Can she play, "what's the best/worst that could happen?"?
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
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.
Laga - Sep 16, 2010 12:05:27 pm PDT #2930 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
tommyrot - Sep 16, 2010 12:07:31 pm PDT #2931 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We've been talking about this for 20 minutes, she asks me what I think, and then tries to tell me I'm wrong.
When she asks you what you think, you should say, "I think you should hunt wabbits. Because it's wabbit season."
Of course, she might tell you, "It's duck season!" but that would probably be a more fun argument to have.
Shir - Sep 16, 2010 12:12:47 pm PDT #2932 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh, Vortex, I see our moms our friends!
Mine, even though I told her thousands of times before what I like/that we have different taste, she'll ask for my opinion/buy things for me, and expect me to wear/hang them on my walls/like them. I wish it would end there. She gives me stuff I have no use for, and when I try to say that "yes, it's nice and I appreciate it, but I really got nothing to do with it", she cuts me with "yes yes, never mind, I'm sure you'll find something to do with it".
About 3 full drawers of stuff implies "not". So mostly, I just nod and smile and shut up. I know she means well, and I know that nothing I'll say will work.
This is also love. Frustrating, but I know I can't change her and that it's important to her, God knows why.
Vortex - Sep 16, 2010 12:31:06 pm PDT #2933 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
ugh, Vortex. Is there some other way to approach the problem?
Get rid of all of my phones?
She's always been like this, but my dad took the brunt of it, I think. He knew how to do the nod and smile. I try, but she doesn't go for it.
About 3 full drawers of stuff implies "not". So mostly, I just nod and smile and shut up. I know she means well, and I know that nothing I'll say will work.
Freecycle has been a godsend for that kind of shit. I don't know if you have it in Israel, though.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 16, 2010 12:32:49 pm PDT #2934 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Yay for home-ness, Drew!
Cass - Sep 16, 2010 12:37:33 pm PDT #2935 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Glad you are home to heal, Drew. It must be such a relief.
Shir - Sep 16, 2010 12:39:28 pm PDT #2936 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Freecycle has been a godsend for that kind of shit. I don't know if you have it in Israel, though.
Not that I know.
But I really wonder what one will do with a bunch of keychains that also work for supermarket carts (I don't do the shopping here - and when I shop, I mostly try to avoid the chains. And when I do, I go with a bag of my own), hideous napkins from the 80's, various brochures, some knock-offs jewelry on every condition but "intact" which I wouldn't like anyway and a whole lot of knick knacks.
I now wonder what I have done to deserve this, and why she won't listen when I'm telling her that I love her, but really don't like all of these things.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2010 1:12:33 pm PDT #2937 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Welcome home, Drew! I want you to promise you'll never do that again.
Ginger - Sep 16, 2010 1:25:50 pm PDT #2938 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yay, home! Could the Buffistas now stay out of hospitals, except for having babies?
Honestly, I am so tired of my mother calling me and asking me for advice or what I think and then not fucking listening. I wish that she would stop wasting my time. We've been talking about this for 20 minutes, she asks me what I think, and then tries to tell me I'm wrong.
Does she ask you about something over and over, then do something else, and then complain about how nothing ever goes right for her?
ChiKat - Sep 16, 2010 1:29:57 pm PDT #2939 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Yay, Drew!!!! I am so glad you are home!
I want you to promise you'll never do that again.
And this. Srsly.