Though I was actually told that I "can't" hug selectively; either I hug everyone who wants to put their grubby paws around me, or I hug no one at all.
Bullshit.
The count of three isn't a plan. It's Sesame Street.
Buffy ,'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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sj - Jul 20, 2010 6:32:53 am PDT #25959 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
billytea - Jul 20, 2010 6:34:03 am PDT #25960 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is it irrational to NOT want certain people to call you by a nickname? A nickname that several others use regularly? And not so much people as one person?
Not at all. I just had the same issue, someone at work found out my personal email starts with billytea and decided to start calling me that. Aside from the presumptuousness, it is so not my work name. You guys call me billytea. He's not you guys.
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2010 6:37:58 am PDT #25961 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
You guys call me billytea. He's not you guys.
You mentioned once that you prefer to be called William in person, and so when I've seen you in person, I've done that (even if my brain is still calling you billytea, it's INSIDE). Because that's what you prefer.
Aims - Jul 20, 2010 6:38:00 am PDT #25962 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's even more ridic with me: my MiL just called me "Aims" on FB. Lots of people call me Aims, but to me it's term of endearment and, well, I don't want her to call me Aims. People I love call me Aims and I do not feel love for her. I feel ... something else since she is the mother of my husband and grandmother to my child. But I don't know that I'd call it love.
I may just be cranky today. I'm convinced that I am not merely suffering from a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!) but from my body rejecting the amount of body fat I have and is creating mucous from it.
sj - Jul 20, 2010 6:39:22 am PDT #25963 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Aims}}} I can see you not wanting your MIL to call you by your nickname, but I can't imagine a way to tell her that without major family drama.
Aims - Jul 20, 2010 6:39:23 am PDT #25964 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You mentioned once that you prefer to be called William in person, and so when I've seen you in person, I've done that (even if my brain is still calling you billytea, it's INSIDE). Because that's what you prefer.
When Calli came to dinner on Friday (I need to post those pictures for lo! She Is Foamy and I should share), I did the B.org usual of, "Do you like [boardname] or [real name]?" And as usual, the response was, "I answer to either."
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2010 6:39:41 am PDT #25965 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!)
Three weeks is usually time to see a doctor, because there's a good chance it's bacterial. Virii don't tend to last longer than 2 weeks.
(This is what my own doctor told me; it's possible he's full of shit, but I tend to trust him.)
Aims - Jul 20, 2010 6:39:49 am PDT #25966 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I can see you not wanting your MIL to call you by your nickname, but I can't imagine a way to tell her that without major family drama.
Right?? Blech.
Aims - Jul 20, 2010 6:41:12 am PDT #25967 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!)
Three weeks is usually time to see a doctor, because there's a good chance it's bacterial. Virii don't tend to last longer than 2 weeks.
What if the mucous is not a color that would signify infection?
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2010 6:41:15 am PDT #25968 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
When Calli came to dinner on Friday (I need to post those pictures for lo! She Is Foamy and I should share), I did the B.org usual of, "Do you like [boardname] or [real name]?" And as usual, the response was, "I answer to either."
Heh. There's a kink-world version of Facebook, to which I belong. And my username there is Teppy. So now the local people in the kink scene go back and forth between calling me Steph and Teppy, and it amuses me greatly, because until now, the only people who called me Teppy in person were you guys.