You could take up fencing!
(eh, I gotta try)
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
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.
amych - Sep 03, 2011 8:44:48 am PDT #23965 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
SailAweigh - Sep 03, 2011 8:46:26 am PDT #23966 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hee. I have seen a fencing studio over in my dad's area of town and I think about it every now and then. Makes me wonder if my dad's old foil is hanging around the house anymore. It would be pretty rusty though, it was when I used it for a Halloween costume in the 70s.
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2011 8:53:21 am PDT #23967 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If I were a guy and a woman showed up on a date with those shoes, I'd bail so fast. Because vagina dentata is the natural next step. Or maybe the natural previous step. Either way, not a risk worth taking.
JenP - Sep 03, 2011 8:55:47 am PDT #23968 of 30001
Tooth shoes are scary. Sentence I never really figured I'd need to write, but there you go.
Strix - Sep 03, 2011 8:57:30 am PDT #23969 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I can't look at the shoes. Can't.
I made a iced vanilla latte this morning. SO. GOOD. Why haven't I been doing this all summer? I've had the damn vanilla syrup in the pantry since May.
JenP - Sep 03, 2011 9:07:47 am PDT #23970 of 30001
I keep thinking about trying a homemade iced latte, but I feel like it won't taste as good as coffee shop ones. Maybe I'm wrong.
Calli - Sep 03, 2011 9:23:22 am PDT #23971 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The heels on those shoes bother me more than the teeth. At least the toes aren't squeezed in.
Not that I'd wear them, not with those heels. And teeth.
In not-really-related news, my supposedly formerly sprained ankle is hurting again. I'm not sure what I did to make that happen. Knowing my ankles, I probably looked at a curb wrong. I hope it clears up before my vacation starts at the end of the month.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2011 9:31:14 am PDT #23972 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm about to go meet the Family Flea for Graeter's. Seeing as how it's 97 degrees right now, that is the perfect way to welcome them back to Cincy.
Unless I spontaneously combust on the way there.
Strix - Sep 03, 2011 9:41:21 am PDT #23973 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I bought the Torani Vanilla syrup, and I have some decent beans, so I just brewed a super-strong batch of coffee. Syrup goes first over a glass FULL of ice, then coffee half full, then milk to the top. Stir, and enjoy.
If you have the decent flavor syrup and beans, and a lot of ice, homemade really doesn't matter vs. coffee shop, Jen.
Kat - Sep 03, 2011 9:43:13 am PDT #23974 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have a green chile pork stew in the crockpot -- any an all are buffistas are invited to have some -- hatch chiles + beer + spices and tomatillos + pork. YUM. I would make sopapillas but it seems like too much work.
I also made a ton of chocolate cake, including a sheet cake to serve as the base for the angry birds cake. We have used 4 lbs of buttercream so far to ice the playing field. Now we need chocolate icing for the launching area and we still don't have a slingshot for the birds itself. Ideas for slingshots?
We have to go to the cake store get a get a cake box, I think. I'm unnaturally excited about this cake.