Ugh. I just read a Linked In profile where someone "architected a solution". REALLY!!!
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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.
Vortex - Aug 17, 2010 12:43:17 pm PDT #29001 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
sj - Aug 17, 2010 12:43:23 pm PDT #29002 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, eek! Is TCG sure he's okay? And the car? But mostly himself? And does he need to be swaddled in bubble wrap until November?
He claims he is fine. We're leaving the car at the auto body shop later this week and then we'll find out about the damage. (My BFF T is visiting from Texas for a few days and we're going to meet her at the beach!) As for the bubblewrap, yes please for the next 40 or so years please.
Spidra Webster - Aug 17, 2010 12:46:15 pm PDT #29003 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
One of the funny things about my intermittency on b.org is my surprise at seeing people Buffistas were dating now married or engaged to them or even parenting with them. I feel like Rip Van Winkle.
ETA: But it's cool, obviously. I guess I just get shocked because so little ever happens in my lovelife it's like I'm standing still. And sometimes I can project that and then be shocked that so much has happened in 5 or 9 years in someone else's life.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2010 1:10:14 pm PDT #29004 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Both capable of provoking nausea.
I am so gonna stop giving you the good stuff.
Ginger - Aug 17, 2010 1:31:51 pm PDT #29005 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I love Matilda's take on the world.
I meant to offer sympathy for Laura's mother and for Wallybee. I have many family members of my heart whose troubles hurt me far more than my blood relatives.
My few relatives are in a dreadful state, and we just got a blow today. My mother is the youngest of five, and her nephew, the son of one of her brothers, is only 8 years younger than she is and was raised by my grandparents, so to her he's like a little brother. He and his wife live in the Atlanta area, but I don't see them often, mostly because he gets all his "information" from talk radio and she is difficult to be around.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago she was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. I put on my nice person disguise and have called her several times to talk about what chemo is like and what to ask for and I put together some stuff I found helpful, like ginger candy.
Then on Friday, my cousin essentially collapsed. He had apparently been feeling bad for several weeks, but didn't want to say anything because of what was going on with his wife. He was put into the hospital for tests and I went to see him over the weekend, but he was almost completely out of it, shivering, moaning and nodding off every few minutes. Today they got back one of the test results and he has lung cancer.
My mother is not taking it well.
Fuck cancer.
smonster - Aug 17, 2010 1:35:24 pm PDT #29006 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Oh, god, Ginger. Fucking fuck cancer, that fucker.
SailAweigh - Aug 17, 2010 1:37:01 pm PDT #29007 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
So many brackets to your family, Ginger. The Universe needs to take one hell of a large step backwards. Fuck cancer, indeed.
smonster - Aug 17, 2010 1:37:52 pm PDT #29008 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I am so gonna stop giving you the good stuff.
Noooo! I thought you were proud of your nausea-inducing links!
billytea - Aug 17, 2010 1:42:35 pm PDT #29009 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.
I'm sorry, Ginger.
I am so gonna stop giving you the good stuff.
Wait, that was the good stuff? What have you been holding back?
Ginger - Aug 17, 2010 1:44:40 pm PDT #29010 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One of the hardest parts is that because his wife is taking chemo, she can't go to the hospital. She does have quite a few local relatives who are taking care of things. There's not going to be a lot I can do, since her relatives view me as a know-it-all and possibly Communist, but I know they do love my cousin.