I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.

Dawn ,'Beneath You'


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.


meara - Oct 01, 2012 9:41:18 am PDT #20885 of 30001

I think the "sorry, I'll need it but here's the website" is the best answer. Tempting as it might be to be super bitchy. :)

I know that 9/10 times when someone someone thinks a picture of them is ghastly, in my eyes it's usually somewhere on a range from okay to super cute.

Oh, totally. And I feel like I've gotten better at writing off bad pictures of me, thinking about how there are people I love and think are hot and still sometimes have pictures (I take a lot of pictures sometimes) that make me go "ooh, that's a terrible picture of you!" The video was startling though (and reminds me that I went back to hot yoga for a reason, and need to keep going back--it's good for me!)

Luckily I have a few weeks here (SHOCKINGLY) where I am barely traveling (this week just Wednesday, next week not at all for work, but then traveling the weekend, and the week after that not at all!) so I'm hoping to be good about my diet and working out, get myself in some better shape for the next 5k!


Beverly - Oct 01, 2012 10:44:56 am PDT #20886 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yay, good news for mom-of-Scrappy!

Steph, I agree with the suggestions of, "I'm going to need it for events of my own throughout the month. Here's the website where I got it. Here are a couple of other corset sites. Hope your holiday season is fun."

But I absolutely would add the zinger, "How've you been?" and a thumbnail highlight of your last year. Three sentences, one paragraph, max. Just to be cordial and friendly and see, this is how you conduct a friendship or at least a friendly acquaintanceship, by exemplary, um, example.

Kill 'em with nice, I always say. Keeps one's halo shiny.


Glamcookie - Oct 01, 2012 12:05:39 pm PDT #20887 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Scrappy, that is truly excellent news! So happy for you and your mom!

Tep, I'm blown away by people like that. Are they really that clueless or just plain assholey? I'm thinking it's the latter.

Once again I find I'm on a team of morons or lazy people and therefore get stuck with the majority of the work. My boss even told me that "E" is not detailed enough to do X, which is a weekly, beastly, fucking plain HORRIBLE task. So I get to do it every damned week. I thought I hated Mondays before...


§ ita § - Oct 01, 2012 12:16:48 pm PDT #20888 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Scrappy, SO GOOD, considering. SO GOOD.


JenP - Oct 01, 2012 12:17:57 pm PDT #20889 of 30001

Scrappy, so glad she got the best possible news. That sounds really hopeful. So glad.


SailAweigh - Oct 01, 2012 12:20:44 pm PDT #20890 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Yay, mom of Scrappy! That really made my day to read that, Scrappy. I feel like we all punched cancer in the face with that one.


Hil R. - Oct 01, 2012 12:22:59 pm PDT #20891 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Scrappy, that's great news.

I went to the ENT. He says that he thinks my ear problem is a muscular problem, with the eustachian tubes not opening and closing properly because the muscles around them are too tight, so we're trying various things to relax those muscles. They did some kind of ear pressure test that printed out a graph, and the graph from my left ear was the perfect sort of peak that they want to see, while the one from my right ear was all squiggly. They also tested my hearing, and I can hear better than most people, which might be why noises annoy me so much -- I can just hear more of them than most people can.


Trudy Booth - Oct 01, 2012 12:46:47 pm PDT #20892 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Marvelous, Scrappy!

Although now that you mention that, I wonder that it doesn't give *her* the heebie-jeebies to borrow something that *I* might have worn withOUT a shirt underneath.

"I was SO happy to finally get it back that T & I had a whole bunch of reallly sticky sex in it :) 'Fraid its not a loaner anymore :( "


erikaj - Oct 01, 2012 12:53:19 pm PDT #20893 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Trudy's answer wins.


erikaj - Oct 01, 2012 12:55:25 pm PDT #20894 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

(RAYLAN, inside Scrappy's Mom's Lung, lays a bullet on the table, in front of CANCER)

Next one's coming faster.