Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.

'Touched'


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.


Fred Pete - Aug 31, 2010 5:52:01 am PDT #693 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Cancer-free for 7 years, babee!

Yay! That's considered a cure, correct?


Ginger - Aug 31, 2010 6:10:29 am PDT #694 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

That's considered a cure, correct?

Past five years, the odds of recurrence drop significantly, anyway. (Go, ChiKat! Go, me!)

If I had to have surgery, I'd be out of pocket $3,000 plus. I am one of those people who has to buy her own insurance, and I had to go to a higher deductible plan this year or my monthly payment would have gone from $500 to $750. Most office visits and tests are set co-pays, but I pay 20% on things like surgery.

In my case, Kaiser's spent at least half a million on me, so I can't say I haven't gotten my money's worth.


brenda m - Aug 31, 2010 6:40:15 am PDT #695 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Go team cancer free!


Trudy Booth - Aug 31, 2010 6:54:19 am PDT #696 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

Well, bless the hairdresser because she kept R for half an hour when my yoga class ran late.

Cuss her a little though, because she told R, "The surgery is today! It's RIGHT NOW!!!" 'Cause I wasn't going to do that. Certainly not "It's RIGHT NOW!!!" -- that causes me crazy anxiety and I can keep it straight in my haid.

Hopefully it will slip her mind quickly and not make her a wreck all day.

(What I've gone with is "Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are busy days with lots of doctors and finally the operation. We probably won't hear from them until Wednesday." That rolls in our skipped phone call with the surgery so its upsetting but not, you know... terrifying. She knows its going down.)


brenda m - Aug 31, 2010 6:55:02 am PDT #697 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh yes - tons of surgery~ma directed to NY today!


amyth - Aug 31, 2010 7:29:14 am PDT #698 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Yay team cancer free, indeed!

{{Ginger and Pix}}

Last night, Calli came over to, uh, help me watch TV. I introduced her to the wonder that is Tim Gunn. Or at least they got better acquainted.


smonster - Aug 31, 2010 7:41:48 am PDT #699 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Much operation~ma headed to NY!

I am sitting at Cake Cafe, networking like a fiend and still researching the lead paint stuff. I've been drafted into doing some (presumably unpaid) work developing safety protocols. I'm leery of the unpaid, but it's an org I'd like to hire me and the deliverables should be helpful to Historic Green, so here I am. Plus, I'm not any kind of certified professional.


Calli - Aug 31, 2010 8:05:12 am PDT #700 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Last night, Calli came over to, uh, help me watch TV.

And we watched the heck outta that TV, too. Jon Stewart's reaction to one of Isabella Rossalini's bug sex videos was priceless.


amyth - Aug 31, 2010 8:07:26 am PDT #701 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

We did watch the heck out that TV. Thanks for the help!

smonster! Go on with your bad networking self!

smonster, I feel like you will appreciate this: I had 20 minutes to kill yesterday when I was waiting for the bus, so I went into Light Years, and I bought this ridic huge turquoise necklace, because, idk, I was stressed, and it was retail therapy, I guess. Anyway, it's nsm a necklace, as it is a breastplate, it's so big, and I feel like it's something Christian Kane might wear in a particularly flamboyant moment.

I, however, though I am wearing it, am not sure I can pull it off.


Zenkitty - Aug 31, 2010 8:12:27 am PDT #702 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I need to see a picture of this breastplate. Preferably while being worn by amyth.

Or CK, if he's handy.