Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.

Spike ,'Potential'


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.


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.


aurelia - Sep 23, 2009 10:04:36 pm PDT #10525 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Speaking of McDonald's, here's a density map.

It's kind of crazy to be able to see highways on there.


Shir - Sep 24, 2009 1:26:02 am PDT #10526 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Skipped to vent.

I don't know if you heard it, but this summer was the most violent summers Israel has known wrt inner violences, murders, etc..

The current hype is blame it on minors who drink.

Stop. Breath. This is one of the Not Enough WTF in the World cases.

Let's ignore how violent and confusing the country I live in became (or always was, but I'm guessing that the internet revolution actually confused and didn't merged in in Israel as well as it could be). Let's ignore that my country is pretty much living of the fumes of the fuel it once had, fragmented and hurt by much of globalization process that happened the last 30 years or so. Let's ignore the destruction of the middle class in Israel, which caused a lot of "normal" families to drop under the constantly-shifted-to-make-Israel-look-better-in-global-polls poverty line.

Yeah, let's just ignore all these processes that are rotting the society of the experiment I live in, and blame it only on underage drinking. Or Jewish girls dating Arabs. Or dysfunctional families.

Because it's "them", those weirdos. Not "us", the Sabra. We're OK, and always have been, and no, have no idea what happened to us.


Steph L. - Sep 24, 2009 3:00:17 am PDT #10527 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

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.

I read her blog semi-regularly (mostly the photography section), and whenever a contest's prize is sponsored by someone else (Microsoft, Snapfish, etc.), she says so, fairly prominently. And when it's not, she says something like "I have no affiliation with KitchenAid; I just love their mixers more than life itself," etc.

Which is nifty.


Cashmere - Sep 24, 2009 3:50:04 am PDT #10528 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

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.

Oh, Kat is ME! But I adore my 24 year old instructor to bits. She's very good about helping me find my place and work within my boundaries.

I adore Pioneer Woman to pieces.


Jesse - Sep 24, 2009 4:11:53 am PDT #10529 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The current hype is blame it on minors who drink.

Yeah, that makes sense.... Ugh.

In today's news from my job, Recent College Grad just asked me (after we received the 2010 Holiday Calendar) if we get New Year's Eve off. Yeah, no. Due to it not being on the calendar.


Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 4:15:44 am PDT #10530 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

"Are his records due to his physiological advantages over his competitors?"

Wait, you mean people who are BETTER AT SPORTS are BETTER AT SPORTS??