She just... she just did the math.

Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Scrappy - Sep 15, 2009 4:33:22 pm PDT #23270 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Talked to my mom, she called my bro and woke him up. He's fine and had been trying to reach her AS I TOLD HER. However, I also found out why my mother has been so freaked out--my aunt just found out that my cousin B is going into rehab and I think that brought up all the old worry for her.

As for calling, I used to call once a week. A decade ago when my dad had his second heart attack and my mom had her first bout with cancer, I started calling a few times a week. Now I talk to my mom almost every day. Short talks though--she's 82 and lives alone, so I just check in and make sure she's okay.


Atropa - Sep 15, 2009 4:33:29 pm PDT #23271 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

They must have that special phone my parents have. Only works to call me on my birthday and when someone is in the hospital.

Their special phone doesn't work to call when someone is in the hospital. Tho' mom did call me every day while I was sick, to make sure I was okay and to see if I needed anything.


-t - Sep 15, 2009 4:36:42 pm PDT #23272 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My mom is good about not demanding that I be the one to call, which is good because it rarely occurs to me to call anyone.


sj - Sep 15, 2009 4:41:30 pm PDT #23273 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I talk to my mother daily or she assumes the worst.


Barb - Sep 15, 2009 4:48:50 pm PDT #23274 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

It varies. If my mother is driving me insane (I know... I know... I mean more than the usual levels of insanity) but anyhow, if she's making me nuts, it's every few days. If it's normal levels of insanity, the daily or every other day.

I think at the moment she's pouting slightly over the almost definite impending cross country move.


Hil R. - Sep 15, 2009 4:52:43 pm PDT #23275 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I usually talk to my parents a few times a week.

Tylenol 3 update: ankle definitely hurts less. A lot less. I also feel really spacey -- I'm not getting the loopy feeling that I did from Tramadol, but just sort of like my brain is fuzzy and I can't concentrate. I definitely can't take this during the day if I want to get any work done, but it seems like it'll be good for taking at night. As long as I'm not too groggy in the morning.


Emily - Sep 15, 2009 4:55:48 pm PDT #23276 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Usually a couple times a week. I just called her tonight to ask her assistance on baking a potato. Then she called me back because she'd just remembered a funny story about my stepfather (whose memory is... not so great. Like, I wouldn't call him to ask about baking a potato).

Okay, so get this: she's telling him about some Welsh Arthurian thing or something (I got lost in the details) and he thinks this is the most amazing thing since Stanley found Livingstone (he thinks she's really smart, which of course she is, so go him) and says no one's ever made that connection to him before, not even when he was taking Old Welsh at Harvard. Old Welsh? says my mother. You took Old Welsh? Well, sure, says my stepfather. Well, it was Harvard, after all. Still, says she -- Old Welsh? Good lord.

She told me that it came to her after some time puzzling over it that of course he'd misremembered. Ah, says I, unsurprised to hear that. Yes, she says, of course what he actually took was Old Norse.


Nora Deirdre - Sep 15, 2009 5:03:51 pm PDT #23277 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

hm, it depends. I don't like to call people and my parents are included in that group.


erin_obscure - Sep 15, 2009 5:05:36 pm PDT #23278 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Dangit, the VegFest is coming to Portland and i have to work that day. *pout*


omnis_audis - Sep 15, 2009 5:12:13 pm PDT #23279 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Dinner was left over lasagna. Shocking. I think I have a few more days of it left.

Calling 'rents. Mom is every few weeks. Dad, half as often. She's all alone in CA, he's got his gf and siblings in NY. Everytime I call either, I think I'm the bad son because I haven't called in awhile, only to learn, I call more than the other 2 sibs. And mom never calls for fear of bothering me, despite me buying her a cell phone and paying for it!