I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.

Riley ,'Lessons'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


erin_obscure - Sep 13, 2009 11:47:00 am PDT #22914 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

OM, Erin, awesome news! Best reason ever to move to Kansas.

Hrm, i want to purchase a knife. Like, a substantial pocket knife that won't fold back and cut off my fingers when i'm trying to cut through overgrown brush whilst looking at long abandoned foreclosed homes. I don't even know where to start!


Polter-Cow - Sep 13, 2009 11:51:54 am PDT #22915 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Great. According to my sister, now my mom is freaking out and crying wondering where she went wrong with me; apparently she is taking my behavior to mean I don't want to get married and I'm only being difficult to avoid getting married. Which is partly true, as I have told her three million times I don't really feel like I'm ready to be married right this instant but fine I will talk to these girls and see what happens, so I don't know why she thinks this is something new. Plus, some of her friends' kids are getting married, and I'm not, so she is clearly a failure as a mother. After she hung up with me, she started crying and now's she praying/crying.

I swear, if I'm not married within the next few months, she's going to die of stress and it will be my fault.


Dana - Sep 13, 2009 11:54:49 am PDT #22916 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Because not being married is possibly the worst thing in the world.

t rolls eyes


DavidS - Sep 13, 2009 11:56:52 am PDT #22917 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I swear, if I'm not married within the next few months, she's going to die of stress and it will be my fault.

You know, P-C, even with toddlers we know that crying and making a fuss because you don't get want gets you a timeout.

Don't play along with your mother's histrionics. All she's going to get is a sinus headache. (And deservedly.)


Burrell - Sep 13, 2009 12:05:09 pm PDT #22918 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

P-C, I have to side with Hec here. You know perfectly well that your mother is not going to die if you don't get married this year. Or even next year. She knows it too.

Let her have her cry, but don't mistake it for anything more than it really is.


Polter-Cow - Sep 13, 2009 12:10:43 pm PDT #22919 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I hate hurting people, even when I don't mean to.


sj - Sep 13, 2009 12:10:43 pm PDT #22920 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

P-C, I agree with Hec and Burrell.

(((((Nora)))))


Atropa - Sep 13, 2009 12:23:38 pm PDT #22921 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I hate hurting people, even when I don't mean to.

Welcome to being a grown-up. I'm serious. I hate hurting people, especially when I don't mean to. But IT HAPPENS. And your mother is, in all honesty, throwing a tantrum to control you. So yeah, I agree with Hec and Burrell.


Laura - Sep 13, 2009 12:24:27 pm PDT #22922 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Sunil, I sit on the don't give in to emotional blackmail bench with the rest of the crowd. It is much better for your mother to have a good cry than for you to have a bad marriage.


NoiseDesign - Sep 13, 2009 12:32:19 pm PDT #22923 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

I have unkind things to say about your mother.