Well, at least now I'll have something to throw up that didn't cost me much.
2 packages of Ramen Noodles: 66 cents Not having to dryheave: Priceless
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Juliebird - May 14, 2009 2:59:34 pm PDT #19579 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
meara - May 14, 2009 4:10:44 pm PDT #19580 of 30000
Things I Have Discovered I Cannot Do: Pantomime a collect call to someone who does not speak English.
Things I Can Do: Give up and just use my cellphone to call the people she's trying to reach and let her make the call that way.
§ ita § - May 14, 2009 4:11:57 pm PDT #19581 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh, Julie. Sorry to hear about the stomach troubles.
Things I Have Discovered I Cannot Do: Pantomime a collect call to someone who does not speak English.
I'm at a loss as to how to mime it to an English-speaker, so you're one ahead of me.
meara - May 14, 2009 4:15:15 pm PDT #19582 of 30000
I'm at a loss as to how to mime it to an English-speaker, so you're one ahead of me.
Heh. Well, it helps when you're standing in front of a payphone with a woman who has grabbed you pleading "you help? you help?" and a fistful of change and a phone number. Unfortunately, it was a long-distance number, and while I tried to figure out if whoever it was (her mother, I think? Or maybe she was the mother, and the person was her child? Who knows?) would take a collect call from her, finally I just gave up, and called--I've got plenty of minutes.
§ ita § - May 14, 2009 4:18:19 pm PDT #19583 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just gave up, and called--I've got plenty of minutes.
Wait till you find out she was calling Timbuktu during peak hours.
meara - May 14, 2009 4:22:28 pm PDT #19584 of 30000
Hah! No, it was an address and phone number for someone in Arizona.
sarameg - May 14, 2009 4:23:16 pm PDT #19585 of 30000
You did a good thing, meara. She'll remember you kindly.
So it is pouring rain and all my drainspouts are draining.
Barb - May 14, 2009 4:24:05 pm PDT #19586 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I find that Love Actually loses quite a bit of its obscene charm when edited for basic cable.
ETA: Of course, the scenes with Liam Neeson are even more heartbreaking now.
sarameg - May 14, 2009 4:29:43 pm PDT #19587 of 30000
OK, cannot get miniblinds for the french doors.* Loki just pulled down the broken one on himself trying to get out. I had gone out front to make sure that the drain extender was working and so he had a session with the screen door which =LOKI WANT OUTSIDE CRAZY.
He's even trying the basement door now.
* Not that I was gonna.
shrift - May 14, 2009 4:35:47 pm PDT #19588 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
...and now on FB my aunt is bemoaning that I don't live near her because she'd love to hook me up with some guy.
I'm tempted to write a book titled Overweight and Unmarried: One Woman's Story of How Her Family Drove Her Off the Internets.