See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.

Jayne ,'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.


Sparky1 - May 24, 2011 1:16:25 am PDT #9431 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Sister~ma, Fay.

Sorry to see you're up, Sarameg.

I am in San Antonio, about to catch a plane home and get my child out of hock. (The DH is in Geneva - the roll of bills I will have to give to the nanny for watching her while we have both been gone is going to look like a very large drug deal is going down).

Also, I am again asking for your reposting/retweeting magic, because the WaPo wrote a story about our dog: [link]


Kat - May 24, 2011 2:31:12 am PDT #9432 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Mmm, another day of waking irrevocably before the alarm at 5:45. WTF?

This is me, but substitute 4:00 AM for 5:45. Best go swimming.


Strix - May 24, 2011 2:33:34 am PDT #9433 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Reposted, Sparky. Damn, I hope someone finds her.

We had a beloved Scotty named Sassafras (Sassy).

ION, had A BAD MOMENT this morning when the espresso machine wouldn't turn on. There was near-panic. But the little button on the wall switch had been turned off.

Have coffee. Praise Juan Valdez and his leetle burro.


sarameg - May 24, 2011 2:45:37 am PDT #9434 of 30001

Not early enough to get a swim in. And I don't go to bed until midnight.

Dentist appt today. In the middle of a fraught build. FUNTIMES.


Theodosia - May 24, 2011 3:33:37 am PDT #9435 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm still at the stage where I'm all "Whoo! Get to WORK today!" The shiny will come off eventually... it's not quite a month since I accepted the job.


Jesse - May 24, 2011 3:39:46 am PDT #9436 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hang on to that feeling as long as possible!

I slept through my alarm for almost 40 minutes. Oops. I should have gone to bed earlier.


Theodosia - May 24, 2011 3:50:24 am PDT #9437 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I had a classic Spare Cat incident in the night. I wake up, sweating with a hot flash, so I throw off most of my covers. And, I've found a really useful technique for getting it to go away faster, which is to hike up my nightgown so that the small of my back is exposed, because that seems to be a trigger point that if cooled off makes the rest of it calm down.

So Spare Cat helpfully comes over and curls up right against the hot spot. All that fur and that high cat body heat -- against the worst place she could have chosen. I suppose she's all confused as to why I'm objecting so much. SIGH


Tom Scola - May 24, 2011 4:37:59 am PDT #9438 of 30001
hwæt

Bah! My boss's boss decided to sit in the empty cubicle right across from me!


billytea - May 24, 2011 4:42:08 am PDT #9439 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.

Fill his head with lies! Lies, I say!


sarameg - May 24, 2011 4:45:56 am PDT #9440 of 30001

Today just went so above my paygrade.