I want to cry. I just spilled an entire glass of red wine on the white carpet. I had just settled down to watch a movie with the family and now Im cleaning carpet with no one else to blame but me.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Stephanie - Apr 16, 2010 5:02:50 pm PDT #16327 of 30000
Trust my rage
Trudy Booth - Apr 16, 2010 5:11:45 pm PDT #16328 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Surely you tripped on a toy!
Woman! What is the point of having small children if you can't pin these things on them (if only in your heart)?
Invisible Frisco toy. I'd bet folding money on it.
Stephanie - Apr 16, 2010 5:47:36 pm PDT #16329 of 30000
Trust my rage
Thank you! I got some oxyclean carpet stuff and it seems to be working.
DCJensen - Apr 16, 2010 6:15:41 pm PDT #16330 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
"And I say yeah, baby! I wanna be bad! I SAYS, SURF'S UP, SPACE PONIES! I'M MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS! Aaaaaa-hahahahaha!"
WindSparrow - Apr 16, 2010 6:21:09 pm PDT #16331 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
You know what's better than a chocolate donut? A chocolate donut with milk. Especially if it's the first non-chicken soup and crackers solid food one's had after being sick.
I got some oxyclean carpet stuff and it seems to be working.
Whew! Glad to hear it.
BOOM, baby!
DCJensen - Apr 16, 2010 10:01:30 pm PDT #16332 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
In the I-don't-think-that's-what-they-meant department, a listing form craigslist:
Huge Children Sale - (Eagan Community Center)
Daisy Jane - Apr 17, 2010 1:02:19 am PDT #16333 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
You guys?
MY SISTER IS ENGAGED!
We are so excited. (And also want everyone to go out and buy/rent Murder Party to support the happy couple).
Calli - Apr 17, 2010 1:52:42 am PDT #16334 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That's great, Daisy Jane!
Stephanie, I've spilled red wine a dozen times on my tan carpet. (I like reds and I'm a klutz.) Woolite Oxydeep gets it out every time. It's also good for blood (see above re: klutz).
Stephanie - Apr 17, 2010 2:16:01 am PDT #16335 of 30000
Trust my rage
Calli, that's exactly what I got. I did hydrogen peroxide and dish soap first, then white wine, then the Woolite Oxy stuff. I think I got it out although I left it alone at bed time.
Shir - Apr 17, 2010 2:59:15 am PDT #16336 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
A Scene:
My mom was watching some kind of pre-Independence Day TV show. As usual, my guts went 180 degrees in me while listening to it (I was folding the laundry at the time, in the living room). And then I told her that while I think my country has every right to exist, when the "responsible adults" are using the usual arguments (we will die right now if we won't have a country).
Now, I know it's more complicated than that - it's always is. I also know I'm privileged enough not to encounter with any antisemitism because I live in Israel, and it's extremely rare to see it here.
So I said that it needs to change, if the so called leadership don't want to lose me and others like me, who think that Israel should exist, but we're not in 1948 anymore. My mom agreed, and then continue to say that there is a great failure of the education system with "youngsters" who don't know the circumstances on which the country was established upon, and that they can be exposed to "propaganda" which no one can control and that's why nobody's enlisting these days.
We pretty much ended the discussion there.
5 minutes after it my mom calls me from my room (I started then putting the clean laundry back in the rooms): "Little Women is on!".
So much for my whole speech on "stuff that used to work before, NSM now".
I'm also considering going to Combatants for Peace's Alternative Memorial Day Ceremony (Memorial Day Eve is tomorrow). It's a wonderful initiative, IMHO, but it ends very late in Tel Aviv, and I'm not sure I'll be able to do the logistics of finding a place to stay and all on such sensitive day. But damn, that's exactly the kind of activities we need here to bring more tolerance. It's not just our or their pain: losing young people in vain is everyone's problem.