Sara, have a good flight, I hope!
No. It doesn't sound like fun at all.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Kat - Dec 21, 2009 4:49:44 am PST #26511 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
smonster - Dec 21, 2009 4:58:33 am PST #26512 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Dear Husband, Do not complain that your office is closed today when I have to go to work.
Whaaaaaat? Does not compute. He can come to my job and I'll go home.
Cash, OMG. I don't know how you deal with that kind of attitude. I would blow a freaking gasket.
I need to pay bills before I get all spendy with my latest paycheck. Which is tonight, because I'm going to Target theoretically only to get wrapping paper. Yeah...
Jessica - Dec 21, 2009 4:59:02 am PST #26513 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I really just assumed that, if they weren't strictly literal critters, they still provided animals and such for people. If 30 people bought goats and no one bought chickens, they'd give families what was useful but still full critter value.
I'm pretty sure this is how they work. If you buy a goat and nobody needs a goat that week, HI will use your money to donate chickens instead.
The paperwork they send out with the gifts is totally vague and pointless, though. I bought my mom the "flock of love" package for Mother's Day this year, and the card she got just said something like "a donation has been made in your name to Heifer International." I would have expected "A needy family got some ducklings, chicks and bunnies for their farm (disclaimer: or maybe it was really a cow)."
Jessica - Dec 21, 2009 5:00:35 am PST #26514 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
SCORE! My department got re-orged into a new division last week (actually, back into the division we were a part of 5 years ago) and today we got an email from the head of said division saying we're getting the 24th off! (Official company holidays are the 25th, 28th and 29th.) Sweet!
Kat - Dec 21, 2009 5:03:17 am PST #26515 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
YAY Google: [link]
Jesse - Dec 21, 2009 5:07:55 am PST #26516 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's nice, but the nemeses of my two previous jobs are on that list.
Jessica - Dec 21, 2009 5:16:51 am PST #26517 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2009 5:37:18 am PST #26518 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Finally caught up in Natter.
Anyone need any last minute gift ideas? I'm here to report that both my gifts to my sons (purchased from ThinkGeek) were big hits. Youngest son Mason got these magnetic Bucky Balls [link] and oldest son Max got the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer. Of the two, the Bucky Balls were most popular, with my nieces and nephews and siblings borrowing some Bucky Balls from Mason to make stuff out of. I think I'll have to get some for myself.
It's weird that none of my relatives are big-time internet users, as they are unfamiliar with most all internet memes. No one in my family had heard of ThinkGeek. Weird, huh?
Jesse - Dec 21, 2009 5:44:02 am PST #26519 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have too many gifts/ideas for my mother, and not enough for my father, I think. I guess if I just don't get her the last (lame) thing on my list, I'm OK. I should tell my father to get it instead...
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 21, 2009 5:51:37 am PST #26520 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But really? How much fun will it actually be if it is crummy out.
I suppose I'm the wrong person to ask about this, as sitting in the lodge near the fireplace sipping hot chocolate (or toddies) seems like the most fun part of a ski vacation to me.