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.
Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven, completely different chords.
Oz ,'Storyteller'
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.
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?
JZ - Jul 07, 2008 5:39:04 pm PDT #6118 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
bt, Kristin is wise here (wise often and in various other places as well, of course):
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.
And this is a good safe place to feel you don't quite know what.
And now I must take Matilda away to get her ready for bed. She spent the last two hours tearing around all over the place and now she's sagging in my lap and about to drop her mango lassi (added to her love list: mango lassi and paneer; the saag, even very mild, was a little spicy for her).
Hil R. - Jul 07, 2008 6:04:44 pm PDT #6119 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Yes, this.
Argh. On another board, people are talking about the new recommendations for cholesterol drugs for kids, and there have been 20 posts so far, and every post other than mine has been along the lines of "If parents would just quit being lazy and start feeding their kids decent food, the cholesterol problems would go away." Need to punch something.
Pix - Jul 07, 2008 6:05:31 pm PDT #6120 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Perkins, she was visiting you, right? I know that is where your cabin is too, which is why I mentioned it. (If you'd prefer that info be private, I'm happy to delete.) Such a gorgeous place. Utterly idyllic. My favorite quirk about the island, though, is the fact that they have a ridiculous number of post offices for a tiny place. Well, that and their eccentric parades.
t hugs JZ for saying nice things about me
I am also so very happy for you and the Wallybee--I know you two are happier than you and Bec ever could have been--but I understand feeling a little odd and wistful about news like this. I really do.
Lee - Jul 07, 2008 6:07:45 pm PDT #6121 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
She was at our place. I wasn't there though-- I probably won't make it there this summer.
Pix - Jul 07, 2008 6:09:08 pm PDT #6122 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
So generous! I'm bummed you won't get to go there this summer, though.
Susan W. - Jul 07, 2008 6:17:17 pm PDT #6123 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
t points and nods at what Kristin, Plei, JZ, etc. said, BT.
Steph L. - Jul 07, 2008 6:20:06 pm PDT #6124 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Here's what we did: Sleep till noon. Get up, eat delicious breakfast in pj's. Sit and read and drink beer. Stop for early dinner, either at home or out (depending on how much beer was consumed). Read. Go to sleep. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This is very similar to my vacation, except with the extra 13 members of The Boy's family. (Who, to their credit, all did their own thing and let me do mine.)
(Some mornings, his dad's definition of "doing his own thing" was to go to the bakery and bring us all fresh-baked pastries. Oh dear lord yes.)
We didn't leave the island for the entire 8 days. We did, however, go through 2 cases of beer.
THIS? Is a perfect vacation.
Lee - Jul 07, 2008 6:28:31 pm PDT #6125 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So generous!
Not me. They rented the place.
eta: Steph, You and the Boy should do that next year!
billytea - Jul 07, 2008 6:34:21 pm PDT #6126 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.
I am also so very happy for you and the Wallybee--I know you two are happier than you and Bec ever could have been--but I understand feeling a little odd and wistful about news like this. I really do.
Yeah, it's an odd feeling. I'm sure the Russians have a single word for it.