Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Strix - Mar 15, 2011 2:37:15 pm PDT #28499 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

But if I had the means? And she were younger and X meant saving her life?

See, I get this. But a 16 y.o. cat with pancreatic cancer and you are getting the electricity shut off but paying $1200 vet bills three and four times and year? Nope.

I paid for Solomon's insulin and needles, and paid $150 vets bills quite a few times and ate mac and cheese. But when he was 15ish (never certain of his age), losing teeth, pissing all over and clearly not loving life, I cried and put him to sleep. Took me a couple of weeks of wrestling with the decision, and he was very much a roommate cat.

I adore my present kitties, and would definitely spend for vet bills, but I simply would not take extraordinary measures. They are adored and loved, definitely, but faced with a $3000 bill, I would be VERY hesitant, unless it was a sure fix and they would have years more of a good life.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2011 2:41:11 pm PDT #28500 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I adore my present kitties, and would definitely spend for vet bills, but I simply would not take extraordinary measures. They are adored and loved, definitely, but faced with a $3000 bill, I would be VERY hesitant, unless it was a sure fix and they would have years more of a good life.

Me too.


JZ - Mar 15, 2011 2:45:23 pm PDT #28501 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Holy crap. Rescue workers just found a 4-month-old baby, alive and unharmed, buried in the rubble. Swept out of her parents' arms. They survived too, but they thought she was gone forever. I can't even imagine what it would be like, three days of that grief and then improbably -- impossibly -- getting your baby back, whole and perfect, in the midst of all that destruction.


le nubian - Mar 15, 2011 2:51:44 pm PDT #28502 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

OMG, JZ. Wow.


hippocampus - Mar 15, 2011 2:54:56 pm PDT #28503 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

if that's not on goodstuff yet, it darn well should be.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2011 2:59:28 pm PDT #28504 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, OK.


Consuela - Mar 15, 2011 3:03:11 pm PDT #28505 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, that's fantastic.


msbelle - Mar 15, 2011 3:03:44 pm PDT #28506 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

crying now. that is amazing.


Kat - Mar 15, 2011 3:09:31 pm PDT #28507 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

That's entirely amazing!

We're in our nicest room (at this hospital) yet. It has a pull out bed AND a couch. My issue is the TV (nicer than the one at home) but I can never find the kid station. So she's watching the equivalent of baby einstein.

I had an interview on campus today. I went with blood on my shirt. Thank god I've known both of these women for 10 years otherwise I'd be a little mortified.


msbelle - Mar 15, 2011 3:24:28 pm PDT #28508 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I've sent off resume and cover letter #2 and am now at the point where I am doubting that I really want these jobs, that they will want too much from me, that I will be too overwhelmed too fast, that that that....