Sadly, yes.
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
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.
amych - May 07, 2008 6:17:08 am PDT #5295 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
msbelle - May 07, 2008 6:18:49 am PDT #5296 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
INonPoliticalN - I just finished 90% of my Mother's Day shopping with online donationa dn online giftcard purchase (some was already done), now just need cards and maybe a little something for mac to send his grandma.
Steph L. - May 07, 2008 6:22:13 am PDT #5297 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just finished 90% of my Mother's Day shopping with online
Last year, I sent my mom roses, because, let's face it -- she's 62 and has everything she needs (and my stepdad always buys her jewelry, so there's no point in me buying her earrings). She LOVED them. So that's what I'm sticking with.
Though I'm sure we'll have brunch/lunch/some sort of meal on Sunday.
Glamcookie - May 07, 2008 6:23:06 am PDT #5298 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Thanks for the b-day wishes, friends!
msbelle - May 07, 2008 6:25:08 am PDT #5299 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Yeah, I am trying to avoid "stuff" gifts as much as possible. Half Price Books giftcard, because she goes there already and keeps a circle of recycling books going on and a charitable doantion. The brother sent flowers. Grandma/GG is getting chocolates, which at 93 is what she gets every holiday from me and mac. If I live to be 93, I fully expect everyone to give me my favorite sweet at every ocassion.
beekaytee - May 07, 2008 6:27:29 am PDT #5300 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Add my wish to your bday bundle Glamcookie!
I know. Most of me thinks that an Obama/Clinton ticket would be great (although I'd really rather see Obama/Edwards), but that small part of me, the part that was raised on "I Am Woman" and Betty Friedan, thinks that Clinton as VP would be settling, and damn it, I am so sick and fucking tired of seeing brilliant woman *settle,* when they should be running the goddamn joint.
Truly. We are of the same mind. Even on the preferred ticket.
There is so much I'm sick of in American politics...politics in general, beyond its function to sort out the truly, hurtfully crazy who might aspire to leadership...that my heart feels like lead.
Obama's tagline, Change we can believe in, is all I've been asking for in the 25 years that I have been politically active. I'm feeling like that reality is hiding out with my promised, and yet undelivered flying car.
Vortex - May 07, 2008 6:27:58 am PDT #5301 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm having the family over for brunch for Mother's Day. The workmen are (FINALLY) here, fixing random shit so that there aren't holes in my walls, and the bedroom door closes.
Jessica - May 07, 2008 6:30:40 am PDT #5302 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bah. I just had a long post about how pointless the racism v sexism debate is, and the interbunny ate it.
(Short version: Remember the blogosphere dustup a while back about "Hillary Clinton has never been called a nigger" / "Barack Obama has never been called a cunt"? Why the fuck did anyone think that was an argument they wanted to have? What productive thing did they expect to get out of it???)
shrift - May 07, 2008 6:31:44 am PDT #5303 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Have been told to work on documentation. I think I'd rather quit than rewrite the steaming pile of crapulence that is the existing "manual".
Glamcookie - May 07, 2008 6:31:57 am PDT #5304 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I was a bit cheap this year for Mother's Day - I just have too much going on. I got her two CDs - Best of Elvis Costello and Best of ELO. She's not one to buy music so I think they'll be well-received. I thought about flowers too, but I don't think she'll be around on the actual day.