When I need a little comic relief, or to be reminded that it could worse, I like to visit Postcards from Yo Momma.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Laga - Aug 31, 2008 4:32:35 pm PDT #3897 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2008 4:42:10 pm PDT #3898 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I would prefer to forget some of the things she hates people for doing to me in elementary school, frankly.
My mom does that, too! She still remembers People What Done Me Wrong when I was, like, 7. *I* don't even remember it, so she needs to let it go.
Barb - Aug 31, 2008 4:50:15 pm PDT #3899 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
It's just proof that the parent or parents are being JACK.ASSES.
Skipping shamelessly to {{{Steph}}} and say to the above, Oh, hell the fuck yeah.
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2008 4:53:54 pm PDT #3900 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
say to the above, Oh, hell the fuck yeah.
Goodness, you sure have that in spades right now, don't you?
Parents. Sheesh!
It would be so much easier if we were all hatched from eggs wrapped up in $100 bills.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 31, 2008 5:02:18 pm PDT #3901 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Actually, the really unfortunate thing is that the girl who my mother most remembers as being mean to me in elementary school now works with my cousin. Weirdly, she was fine to me in high school, so I sort of forgave her-- I think she was trying to get in with the in crowd-- and could be perfectly pleasant were I to meet her. My mother, on the other hand, would probably rip her to shreds. Which, on one hand, I sort of appreciate... it must be horrible to listen to your child's tales of being treated poorly... but on the other hand... it was almost 30 years ago!
Cashmere - Aug 31, 2008 5:15:05 pm PDT #3902 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Coming from the mother's perspective, I think I can understand why mothers would remember childhood slights better and hold onto them longer.
The CNN story recently amused me to no end. I really am becoming my mother.
meara - Aug 31, 2008 5:21:18 pm PDT #3903 of 10001
Hah. My mother remembers a few things about my elementary school that I only vaguely remember, but would like to forget. More about my teachers than other children, though. Since that was the adult vs. adult shit that I didn't really know about at the time.
I'd rather she remember some of the stuff that I remember HER doing to me, that she's like "I did that? Really?" and I'm like "Yeah, it's written right here in my diary, "Mom said today that if I don't get straight A's she will ground me for six weeks and beat me"" [or whatever, it was something worse than that, and really fairly unfortunate and threatening over something fairly minor]
(This came up when I was last home because I found a diary from like, second grade, and was like "Who was this teacher?" and mom went off about her...and then I was like "Yeah, but apparently YOU were threatening to....")
Gadget_Girl - Aug 31, 2008 5:31:41 pm PDT #3904 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
{{{{{Steph}}}}}
Ginger - Aug 31, 2008 5:31:58 pm PDT #3905 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It would be so much easier if we were all hatched from eggs wrapped up in $100 bills.
I'm an advocate of spontaneous generation.
My mother has never let go of any perceived slight, including the many that were created entirely in her own brain. My mother's translation of the world:
"You don't need to bring anything to the party" = "She thinks she's a better cook than I am."
"I have a good recipe for chocolate pie." = "She thinks she's a better cook than I am."
"My friend showed me how to make this hospital corner in a sheet" = "You think I do everything wrong."
Anything I've ever said I liked that someone else does = "You think I do everything wrong."
She has a mind like a steel trap, and she never lets any of those mice go.
Trudy Booth - Aug 31, 2008 6:05:29 pm PDT #3906 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
You know what? It's not. For most of my life, I would have thought so. But however I came by this hard-won mental health, I don't actually think that my mom thinking I'm prettier than she is is a plus. Because I don't think it's a competition. Anymore.
Oh fine, be all evolved and emotionally secure and shit. I'm going to sit here and snigger a bit.