Muggy here too. House is cool, thought. Hopefully you won't have any storms on the way down, msbelle.
I *just* remembered to stop billing on gas and electric at the old place.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
sarameg - May 01, 2009 1:47:05 pm PDT #17698 of 30000
Kathy A - May 01, 2009 1:48:28 pm PDT #17699 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So, how are the adjustments going to the new place, sarameg? Are the cats settling in as well as you seem to be?
sarameg - May 01, 2009 2:00:21 pm PDT #17700 of 30000
Oh, I'm definitely home. In chaos, but home.
Mister Kitty has finally migrated to sleeping on the bed all day. I think the cats are happy. Loki clearly is and Devi isn't hinky anymore, hanging out in whatever room I'm in (her usual behavior.) I can't believe the length of my short-term to-do list, but that is what it is.
Now to go assemble some furniture, find my sheets and towels and my hard drives....
Trudy Booth - May 01, 2009 2:49:50 pm PDT #17701 of 30000
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
although in North and Central Florida, at least, "cracker" denotes native-born, with no negative connotation.
A chunk of my family moved to Central Florida a few years ago (this not being the side of the family that is FROM Florida) and their native-Floridian neighbors proudly identify themselves (as opposed to the recent arrivals) as Crackers.
It doesn't seem to be dependant on income.
Edit: And so far as I know, only white people. I think I'd bust a gut laughing if I heard a black person refer to him/herself as a 'cracker'.
Glamcookie - May 01, 2009 2:58:29 pm PDT #17702 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My family has always used cracker interchangeably with redneck. Mostly it is said to my dad, who considers either to be a compliment. Wacky Southerners.
javachik - May 01, 2009 3:11:46 pm PDT #17703 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Myself? My ancestors were North Carolina crackers. And I was born in California, which to those Southerners like my gramps, is "fancy". So I was a fancy cracker.
Which is why one of his terms of endearment for me was "Ritz".
Sue - May 01, 2009 3:31:55 pm PDT #17704 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Jesse - May 01, 2009 3:37:24 pm PDT #17705 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hilarious. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with you, Sue!
megan walker - May 01, 2009 3:38:48 pm PDT #17706 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My impression was that "cracker" was more about racism than income, but that may be based solely on Bernie Mac in Ocean's 11.
javachik - May 01, 2009 3:47:56 pm PDT #17707 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh, it's totally racist but it has overtones of "white-trash", too. I just think it's a funny sounding "insult" and am not personally at all insulted by it.