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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 - Oct 15, 2009 11:36:35 pm PDT #26570 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Idle thought, is there any reason I shouldn't use a steam mop on the bathtub?

The common bathtub takes extremes of temps and the chemicals we use on our bodies, not to mention a stray auto part cleaning here and there. If it needs it and works, go for it.

If you have a fiberglass bathtub, it might be more susceptible to steam heat, better to try it in small batches. Porcelain? The older the tougher.


Shir - Oct 15, 2009 11:47:33 pm PDT #26571 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Ginger, much ~ma to you.

The next trip I really want to take: Iceland --> Berlin --> Thailand.


DCJensen - Oct 16, 2009 12:57:12 am PDT #26572 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Anyone going to "Where the Wild Things Are"?

I heard an interview on NPR with the director, Spike Jonze, who said that when Maurice Sendak previewed the finished film, Maurice got up and hugged him.

That's a pretty good endorsement.

And hey, Muppets!


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 1:11:05 am PDT #26573 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

GC, congrats on the confirmation of health. Exciting baby stuff!

My psychiatrist thinks I'm depressed because I don't sound as "peppy" as usual and I haven't been going out much lately.

These people can be such idiots sometimes. My GP's always asking about my "mood", while I'm bouncing around cheerfully in my wheelchair opposite her. She doesn't really get the concept of stabilized mental illness, or that I take medication to prevent relapse. Also, I'm fairly sure she thinks my complex genetic condition is psychosomatic. Bloody GPs.

The next trip I really want to take: Iceland --> Berlin --> Thailand.

Heh. Cool. The Girl and I want to go to Norway (no, not Kenya). Northern Lights! Possibly next year.


Shir - Oct 16, 2009 1:22:42 am PDT #26574 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I'm sewing a skirt out of a shirt while listening to Mudhoney.

Aside of that heat wave (that will last until Monday!), everything is good.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 1:27:33 am PDT #26575 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Aside of that heat wave (that will last until Monday!)

Ooh, I hope The Girl packed right. She just left for your part of the world. It's been heavy clothes weather here.


Shir - Oct 16, 2009 1:29:27 am PDT #26576 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

It's an "A/C is an essential part of surviving" type of weather here, Seska.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 1:35:45 am PDT #26577 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

My mother and her mother are conspiring to drive me crazy.

My mother's visiting London and staying with my grandmother. All week my grandmother has been sending me e-mails demanding that I come over for dinner with them tonight. In Friday evening traffic, getting up to the suburbs will take over an hour, and then I'd have to get back again, and I'm very very tired at the moment, and I've been trying to explain this with requests that they could please try to remember that I don't have spare energy anymore, while offering them alternatives for meeting up. This information has been ignored repeatedly, with requests from my grandmother for me to call my mother and "discuss it" (i.e. be pressured to change my mind) until I stopped responding to the e-mails.

This morning, my mother leaves me voicemail saying they'd love me to come over for dinner tonight, and could I please ring to confirm when I'll be arriving.

Gah. Family that regularly and conveniently ignore the fact that their daughter's been disabled for the past four years. It's not like it happened yesterday, people.


Shir - Oct 16, 2009 1:43:34 am PDT #26578 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Yicks, Seska.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 16, 2009 3:42:19 am PDT #26579 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

In my poor mother's defense, she's just called me (from the bathroom of the mall they're in - only place she can get away from my grandmother!) to apologise for all the pressure. Apparently it's being exerted from my grandmother's side, and she's making my mother fill her 48 hours in London with a ridiculously packed schedule. Crazy.