My thoughts and prayers are with you, Cindy.

Congrats, Jilli! Yay for the Empire recognizing your talents once again.

Congrats, Erin! Exciting news on the house. Many wishes that the bad stuff resolves in a positive direction.

P-C, DH and I had almost nothing in common on a surface level when we met. Except we grade competed against each other in college, and the chemistry thing. 11 years apart in age. He a military brat raised around the world; I lived in the same house from birth to leaving home. Totally different music and tv tastes. Now over 20 years later I know about rebounds and assists and he knows jazz and vampires. We look for things we can enjoy together and give each other space to pursue individual interests. It has more to do with enjoying and respecting the person than whether they like olives or comic books. Personally, I have known right away whether I clicked with a person. I hope that you find a clicky person that finds you clicky.

Also, I have never had a blind date. I can't imagine how awkward it must be.

Fay, wow. What an assortment of emotions to experience in one setting.

{{Nora}} Health ~ma and Brain ~ma and all kinds of wishes for things going well this weekend.

And now to find coffee...

(((Cindy)))

...okay, reason #392 I shall continue to avoid opening my mother's 'amusing' forwarded emails: I never, ever want to open an email from her that purports to be about the effects of Swine Flu, and find it's a pornographic shot of a girl hunkering on all fours on a bed, who's been photomanipped to have a pig's snout and ears, and several additional breasts. With big, erect, perky nipples. And a curly tail sticking out of her ass where her knickers are hiked down.

tries to bleach brain

considers sending mother link to goatse by way of vengeance, just to underline that let's-not-share-pornographic-images-with-our-offspring notion

cannot bring self to do so, as likes mother

searches harder for brain bleach

eta

To clarify: the image wasn't particularly shocking or offensive (hey, I write gay vampire snuff porn), but...it was photomanipped porn. I really don't want my mum to send me porn. I'm happy that she has an active sex life with my dad, yay her, I just - really, I'm good with not giving her links to my porn, & not having her send me amusing pictures of naked...er...actually, what DO you call the pig equivalent of a furry? 'Cause furry she wasn't.

Amusing emails from my mother: rarely amusing, as it turns out, but this was a new one on me.

For the second time today, I say, "Whoa, Fay."

I am suddenly relieved I only get sassy "you go girl"-esque cheesy emails from my mom.

I can find larger ones or tiny ones but I hoping for something in the 8 oz range with a cork or screwtop lid. Or one of those hinge ones like the Grolsch bottles. Anyone have ideas? I've been to Pier 1, World Market, Bed Bath, KMart.

Container Store has them, but they're spendy. The last time I did liquers for gifting, I ordered the bottles from here.

I'm not so sure you can't bring up comics; just don't spend an hour explaining how there have been 5 Robins (6 if you count Dark Knight Returns), and one of the Robins was Robin twice, and oh, did you mention Superboy-Prime PUNCHING A HOLE IN REALITY?!?

See, I disagree. If you let your geek flag fly right from the get-go, you save aa lot of time easing the other person into it later.

Sending lots of "Hope it's nothing" ~ma to Cindy.

Congratulations on the job Jilli!

Congratulations on the house erin!

I hope you get good results Cindy.

Sorry about people Seska.

Ginger, how's the ankle today?

Hil, same question....

The weird and the ugly that you have bumped into lately, Fay, I don't even know what to say about it.

Much ~ma for Cindy.

Yay, job! for Jilli.

erin_o, I hope you figure out the computer situation ok. And quit coughing soon.

Here is a link to the world's worst vampire stuff: [link] NSFW

wrod. Fay, it's cool to hear about Cambodia. P-C, I've had blind dates, but they were just boring. Not even comical badness, unless it was the lack of chemistry involved. People who have set me up don't get me, up to 11. Wow, Tep, Bat-Canon=weirdness. I've read Gotham Central which is kind of like Batman/H:LOTS, which is like The Best Thing Ever. Love. Jilli, good news. I would have given up Important Body Parts to be at the lefty journalist's forum with Keith & Rachel, POTUS, and the star of my fricking tag. Of course, I'd have been so nervous that I couldn't eat at all,good desserts or not, but I'd be the happiest and most overdressed person ever seen at a drive-through window.

I've never been on a blind date. Bad dates I have covered. I refuse to give dating advice however since I've been married forever and feel unqualified to give advice in that department.

Damnit! I knew there was something I missed.

Seska - the incident with the cyclist is scary and disturbing. I'm glad you reported it. I wish there were an easy way to ensure your safety.