Jilli, now that you've missed the Edwardian Ball again, I alert you to the following events promoted by Swing Goth:
2/11, The Second Annual Tim Burton Ball
2/26, Slim Jenkins: Voodoo Swing Band
3/19, 3rd Annual Steam Punktrick's Day
4/2, Abney Park performance, two full sets with cirque performance
Also, I'll share some Matilda logic with you. Friday night has evolved into Friday Night Treat Night for Emmett and Matilda. If they eat their greens, they get some candy.
Matilda tried to wiggle out of her greens requirement after her candy bar was already secured: "But Mom, if I eat the broccoli my arms will be too tired to eat the Kit Kat."
I'm now watching TPB.
"Get used to disappointment."
Oh, during the Snowpocalypsaggedon,I totally employed the chair. I fucking worked my ass off to clear out my car and did a couple other spots. I had to go to work. You just pull out leaving a snowmass from hell and take my beautiful clean spot? I HURT YOU.
I get visitors needing a temp space. Hell, I totally took someone's space in order to feed friends' cats tonight (left my blinkers on, though.) But to usurp your own neighbor's work having not done your own? Ass. Unless you are physically unable. And that's why we do their spots. Otherwise, park a block away where the plows go. This street has never been plowed.
AND having seen the ass who took two spaces, I chaired mine when I went to feed the cats. Oh yeah.
I'm watching the Johnny Weir doc. God, I totally love him. "Do you think you have a responsibility to children?" "Some children."
"Get used to disappointment."
Oh, yes. Also, "Life isn't fair, princess. Anyone who says it is is selling you something."
"PLease consider me as an alternative to suicide."
Oh, and I use, "That word does not mean what you think it means," pretty much every single day.
"Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Gilder to frame for it. I'm swamped!"
"Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything."