Goo goo g'joob!
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'
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.
DCJensen - Sep 17, 2009 7:13:41 pm PDT #23651 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
DCJensen - Sep 17, 2009 7:14:39 pm PDT #23652 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I heard a coworker humming Norwegian Wood this week.
DCJensen - Sep 17, 2009 7:15:18 pm PDT #23653 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I am off on vacation for the next nine days.
Connie Neil - Sep 17, 2009 7:23:39 pm PDT #23654 of 30000
brillig
I've always enjoyed Help!, it's got that fun '70s surrealism.
And hugs to P-C.
DCJensen - Sep 17, 2009 7:35:55 pm PDT #23655 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I've always enjoyed Help!, it's got that fun '70s surrealism.
Ten years ahead of it's time!
DavidS - Sep 17, 2009 7:36:28 pm PDT #23656 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've always enjoyed Help!, it's got that fun '70s surrealism.
Mid sixties more like. But a fun movie. Though Hard Days Night is way funnier and cooler.
FWIW, P-C, I totally concur with Liese.
Here's the thing. You are not ready to get married. I mean, you don't think you're ready - which is how you're feeling. But on top of that you just haven't had enough experience in relationships to get married.
If you get married under the circumstances your mother is pushing, you're going to make two people very miserable. It will cause a fair amount of damage and bitterness.
So you need to say: "I'm not going to get married right now. You need to stop talking to me about it."
And your mom is not going to have a stroke on the spot. She'll be pissed and it'll be some drama. However, you need to - as Aims put it - "nut up." And it's not just for you. It's for whoever they're trying to hook you up with. You're protecting them from misery too.
Marriage is hard. Don't do it with strangers.
DCJensen - Sep 17, 2009 7:38:01 pm PDT #23657 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Do we know about this?
Google signed a deal allowing On Demand Books to print more than two million volumes in the public domain. The publisher’s Espresso Book Machine can download and print a book in the time that it takes to make a cup of coffee. The machines can be found in the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and Egypt.
Apparently the SRP will be $8.
Liese S. - Sep 17, 2009 8:14:58 pm PDT #23658 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Thanks for all the love, guys. Right backatcha. I just figure, hey, if someone can benefit from my (sometimes painful) experience, then it's all to the good.
And P-C, don't worry. You'll be fine. It's good you have this thread to vent in, and you've been very open about asking for input. I hope you feel free to take whatever we say and ignore whatever you want to.
Even less than this process being about your family is it being about us. We're buffistas, we have opinions, we show them. We're talky. But don't let that interfere with your life either. Step into it when you need to, and away when you need to.
Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2009 8:19:36 pm PDT #23659 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
Marriage is hard. Don't do it with strangers.
I think there is a long history of arranged marriages working. But its with people who, you know, are for it. Either they want it or think its best or they accept the cultural expectation and go with it. I don't think that's where you are, PC.
Cass - Sep 17, 2009 8:48:33 pm PDT #23660 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think there is a long history of arranged marriages working. But its with people who, you know, are for it. Either they want it or think its best or they accept the cultural expectation and go with it.
This.
I'm not saying it can't work. I am just .. going to point back up at everything Liese said before and better.