Tons of ~ma to you, Susan. That's a very stressful situation, and we both wish you the best in navigating it.
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
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.
Pix - Jul 23, 2008 5:51:59 pm PDT #8166 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Gadget_Girl - Jul 23, 2008 5:53:46 pm PDT #8167 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Much ~ma to you, Susan.
meara - Jul 23, 2008 7:10:58 pm PDT #8168 of 10001
It's driving me crazy that there's an hour left in SYTYCD and there's 50 posts in NonFiction and I don't want to go in there and spoil myself. And I'm on my work computer and don't allow myself to go on LJ on it. Argh.
Also, I have not gone to have dinner yet. I'm sure I"ll be pretty hungry by the time I go to bed, but I definitely am too lazy to go anywhere. Meh. Guess I'll just be hungry for a full breakfast in the morning.
Pix - Jul 23, 2008 7:16:55 pm PDT #8169 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Fuck, Trudy. I'm so sorry. Healing ~ma for your mom and coping ~ma for you.
WTF, Universe?!? Back off!
Trudy Booth - Jul 23, 2008 7:28:21 pm PDT #8170 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I keep reminding myself she's safe.
She really could have died and that's scary as shit -- but she didn't and she's safe now.
One of her nurses today grew up with my Sister. Sis says its weird having our Mom's life in the hands of Dinky Petrelli. ("Petrelli" is a fake last name of the correct ethnicity, but "Dinky" is what the poor girl was called growing up.)
beth b - Jul 23, 2008 7:31:14 pm PDT #8171 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
my best to your mom and all that are caring for her, Trudy
SuziQ - Jul 23, 2008 7:37:59 pm PDT #8172 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oh Trudy.
Well, finally got out of the office at 8 and we went out to dinner. Didn't get back to the hotel until 10pm. Guh. Meeting up for breakfast at 7am.
One thing I have to say about this trip, is that we eat VERY well. I'm not going to have to eat again for a week.
Trudy Booth - Jul 23, 2008 7:39:34 pm PDT #8173 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Thanks, guys.
I'm thinking about the rampant nicknames in the small town I grew up in (its where a lot of the Station Agent was shot, pretty quaint and idyllic and boring as hell once you've cleared the age of 12).
There was one set of siblings who all wound up called by a nickname derived from their last name -- so their friends would call the Paterno house and ask for "Pat" (again, fake name) and be asked "which grade?".
There was a kid in my grade who had the great misfortune one year of having a back pack the precise color of his jacket. He was dubbed "Quasi Modo" by the rest of the fourth grade. Bravo on them for being so literary (this was way before the Disney movie you whippersnappers), but that poor sucker was Quaz until he got out of high school.
Connie Neil - Jul 23, 2008 7:45:06 pm PDT #8174 of 10001
brillig
My father's name was Floyd, and he generally went by Bud, but there was a bunch of guys who had known him from high school who always called him Skeeter or Skeet. I never had the nerve to ask.
billytea - Jul 23, 2008 7:47:20 pm PDT #8175 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 didn't really have a proper nickname at school, yet I now have two at work: "Sneakers" and "Willipedia".