Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


Steph L. - Jan 02, 2009 6:56:39 am PST #9115 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm not at work (since Fridays are the "off" days due to the 4 10-hour day schedule), but I have an ambitious list of Stuff To Do today. Honestly, I like to start the year by weeding out my closet and dresser and trunk o' shirts. Paring down feels like a good way to start the year. (And makes more room for the clothes I just bought.)

Of course, I'm still on the couch with coffee, but soon I will:

  • sweep floors (with broom, followed by dustbuster to suck up the piles of pet hair; this is a new tactic that may fail miserably);
  • wash stinky dog bed covers and put dog beds outside to air out;
  • clean bathroom (including mop the floor);
  • go to gym;
  • aforementioned purging of closet/dresser/trunk;
  • take sweaters out of underbed boxes and swap them for the purses sitting on the closet shelf, so I can get to sweaters more easily (adding a second closet shelf is on the intermediate-term to-do list);
  • conquer known world.

I'm going to start with the last one first.


Jessica - Jan 02, 2009 6:58:26 am PST #9116 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I'm going to start with the last one first.

Good plan - if you succeed, you can probably summon minions to do itemss 1-6 for you!


Cashmere - Jan 02, 2009 7:00:09 am PST #9117 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

Teppy's list made me tired.

I have to sweep the floors, too. And figure out lunch. The gym is a great idea, too.

Hec, insent.


Connie Neil - Jan 02, 2009 7:02:55 am PST #9118 of 10002
brillig

I'm working today, but I have the first three days of next week off due to an aborted trip to Vegas that fell through. Still, days off are always good. Plus it will be the first days after the holidays, when everyone who's been putting off stuff will call in to fix everything. Good timing, Constance!


Laura - Jan 02, 2009 7:04:30 am PST #9119 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

I'm at the office. My cohort here is convinced we are all going to die because Yellowstone is going to blow. [link] Now granted, she does tend to read alarmist blogs, but it is a shaking.


tommyrot - Jan 02, 2009 7:11:04 am PST #9120 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm at the office. My cohort here is convinced we are all going to die because Yellowstone is going to blow.

Well, if that were to happen, more stuff would happen first to warn us. Like, the lava dome would swell up and there'd be venting of gasses and such. This would go on for a few days before everything within 1000 miles of Yellowstone gets destroyed....


Steph L. - Jan 02, 2009 7:11:50 am PST #9121 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm going to start with the last one first.

Good plan - if you succeed, you can probably summon minions to do itemss 1-6 for you!

This is my plan. I expect it to succeed any time now. Yup, any time...

Teppy's list made me tired.

Why do you think I'm still on the couch? I'm contemplating a sandwich, since it's noon-y here. I have turkey breast, sliced asiago, romaine lettuce, and (maybe) tomatoes. That should make an enviable sandwich. Then I can get on with the business of world domination.


Jesse - Jan 02, 2009 7:13:37 am PST #9122 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just had a hilarious memory, while watching an ad for Tempurpedic beds -- they said your bed should make you feel "enveloped." When I was in college, some feminist-type coversation I was in ended up deciding that the problem was talking about sex as "penetration" because that (like everything else!) put the power on the man, and we should really call it "envelopment" to keep the power on the female side.

This doesn't seem that funny typed out (because I'm sure it's a serious argument, but it was a ridiculous conversation), but oh well.


brenda m - Jan 02, 2009 7:14:12 am PST #9123 of 10002
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

But you did remind me to throw the wash I did last night into the dryer. I think that means it's now nap time.


Scrappy - Jan 02, 2009 7:15:36 am PST #9124 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I am at work, but we are having Pajama day, so I am in comfy sock monkey pajamas. [link]