Rick sculpted this Chocolate-Dream-flavored cake for the birthday of Shayna, a 14-year-old “absolutely obsessed” with Joss Whedon’s Firefly.
Charm City Cakes did one, too. It's on their webpage under "Fun Stuff".
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Aims - Mar 11, 2009 9:24:03 am PDT #10127 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sarameg - Mar 11, 2009 9:25:11 am PDT #10128 of 30000
Saw the house again. Need to find out about the roof, there was some very old water stains on the ceiling, one by the gas fireplace and another in the kitchen, which has the tar roof. Still kinda in love with it. The size and layout have spoiled me. While I saw a couple others that were nice enough (and even in Hampden,) nothing has come close to how much I like so much about this place and how I can plan out in my head the order of the things that need to be done and how quickly they'd need addressing.
So. Finding out about the roof.
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2009 9:35:40 am PDT #10129 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
nothing has come close to how much I like so much about this place and how I can plan out in my head the order of the things that need to be done and how quickly they'd need addressing
That's exactly how we felt about our house. It just felt comfortable and right, even in its fugly repo-ed state.
tommyrot - Mar 11, 2009 9:41:52 am PDT #10130 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay! My b-day present to myself arrived! (Even though I eschewed the one-day shipping for two day, it still arrived in one day.)
The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America (Hardcover)
That was the case where a local school board was successfully sued after it required the school to teach "Intelligent Design."
sarameg - Mar 11, 2009 9:45:32 am PDT #10131 of 30000
Still nervous.
Oh, and I did take pictures. Some are crap, but it helps to remember details. Like the vintage bathroom. And the random 2.5 minutes of video I accidentally took while I walked from the basement to the second floor. Honestly, I should have deliberately done that, because it was actually pretty useful, if VERY random (I didn't know it was on so it was mostly hanging from my wrist.)
meara - Mar 11, 2009 9:47:56 am PDT #10132 of 30000
Happy Birthday, tommy!!
Jesse, I, too, wish my parents were rich. Though my aunt and uncle are pretty darn rich and my cousin is a shitty spoiled brat, so...maybe not. It'd be nice to have all the stuff he's got, but DAMN, he's a jerk. I suppose it goes together.
"She tells him he can't take the baby to our house because she doesn't want him around 'white trash.'"
....you mean your house where your mom got busted for, what was it, meth? Was that, perhaps, what Bristol was talking about, Mercede?
Jesse - Mar 11, 2009 9:50:41 am PDT #10133 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, I, too, wish my parents were rich. Though my aunt and uncle are pretty darn rich and my cousin is a shitty spoiled brat, so...maybe not. It'd be nice to have all the stuff he's got, but DAMN, he's a jerk. I suppose it goes together.
Not in my coworker! She is awesome, and fully deserving of a lovely apartment. BUT STILL.
....you mean your house where your mom got busted for, what was it, meth?
I think Oxy.
Gudanov - Mar 11, 2009 9:52:43 am PDT #10134 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
....you mean your house where your mom got busted for, what was it, meth? Was that, perhaps, what Bristol was talking about, Mercede?
Yes another episode in 'As the Palin Turns'.
Jesse - Mar 11, 2009 9:53:15 am PDT #10135 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I have trouble respecting a family that named a child Mercede.
Strix - Mar 11, 2009 9:54:15 am PDT #10136 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Gud, it's...er...good that you're checking into the gifted program, but really, it's pretty much guaranteed that there will be a kid or kids just as smart or smarter than Leif, and that's an excellent antidote for the geego.
Also, gifted programs saved my sanity. It's prolly better now, but it was a life-saver to me, to be in a place that actually challanged me and made me feel like less of a social pariah for being..eww....SMART.
On the practical side, G&T programs do offer more outlets for creativity, advanced work, individial emphasis on areas of interest and opportunities for, you know, really cool field trips.
I remember I took the test at my 5th grade teacher's behest and didn't get in. I was crushed, ego-bruised...all my young life, I'd had "Well, at least I'm SMART" as a panacea for some truly awful socialization attempts.
A month went by before my teacher noticed I wasn't leaving class on Tuesdays, and then -- godd bless her -- she flipped out like a mammal, demanded to see the testing results and found out my testing results were mixed up with some other girl Erin.
Next week I was in the program and it was a revalation. I mean, they had Apple IIe's and we learned to program COMPUTERS! (Hee. It WAS 1981.)