Peace and health to your step-aunt, Raq.

~ma to Raq's step-aunt.

Yeah, but I find it heartening to think that people of A Certain Age still want to get busy.

I have a modest level of "don't want to think about my parents as sexual beings" squick, and yet the "something to look forward to" cool is stronger, I think.

Laga, that was a pretty touching LOLcat.

Raq, much ~ma to your beloved.

Laga, where do you find the farewell videos for the puppies?

Why the assumption that everyone who is short is also thin

Wrod. But more places are now doing Petite lengths on their chunky lady clothes, so I don't have to roll up all my pant legs (OK, I know how to hem, but I'm lazy).

Raq, tons of ~ma for you & yours.

Am sitting in a teleconference. Am bored. It's about the Set & Prop design. No sound. Fun.

Headache came back around 1am. I wonder if it was related to the food from the party. As I ate leftovers when the head cleared, and then the headache came back. Dunno. Never had a food related headache before, outside of brain freeze from eating a slurpie too fast. And this one was delayed, like get into the system and then cause a headache. Most strange.

Could be nitrates (nitrites?), like in red wine. Also MSG has been known as a headache trigger.

also, hivemind, what's a nicer way to say "inconvenience". I'm trying to say "I don't know why you want me to pretend that it's not an inconvenience", but I'm looking for a softer way to say it.

also, hivemind, what's a nicer way to say "inconvenience". I'm trying to say "I don't know why you want me to pretend that it's not an inconvenience", but I'm looking for a softer way to say it.

A bother?

My shoulder's still hurting. I managed to get through this morning at the office, and got an OK amount of work done, but I was already up to five Motrin in six hours, and just couldn't handle it anymore. So, home now, in comfy pajamas on comfy couch.

Bad headache, leave omnis alone! He needs to bake me stuff!

Also, I think I failed to mention this, but Buffistas kids' pic are teh teh.

Funny story from uni tomorrow, after I'll collapse to sleep. You see, I thought for some reason that having 12 hour day at uni without having a cup of coffee in the morning would be achievable.

I barely dragged myself out into the cold and back home from the last class.

"I don't know why you want me to pretend that it's not an inconvenience"

distraction

additional effort

departure from my normal duties

A bother?

no, not quite. Basically, the issue is that my mother says that I make her feel like she's imposing when she asks me to do something for her. And, sometime she is. It's not like I just sit around doing nothing (which I suspect she thinks is true). More often than not, when she asks me to do something, it means a change in my plans. It's usually not a problem, but she wants me to say yes immediately, without any thought to other commitments, because that's what she does.

Of course, she gets behind the 8 ball a lot because she says yes right away and figures out the logistics later (which, for example, is how I ended up having to travel for two days each way to pick up/take my great aunt to Florida, because she volunteered to pick her up without thinking it through). I'm trying to figure out a way to explain this to her without making her feel bad. And before you say "well, what you said sounds pretty reasonable", I said pretty much the same thing to her and it resulting in crying and screaming. Some of it is residual emotion, but not all.