Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.

'Soul Purpose'


Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?  

[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.


Sparky1 - Aug 07, 2008 5:53:04 am PDT #120 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

smonster, I'm glad your friend is doing well.

My niece starts at UNC-CH very soon and I have told her that I will be forwarding any performances you announce and that I expect her to get herself to one.

vw, I hope you and the dogs reach a truce soon.

eta: Barb! I saw your picture over at Smart Bitches under the LOLRWA entry. You look lovely, of course.


Gadget_Girl - Aug 07, 2008 5:57:17 am PDT #121 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

{{{Hil}}}


Barb - Aug 07, 2008 6:00:51 am PDT #122 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

Heh-- Thanks, Sparky. I'm still mildly bemused over the whole thing, but at least I didn't look like a complete douche and SB Sarah had blotting papers handy, so I wasn't completely shiny either. *g*


smonster - Aug 07, 2008 6:09:33 am PDT #123 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

smonster, I'm glad your friend is doing well.

Thanks. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they fixed everything they need to and he won't need any more surgery.

My niece starts at UNC-CH very soon and I have told her that I will be forwarding any performances you announce and that I expect her to get herself to one.

Oh, cool! She should come take classes...


smonster - Aug 07, 2008 6:17:03 am PDT #124 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Also, I love the coinage "snoggle" and I'm going to use it at every opportunity. Snuggling + snogging ftw.

Kinda reminds me of the f2fs...


Scrappy - Aug 07, 2008 6:21:10 am PDT #125 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I loves me some Lexapro, I tell you what.


smonster - Aug 07, 2008 6:33:29 am PDT #126 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I've gone through Celexa & Lexapro, briefly adding on Wellbutrin to the latter (BADNESS) and am now on Cymbalta + ADD meds.

Next up I want to explore EFT and DBT, b/c I'd rather not need meds forever and I really need to change my thinking patterns. I've had one EFT session with some dramatic results, and my sister's doing DBT right now and finding it helpful. We have a lot of the same issues, though hers are more intense.

(NB - I ain't no Tom Cruise - I fully understand that some people need meds their whole lives. I just hope I am not one of them.)


Barb - Aug 07, 2008 6:42:07 am PDT #127 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

My mother is trying really, really hard to drive me to medication. This morning's phone call was thankfully not about the Renewed Fabulousness that is My Father, but rather, "I don't know what to do about your brother-- physically, he's better, but mentally..."

(For the record, my brother was undiagnosed bipolar and quite possibly paranoid schizophrenic-- one reason he was undiagnosed was because my mother refused to believe that anything was actually wrong with the little dumpling so kept making excuses and enabling, expecting that one day, he'd grow up. He's 49.)

Currently, because he's gotten so far into non compos mentes, he's been in a hospital and now in a nursing home and she's trying to figure out what the next step is.

She got rather put out when I said, "Mom, given the combination of both prescription and non-prescription drugs he's been on for the last thirty years or so, I think you have to understand there is no getting better for him. There's no way to even get a baseline for what is 'normal' anymore. There is no such thing, he won't get better, and the sooner you realize that, the better."

To which I got the, "You'll see, as your children get older," response.

Dude, I don't hold my kids up on some pedestal. I know they may/do have issues. I'm fully prepared for a rough fall as Nate transitions into middle school. I'm fully prepared to do what it takes to help him through it, whether it requires counseling or tough love or letting him stumble and fall and be hurt, no matter how hard that is, or whatever. The one thing I'll never do is turn a blind eye and pretend it doesn't exist or that it'll magically go away.

Sorry to be so < memememe> She's just intent on driving me down the crazy road it seems. And once again, moving and not leaving a forwarding address is sounding reallllllly good.


Lee - Aug 07, 2008 6:50:22 am PDT #128 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

CUT AND PASTE, PEOPLE!!!!

There is one attorney here who will routinely ask me to resend attachments I have already emailed him in a blank document so he can forward it to other people without the email thread. IT'S CALLED THE DELETE BUTTON.


brenda m - Aug 07, 2008 6:53:44 am PDT #129 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Gah, Barb. What a mess.

That is out of control, Perkins.