Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.

'Bushwhacked'


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.


smonster - Aug 03, 2011 8:19:15 pm PDT #26783 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Yup. I am typing from my own wake, it's true.

My roommate and I just talked for, like, three hours solid. More. Man, I really got lucky. I hope she finds a job and sticks around past December.


Beverly - Aug 03, 2011 11:37:07 pm PDT #26784 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Good wishes aren't a finite resource, and no one's keeping score.

Can we get this carved in a really pretty marble, maybe, or a nice pink granite, and have it mounted as a lintel over the door? A touchstone going out or coming in. Just as a reminder of its truth.

Maria, what they all said.

Barb, I'm sorry it didn't work out.

smonster, I'm having so much fun reading your adventures in your new home.

And I apologize for being thin on the ground lately. Couldn't be helped, but I'll try to be more vocal. Or, postal--no wait.


Hil R. - Aug 04, 2011 1:54:19 am PDT #26785 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Fucking hell. The conference starts today, and I just woke up with unbelieveable pain in my hip. I must have rolled over on it badly during the night or something. I can barely walk across the hotel room, let alone getting to all the talks I want to go to.

I checked my schedule, and the first thing that I really want to go to is at 1 -- there were some talks in the morning that looked interesting, but I don't have to see them. I took half a Vicodin, and I'll try seeing if I can get this worked out by lunch time. The hotel has a whirlpool, and that might help, but I'm not sure if I can bend enough to get into a bathing suit.


hippocampus - Aug 04, 2011 2:44:13 am PDT #26786 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

Hil, does the conference have affordances for people who need help getting places?


Hil R. - Aug 04, 2011 2:57:47 am PDT #26787 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I don't know. What I really need today is a walker, but I don't have one. I do have crutches and a cane in my car, and the crutches will probably help some. The combination of Vicodin and a hot bath have helped a bit. I've also got my TENS unit with me, and I'll try that for a little while, and then I'll see if I can get into a bathing suit to go to the whirlpool.


Hil R. - Aug 04, 2011 3:07:48 am PDT #26788 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Attaching TENS pads to my back is tricky, but I managed it. This is helping a lot.


Toddson - Aug 04, 2011 4:04:36 am PDT #26789 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Good wishes, like love, are an infinitely renewable resource. I don't always come in and post ~ma for people, but I'm wishing it.


WindSparrow - Aug 04, 2011 4:17:40 am PDT #26790 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.

I'm extra-aware of how I appear to be coming off here, because I haven't been as active over the past few years

Once a Buffista, always a Buffista. We're kinda like Hotel California, only not as creepy, and with less stellar guitar work. So much ~ma to you and your DH, and his mom.

Hil, I hope your pain is manageable today and you get to everything that is important to you. Also, was that amazing bookstore in Columbus the Book Loft, in German Village?


Laura - Aug 04, 2011 4:53:39 am PDT #26791 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Yikes, Hil. I hope relief is quick. Is it possible that there is a pharmacy close by that would deliver a walker? The hotel might know.

{{Maria}} Strength to you and yours. All the science facts in the world won't keep people from freaking out. Extra doses of calming~ma send to DH and his mother.

I am in the group of people that gets quiet when in turmoil. Super quiet, burying myself in work, out of touch with the world and myself. Blah. The past couple months or so I have been under huge business stress and huge offspring stress which means I have buried myself.

Being in Otter Lake for the summer has helped calm me somewhat, but still having a time of it. The short version is that I kicked firstborn son out the day I left for NY. It has only been 3 weeks, but it feels like 3 years. There is much more to the story but it comes down to him continuing to be 100% wrong repeatedly and me being 100% right, but I am totally not willing or able to deal with it anymore. At this point I have turned the situation into a workable arrangement where I send him a newsy email every day or so and he does the same. I am careful to absolutely offer no advice or criticism of his life. I sent a condolence when his favorite football player retired. I let him know how his grandparents are doing and how projects are going here in Otter Lake. It is tough to watch him driving steadily toward the cliff, but he is only going to learn his lessons on his own. Have I mentioned that being a parent sucks?


Nora Deirdre - Aug 04, 2011 5:05:34 am PDT #26792 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

It is tough to watch him driving steadily toward the cliff, but he is only going to learn his lessons on his own.

Oh, Laura. This just sucks for everyone. I'm sorry.

Maria, I'm just glad that this place can help you in any small way. I hope you can accept the gift without worrying about your worthiness for it.

Still home with the bronchitis etc. Cleaning lady is here, which is slightly unsettling. First cleaning lady we've had down here, it was a Living Social deal. Maybe we can eventually get someone in a couple times a month.