I have to say, my parents never really questioned the people in the box, which is weird, since they're pretty conventional in most ways. They don't get why I like Buffy, but I didn't get pushback about driving across the US to stay with...someone. I didn't ask Allyson for sure until New Mexico.

Congrats on the paperwork, msbelle!

It's cool and dry enough outside (finally) I've opened the french doors to vent the house for the first time in 2 weeks. Really glad I wasn't here last week.

Despite my dad being an early adopter (arpanet days,) my parents never really found the internet as a social device, even to this day. I was supposed to show my mom how to navigate fb (account set up by my SIL) to see grandkid pictures. The extent to which they use it socially is email and pictures to their kids. Beyond that, work and commerce only.

My mom loves my "Buffy friends." She's met quite a few of them and loves our friendships. As soon as she realized you were real people and not axe murderers, she was all in. My dad was somewhat bemused by the concept (he's become more and more of a lovable curmudgeon the older he's gotten), but he, too, has come around finally and is utterly unfazed when I talk about seeing/staying with/confiding in you all. Of course, given the board is how I met their son-in-law, they're pretty well convinced it's a good place full of good (if weird, in the best possible way) people.

Congrats, msbelle and mac!

lori and ita DID get a little scary with the rifle that time....

Bobcat vs Optimus Prime at the B'ham Zoo. I take sucky video, but you get the gist.

lori and ita DID get a little scary with the rifle that time....

UNLOADED.

Plus, I can totally kill with my bare hands.

FWIW.

HOW DID WE KNOW.

And I figured I'd have to piss you off in scrabble or something for you to try to kill me with your bare hands...

FWIW, never play UNO with me.

My mom loves my "Buffy friends." She's met quite a few of them and loves our friendships.

Heh. My mom has met Buffistas WITHOUT ME (Trudy and megan walker were in Vermont the same time as my mom and stepdad, and they all met up at my bro's restaurant).

(If anyone else has met my mom without me also being there, please speak up now.)

I haven't met your mom, Teppy, but my cousin Buffy (and her wife) has met vwbug and I haven't yet.

And now for a totally different topic -- just so I'm sure I understand the meaning of the term, "code-switching" is using more than one language in the same sentence/conversation, and using the languages such that they're grammatically and syntactically correct?

Like, "I was not avec Trudy and megan when they met my mom" -- is *that* code-switching?