That means I'll be 33 this year??
Soon you'll be older than Jesus ever was.
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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.
DavidS - Feb 12, 2010 9:35:34 pm PST #9923 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2010 10:00:37 pm PST #9924 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ya, I'll trade ya Ms. 32. Signed. Mr. 38.
I was in a real relationship for one v-day, and it was cool. Spoiled her rotten. Apparently I was the first fella to give her flowers. Blew her away.
erin_obscure - Feb 12, 2010 10:04:43 pm PST #9925 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Happy birthdays!!!!
And yay for contra dancing! Did you enjoy it? Were there people under 60?
I got a totally awesome vday card in the mail today from my dad. While i am wholy against the "holiday" i do love my dad an awful lot.
O_a, was Jeff seriously bugging single you about not participating in workplace-inappropriate card exchanging? Seems very very wrong. Even at a theatre.
I feel the ankle pain. Finally got out of the air cast and but four days later wonked my ankle but good using all those muscles again for the first time in months. *sigh*
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2010 10:07:18 pm PST #9926 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ya, he was busting my chops.
meara - Feb 12, 2010 10:25:10 pm PST #9927 of 30000
Oh, yeah, erin, there were plenty of younger people! (Including two little tiny babies! One who must've only been a month old, and one who was probably four months old, who was enjoying the heck out of being danced around--she was actually in a front pack on her mom, dancing the whole time! The other one was just sleeping/watching). But my friend Otr has organized a once-a-month queer ...not takeover, but just "lots of queers come so you don't feel so weird if you're dancing the part that's not your gender" thing. So there were probably 20 of us, and the crowd itself, while there were a lot of older folks, had some younger too.
Omnis, I would really want to find an awesome comeback to anybody who work-pressured me about participating in Valentine's Day, how awful! But I'd never come up with it in time.
It's not just how old I actually am, but that I seriously didn't REMEMBER! I had to think about it! I thought I was younger! eep.
Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2010 10:42:44 pm PST #9928 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
I'd probably just get those perforated paper ones we used in fourth grade. Do they still make them?
If we're going to act like this is grammar school let's just embrace it.
erin_obscure - Feb 12, 2010 10:59:29 pm PST #9929 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
You shouldn't have to even thing about it, much less go out and buy more crap to go in landfills (that plastic-coated cardstock crap doesn't recycle). I don't think it's OK for any workplace to force employees to participate in any holiday based around a single religion. Plus many folks don't like to have their noses rubbed in their single-ness. VD is the cruelest holiday of the year IMHO.
I'm glad that Nico is sitting on me, but not happy that he stepped on my bad foot in order to sit on my shin. Ow.
Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2010 11:06:10 pm PST #9930 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
Valentine's Day is pretty secular I think.
I'm not saying mine is a grand solution, its just five bucks worth of not having to deal with it (which includes not having to discuss my least favorite holiday). Don't they have those paper things anymore? [link] No plastic coating, just goofy quotes where you pick the second most affectionate one for the nine year old you dig (because if you give him the MOST affectionate one he'll KNOW you dig him... I'd probably go with 'just my speed' for David Pelaia because he thinks cars are cool but its not a lie either just in CASE he has begun loving me since we did this in third grade)
meara - Feb 12, 2010 11:23:26 pm PST #9931 of 30000
I know some folks here are big Amazing Race fans, and have talked about doing the show...well, if you can't get on the show, there's opportunities to so something similar. Costs money, but if you win, you basically get your money back and a bit more! :) You're not on TV, but OTOH, you don't have to (a) make it on TV and (b) make a fool of yourself on TV! :)
erin_obscure - Feb 13, 2010 12:30:19 am PST #9932 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
It's a holiday based on (one or more) Catholic Saint(s).
Imma gonna go with only as secular as hallmark and the diamond industry has made it but still utterly based on one group's religious persecution complex. Right up there with christmas, albeit far more sugar-saturated. Not that i'm against february holiday - the month needs more of them, especially ones involving chocolate. Just not with the tormented St., pls.
If my employer tried to make me participate in exchanging paper cards, you can bet i would end up with a human skull decorated with flowers outside my cubicle as a "mailbox" for said misery.
(ok, maybe a ceramic human skull, people do get antsy about actual remains.) (and not that i have a cublic. Or even a desk. Or a workplace that would encourage such a thing. I'm pretty sure it would lead to many infractions against the codified "anti-bullying handbook.")