I wonder if I'll ever get to London in my lifetime. I'm just happy when I can get out of state.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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.
Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2010 8:42:26 am PDT #24465 of 30000
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erikaj - Jul 01, 2010 9:39:30 am PDT #24466 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I second that emotion. Aims, your MIL was being a PITA...maybe not on purpose. Sean, if I traveled with my stepmother one of us would not come back.(I wouldn't care which.) She thinks complaining loudly about the decline in a place makes her sophisticated.
Aims - Jul 01, 2010 9:53:04 am PDT #24467 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
..maybe not on purpose.
There is no doubt that it was not on purpose. She was expressing her want for more grandkids. She just ... well, she doesn't get to do that. Sorry.
Hil R. - Jul 01, 2010 10:14:28 am PDT #24468 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just turned down an interview. It was a job that looked good in the ad, but not so good after I found out more about it during the phone interview. Plus, the person interviewing keeps calling me at the wrong number and emailing me at the wrong address, even though I've given him the right one several times, and then get tells me that he doesn't understand why I'm not getting back to him. And they want me to go to Savannah for a campus interview next week, with me paying my own expenses.
Dana - Jul 01, 2010 10:15:06 am PDT #24469 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And they want me to go to Savannah for a campus interview next week, with me paying my own expenses.
Yeah....no. Sounds like the right call to me, Hil.
erikaj - Jul 01, 2010 10:19:28 am PDT #24470 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes. Gross, Aims. Boundaries, much?
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2010 10:29:05 am PDT #24471 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
She was expressing her want for more grandkids. She just ... well, she doesn't get to do that. Sorry.
I think I skimmed, or my brain is fried -- does she *know* that more grandkids aren't possible? Because if so, WOW is she insensitive! And inappropriate.
If not, well, then she's just being thoughtlessly gung-ho in a space that isn't hers, which is *still* an issue of Boundaries, Learn Them NOW.
Either one sucks, and I'm sorry it happened.
Aims - Jul 01, 2010 10:33:40 am PDT #24472 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Thanks, sweetie. It's the second. It's never been expressly stated that there is an issue. She's just gung-ho. Which, I totally get. Joe and I make kick-ass kids.
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2010 10:36:32 am PDT #24473 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It's never been expressly stated that there is an issue.
So she's just clueless. I guess that's better than mean-spirited. Yay?
Aims - Jul 01, 2010 10:40:35 am PDT #24474 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's totally better, but not any less hurtful. I know it wasn't intentional, but it's a sad-making thing. And makes me sad.