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, she goes on to mention that if the marriage fails and you end up being a single mother, at least someone's on the hook for alimony and taking the kid off your hands from time to time. What a warm and loving woman she is.

Take note, if you get Nutty in a Secret Santa drawing.

Tonight's dinner will be popcorn again, and I'm obsessing over the idea of getting melted cream cheese over the whole thing. Fixated, I tell you. I cannot imagine how I went this long without a popper. And, really, even though I want cream cheese over everything, they're still plenty delicious naked.


meara - Apr 10, 2008 1:44:30 pm PDT #1009 of 10001

suggests you consider marrying someone who is the person you most want to spend time with but the thought of embracing 'sends a cold shudder down your spine' (this just makes no sense - how can you be literally disgusted by someone you really like?)

Embracing? Well, I hug pretty much all my friends. So no, no chill spine. But usually if someone is a good friend, the thought of sleeping with them probably does send a chill down my spine. Ew. Like sleeping with my sister or something. Just wrong.


Lee - Apr 10, 2008 1:46:21 pm PDT #1010 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

ita, we need a stompy for thread creation.


shrift - Apr 10, 2008 1:47:52 pm PDT #1011 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Dear FedEx,

I hate you.

Pissily yours,
shrift


Jesse - Apr 10, 2008 1:54:39 pm PDT #1012 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Damn you, ita -- I still haven't bought kernels for popping!


Cass - Apr 10, 2008 2:04:44 pm PDT #1013 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

In a related note, I'm bereft that the Baby Loves Disco event is already sold out for this month. No clubhopping for us.
Have you been? I went to one up here and was ... unimpressed? Particularly because J is mobile and the layout was awful. Two adults to wrangle one pretty well-behaved child and we only managed about ten minutes before we left.


ChiKat - Apr 10, 2008 2:04:59 pm PDT #1014 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Okay, I hit the link to read that article and then continued to read Natter. So so glad I did. I think the snippets I got from y'all is quite enough, thank you.

Why, in all earnestness, do some people prefer being married to someone they don't love rather than being single? I really really don't get it. Are people that afraid of themselves/hate themselves so much that they can spend time alone? If that's the case, I feel very sorry for them.

I'm single, but I'm not unhappy about that. Would I like to find a great guy? Most days (honestly some days I'm not sure. I like my independence too much), but I'm not pining over what I don't have simply because I like what I do have too much. Frankly, I'm pretty good company.


Dana - Apr 10, 2008 2:08:00 pm PDT #1015 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Dear FedEx,

I hate you.

What? Where are your damn shoes?


shrift - Apr 10, 2008 2:16:39 pm PDT #1016 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

The FedEx driver is refusing to deliver them to my building without someone present to accept delivery, for "security reasons."

I am writing a note. If he doesn't deliver them tomorrow, they go to Skokie, and from Skokie, back to Zappos. Because it's not like I can get out to fucking Skokie easily, Jesus Christ.


§ ita § - Apr 10, 2008 2:18:23 pm PDT #1017 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Right now I would marry someone if it meant they'd be around to take care of me when I really needed it (with the understanding I'd do that for them in a heartbeat when able) and a host of other things...that pretty much mean that we'd have to be in a whole damned lot of like with each other and it wouldn't be settling in the end.

What is the problem with going home to an empty house? How can that be fixed with a legally binding contract? That's what it boils down to.

My god, all I can think of is popcorn!

Best Buy, Circuit City, etc, say that they charge a restocking fee unless prohibited by law. Where are they prohibited by law?