Watching Criminal Minds. No pigs so far. YAY
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Sep 23, 2009 7:05:42 pm PDT #10515 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kat - Sep 23, 2009 7:29:55 pm PDT #10516 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But damn if there aren't people born doing what I work at who I envy painfully.
I have to work extra hard to swallow my bitterness when I'm in yoga and the lithe young thing just does whatever I can't do, which some days, feels like everything. Of course, the point of yoga is learning to be content with where you are. But I'm still working that piece of magic.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2009 7:33:14 pm PDT #10517 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The other three-year-old can't even do some of them, like chin-ups and sit-ups, and it just seems unfair to put him next to this super-strong kid for comparison.
Bo Jackson was like that. He never worked out and was freakishly strong and fast. He just had the kind of muscles that needed practice to stay super toned. I don't think he lifted any weights until the very end of college. He just didn't need it.
Hil R. - Sep 23, 2009 7:36:36 pm PDT #10518 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This kid was also walking at something like five months old, and able to walk up and down stairs before he was a year old.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2009 8:12:40 pm PDT #10519 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't find the best pictures to illustrate it, but when I was told that Ed Quinn doesn't hit the gym, he just looks like that, I was envious on behalf of many men.
lithe young thing just does whatever I can't do, which some days, feels like everything
Don't get me started about the young. You're the young.
Kat - Sep 23, 2009 8:23:16 pm PDT #10520 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA. I might be young, relatively. But, ita, these are like 19 year olds. One of my favorite instructors is pregnant and for the first time she has breasts. I've been like, "SEE! This pose? If you have boobs it's impossible. and now you can't do it either!"
Anyhow, I should go to bed but (a) I'm not sleepy and (b) I have work to do and (c)I'm reeling for the horrible terrible no good very bad thing that was in the diaper pail.
Burrell - Sep 23, 2009 8:29:48 pm PDT #10521 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am so tempted to ask you what it was Kat, but I know I'd regret it.
Kat - Sep 23, 2009 8:59:06 pm PDT #10522 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
hahahaha. I was going to tell you but I've redacted the details which just point out what a slatternly cloth diaperer I am. Frankly it was so bad, I'm tempted to scrap the cloth entirely and go to disposables. I'm just DONE with the diapers and wish this little boy would get on the potty train (pun actually not intended).
But when Grace comes home, she'll be in disposables because she always has been and she is mostly formula fed and part of her life is prune juice and part of it is that terrible iron supplement.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2009 9:16:56 pm PDT #10523 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At forty, I consider each year younger than me to be a huge advantage that I no longer have. And really, I nearer 41 these days. Maybe my mojo's gone. Maybe I don't bend in those ways any more. It would be a while before I'd start competing against anyone else--I'll be competing against the me of 1.5 years ago. She was strong and she was flexible. And two dress sizes bigger.
I'm trying a yoga class at the krav place tomorrow morning. We'll see if my head falls off.
Kat - Sep 23, 2009 9:24:20 pm PDT #10524 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I hope your head stays on.
Most people aren't competitive about yoga, as one should not be.
LA Times did a big thing on the Pioneer Woman. I've always wondered if she had major sponsorship given the prizes she gives out. Interesting to learn that some come from her earnings on the site.