You are all extraordinary. What a marvellous thread to wake up to. Thank you.
Lorne: Back in Pylea they used to call me "sweet potato." Connor: Really. Lorne: Yeah, well, the exact translation was "fragrant tuber" but…
'Conviction (1)'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Aug 31, 2011 3:19:06 am PDT #23257 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ginger - Aug 31, 2011 3:27:43 am PDT #23258 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
After invoking the FPC, I would like to whine, "I'm sooo sick." My lungs are full of gunk and there are tiny jackhammers being operated in my sinuses. All the things I haven't gotten done loom much larger when I can't do them. And I absolutely, positively have to be well by Saturday to do my volunteer stuff at the book festival.
eta: Also, I have the attention span of a mayfly. Sass! Let the people help you!
Sophia Brooks - Aug 31, 2011 3:39:36 am PDT #23259 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Sassafras sighting - she actually walked into someone's house on Sunday, but the woman was so surprised she didn't get the doors closed.
I can't believe it was so close!
(I don't even have stretch marks, which is a miracle of good genes, not miracle creams).
I have opposite genes. I have never had children, and I am covered in stretch marks. I swear I have even gotten them from losing weight! Most of them are from when I went on AD''s and gained about 80 pounds in less than a year.
flea - Aug 31, 2011 3:51:23 am PDT #23260 of 30001
information libertarian
I have stretch marks from puberty (in the process of getting to a B cup? seriously?) but none from two 8+ pound babies. Bodies is weird.
Also, that Sassafrass is some rascal! Inside a house? Dang.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 31, 2011 3:53:46 am PDT #23261 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
COME ON SASS!!!! Man, she's tricksy.
Love the FPC clause invocation.
Sparky1 - Aug 31, 2011 3:59:45 am PDT #23262 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
The good news is that the woman said Sassafras looked healthy, and calm - not dirty and desperate. She was making Ragu, and it must have smelled wonderful.
I feel like I should have stretch marks, because pregnancy on a 4'9" frame is not pretty.
Lee - Aug 31, 2011 4:00:40 am PDT #23263 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Awesome news on the Sass sighting!
Calli - Aug 31, 2011 4:05:45 am PDT #23264 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Sass is a taunty taunter. I hope you'll be able to use his visit to track him down.
{{Maria}}
My mom had me when she was 39. I was a surprise (my folks had been married for 9 years then, but Mom thought she couldn't have more kids). Bearing me relatively late didn't cause me or Mom any physical harm.
I'm also on the "no kids, thanks," side of things. And I'm very glad that I haven't seen any, "Oh, you say you don't want kids now, but it's so different when they're your own." Because sometimes it is, and sometime the parent(s) realize that they were right in the first place. Whether the latter results in physical damage or just growing up knowing you're not wanted (and, yeah, you know), it's not a good thing.
I was looking for a romantic partner before dying parent care became a full-time hobby. Since that's finished I've been trying to spend some of my spare time doing things that get me out around people (the flying club, until the inner ear thing hosed that, possibly scuba diving after I get back from France). And I'm on a geek-centric dating site. (geek2geek) Aside from a few winks from people in other states and that one email exchange from a guy who would have liked to meet if I could promise not to be too fat (er, no), there's been no interest.
Localistas, you'd tell me if I smelled bad, right?
To be fair, I haven't seen anyone terribly interesting myself, either. I keep toying with the idea of getting some therapy, to see if I'm self-sabotaging or something. Everything else in my life is going pretty well, though. And money's finite and there are so many more interesting things to spend it on, like travel and new hobbies.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2011 4:09:29 am PDT #23265 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, you guys. You guys!
I do want to call this out again (from Plei, I think):
Just because someone else's year was made of explosive diaherra doesn't make yours not a poop-based structure.
SO TRUE.
And OMG SASS!! Stay around teh peoples, doggie!!!
If you have insurance that covers it at all, and you're even toying with the idea, I highly recommend therapy. It's so great! I mean, if you're me and enjoy going into a room and crying for an hour. Or 50 minutes. Well worth the co-pay. If your insurance doesn't cover it, it's definitely more of a financial consideration.
amyth - Aug 31, 2011 4:19:02 am PDT #23266 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Basically, everything Jesse said, because I was going to call out that quote from Plei's post, but I had just woken up and didn't have my glasses on yet, and it was too harrrrd.
And SASS! The closest of close calls! OMG!
And with the right therapist, therapy RULES. I have had mediocre therapy before, and it's wasted my time, but I LOVE my therapist now (THANKS, SMONSTER, for the hookup) and while I feel like it's accelerated my midlife crisis, I also feel like it's accelerated my eventual getting on the other side of it.