Kate, I hope you sleep well.
Darn your sinister attraction!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Jul 27, 2012 5:48:09 pm PDT #17938 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Strix - Jul 27, 2012 9:01:34 pm PDT #17939 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The kiddo sleeps like a rock. Inherited from his dad.
omnis_audis - Jul 27, 2012 10:20:33 pm PDT #17940 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Aims, I point n nod at what all the smart buffistas said above. And give ya big hugs.
Strix, that is awesome!!! Congrats!!!
I'm currently in my new place. If NYC was made of boxes, I think my place is staten island. Found the boxes for bathroom stuff, and took a wonderful shower. Those curved shower rods make a tub feel so much bigger!! And the view from my bed is stunning! The moon is out, the city lights glimmering. Now, how to use that as a pick up line. Still gotta clean old place. And so much to do here. Don't wanna go to work in 7 hours.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2012 1:02:28 am PDT #17941 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My car was broken into tonight.
They took my backpack. The backpack my mom got for me. The backpack that I carry everywhere. The backpack that I basically feel naked without. The backpack I thought would be too much of a pain to lug around tonight. The backpack I didn't put in the fucking trunk because what could happen, nothing has ever happened before.
Inside were my work laptop, charger, and wireless mouse. My Kindle Touch and case. My camera with a new SD card I only got a couple months ago (thank fucking God I already got my Comic-Con pictures off of it). Various chargers. An eyeglasses case with, I think, $60 or $80 cash in it. My copy of The Kindly Ones with a $750 Spelling Bee Cheat bookmark. The Resistance, with sleeved cards. Famiglia. A Rosemary and Rue pen from Seanan's first book release party at Borderlands. I keep remembering more things.
They also took Smellerbee, the iPod Shuffle I got as a groomsman's gift at my friends' wedding.
Thankfully, I had an amazing friend who wins the Friend of the Year Award for helping me clean out most of the glass, coming with me to the police station so I could fill out a police report, spending half an hour looking for trashcans or Dumpsters to look through in case the motherfucker just stole the electronics and dumped the backpack, and generally being someone to lean and cry on.
I've actually shed fewer tears than I would have expected. I'm mostly just dead inside. This is the sort of thing I always fear hypothetically. It's not really supposed to happen.
Stephanie - Jul 28, 2012 2:37:28 am PDT #17942 of 30001
Trust my rage
I'm sorry, P-C. Someone broke into our family car once many years ago and stole my CD Walkman. I was devastated. I was lucky to have my parents to "make me whole", instead of the adult feeling of just the loss and anger.
SailAweigh - Jul 28, 2012 3:33:02 am PDT #17943 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, P-C, that sucks. At least when I got my car broken into in Spain, things like iPods and Kindles didn't even exist. The most they got away with was a full bag of clean laundry. Which ticked me off a little at the time as it had my Christmas party dress in it, but still. I'm sure it all ended up at the local gypsy market then next weekend. (Called gypsy markets for whatever historical reason. Doesn't mean it was all run by gypsies or that I think they were responsible for the theft. There was 26% unemployment in that area of Spain; theft was a major problem while I lived there. My car got broken into three times, by house twice and I got mugged once. People were pretty damn desperate.) Chances are your bag is in a dumpster, but chances of finding it are pretty damn slim. I'm sorry for the loss of those items that had personal meaning for you; that is the suckiest part.
Yay for major editing gig, Strix! I hope word gets around and you get even more of them.
Aims, I got no advice other than to say listen to all these fantastic people. Truly, the hive mind comes through every time.
o_a, your condo is sounding really awesome. May it continue to bring you pleasure the longer you live in it.
Kate, my sympathies. I remember those days well; but not at all fondly.
le nubian - Jul 28, 2012 4:03:37 am PDT #17944 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Damn P-C. Sorry about that.
sj - Jul 28, 2012 4:23:50 am PDT #17945 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{P-C}}} I'm sorry; that really sucks.
Strix - Jul 28, 2012 6:00:07 am PDT #17946 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
P-C, I am SO sorry! That is awful.
I got my car stolen on Halloween night once, and then, in 1998, I got woken up to a call that my beloved dad had had a heart attack; they live 70 miles away.
I ran to my hoopdee and its window was smashed, glass all over the front seat and I just laid a blanket over the glass (I was in a blazing panic) and all that was stolen was about 76 cents in change and ONE Birkenstock. ONE. WTFF? Did I mention it was Februaru in Missouri, and I drove home without a window in about 20 degree weather?
I am really sorry, love.
DavidS - Jul 28, 2012 6:34:08 am PDT #17947 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm sorry, Sunil. One of the most stricken looks I've seen on Emmett's face was when they broke into our car just to steal his Gameboy. (And thank the gods that Emmett's life has been blessed enough that his worst traumas are Gameboy sized.)
It made such an impression on wee Matilda that she still talks about the Bad Men Who Took Emmett's Gameboy.
Fortunately, Tom W. stepped up very generously and he gave Emmett his own gameboy. A very gracious and kind deed.