Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?

Spike ,'Get It Done'


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.


Strega - May 05, 2008 10:38:40 pm PDT #5056 of 10001

Wow.

I totally just got conned. By a woman who first said she was a neighbor who'd been locked out and needed cash to pay the locksmith -- which I bought at first because I've been there. But then she came back with a series of increasingly unlikely "okay, here's the TRUTH" stories to get more dough out of me.

And I totally believe that she's in a bad place, but dude. The fact that I bought the first story does not mean I will buy ANY story. Because each new iteration is just establishing that you are a lying liar who lies.

I suppose I should call the cops, but given how this development is laid out, she'd be in the wind before they got anywhere close. And I seriously need to sleep. Full psycho-con-artist saga later.


Jesse - May 06, 2008 2:24:05 am PDT #5057 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, Strega!

Go, bon bon! I keep meaning to go to that.

Yikes, Sophia, good luck.


brenda m - May 06, 2008 3:06:37 am PDT #5058 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

You know something? Cats can be real fuckers. Lucy caught a cat crossing the yard a little while ago. (Caught as in "Ah ha! A cat! I think I shall go crazy and bark at her," not actually caught.) So I have to go outside and calm her down and drag her away from the stairs and the cat is frozen in place...until I do get the dog off the ledge at which point the cat decides "you know what? I think I will lie down and relax right here where I can keep that dog in a state of maximum frenzy." Finally the dog had to come inside altogether. Smoooth, Mr. Kitteh. Very smooth.


Laura - May 06, 2008 3:18:28 am PDT #5059 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Curmudgeon?

Good choice. Either wizened or serene are possible.

Yay bon bon!

Boo psycho-con-artists!

Ugh, Sophia. Much better day job ~ma.


Kat - May 06, 2008 3:44:49 am PDT #5060 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'd hope zen comes after bitter, ita. But I don't know that it's true. I think maybe resigned.

Psycho-con-artists are no good. I got conned when I was in the Bay Area but good and the woman kept coming back. It scared the beejesus out of me and I just let the dog bark like crazy when she came to the door and hid in my apartment.


Kathy A - May 06, 2008 3:46:45 am PDT #5061 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I ended up going home at 4:00 yesterday, still really dizzy and a little stressed about driving home with said lightheadedness. I then slept in bed for a solid hour, transferred to my couch to watch tv which I then managed to sleep through, and then went to bed at 11:00. That's when I finally took my temperature--100.5.

I guess I was sick!! The fever broke overnight and is now down to about 99.3, so I'm doing laundry and will head into work in a few hours.


Dana - May 06, 2008 3:52:19 am PDT #5062 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I need my coworker to come in so I can bum a dollar off her to buy a Coke. The Cokes I was planning to bring from home are sitting in my kitchen.

Unless any of you guys wants to lend me a dollar.


tiggy - May 06, 2008 3:57:53 am PDT #5063 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

I have a virtual dollar, but i think that will only get you a virtual coke. so...not all that satisfying.


Sue - May 06, 2008 3:59:31 am PDT #5064 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Go Bon! I wish there was good bar trivia around here.

Meara, maybe there's a beanstalk growing.

I am damned by my own success. I got kudos for a document I created last week, and my boss just threw something else on my lap. My plate is already full dude.

Today is Monday for me. I am not awake. I need more coffee. I need a clue.


Sue - May 06, 2008 4:01:53 am PDT #5065 of 10001
hip deep in pie

You know something? Cats can be real fuckers.

My brother's dog is a cat chaser and all the neighborhood cats will come and taunt him by sitting about a foot away from the end of the reach of his leash. It makes him crazy.