Oh, ok. Gotcha. Still. Grrrrrr.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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.
vw bug - Nov 02, 2008 3:20:49 pm PST #9851 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
DavidS - Nov 02, 2008 3:48:24 pm PST #9852 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, Ginger! My retroactive birthday wish will make this week totally sugar, but also accident free.
WindSparrow - Nov 02, 2008 4:02:53 pm PST #9853 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Sorry the stepmother is tetchy on the topic of her stepness. Sounds like a great time to refer to her affectionately using the diminutive of her given name that annoys her most, in the most cheerfully oblivious fashion possible.
WindSparrow - Nov 02, 2008 4:04:24 pm PST #9854 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Did I miss your birthday, Ginger? Hope it was happy, whenever it was/is.
Steph L. - Nov 02, 2008 4:09:37 pm PST #9855 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Sorry the stepmother is tetchy on the topic of her stepness. Sounds like a great time to refer to her affectionately using the diminutive of her given name that annoys her most, in the most cheerfully oblivious fashion possible.
I misread that totally; I thought that TCG's *mom* doesn't like the stepmom being referred to as the stepmom, because her very step-ness is offensive to the DNA contributor.
But I suppose I read that through my lens of having step-family.
sj - Nov 02, 2008 4:20:10 pm PST #9856 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Teppy read it right. Sorry for the confusion.
Steph L. - Nov 02, 2008 4:23:33 pm PST #9857 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Teppy read it right.
Score one for the step-kid!
Daylight Savings weekend means I'm already ready for bed at 9:20. Good lord. On the other hand, since The Boy had double-hernia surgery Wednesday, I've been taking care of him AND doing all the housework and pet feeding. I didn't realize how much it is for one person.
Also? I was right 11 months ago when I moved in and said I could NEVER clean the litter boxes because the litter dust would trigger an asthma attack.
signed,
had to prove it the hard way AND very thankful for a functional inhaler
WindSparrow - Nov 02, 2008 6:12:18 pm PST #9858 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Teppy read it right. Sorry for the confusion.
That's ... making the kind of sense that isn't. Sorry.
DCJensen - Nov 02, 2008 6:15:44 pm PST #9859 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I don't "officially" have asthma, but I do recall growing up cleaning the litter box always resulted in me (1.) controlling the urge to retch, and (2.,) having trouble breathing for a long time afterwords, to the point of almost blacking out.
Now the first symptom is likely psychosomatic, but it might have a purging component, the second reminds me of hypoxia.
Twenty years later, I gladly leave the litter chores to Andi, despite my feeling guilty not cleaning them for her.
ETA: Not that I didn't find tricks I would employ should Andi need my assistance. A large t-shirt tucked into my pants and pulled up past my nose helped a lot way back when...Air mask might help.
Laga - Nov 02, 2008 6:28:17 pm PST #9860 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I find that Zeolite has made a huge difference with cat litter odor, so much so that I sometimes forget to clean the cat box for days. But then, I've never had asthma-like symptoms.
edit: I use the non-reusable, sprinkle-on kind.