Woohoo, treadmill we never use just got picked up and is out of the house.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Dana - Sep 22, 2011 4:06:46 pm PDT #27901 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Consuela - Sep 22, 2011 4:08:58 pm PDT #27902 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, two solid days of training are done. I'm whipped. Really good training, though: we got the national expert on federal consultation for the Endangered Species Act, with a whole bunch of awesome stories. But it was 40 hours' worth of information in 16 hours. My brain is stuffed.
And even though tomorrow is my day off, I'm going back into the office for a meeting. Bah.
I hope everyone else is doing okay.
Steph L. - Sep 22, 2011 4:09:40 pm PDT #27903 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Owen looked at me and said, "I know what happens next! S-E-X!"
When I asked him if he knew what that was, he said, "When people take their clothes off and romance."
That is 100% AWESOME.
billytea - Sep 22, 2011 4:09:51 pm PDT #27904 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I still have to snerk at the bride who had her guests release butterflies and his guests release dragonflies. Wedding carnage!
IT'S THE CIIIIRCLE... THE CIIIIRCLE OF LIIIIIFE...
I would be sorely tempted to do that intentionally.
Cashmere - Sep 22, 2011 4:25:35 pm PDT #27905 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I mean, I don't envy you the conversation but that is a damn good definition.
I finished off the conversation by telling him he was correct. ADULTS do that. He said, "Yeah. I know."
Whew.
Lee - Sep 22, 2011 4:36:17 pm PDT #27906 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Fwump.
Today was very long, and people kept asking me to pull rabbits out of my hat, even though I didn't even manage to dress myself in clothes that matched this morning.
And that statement makes sense in my head, so there.
Liese S. - Sep 22, 2011 4:44:44 pm PDT #27907 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hahaha Owen.
Oh, I know, about the mosquitoes. The other night the Biscuit and I were out for our constitutional and they were all over me. One bit my throat! Right where my Adam's apple would be if I were male. Freaking vampire, man. If I start manifesting symptoms, y'all know what happened and I'm trusting you to behead me properly, ok?
Amy - Sep 22, 2011 4:45:33 pm PDT #27908 of 30001
Because books.
We just went through Ben's schedule at the open house. Man, his classes zigzag back and forth and up and down ALL DAY. I will say, though, high school looks better than when I was there. I kind of want to sit in on his history class.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2011 5:10:38 pm PDT #27909 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Perkins asked about tv shows we watched this week:
I love me some "Revenge." For me, it was an unexpected delight. "A Gifted Man" tomorrow is also supposed to be really good.
Kat - Sep 22, 2011 5:16:51 pm PDT #27910 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I need talking down.
I am unreasonably ragey at my special needs daughter. I busted my ass to get her to soccer practice on time, including a return trip home when I realized that I didn't have my phone or wallet and picking her brother up. When we got to the park, she carried her soccer ball for a while, then Noah carried it. She dropped it and I was dribbling it in with my foot. And she had a FIT -- wouldn't stop crying or playing even when given multiple balls. Her entire practice she cried and refused to play.
WTF is the point of even busting my ass to go?! When we were leaving, she walked over and picked up her ball, all smiles and walked off.
(I think what's really at the root of this is we were late because I had to spend 20 minutes on the phone with my employer explaining why sending Grace to a school without a nurse isn't tenable.... "But it's district policy." FINE FUCK IT. REOPEN THE FUCKING IEP and I WILL TAKE THE DISTRICT TO DUE PROCESS AND MAKE YOU ENSURE A NURSE IS AT HER SCHOOL. stabby stabby stabby rage)