So sorry, Nora. My brother's mother-in-law is going through this right now. She is staying with them in their house. They are happy to have her there to care for but, man, the toll it takes on those who have to watch the struggle is huge.
The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2010 1:06:49 pm PDT #4047 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Daisy Jane - Sep 24, 2010 1:08:53 pm PDT #4048 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Oh Nora, I'm so sorry.
Spidra Webster - Sep 24, 2010 1:16:27 pm PDT #4049 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I'm very sorry to hear that, Nora. I hope she finds peace soon.
P-C, I'm sorry you got pickpocketed. That happened to me on my last day in Denmark and it was hard to last the last 8 hours or so 'til the flight with no money whatsoever. I'm glad you thought to take the check card out.
ita, it seems it's another brand of nun than the kind we had.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2010 1:17:19 pm PDT #4050 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it seems it's another brand of nun than the kind we had.
Now that I pause and think--hello, we went to school in London. So, different.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 24, 2010 1:26:25 pm PDT #4051 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Thoughts for your family, Nora.
P-C, sorry to hear about the theft. That's so frustrating. My Girl got her bag stolen, complete with two passports, this summer. Such an inconvenience, quite apart from the cost. I hope they find yours.
Barb - Sep 24, 2010 1:29:05 pm PDT #4052 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Thoughts for you and yours, Nora.
Maria - Sep 24, 2010 1:31:16 pm PDT #4053 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Nora, I'm so sorry. Peace and strength to you and yours.
P-C, that does suck mightily. I'm sorry you lost precious mementos.
JZ - Sep 24, 2010 1:33:37 pm PDT #4054 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Good God, Barb, that woman is an economy-sized bag of crazy. And, yeah, it sounds like she loves her bitterness and grudges and pets them and hugs them and calls them George and will never let go of them. Ugh. I hope your mom's competent and gleeful lawyer has fun mopping up the floor with her.
Oh, P-C, that's awful!
And my old student IDs.
When I read your list of everything you lost, that's the one item that made me gasp, Oh, no! I think Hec has most of his old student IDs and a full 14 years' worth of pictures of Emmett and Matilda in his wallet. It's a tiny portable time capsule, and that loss would be much more devastating than the irritating but replaceable bits of plastic that fill up the rest of the wallet.
And that asshole made you miss Goldfrapp. Insult to injury. Most unnecessary, universe.
I lost a wallet many, many years ago, full of all sorts of young adult Important Things, but the only things that really hurt (and still do) were the senior portraits of a cousin and a friend who had died in car accidents (different accidents, two years apart). I still want them back - the people especially, but, if not them, then at least their pictures. It kills me to think that they were just useless random bits of paper to whoever scavenged the wallet.
JZ - Sep 24, 2010 1:35:20 pm PDT #4055 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
And, oh, God, Nora. Much, much coping~ma and all other possible vibes to you, and all your family. That's so hard to watch, and not be able to do much except be present.
sj - Sep 24, 2010 2:01:07 pm PDT #4056 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Nora}}} I'm so sorry.
P-C, that really sucks. I'm sorry.
Barb, I'm boggling at the crazy of the other author.
That Edward Gorey museum is not far from where TCG and I are getting married. I see a honeymoon day trip in our future.