40 was a great year. Actually -- getting older is better. Ever since 38 for me. Still lots of stupid shit, and bad shit too-- but every day stuff -- much better.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
beth b - Jul 09, 2008 3:57:29 pm PDT #7304 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
SuziQ - Jul 09, 2008 3:58:20 pm PDT #7305 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'm staring at my 18 year old going - how the heck... I mean, I remember every minute of those 18 years, and yet.
Feeling very old at the moment and very incompetent. Not having the house sold is making me feel like a failure who may have to ask her father for money. How pathetic is that? I'm 40, I should be past needing help from my parents.
Sorry for the whine, just grrrrring at myself.
Jesse - Jul 09, 2008 4:00:34 pm PDT #7306 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
is blowing it out in his name like a recognized ritual thing that all the Christians know about and I don't?
Nah, it's just silly.
Calli - Jul 09, 2008 4:02:02 pm PDT #7307 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm 40 and still renting. On the upside, now a parent needs my help with things instead of vice versa. Oh, wait. That's not really an up side. Oh, well, it's just occasionally, and it's nice to be needed.
Tamara - Jul 09, 2008 4:02:17 pm PDT #7308 of 10003
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Jilli was born in a very good month and year. Only awesome people were born in November of 1968.
amych - Jul 09, 2008 4:02:21 pm PDT #7309 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
{{{Suzi}}}, babe, it's been a helluva shakeup for you -- does it help to try to reframe the matter? It's not you needing to go to your parents for help. It's you having a healthy support network -- they'll be glad to help you when you need it, just as much as you'd help them however you can when they need it.
(Or you can just blame the crapassed real estate market. Either way, it's so not about you being a failure, at all.)
Sheryl - Jul 09, 2008 4:06:29 pm PDT #7310 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
My deepest sympathies, Tamara
40 has been ok for me so far. We'll see...
amych - Jul 09, 2008 4:06:39 pm PDT #7311 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Only awesome people were born in November of 1968.
I am so telling my sister that. She was born in December.
Susan W. - Jul 09, 2008 4:07:05 pm PDT #7312 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I... still don't know what a Jesus Year is. I mean, I got that it was 33, and that it's when the dude died, but is blowing it out in his name like a recognized ritual thing that all the Christians know about and I don't?
No ritual or anything. It's just a...thing. I've also seen it as your Jesus and Alexander the Great Year--IOW, you're 33, and you haven't saved or conquered the world yet (you underachiever, you), but at least you're not dead!
SuziQ - Jul 09, 2008 4:09:57 pm PDT #7313 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
(Or you can just blame the crapassed real estate market. Either way, it's so not about you being a failure, at all.)
Yeah, when my head is on straight this is how I think about it. I just talked with my dad for the first time today since I moved and he was shocked that I was in this financial situation. Can't pay the mortgage, don't have a car...he just doesn't have to worry about money so he doesn't think about others struggling.
He did say I could come to him if I needed a loan, but man, I really don't want to do that unless I can say "I need x and will pay you back when the house closes". Right now I'm afriad it will be "I need x for now, but may need y if the house doesn't sell, and then there could be z".