OK, I'll go with #2. This is for my finalist photo for the PNWA Writers Contest. Apparently they project them on a screen during the awards ceremony, and when I told the coordinator I literally didn't have a photo from the last four years without my 4-year-old, she said the kid could stay in the picture. But I so do not like pictures of me. Which is part of the reason there are so few of them.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
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.
Susan W. - Jul 07, 2008 4:45:21 pm PDT #6108 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Strix - Jul 07, 2008 4:58:36 pm PDT #6109 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yay, GC! Congrats!
Just got back from grocery store. Even though I finally closed my house up today to let the AC percolate through the whole thing, I still got mostly non-cook items. Except tomorrow, I'ma make lemon chicken with garlic-pecan couscous. Tonight? Mozz-tomatos from the deli and premade guac.
We didn't leave the island for the entire 8 days. We did, however, go through 2 cases of beer.
Nora, I think this is actually a line from Edna St. Vincent Millay's bio. Except, substitute 12 cases and 24 bottles of gin and whiskey. (Seriously! Savage Beauty. Such an interesting, well-written bio.)
Nora Deirdre - Jul 07, 2008 4:59:18 pm PDT #6110 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Tee Hee! One case of homebrew, one case of beer exchanged for money at the beer store. Damn, my husband makes REALLY GOOD BEER.
Oh!
t makes many high pitched inarticulate noises of happiness and joy for GC and her DF
Is good to be back! OK, I have to go to bed now that I have caught up with Bitches and LJ.
Hopefully will have time to interact more tomorrow.
vw bug - Jul 07, 2008 5:00:44 pm PDT #6111 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Auntie has her evil laugh going right now: [link]
billytea - Jul 07, 2008 5:10:54 pm PDT #6112 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So, in the unexpected news file, I got an email. Bec's eight months' pregnant. Not sure how to react to that. (Happy for her, obviously.)
Pix - Jul 07, 2008 5:23:51 pm PDT #6113 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
Worth repeating.Wow, it really is. It sounds similar to the last time I was on Deer Isle (one of my dad's friends grew up there and owns a cute little cabin on the bay). Books, bed, beer. Mmm, yeah.
BT, you have every right to feel a bit weird about it, I think. I know I would. You can be happy for her and still not quite know what else you're feeling.
Kathy A - Jul 07, 2008 5:28:38 pm PDT #6114 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've heard of Deer Isle, Maine! It's one of the two towns featured in Ken Burns Civil War miniseries as an example of how the war affected hometowns across both sides of the conflict.
Lee - Jul 07, 2008 5:32:05 pm PDT #6115 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
That's where Nora was!
(I hope that's okay to have said, Nora)
P.M. Marc - Jul 07, 2008 5:37:20 pm PDT #6116 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
Ah, Billytea, I am happy for her, sad for you, sad for what might have been? If that makes any sense.
amych - Jul 07, 2008 5:38:36 pm PDT #6117 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It makes perfect sense, at least in the "what I couldn't quite figure out how to say" sense.
eta: BT, I'm also insanely happy for the life you have now. But that doesn't preclude ambivalence.