Owen's yell of "Wake up, Grandma!" at her funeral
Oh, that makes me want to futz with his hair and kiss him on the forehead.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
§ ita § - May 29, 2008 5:53:28 pm PDT #1052 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Volans - May 29, 2008 5:57:44 pm PDT #1053 of 10001
move out and draw fire
The one time (so far) that Mallory has made me wonder if I should cringe was with a dude in a wheelchair. He said something along the lines of "Mommy, that man has wheels!" I said "Yes, he's sitting in a wheelchair." Mallory said, "And he can go vrroooommm!" and made a swooping motion with his hand.
At which point the guy's lip twitched in a smile, so I did the smile/nod thing at him and kept going, for fear Mal would ask the guy for a ride. Or demand that his chair transform into Optimus Prime.
His friends are a pretty mixed-race group, which I hadn't really thought about until we were playing alphabet games the other day, and he said, "K is for Khasan, and G is for Gianni, and Y is for Yah-wei."
Volans - May 29, 2008 6:02:26 pm PDT #1054 of 10001
move out and draw fire
sj - May 29, 2008 6:04:42 pm PDT #1055 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There seems to be this new thing with certain well-read parents that there are conversations which ought to be had, and so I'm often a springboard for, like, The Crip Conversation. Which somehow makes me twitchy, like I'm on a list of Formative Moments or something, and I didn't prepare, or anything. It's weirder too because that's a conversation completely led by the parents: "Oh, um, Snotleigh was just curious about your chair," when that was not the vibe I really get from from little S. herself. It's like they are crossing off Broken People are Really Okay too and they are good to go till she sees the neighbor kid's penis.(edited to put in "kid" so it's not such a heavy context) Somehow it bugs me to be instructive.
A world of agreement to this. Please do not take your kid up to me and ask me to explain to them why I walk funny, especially if I don't know you.
For me it depends on how old the kid is who says something to me. I think school aged children should have learned better, but toddlers don't bother me. It also bugs me if a child is repeatedly and loudly drawing attention to me while their parents pretend to ignore them.
Torque - May 29, 2008 6:09:33 pm PDT #1056 of 10001
Bad Wolf
I got a new phone today. Like landline phone. New number, all that jazz. I haven't given the number to anyone and I've already had five calls.
SailAweigh - May 29, 2008 6:13:59 pm PDT #1057 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Sounds like having your name put on the do not call list should be part of the package when getting a phone, Victor.
brenda m - May 29, 2008 6:15:05 pm PDT #1058 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
So glad I don't have a landline anymore.
Torque - May 29, 2008 6:15:30 pm PDT #1059 of 10001
Bad Wolf
Can't you do that online nowadays somehow?
omnis_audis - May 29, 2008 6:19:42 pm PDT #1060 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Sounds like having your name put on the do not call list should be part of the package when getting a phone, Victor.Sadly not the case. When I got my mom a cell, she was getting spanish phone calls for a long time. They didn't seem to believe she 1) didn't speak spanish, and 2) that the person they were wanting to talk to didn't have that number anymore. @@
There used to be a significant waiting period before a number was recycled. NSM anymore.
ChiKat - May 29, 2008 6:21:39 pm PDT #1061 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?
Can't you do that online nowadays somehow?
Yep. www.donotcall.gov
Ever since I moved and got my new number, I keep getting debt collector calls. At least 1 per week. For several different people. All not me. It gets annoying.