happiness and love , billytea and Wallybee!
For the first time in years I am watching the news because it is mostly about the weather
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
beth b - Mar 24, 2011 8:14:29 pm PDT #18405 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Burrell - Mar 24, 2011 8:50:58 pm PDT #18406 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
a pro-domme who specializes in grammar class scenarios
That's a brilliant idea. Make it so.
beth b - Mar 24, 2011 8:57:56 pm PDT #18407 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
It has been a long time since matt was far away at bedtime. Hmmph. Not used to this anymore
Liese S. - Mar 24, 2011 9:08:03 pm PDT #18408 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww, beth, that's hard. Hang in there.
And bt, really, eight years, wow. I'm so happy for your life now.
Trudy Booth - Mar 24, 2011 9:13:35 pm PDT #18409 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
a pro-domme who specializes in grammar class scenarios
I've toyed with being a dominatrix esthetician. I'm not particularly toppy, but the thought of yanking hair out of some of the jerks I've worked for (and their ilk), having them beg me to do it, and then paying the hell out of me for it, is an awfully pleasant thought.
WindSparrow - Mar 24, 2011 10:14:58 pm PDT #18410 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
They looked perplexed and then I could see the dawning on their faces. Oh. Right. We didn't discuss parenting at all!
It never ceases to amaze me that people get married without bothering to discuss and/or negotiate about serious topics such as money, if/when/how regarding the rearing of children, and most importantly of all, how to negotiate competing needs, desires, and expectations. Silly people have this idea that love conquers all, so why worry about all that stuff ahead of time - just plow right ahead and capture the other person, after all if they really love you, they'll understand why it has to be your way.
And, well, it just sucks.
It truly does, ChiKat. Wish I had better to say than that.
He has since trimmed down. Turns out he had figured out how to open the cupboard where the treats are stored and had been helping himself in the middle of the night.
I didn't know a dog could be part Siamese cat.
He was very supportive. Which I should have known would happen but my default assumption is that everyone is going to react negatively when I have to do stuff like that.
I'm glad it went well. Best of luck and ~ma for this whole thing to work out for you.
It has been a long time since matt was far away at bedtime.
May he come back to you, safe and whole, ready to be warmed by your love.
smonster - Mar 25, 2011 3:56:23 am PDT #18411 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Morning, all. I took Benedryl and melatonin last night, and that did the trick. Best sleep I've had here. Unfortunately, I could have slept in but woke up with a POING!!! Tradeoff, I suppose. Not sure what my day will look like. Hoping to have dinner with Nora and Tom tonight.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 25, 2011 4:51:32 am PDT #18412 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I have a headache of doooooom and a Girl who is looking after me. Aww. At least it's not a migraine. Am preparing my last teaching session, which I teach on Monday. This semester went by way too fast. (They spend the time left on an assignment and presentations.)
It never ceases to amaze me that people get married without bothering to discuss and/or negotiate about serious topics such as money, if/when/how regarding the rearing of children, and most importantly of all, how to negotiate competing needs, desires, and expectations.
Heh. It's true. For all our other failings, The Girl and I have done nothing BUT talk about this stuff in the four years we've been engaged (we weren't planning to take this long over it). Being 'strongly encouraged' into doing a pre-nup has made things even clearer. Not romantic, but sensible.
Congrats to Kristin on becoming a chair!
Really sorry to hear about your job, ChiKat. I hope you can find another one very quickly.
Wishing you safety, Shir.
beekaytee - Mar 25, 2011 4:58:52 am PDT #18413 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
It never ceases to amaze me that people get married without bothering to discuss and/or negotiate about serious topics such as money, if/when/how regarding the rearing of children, and most importantly of all, how to negotiate competing needs, desires, and expectations. Silly people have this idea that love conquers all, so why worry about all that stuff ahead of time - just plow right ahead and capture the other person, after all if they really love you, they'll understand why it has to be your way.
This is precisely why I love doing premarital-early relationship counseling with the PREPARE/ENRICH inventory. I don't love the tool itself all that much, but it sparks conversations on the 10 big ones: money, sex, child rearing, roles, conflict resolution, family of origin, spirituality, communication and leisure activities.
We just aren't trained to be interested in the expectations of others. So, why would we ask those questions unbidden?
I don't blame people for not being that forward thinking but it does make me sad that they don't ask them until something painful catalyzes the conversation. I'm just glad I can help them find the answers.
billytea - Mar 25, 2011 5:09:25 am PDT #18414 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This is precisely why I love doing premarital-early relationship counseling with the PREPARE/ENRICH inventory.
I did that counselling program for both my marriages.