oof. I may have agreed to one more week of teaching summer school. But this would be only 1 week and only from 9-12, which is tolerable.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.
Kat - Jul 20, 2008 6:08:55 am PDT #8602 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2008 6:57:07 am PDT #8603 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sent Tom off for bagels. But I'm hungry NOW!
So am I. But I don't want anything I have in the house (at least for l/brunch), and I'm having trouble motivating myself to go out somewhere. I thought I wanted brunchy treats earlier, but now, NSM. Le sigh.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2008 6:57:53 am PDT #8604 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh, that's what I get for skimming.
I don't think I said it the first time!
I am dying of sweat, but I'm trying to wait to take a shower so I'm not all sweaty again before I go out later this afternoon. This may be a futile quest.
DavidS - Jul 20, 2008 7:47:01 am PDT #8605 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We took Matilda to Children's Fairyland yesterday. It's an old children's amusement park in Oakland that was allegedly an inspiration for Disneyland. But it's way more homemade and homespun, working that fine line between quaint and creepy. It's been fixed up in recent years after a stretch where it looked like the Joker's secret lair.
Emmett was an excellent big brother and made sure Matilda had maximum fun.
Teppy's sister in Spidey love.
More big brother points - Matilda on the balcony.
Abusing your brother for fun and amusement.
They have a whole Beatrix Potter village, so we took pictures for the Lilybean.
Matilda is immune to the Uncanny Valley.
Shir - Jul 20, 2008 8:13:52 am PDT #8606 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Matilda's pictures are a joy to the heart. They seemed to have a lot of fun.
ION, reason's for today's sick morning and noon feeling found when roommate complained about the same symptoms I felt. Oy.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2008 8:27:17 am PDT #8607 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, Shir. Feel better!
Cutehead kids!
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2008 8:29:49 am PDT #8608 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Teppy's sister in Spidey love.
Heh! I, unsurprisingly, dressed as Spidey for Halloween many years in a row.
Emmett was an excellent big brother and made sure Matilda had maximum fun.
That picture is just perfect. I mean, REALLY. Like, enlarge and frame and hang in a prominent place PERFECT.
Cute plus creepy.
Matilda ameliorates much of the creepy.
Matilda is immune to the Uncanny Valley.
Now THAT? Is creepy. (The statue, not Matilda.)
P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2008 8:38:57 am PDT #8609 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lillian digs the Matilda pics. Though, due to the grey hair and similar glasses, she was INSISTING that Certain People were SO her Daddy.
"No, Lillian, that's Matilda's Daddy."
DavidS - Jul 20, 2008 9:02:48 am PDT #8610 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Though, due to the grey hair and similar glasses, she was INSISTING that Certain People were SO her Daddy.
What an honor! I wish I was as pretty as Paul.
That picture is just perfect. I mean, REALLY. Like, enlarge and frame and hang in a prominent place PERFECT.
They both looked insanely gleeful every time they came down. Except the time she decided she was ready to do it herself, which was not going to happen. (Very steep slide.)
Emmett was not keen on going and was making all the proto-teen "I'm bored" noises until he started taking her on the slide. Then he had a lot of fun with her.
Susan W. - Jul 20, 2008 9:05:37 am PDT #8611 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I don't think she'd say so now, but when Annabel was just beginning to be communicative, she was known to claim pictures of Katie Holmes were her mommy (what with AB looking like Suri Cruise and all) and to point to Stephen Colbert on TV and say "Daddy." Which, given my Colbert crush, led DH to ask if there was something I wasn't telling him...