Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.

'Serenity'


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.


sarameg - Mar 21, 2011 4:58:47 pm PDT #29495 of 30001

I think you are supposed to breath on the side that the elbow is coming up and over (sorta under the arm as it arcs over.) So you might be doing it right. Hard to tell, especially since I screwed up my description because I guess I'm every fourth stroke, every other if you just refer to one side.


sarameg - Mar 21, 2011 5:08:22 pm PDT #29496 of 30001

Ok, so in my foray into teen facebook drama, I just had my girl's bf say "wow, I need a male version of u!!!" Damn, maybe I can talk to teens and they hear me??


Kathy A - Mar 21, 2011 5:19:19 pm PDT #29497 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'm definitely not doing it right, then! I'll have to try and switch my style once I get my mile in under an hour.

IcompletelyON, yesterday, I noticed a light rash appearing on the right half of my chest, starting at my neck and going down to the top portion of my right breast and over to my upper right arm. I've been scratching at it off and on all day today, and was wondering what the hell it could be. Maybe a reaction to something I've been taking since my surgery? Maybe a reaction to the outpatient surgery I had last week? Maybe something I was wearing, or something in the pool?

I called my sister, my expert in all things bariatric, and mentioned it to her, only to find out that she has had exactly the same rash (same part of the body and everything!) since last Thursday. So, we're figuring it's something in the air, even though she's in Vegas and I'm here in Chicagoland. All of us kids have sensitive skin (my brother has horrible excema outbreaks all the time), but this is the first time either Sis or I have had this rash. Guess I'm picking up some hydrocortizone and seeing if that clears it up.


Liese S. - Mar 21, 2011 5:25:21 pm PDT #29498 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Damn, maybe I can talk to teens and they hear me??

This is an important skill to know you have.


dcp - Mar 21, 2011 5:27:40 pm PDT #29499 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Liese, are you having fun Spring weather? A genealogy contact of mine was at Meteor Crater earlier today with her nieces and posted this:

Before we got to the Meteor Crater we ran into a dust storm and 60-70 mile an hour winds. Tumbleweeds were blowing and looked like rabbits hopping across the highway. When we got to the crater it was spitting rain with ice in it. When we left the crater and got almost to Flagstaff we ran into a blizzard and it snowed 5 inches by the time we got to Williams, Arizona. I don't think I want to take any more trips on spirng break. Last year we went to Florida and almost froze to death at Sea World.


Liese S. - Mar 21, 2011 5:30:39 pm PDT #29500 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yup! I am having that apocalypse! It's snowing now; I've got a fire going in the woodstove! I'll have to put up the video we took of the windstorm the other week.

So yeah, not so much on the gardening activities over spring break!

The Biscuit was sprawled in front of the fire all afternoon, and eventually it got low so he came in the other room to get me to stoke it.


meara - Mar 21, 2011 6:01:52 pm PDT #29501 of 30001

I just had my girl's bf say "wow, I need a male version of u!!!" Damn, maybe I can talk to teens and they hear me??

Got any guys you can hook him up with? I figure every teen could use an awesome non-parental but responsible figure.

I am feeling pleased because a friend just called me up and was like "I need a dinner date, you free?" and I was! And it's someone I've been becoming better friends with. So that's yay.


§ ita § - Mar 21, 2011 6:03:56 pm PDT #29502 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm in the middle of the paintball episode right now, and oh, mothereffing gee,


beekaytee - Mar 21, 2011 6:09:16 pm PDT #29503 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

For example, I breathe on the opposite side of my stroke, not under the arm that's stroking forward (IOW, when my right arm is stroking forward, that's when I breathe to my left, and it's always to my left).

No matter how many miles I'd swim, I could only ever breathe on my right side. All efforts to breathe on the left resulted in near drowning. Not sure why. Left handed and all.

Keeping the bum up was always a challenge for me too. Weirdly, stroke paddles helped with that. If I wasn't at the right angle, they'd pop right off.

You all are tempting me to get back in the pool. There is one within visual distance of my front door, but I've never been in it. Somehow, the smell of chlorine takes me back to high school like one of those squiggly screened tv flashbacks and I become immediate tired. And the germs creep me out. But...exercise. It would be good for me, right?


§ ita § - Mar 21, 2011 6:14:01 pm PDT #29504 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Cleanup on aisle three. I just had Harmon's babies.