We used to fondue as a family every New Year.
So did we. Only we had the melted cheese fondue into which we dipped various things, rather than the fried cheese.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
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.
Calli - Dec 30, 2009 9:49:51 am PST #5276 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2009 9:52:46 am PST #5277 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Pursuant to the recent discussion we had on affect/effect, here is the most brilliant grammatical teaching aid I've seen in a long time: 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. Bonus: it's illustrated!
Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2009 9:56:26 am PST #5278 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This is my favorite spelling site.
Beverly - Dec 30, 2009 9:57:17 am PST #5279 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm going to swim against the tide here, and say I hated breast feeding and couldn't wait to stop. Every article of clothing I owned smelled of sour milk, I couldn't leave the house for half an hour without being soaked to the waist. And StE wasn't a hearty nurser, so he nearly drowned, pulled off and howled, and didn't enjoy it either. It was a relief to stop. Triplets or quads, maybe, could have kept up, but really? And yes, I could have been a contributor to the bank, but I disliked being tethered to the pump. Not a happy experience, all round.
I know infertility is a very sensitive subject, but there's the reverse: two babies in less than a year, the second conceived while on two concurrent contraceptive methods--three, if you count the supposed effects of breast-feeding. I didn't see a period for two years, and believe me, I've never prayed so hard to get my period than the three months after StY was born, so they could insert the damned IUD.
Mother Nature is a right bitch, and she ought to be more even-handed about things, is what I'm saying.
Aims - Dec 30, 2009 9:59:03 am PST #5280 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t nods at Beverly
tommyrot - Dec 30, 2009 9:59:07 am PST #5281 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Pursuant to the recent discussion we had on affect/effect, here is the most brilliant grammatical teaching aid I've seen in a long time: 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. Bonus: it's illustrated!
Cool! I think I've linked to their guide to apostrophes, which is also a thing of beauty: [link]
Kathy A - Dec 30, 2009 10:04:09 am PST #5282 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
From a bit upthread:
I think the logo patch will be the most difficult part. I'd love to get it done in embroidery but that may be prohibitively expensive. But then again, she knows a TON of crafty people in Columbus so we might be able to work something out.
Cashmere, if you want I can check with my aunt, who has one of those computerized sewing machines that will embroider patterns. She could probably put together a few patches if I asked.
SailAweigh - Dec 30, 2009 10:33:10 am PST #5283 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
This is where the family is going for New Year's. [link] We haven't done anything together in ages and it took a little convincing at the price, but dad was game.
sj - Dec 30, 2009 10:41:11 am PST #5284 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My family used to get together and go to a restaurant every NYD because it was my grandmother's birthday, but we stopped that tradition a few years after she passed away. Now TCG and I have people over our place. We'll probably be spending NYE cooking and prepping for NYD.
Glamcookie - Dec 30, 2009 10:54:38 am PST #5285 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Yeah, there are things I love about breast feeding (bonding, mainly), but the pump is just hideous. I'm also at the sore boobies phase so am willing them to toughen up quickly. It's worth it, though, for all the benefits of breast feeding. And with that, I'm off to feed the child. Again. t sigh