My aunt was so proud that she'd remembered to buy some food that wasn't beef so that I could eat it.
She bought VEAL.
Oh well.
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
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.
Theodosia - Jan 10, 2009 10:02:35 am PST #515 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Kat - Jan 10, 2009 10:02:36 am PST #516 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh, Brenda, I'm so sorry.
Hil R. - Jan 10, 2009 10:27:55 am PST #517 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm so sorry, Brenda.
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2009 10:30:22 am PST #518 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.
Oh, Brenda, I'm so sorry....
Hil R. - Jan 10, 2009 10:31:05 am PST #519 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Interesting article in the Times Magazine this week about a pastor at a church in Seattle. The article kind of half focuses on his style and half on his theology. His style -- swearing, tattoos, a "hyper-masculine" Jesus, indie rock, and so on. His theology -- Calvinism. Fire and brimstone, predestination, and all that. [link]
msbelle - Jan 10, 2009 10:32:47 am PST #520 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Theo - that sounds like some of my family.
SO just had an interesting call with my mom where she was saying how she found everything so frustrating on this last visit up here. like mac still having tantrums, she said "two years just seems like an awfully long time". And the place they went to eat dinner playing spanish language tv, it made her furious "I just think in public they should use English, they chose to come here. If I moved to Colombia or Spain, I would learn Spanish." I have no place to put my WTF feelings about those statements. It makes me wonder if them moving up here at any point is really going to make sense - I know they won't ever live in my neighborhood, but I think it just epitomizes how stuck in their ways they are and how things unlike their little world completely set them off.
sarameg - Jan 10, 2009 10:33:07 am PST #521 of 30000
It's ice pelleting out. Very noisy. Glad I got my cat food/litter run in earlier. I don't expect surfaces to get that bad, just the drivers.
Jesse - Jan 10, 2009 10:52:42 am PST #522 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Man, I don't get Calvinism at all.
Ugh, msbelle. That sounds like a difficult conversation.
P.M. Marc - Jan 10, 2009 11:19:25 am PST #523 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Interesting article in the Times Magazine this week about a pastor at a church in Seattle. The article kind of half focuses on his style and half on his theology. His style -- swearing, tattoos, a "hyper-masculine" Jesus, indie rock, and so on. His theology -- Calvinism. Fire and brimstone, predestination, and all that
He's a sexist tool who is running a cult. I kind of pray for a massive scandal to pull his ass down, because he's begging for a fall.
DylanW wrote a cool post about him on the Seattle Metro blog a while back. [link] and a follow up later [link]
javachik - Jan 10, 2009 11:19:49 am PST #524 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'd be more upset that a "restaurant" had a tv on at all (pet peeve of mine, unless it's a sports bar or pub, in which case there can't be too many), but wow on the Spanish language aspect being troubling to her.
But it's pretty judgmental (and not understanding at all of the sacrifices you've made to have Mac in your life) for her to comment on his tantrums. I'm sorry that she's not more supportive of you; you deserve help, not admonishment.