and DJ, meant to offer hugs earlier. I wish I could make it over there tonight for a drink or 3.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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.
msbelle - Sep 23, 2010 10:44:33 am PDT #25695 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Spidra Webster - Sep 23, 2010 10:52:10 am PDT #25696 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Timelies!
Hey, since I've been away for a while and Buffy/Angel no longer actually airing changes things a bit, what *is* the difference between Bitches and Natter? I was guessing Natter is lighter-hearted but hearing your take on it would be helpful.
Beverly - Sep 23, 2010 11:00:37 am PDT #25697 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
My kids were nine days less than a year apart, the second in spite of two concurrennt forms of BC, determined little brat. I never had a period between pregnanies. And we white-knuckled it to the first period after the second birth so they'd install an IUD.
Which, 16 years later caused major problems, but meanwhile, no 16-18 kids. I sympathize with people who have difficulties concieving, I do. But the opposite side of that coin is no picnic, either.
Daisy Jane - Sep 23, 2010 11:02:21 am PDT #25698 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Thanks. I don't really need hugs. Everything I've heard so far is that our division makes money so...
It wasn't the news itself. Just much like a few people around here must feel when MS is getting bashed, I get hurt by my friends excitedly linking to stories about it.
It's funny too (peculiar not haha), because when I speak up, they say, "Oh I'm sorry I didn't know you worked for them." And you know, I get that, but at the same time would it be okay to excitedly link to something about the prospect of a bunch of people losing their jobs if you didn't know one of them? In this economy?
Vortex - Sep 23, 2010 11:03:53 am PDT #25699 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Oh, yeah, Bev. My friend Kelly's mom is like that she says "Michael was my condom baby, Kelly was my IUD baby, and Steven was my Pill baby"
amych - Sep 23, 2010 11:13:23 am PDT #25700 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DJ, I never get the urge to corporate schadenfreude -- as petty as it is, there's totally a satisfaction when some individual asshole gets what's coming, but "woo-hoo, GM/MS/BB/B&N is flailing. HAR!!" is just. Dude. Actual people are gonna get fucked by this, no matter how much you like to snark at the corporate entity.
SuziQ - Sep 23, 2010 11:17:19 am PDT #25701 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
"Michael was my condom baby, Kelly was my IUD baby, and Steven was my Pill baby"
One of my mom's friends was like that. She had 5 kids and could name each failed birth control for each child.
Before I had CJ, I really wanted my kids to be close in age. But that ended up being a 6.5 year gap. My cousin has a ten year gap between her two youngest.
Cashmere - Sep 23, 2010 11:19:47 am PDT #25702 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Facebook was up for me long enough to read that a friend from high school just got a Trisomy 18 diagnosis with her child but not long enough for me to send a supportive message to them in response.
Fucking Facebook FAIL.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2010 11:20:00 am PDT #25703 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother has five siblings. There are five years between each of them, and they althernate boy/girl/boy/girl/boy/girl. By the end of the run, Miss Mary was just doing the birthing, not the raising. Youngest girl thought oldest girl was her mother.
Slowly approaching sanity. Good god, y'all.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 23, 2010 11:23:53 am PDT #25704 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I know at least one woman who got pregnant while breastfeeding a new baby.
I'm pretty sure at least one of my older siblings was conceived while my mother was nursing, given the birth dates.
I was the opposite - a menopause baby.