Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.

Gunn ,'Underneath'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


megan walker - Mar 16, 2010 5:17:35 pm PDT #16667 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Or should mom just stop looking and consider it a lost cause that he will sneak to school and either sell for cash or trade for something else and just pay the dimwitted babysitter her money back while telling her AGAIN that no no no on buying the manipulative child anything that costs more than $5.

I vote this. And then make yourself a bourbon & ginger.


brenda m - Mar 16, 2010 5:17:39 pm PDT #16668 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh msbelle. Though I don't know that buying games without checking with the parent actually warrants reimbursement.


Jesse - Mar 16, 2010 5:18:04 pm PDT #16669 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Or should mom just stop looking and consider it a lost cause that he will sneak to school and either sell for cash or trade for something else and just pay the dimwitted babysitter her money back while telling her AGAIN that no no no on buying the manipulative child anything that costs more than $5.

Oh jeez. I maybe vote for this one, but I am no parent.


Trudy Booth - Mar 16, 2010 5:19:32 pm PDT #16670 of 30001
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

For the record: I am not wearing red or plaid and have no intentions of driving anywhere tonight.

I don't know if Buffistas count as an alibi... but I bet we'll find that out for sure sooner or later.


JZ - Mar 16, 2010 5:20:27 pm PDT #16671 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

ICompletelyRandomN, words cannot express how devastated I am that I never knew this remarkable person ever existed until four days after she died:

RIP Suzanne Beauclerk, Dowager Duchess of St. Albans

Dude! Her infancy was marked by the care of an amah who soothed her unruly brood with small doses of chloroform! She spent her childhood in a decaying villa, stomping grapes with the townspeople and storing her collection of live pythons on the nursery shelves while miniature owls nested on top of the wardrobe! She was recruited by British intelligence during WWII, but set to work at basic reporting as she was congenitally incapable of deception (and yet she had such an elfishly gleeful smile)! She is probably the only person on earth whom Graham Greene ever caused to dissolve into helpless giggles. She wrote memoirs to pay the bills and ran an art gallery that exhibited Mervyn Peake's sketches. Her husband was a descendant of Charles II and Nell Gwynn.

I just...I... Sigh. I fear I'm girlcrushing on a dead woman.


Cass - Mar 16, 2010 5:20:59 pm PDT #16672 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

while telling her AGAIN that no no no on buying the manipulative child anything that costs more than $5.

I'm with Brenda. Especially since you said AGAIN. That's kinda one of those lessons people need to learn. And this is how.

Sorry you are still having such DS drama. Ugh.


-t - Mar 16, 2010 5:21:20 pm PDT #16673 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Or should mom just stop looking and consider it a lost cause that he will sneak to school and either sell for cash or trade for something else and just pay the dimwitted babysitter her money back while telling her AGAIN that no no no on buying the manipulative child anything that costs more than $5.

This sounds the least crazy-making for mom. In my totally inexperienced opinion.

For the record: I am not wearing red or plaid and have no intentions of driving anywhere tonight.

Phew!


JZ - Mar 16, 2010 5:22:26 pm PDT #16674 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

And in a separate post, because msbelle posted while I was loving on the Dowager Duchess,

Holy shit, that's awful. Also, what megan said, including the part about the bourbon and ginger.


msbelle - Mar 16, 2010 5:22:37 pm PDT #16675 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I so desperately want to find it, but I think that is what the therapist refers to as "seeing it as a win/lose situation when it isn't". Pfft! Clearly if I do not find it, I lose. shakes fists!!!

If I thought the bourbon would help me get to sleep, I might, but I have no ginger ale.


Amy - Mar 16, 2010 5:24:46 pm PDT #16676 of 30001
Because books.

Go for the straight bourbon, msbelle. And give up on finding the game. Instead, unless it's too confrontational, check through his backpack every day after school for a while?