Today was the house cleaner's first day.
Everything is so CLEAN.
See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Lee - Oct 20, 2010 4:26:16 pm PDT #879 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
lisah - Oct 20, 2010 4:30:09 pm PDT #880 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I have no ideas about hween costume and two events where I need a costume. Yikes! I think last year was my Halloween high point!
DavidS - Oct 20, 2010 4:32:28 pm PDT #881 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tl;dr: ita didn't respect boundaries and can't let stuff go.
Could you call her up and apologize? Or would that be weirder?
Everything is so CLEAN.
Yay!
DavidS - Oct 20, 2010 4:32:45 pm PDT #882 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have no ideas about hween costume and two events where I need a costume.
Roller Derby Hottie?
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 4:36:09 pm PDT #883 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Could you call her up and apologize? Or would that be weirder?
She'd be all "WTF, ita?" This is entirely an issue I'm making for myself. Platonic grab-ass wouldn't even peg her meter, not from someone I was with. That's how she grew up. I am just hung up on so thoughtlessly contributing.
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 4:40:24 pm PDT #884 of 30001
Because books.
What made you think of it now, ita?
Were the cats good for the cleaner, Perkins?
sarameg - Oct 20, 2010 4:44:33 pm PDT #885 of 30001
ita, chalk it up to a (NPI) contact infection. Lack of boundaries momentarily infected you. But you recovered quickly!
I revisit past did-I-really-do-that's?! for no reason so I know how it goes. If I wanna cringe, I can remember something needlessly stupid that I did and feel bad all over again.
flea - Oct 20, 2010 4:53:17 pm PDT #886 of 30001
information libertarian
My husband set a 5 year statute of limitations on cringey stuff like that. If it happened more than 5 years ago, he is not allowed to feel bad about it.
Lee - Oct 20, 2010 4:58:21 pm PDT #887 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Were the cats good for the cleaner, Perkins?
I think so, but Dita is freaked right the fuck out.
sarameg - Oct 20, 2010 4:59:52 pm PDT #888 of 30001
I can't help it; it is visceral. Stomach drops and my back tightens up, even as I can laugh at it now. And sometimes it is just stupid to feel bad. Like when I had to do a lunch delivery and COMPLETELY got the location wrong after insisting I knew the place, and drove all over (because I am a perfectionist, control freak and don't like admitting I don't know...well, I've gotten over mostly the first and definitely the third.) I felt so bad, I paid for the lunch. And it was over $100.
It's funny now (Kroger building!= Kroger HQ) but my god I felt dumb and incompetent at the time.